Abdul El-Sayed Protested Conservative Event Condemning Islamic Terrorism as an Undergrad
“Muslim Student Association Vice President Abdul-Rahman El Sayed, who spoke at the protester’s counter event, said he was elated at the success of the walkout”
Raise your hand if this surprises you in the slightest. Anyone?
The College Fix reports:
As undergrad, Abdul El-Sayed protested conservative students’ event condemning radical Islamic terrorism
Long before Abdul El-Sayed became the Democratic nominee for a U.S. Senate seat in Michigan, he was an undergrad at the University of Michigan who once took part in a protest against a conservative student event condemning radical Islamic terrorism.
El-Sayed attended the state’s flagship university from 2003 to 2007, serving as the Muslim Student Association vice president during his senior year.
It was in this role that he participated in a walkout of an event in January 2007 titled “Terrorism: The World’s Greatest Threat” hosted by Young Americans for Freedom.
The event featured three Arab men who had been involved in radical Islamic terrorism before converting to Christianity and openly condemning their former ways: Walid Shoebat, Zachariah Anani, and Kamal Saleem.
According to a 2007 article in the Michigan Daily student newspaper, the event was protested by various student groups and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee for allegedly generalizing all Muslims.
Student demonstrators filled many of the seats, prompting organizers to ask them to make way for supporters, but the request was to no avail.
There was a back and forth between the presenters and some hostile audience members during part of the event, the Daily reported, prompting Saleem to ask the auditorium: “Why aren’t the moderate Muslims protesting about the extremists of their faith?”
Thirty minutes into the event, about 25 percent of the audience who were against it stood up and left in protest, reassembling elsewhere on campus for a counter-discussion.
“Muslim Student Association Vice President Abdul-Rahman El Sayed, who spoke at the protester’s counter event, said he was elated at the success of the walkout,” the Daily reported, quoting him as saying: “We’ve done something good today, and we need to keep that going in the future.”
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