Posted on 08/09/2026 4:20:27 PM PDT by Red Badger
Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed wants Americans to believe that opposition to Sharia in state courts belongs in the same historical indictment as some of the darkest crimes ever committed on American soil.
That is not a paraphrase invented by his opponents. It is the unmistakable thrust of his own remarks.
Speaking to the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in October 2022, El-Sayed declared: “You can’t understand a Sharia ban without understanding the Trail of Tears.”
He then invoked white supremacy and said the “same exact forces” were behind Native American removal, the destruction of Black Wall Street, the Oklahoma City bombing and Oklahoma’s attempt to bar courts from considering Sharia law, according to the Washington Free Beacon’s report and video.
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This is not subtle. This is not “defending religious freedom.” This is obscene political propaganda that places a medieval legal system, complete with hudud punishments, unequal rights for women and non-Muslims, and apostasy rules, into the same category of victimhood as genuine American tragedies.
El-Sayed insists that bans on Sharia stem from bigotry. Yet Sharia, as practiced in Iran, Afghanistan under the Taliban, and other regimes, systematically subordinates women, criminalizes apostasy and blasphemy, and rejects the foundational equality of the American constitutional order.
El-Sayed has denied that imposing Sharia is his goal and claims allegiance to the separation of church and state. But his 2022 performance at CAIR reveals the instinct: treat any legal firewall against Islamic law as illegitimate and rooted in “white supremacy.” That instinct matters when a candidate is one election away from the United States Senate.
On May 13, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitution and Limited Government held a hearing entitled “Sharia-Free America: Why Political Islam & Sharia Law are Incompatible with the U.S. Constitution: Part II.”
While news of the hearing largely focused on Marco Hunter-Lopez, it took place as part of a larger initiative led by Rep. Keith Self (R-TX) and Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), who established the “Sharia Free America Caucus” late last year to address what they see as a danger to American civil liberties.
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I’m a 90 year old woman who still looks good in shorts. This moron can take his sharia and snove it up his deriere. , I think I’ll go to the pool next week, getting pretty hot here.
This is the Republican Party we are talking about here.
L
I understand, but who else is going to do it? I am sure there are people up to the task, and not just wave the white flag.
Let’s try Sharia law. Within two weeks every woman would be a conservative.
Before anything money is their god.
They do not care about God, Family and Country, they worship before the shrine of Money, Sex and Dopamine hits.
White liberal women, they will bend the knee, put on a burka, and pledge allegiance to Allah because they have sick suicidal empathy. The same women who say “HANDS OFF OUR BODIES” will vote for someone who wants Sharia law
We have a law that governs us, any other law is not needed nor wanted. If you want Sharia go to the middle east.
you’re mistaken, he’s very much in it to win it. We should not underestimate him at all.
These are legal provisions found in certain historical or contemporary implementations of Sharia law. They are not universal across all Muslim-majority countries.
Female genital mutilation of kindergarten girls is a thing in America, albeit covertly. “It’s a cultural practice,” don’cha know. If liberal women knew that going forward, they might not be so eager to vote for any disciple of Islam & Sharia law. They claim to be for women’s reproductive/sexual rights, so how can they vote for a Muslim without looking like total frauds?
That’s the problem.
Muslims are driven to spread Islam, one way or another.
If it were just a matter of where to live it would be easy for them and us.
But their so-called religion requires them to do exactly what they are doing.
Our European ancestors knew this implicitly and acted accordingly.........
The Greek woman who was murdered by her Afghan boyfriend and stuffed in a suitcase was killed because she brought up Christianity in a conversation............
Most of the established pol have been paid off.
Wonder how the Texans and Okies will feel after Sharia Law is established and then their 10 year old daughters are forced to marry a 50 year old muslim.
Rumor had it that the Chinese had a way to get rid of opponents; find them guilty, put them on their knees and give them 30 seconds to make some sort of peace with whatever, and then a bullet behind the ear and charge the family for the price of a bullet.
He would have Tucker Carlson’s vote.
Because they have ZERO clue what it actually entails. Fookin’ ijits! They won’t like it for long.
“Being a US citizen does not make you an American!”. rktman 2026.
Most people sent their kids to public school.
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