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Thursday, August 13, 2026

Islam in America > Senate Dem Candidate El-Sayed Drops the Mask; Picks up some cool cash from CAIR; Dems boycott Muslim Brotherhood hearings

 

El-Sayed Drops the Mask


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The Democrat Party’s candidate for the U.S. Senate from Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, and his surrogates are ready to condemn you for “Islamophobia” if you dare to bring up the money he received from the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) or his defense of a jihad terror attack on a Jewish preschool.

El-Sayed, his backers would have you believe, is a manifestation of America’s glorious “diversity,” a sign of how marvelously multicultural our nation has become, and that, they tell us, should be a cause for celebration for all people except racist, bigoted “Islamophobes.” A recent El-Sayed speech, however, has just come to light (courtesy of the estimable Middle East Media Research Institute) that indicates, for those who give it the attention it deserves, that there is very good reason to be concerned.

Speaking at the Islamic Institute of America’s complex in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, El-Sayed said: I just want to reflect for a moment on what this mosque represents. Allah tells us in His holy book, the Quran: ‘You are the best nation brought forward for mankind. You enjoin what is right and forbid what is evil, and believe in Allah.’” That’s Qur’an 3:110.

El-Sayed emphasized the central importance of this verse, pointing out that it “doesn’t say ‘you believe in God’ and then you do the other stuff. It starts with enjoining good, forbidding evil, and believing in Allah. So our faith is about action.” So what does El-Sayed plan to do if he becomes a U.S. senator? The answer is clear: he intends to be a man of action, and to work toward enjoining good and forbidding evil, as a member of “the best nation brought forward for mankind” ought to do.

What El-Sayed is saying here is extremely important, but most people will miss its significance. The Qur’an verse he quotes, 3:110, is in the first place a declaration of Islamic and Muslim supremacy. Muslims are “the best nation,” or as another translation has it, “the best of people.” The same Qur’an elsewhere says that unbelievers are “the most vile of created beings” (98:6). They are not even human in any genuine sense: “Indeed, the worst of animals in Allah’s sight are the ungrateful who will not believe.” (8:55)

The Qur’an even says that Allah created some people solely for the purpose of torturing them in hell: “Already we have created many of the jinn and mankind for hell, having hearts with which they do not understand, and having eyes with which they do not see, and having ears with which they do not hear. They are like cattle, no, they are worse. These are the neglectful.” (7:179)

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Abdul El-Sayed Got Six Figures From Unindicted Terror Co-Conspirator Group


CAIR’s first senator. Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed


Abdul El-Sayed, who is actually an Egyptian Muslim, campaigned against Haley Stevens who is actually an American from Michigan, by accusing her of being in hock to ‘foreign interests’, meaning Jews, while he represented the interests of Michigan by having a bunch of mullahs in turbans out of Dearborn rally the faithful for him in the name of Allah.

(If Stevens and the Dem establishment had some guts, they would have run those clips on every channel.)

Unsurprisingly, El-Sayed got a whole bunch of money from not just foreign interests, but terror linked ones.

Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign has collected more than $115,000 from individuals who work for or have held leadership roles with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has been designated a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates and formally designated or labeled as such in Florida and Texas.

A Fox News Digital review found that El-Sayed, who has made getting “money out of politics” a central campaign rallying cry, has accepted donations from at least 41 individuals who either work for CAIR, formerly worked for CAIR, or have served in leadership positions with the organization.

The donor list includes several of CAIR’s highest-ranking officials, including national Board Chair Manal Fakhoury, national Board Treasurer Eyas Abdeen, national Vice Chair Emad Sabbah, and CAIR-Michigan board member Jukaku Tayeb, El-Sayed’s father-in-law.

Tayeb has been one of the largest financial backers of the super PAC supporting El-Sayed’s campaign and is also part of the founding committee of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a group linked to Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood funding, Washington Free Beacon first reported.

One donor, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad, listed in FEC records under the name Nehad Hammad, drew national condemnation after saying he was “happy” to see Hamas break out of Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023, and arguing Israel “does not have the right to self-defense” as an occupying power.

CAIR is an unindicted terror funding co-conspirator. And they didn’t just donate to this race, this was their race. Abdul would be CAIR’s first senator if he wins., and his surrogates are ready to condemn you for “Islamophobia” if you dare to bring up the money he received from the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) or his defense of a jihad terror attack on a Jewish preschool.

El-Sayed, his backers would have you believe, is a manifestation of America’s glorious “diversity,” a sign of how marvelously multicultural our nation has become, and that, they tell us, should be a cause for celebration for all people except racist, bigoted “Islamophobes.” A recent El-Sayed speech, however, has just come to light (courtesy of the estimable Middle East Media Research Institute) that indicates, for those who give it the attention it deserves, that there is very good reason to be concerned.

Speaking at the Islamic Institute of America’s complex in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, El-Sayed said: I just want to reflect for a moment on what this mosque represents. Allah tells us in His holy book, the Quran: ‘You are the best nation brought forward for mankind. You enjoin what is right and forbid what is evil, and believe in Allah.’” That’s Qur’an 3:110.

El-Sayed emphasized the central importance of this verse, pointing out that it “doesn’t say ‘you believe in God’ and then you do the other stuff. It starts with enjoining good, forbidding evil, and believing in Allah. So our faith is about action.” So what does El-Sayed plan to do if he becomes a U.S. senator? The answer is clear: he intends to be a man of action, and to work toward enjoining good and forbidding evil, as a member of “the best nation brought forward for mankind” ought to do.

What El-Sayed is saying here is extremely important, but most people will miss its significance. The Qur’an verse he quotes, 3:110, is in the first place a declaration of Islamic and Muslim supremacy. Muslims are “the best nation,” or as another translation has it, “the best of people.” The same Qur’an elsewhere says that unbelievers are “the most vile of created beings” (98:6). They are not even human in any genuine sense: “Indeed, the worst of animals in Allah’s sight are the ungrateful who will not believe.” (8:55)

The Qur’an even says that Allah created some people solely for the purpose of torturing them in hell: “Already we have created many of the jinn and mankind for hell, having hearts with which they do not understand, and having eyes with which they do not see, and having ears with which they do not hear. They are like cattle, no, they are worse. These are the neglectful.” (7:179)

There is more. Read the rest here.




Senate Dems to Boycott Senate Hearing on Muslim Brotherhood


Standing with America’s enemies.

Understandable move since the Muslim Brotherhood is now a significant part of the Democratic Party’s political operation.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and other Senate Dems on the Senate Judiciary Committee, including Richard Blumenthal, Mazie Hirono, Alex Padilla, and Peter Welch issued a snippy statement on their boycott of the “Hidden in Plain Sight: Confronting the Muslim Brotherhood Network in America” hearing by Sen. Ted Cruz.

The statement falsely claimed that this was  “scapegoating Muslims” and claimed that “Democrats have no intention of indulging this political creepshow, particularly after the recent violence targeting places of faith.” A number of such attacks have targeted synagogues and Jews, and the Muslim Brotherhood, the subject of the investigation, has remained a vector for Islamic terrorism.

CAIR, whose leadership supported the Oct 7 attacks carried out by Hamas, the Gaza arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, and which is itself linked to the Brotherhood, issued a statement denouncing what it called “persistent and manufactured anti-Muslim fearmongering” and complained that the witnesses were “known for promoting anti-Muslim narratives”.

The witnesses in question are respected figures who “include Lara Burns, a former FBI special agent and senior research fellow at The George Washington University’s Program on Extremism; Arielle Klepach, senior counsel at the National Jewish Advocacy Center; and Kyle Shideler, a senior analyst for homeland security and counterterrorism at the Center for Security Policy.”

Senate Dems chose to stand with CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood over law enforcement and counterterrorism professionals which is to say, standing with America’s enemies.

Just like in Europe. That's a rabbit hole straight to Hell.

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Free Speech > Alberta refuses to go down the road to policing hate speech, but are police onside?

 

Alberta Says It’s Committed to Free Speech After Edmonton Police Releases Controversial Hate Speech Video


Alberta Deputy Premier and Minister of Public Safety Mike Ellis answers media questions as Alberta Premier Danielle Smith looks on at an availability in Calgary on Aug. 25, 2023. The Canadian Press/Dave Chidley


Alberta’s Deputy Premier and Public Safety Minister Mike Ellis says the province is committed to upholding freedom of speech after the Edmonton Police Service released a controversial video encouraging the public to report online hate.

The video was posted on social media on Aug. 2 but was removed from the police force’s X account later that day after drawing criticism from free speech advocates and some MPs, who argued that some or all of the examples shown did not meet the legal threshold for criminal hate speech.

However, the video remains available on the police force’s Facebook and Instagram accounts as of publication time.
“We are committed to supporting and respecting everyone’s right to free speech. We have duty to uphold these rights and freedoms, regardless of an individual’s religious or political beliefs,” Ellis said in a social media statement on Aug. 4, without directly mentioning the Edmonton police video.

“Alberta’s government does not condone hate speech or violence, but we believe law enforcement should be focused on stopping violent crime, not policing opinions or ‘hurt feelings.’”

Ellis, whose public safety department oversees security agencies, said the province will be in touch with provincial and municipal police agencies to ensure that “Albertans’ policing priorities continue to be cracking down on violent crime, theft, illegal drugs and vandalism.”

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith also said that the province will ensure police forces remain focused on violent and other crimes, not “people’s free speech.”

“Free Speech is a foundational Alberta value. We don’t believe in policing unpopular or religious-based statements even if they are controversial. That’s a slippery slope other countries have fallen into and we can’t go down that road,” Smith said.
The Epoch Times contacted the Edmonton police for comment but did not hear back.

Video

Edmonton police’s now-deleted Aug. 2 X post said: “Online hate isn’t ‘just a comment.’ It hurts real people and harms real communities. Hate has no home here.” It went on to say “If you see hate, report hate” and offered a dedicated link for people to do so online.

The backlash centred on video examples offered by police—such as comments regarding deportation and telling some immigrants to “go back home.”

Free speech advocates argued the police service failed to distinguish between constitutionally protected political expression that some may find offensive and criminal hate speech. They argued the campaign appeared to target hurt feelings and controversial opinions rather than conduct amounting to a criminal offence.

Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) interim litigation director Josh Dehaas described the police force’s post as “very disturbing to me as a free speech lawyer.”

“Nothing referenced below comes anywhere close to being illegal speech and you have no business reporting it to police,” he said in an Aug. 1 X post. “More importantly, police have no business taking reports on it.”
Two Tory MPs weighed in on the Edmonton Police Service’s online hate speech campaign, which also includes advertising on city buses that encourage the public to call the police with online hate speech tips.

Ontario MP and lawyer Roman Baber posted a screen shot of the police video along with his thoughts on the campaign.

“No Edmonton police, you have no jurisdiction to limit online speech unless a criminal law is broken,” he wrote on X. “The criminal offence of ‘Hate Speech’ is limited to the definition articulated by the Supreme Court almost 40 years ago. Not what others find offensive!”

Fellow Conservative MP Andrew Lawton expressed similar criticism.

“Some of these posts call for violence and could meet criminal threshold, but I struggle to see how most of these sample hate posts would be illegal (which is different from offensive, hurtful, uncivil, etc.),” Lawton wrote. “This is precisely the chilling effect I warned about with Bill C-9.”

As if the Edmonton Police don't have enough to do. This appears to be a witch-hunting tactic, or some far left cop's project.

Combatting Hate Act

Bill C-9, known as the Combatting Hate Act, came into force on July 18, amending the Criminal Code to strengthen protections against hate-motivated crimes.

Justice Minister Sean Fraser said the new legislation was required to handle a rising wave of hate crimes, citing police data indicating Jewish, Muslim, and other communities were increasingly being targeted.

“We’ve seen synagogues struck by gunfire, places of worship vandalized or burned, and people being targeted in their own communities. That is unacceptable,” he said in a June press release. “We cannot allow that kind of hate to become normal in Canada. These changes will help people worship and gather safely in their own communities, while supporting law enforcement with clearer tools to respond.”

Critics, however, have characterized the law as overly broad and a threat to constitutional freedoms.

Rights groups such as the CCF argued Bill C-9 would expand state control over speech and could suppress unpopular but legally protected expression.

The Conservative Party had also voiced concern about the legislation. Baber was one of the MPs to lead opposition to the bill, and commented extensively on the legislation during its parliamentary debate.

He repeatedly criticized Bill C-9, saying it could be used by the government to restrict free speech and criminalize everyday expression, rather than effectively stopping violence.
Premier Smith has also expressed opposition to the legislation, calling it “terrifying and chilling” during a speech in March.

Smith said Alberta would not enforce laws targeting lawful speech and suggested provincial authorities would not be allowed to use policing resources to monitor or prosecute Albertans under the federal Combatting Hate Act.