Iman Dashti, a Michigan University student, confronted Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed this week about his habitual whitewashing and rationalization of Islamic terrorism.
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Dashti → confront → terrorism
Dashti, who said his family is a victim of the Iranian regime’s theocratic persecution, pressed the candidate at a college town hall, asking him numerous times to denounce one of the world’s most odious tyrannies.
Did El-Sayed regret not speaking out against the tyrannical clerics of Iran?
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Sayed → say → Iran
Would he now renounce those who held vigils supporting the mass murderer Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?
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who → renounce → murderer
Would he “unequivocally” condemn the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — a group that’s not only tortured, imprisoned and killed tens of thousands of Iranian civilians in the past year but is responsible for the murder of hundreds of Americans?
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that → condemn → Americans
Rather, the candidate offered a platitudinous word salad on how the United States should avoid becoming “the world’s policeman” and how we can still stand “in solidarity with freedom and democracy movements.”
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we → offer → movements
Dashti didn’t ask El-Sayed about regime change in Iran.
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Dashti → ask → Iran
He asked the candidate to offer a condemnation of some of the most odious characters in the world.
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He → ask → world
El-Sayed simply couldn’t do it.
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Sayed → do → it
And it’s important to ask why.
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it → ’ → ?
There’s nothing inherently wrong with arguing that the United States shouldn’t be the world’s policeman.
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States → ’ → ?
But we already know that El-Sayed has no qualms demanding that Americans act like the police.
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Americans → know → police
Otherwise, why would he shout that the Trump administration must arrest Benjamin Netenyahu, the elected prime minister of our ally Israel, at the behest of an international “court” helmed by activists from France, Benin and Slovenia?
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administration → shout → France
And El-Sayed’s refusal to speak out on the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, killed in a joint American Israeli air strike, had absolutely nothing to do with an aversion to US meddling abroad.
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US → speak → aversion
We know this from leaked audio in which the candidate instructed his staff not to comment on the death of the medieval Islamic radical who led his nation in chants of “Death to America” because “there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad today.”
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who → know → Dearborn
Judging from the preponderance of evidence, El-Sayed was almost surely sad himself.
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Sayed → judge → evidence
El-Sayed says he opposes foreign entanglements — but while he wants to cut off US aid to Israel and stop any sales of military equipment, even defensive ones, he supports military aid to Ukraine.
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he → say → Ukraine
The Senate candidate maintains the difference is that, unlike the Jewish state, Ukraine was attacked by Russia, which had thereby broken “international law.”
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which → maintain → law
Which means El-Sayed doesn’t consider the murder of over 1,200 Israeli men, women and children a violation of “international law.”
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murder → mean → law
Nor does he consider the launching of over 350 ballistic missiles at Israel by Iran — nearly two years before Operation Epic Fury was initiated — a belligerent act of war.
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Fury → consider → war
It makes sense.
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It → make → sense
El-Sayed once protested an appearance by reformed terrorists who had converted to Christianity — but his first instinct when a would-be Hezbollah terrorist attempted to slaughter a school filled with 4- and 5-year-old Jewish children was to proclaim, “Hurt people hurt people.”
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people → protest → people
So it’s no surprise that this Senate candidate would invite Hasan Piker, a man who hasn’t run across an Islamic terrorist group or murderous communist he didn’t feel compelled to defend, to campaign with him.
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he → ’ → him
These days, El-Sayed keeps referring to Piker as a “Twitch streamer in California” to gaslight journalists who ask him about the relationship.
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who → keep → relationship
But if Piker was nothing but an irrelevant, out-of-state social-media personality, why did El-Sayed feel compelled to appear by his side on numerous occasions?
Occam’s razor tells us that El-Sayed feels a connection to a man who believes the US deserved 9/11 — and even holds similar views.
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US → compel → views
El-Sayed certainly believes that Western nations are as evil as jihadists, or worse.
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nations → believe → jihadists
That moral equivalence was on display in his now-deleted 2021 tweet commemorating 9/11.
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equivalence → delete → 9/11
“Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my faith,” El-Sayed tweeted — before adding, “Tomorrow, I’ll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my country.”
It’s clear from that comment that El-Sayed believes America is far worse than the Islamist extremists of the Middle East.
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America → mourn → East
In a healthier era, any one of these relationships would have sunk a candidacy.
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one → sink → candidacy
At this point, Michigan voters are well aware of El-Sayed’s radicalism — and yet he’s poised to become our first Islamist senator.
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he → poise → radicalism
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