MI Dem Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed Stayed Quiet on Khamenei Since Many Dearborn Muslims are Sad
“You know what benefits [from the war]? It benefits Israel, who has captured too many of our politicians through AIPAC contributions.”
The Washington Free Beacon obtained audio of Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed admitting he never said anything about Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death because many Muslims in the state are sad.
El-Sayed made the comments during a call with his communications team on March 1, a day after Israel took out Khamenei.
“I also want to remind you guys that there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad today. So, like, I just don’t want to comment on Khamenei at all. Like, I don’t think it’s worth even touching that,” El-Sayed told his campaign team.
“We have the moral high ground here,” the candidate said, adding that reporters would “try and bait us into saying, ‘Yeah, but isn’t it justified now that they took [Khamenei] out, right? And I just think, for us, we’ve got to be, like, ‘no.'”
Dearborn has the largest Muslim population per capita in the country, becoming the “first Arab-majority city” in 2023.
Dearborn Democratic Mayor Abdullah Hammoud has made many anti-Israel comments in the past.
Biden’s State Department chose Hammoud for its Assembly of Local Leaders in October 2023, just weeks after he claimed the October 7 attack was “inevitable” due to the country’s “decades of illegal military occupation and imprisonment of Gaza.”
Hammoud also ripped into a local resident who protested renaming a city street after pro-jihadist Osama Siblani.
Vice President Kamala Harris even used Hammoud as a source to court anti-Israel voters in Michigan.
El-Sayed is no better than Hammoud.
He told the communications team he wanted to steer his messaging away from Khamenei to Israel and pro-Israel groups.
The advisers warned El-Sayed against making such a move, but he pushed back:
“You know what benefits [from the war]? It benefits Israel, who has captured too many of our politicians through AIPAC contributions,” he said.
El-Sayed’s advisers expressed discomfort with some of his messaging on Israel, telling the candidate that “Israel’s issue always just makes me a little nervous.”
El-Sayed defended the talking points, arguing that he needed to “take the whole shot”—that is, to accuse lawmakers of being tools both of AIPAC, an American lobbying organization, and of Israel.
“I can shade away from it, but if I’m going to take the shot, I can’t just allude to it. I got to take the whole shot, which means that I’m going to say, ‘Look, you’ve got AIPAC-backed congress people who now don’t want to empower Congress to step up and enforce its own prerogative,'” said El-Sayed. “Ask yourself who that benefits and why? Ask yourself how powerful that force is in our politics if they won’t even stand up to a president who’s making illegal and unjustified war?”
El-Sayed’s campaign’s lawyers at Sandler Reiff law firm sent the Free Beacon a note:
“I write to inform you that the audio recording that you base the below questions on was obtained without the campaign’s permission, and without knowledge that individuals were being recorded,” wrote David Mitrani, a partner at the firm. “The campaign is considering its legal options against the individual in question. Given these circumstances, the campaign expects that you will take this into account in determining whether to proceed with any reporting on this matter.”
The Democrats have three candidates competing for the primary to fill Democratic Sen. Gary Peters’ seat, who chose not to run again.
El-Sayed faces off against Representative Haley Stevens and state Sen Mallory McMorrow.
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Am I to conclude that for some politicians (leftist & muslims) their oath of office is either optional or meaningless altogether?
Certainly seems that way.
A given if they are Demsocialists.
Derrida on choosing the West over Islam
“What appears to me unacceptable in the “strategy” (in terms of weapons, practices, ideology, rhetoric, discourse, and so on) of the “bin Laden effect” is not only the cruelty, the disregard for human life, the disrespect for the law, for women, the use of what is worst in technocapitalist modernity for the purposes of religious fanaticism. No, it is, above all, the fact that such actions and such discourse _open onto no future and, in my view, have no future_. If we are to put any faith in the perfectibility of public space and of the world juridico-political scene, of the “world” itself, then there is, it seems to me, _nothing good_ to be hoped for from that quarter. What is being proposed, at least implicitly, is that all captialist and modern technoscientific forces be put in the service of an interpretation, itself dogmatic, of the Islamic revelation of the One. Nothing of what has been so laboriously secularized in even the nontheological form of sovereignty (…), none of this seems to have any place whatsoever in the discourse “bin Laden.” That is why, in this unleashing of violence without name, if I had to take one of the two sides and choose in a binary situation, well I would. Despite my very strong reservations about the American, indeed European, political posture, about the “international terrorist” coalition, despite all the de facto betrayals, all the failures to live up to democracy, international law, and the very international institutions that the states of this “coalition” themselves founded and supported up to a certain point, I would take the side of the camp that, in principle, by right of law, leaves a perspective open to perfectibility in the name of the “political,” democracy, international law, international institutions, and so forth. Even if this “in the name of” is still merely an assertion and a purely verbal committment. Even in its most cynical mode, such an assertion still lets resonate within it an invincible promise. I don’t hear any such promise coming from “bin Laden,” at least not one in this world.”
“Autoimmunity: Real and Symbolic Suicides” _Philosophy in a Time of Terror_ p.113
Silent for now… until a solid majority voting block… and then full throttle. Oh… that nasty Jewish lobby. Oh and lawfare.
As for the perfectibility …. as in “a more perfect union”… ah…. democracy in itself is not perfectible. “Constraint” is the order of the day as unleashed passions are the outcome of pure democracy.
Ayatollah gone. Dearborn Muslims saddened.
“We Muslims have the moral high ground here,” Abdul said.
Well, naturally. Ayatollah called us infidels the Great Satan. Death to America was not just a slogan, it was his policy. He would’ve destroyed us if we had not gotten him first.
Let him have his moral high ground. And his 72 virgins. And his 50,000 Dearborn supporters. And I’ll cherish his elimination from planet earth.
Another utterly despicable, evil, subversive and malicious Muslim supremacist/Islamofascist who has been welcomed into the Dhimmi-crat Party.
These pukes are totally emboldened to run for political office in Dhimmi-crat cities and enclaves, now, because they realize that their obnoxious and evil brand of Islamofascism is now gleefully embraced by contemporary Dhimmi-crat Party leaders and their rabid and wicked base.
Abdul is a poof, like his new invalid Ayatollah.
It sickens me to see Muslims running, and often times winning, political offices in America
Trust me, you are far from the only one. We need to bulldoze Dearborn, until nothing is left of it but a distant memory.
Where is an illegal alien gang banger when we need one to visit this guy,
Here’s hoping that Dearborn has forgotten how to steer America.
start picking which states will join which states as the lefty moves us closer to civil war
When Muslims are in the minority, they rightfully insist on their rights. When in the majority, there are no minorities.
Welcome to the New World Order.
Islam is a social system of murder and savagery hiding behind a contrived religion.
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The left supports anyone that hopes to tear down America.
So if the 7th century primitives love the hell that is Islam Iran, why are they polluting our country?
AIPAC is an American organization. It doesn’t take orders from the Israeli government or from anyone else. So it’s impossible for Israel to use AIPAC contributions to “capture” anyone.
Everyone needs a boogeyman.
““I write to inform you that the audio recording that you base the below questions on was obtained without the campaign’s permission, and without knowledge that individuals were being recorded,” wrote David Mitrani, a partner at the firm. “The campaign is considering its legal options against the individual in question. Given these circumstances, the campaign expects that you will take this into account in determining whether to proceed with any reporting on this matter.”
So, to translate from the Arabic: you caught us.
I would feel light years safer in an “Israeli majority city” than any “Muslim majority” version.
Look at Europe, where it’s now too late to stop the invasion of Islam. It MUST be stopped here or we too will fall.
Why are these people here?
What contributions have they made to our society?
As far as I am concerned, I don’t see any contributions that they have made. They don’t assimilate into our culture, are not interested in assimilating, but they want to change things to THEIR way of doing things. One of the things that I consider most frightening in “Sharia Law”, which they would implement in a minute if given the opportunity.