When Michigan candidate Abdul El-Sayed won his race against Republican Mike Rogers Tuesday night, legacy media outlets rushed to hail him as the first Muslim in the U.S. Senate. His victory signals a new high-water mark for the red-green alliance in the United States, as a left-wing Muslim with ties to radical Islamic groups will now wield real power in the upper chamber of Congress. It is estimated that more than 30 other Muslim candidates also won elections, including seven running for seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Despite a tranche of evidence demonstrating El-Sayed’s ties to and support of the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamic groups, he was loath to answer questions about those ties and had to be pressured into issuing a weak-kneed condemnation of the group. He also refused to condemn the Islamic terror regime in Iran and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, and chose not to speak about the death of Iran’s leader because so many potential El-Sayed voters in Michigan were saddened by his death.
In a previous political campaign, El-Sayed infamously told his opponent, “You may not hate Muslims. But I’ll tell you, Muslims definitely hate you.” El-Sayed also campaigned for abolishing ICE and nationalizing health care, and seemingly argued that young girls should be exposed to male nudity in locker rooms because they can access pornography on their smartphones.
When El-Sayed took the stage at his campaign rally to celebrate his victory, he made a point of pronouncing his name with a decided Arabic accent and repeating the phrases “inshallah” and “alhamdulillah,” leading to a roaring response from the crowd. “For the right-wing ops, that just means ‘Praise be to God,'” he added. El-Sayed will now weigh in legislatively on a host of issues at a national level, such as immigration law enforcement and policy, health care, and foreign policy issues. He will have unvetted access to privileged national security data.
Muslim candidates Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., André Carson, D-Ind., Aisha Wahab, D-Calif., and Lateefah Simon, D-Calif., secured reelections, and newcomers Darializa Avila Chevalier, D-N.Y., and Adam Hamawy, D-N.J., will take their places in Congress for the first time in January. While El-Sayed drew the lion’s share of the scrutiny during the campaign season, these congressional candidates have also raised concerns.
Omar, whom federal court documents identify as Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, is under federal investigation related to her alleged immigration fraud and financial disclosures. There is also an ever-growing library of evidence suggesting she married her brother as part of a scheme to facilitate his residency in the United States. Elmi has claimed she is “as American as everyone else is” while bragging about using her position to represent the interests of Somalia and once summing up the 9/11 terror attacks as “some people did something.”
Hamawy has faced questions because of a lengthy association with Omar Abdel-Rahman (the “Blind Sheikh”), who was reported to be “the religious leader of Egypt’s largest jihadist group” and once stated that “we must be terrorists, and we must terrorize the enemies of Islam and frighten them and disturb them and shake the earth under their feet.” Hamawy has recently downplayed his association with Abdel-Rahman. Abdel-Rahman was ultimately sentenced to life in prison for involvement in terror plots. Hamawy has also campaigned with El-Sayed and extreme leftist Hasan Piker.
DSA member Darializa Avila Chevalier, a convert to Islam, helped start a Columbia University group that had the stated goal of destroying Western civilization. She has also been open about her Marxist beliefs, claimed Israel doesn’t exist, and bragged about using the American flag as a napkin. Tlaib “was the only member of the House to not vote to condemn rape and sexual assault by Hamas.”
At the state level, Democrat Muslim Aber Kawas won a seat in the New York State Senate, becoming the first Palestinian to do so. She placed the blame for the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States, and video shows her waving a Hamas headband in support of the terrorist group.
In Minnesota, Muslim Democrat candidate Abdi Daisane won a seat in the legislature, becoming the first Somali lawmaker in the state. He is the owner of a daycare center that received more than $7 million in public funds and was sponsored by “a nonprofit that recently agreed to pay $18 million to settle fraud claims against it.” The facility has racked up a number of violations of state guidelines.
NBC exit polling puts Muslims at just 1 percent of overall voters, but they swung overwhelmingly Democrat (86 percent). The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) released an exit poll survey that estimated turnout at more than 90 percent of registered Muslim voters. Those voters reportedly listed “genocide in Gaza,” the Iran war, and the economy as top issues, and four out of five cast a ballot for Democrats, according to the survey.
