Democrat Candidate Abdulrahman Mohamed El Sayed Advocated for Sharia Law at Terror-Tied CAIR Event

This is part and parcel of the hijrah, the inevitable consequence of ‘al hijrah.’ The hijrah (jihad immigration) has destroyed whole cultures, continents since the march of Muhammad and Islam began.

Muslims are the only immigrant group to come to the West with a ready-made model of society that they believe to be Muslims are the only immigrant group who come to the West with a ready made model of society they believe to be superior to Western law and they work furiously, by all means, to impose it. Under Islam, shariah (Islamic) law supersedes Western law. Anywhere Western law and Shariah law conflict, it is always Western law that must give way. What those of us working in defense of freedom did not expect, was the craven capitulation and cowardice by Western left elites to Islamic supremacy.

This is unbelievable. I thought it was AI.

Abdul El-Sayed advocates for sharia law in the U.S.

He argues that the U.S. banned sharia because of hate and discrimination, and the forces that banned it are the same forces that committed [insert every historic evil].

This is… pic.twitter.com/3xWutvI9yH

— Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن (@elicalebon) August 9, 2026

Abdul Al-Sayed says the forces that are trying to ban Sharia Law in the U.S. are the ones behind destroyed Black Wall Street and blowing up buildings?

THIS is the lunatic who might represent Michigan in the U.S. Senate? 🤯 pic.twitter.com/BXVb92ZuJ0

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) August 10, 2026

Michigan Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed Compared an Oklahoma Ban on Sharia Law to the Trail of Tears

By: Alana Goodman, Free Beacon, August 9, 2026:

El-Sayed also said a ballot measure to keep Islamic law out of government came from the ‘same exact forces’ behind the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing

“You can’t understand a Sharia ban without understanding the Trail of Tears,” El-Sayed told the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in October of 2022. “You cannot understand the challenges we face today without understanding white supremacy.”

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El-Sayed, whose remarks have not been previously reported, was commenting on a 2010 Oklahoma ballot measure that prohibited judges from considering Islamic and international law in their rulings. He described the initiative as a part of the “history of racism” in Oklahoma and across the country, drawing a parallel between Sharia law bans and the forces behind the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the 1921 Tulsa massacre.

“I don’t have to tell you that the same exact forces that drove native peoples from their land two centuries ago, destroyed Black Wall Street a century ago, bombed a building decades ago, and tried to ban Sharia law not a decade ago, that those forces are alive and well today,” he said.

Sharia, or Islamic religious law, forms the basis for the governing codes of Iran and Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, among other Muslim-majority countries. In Afghanistan, the Taliban’s implementation of Sharia law forbids girls from attending school past the age of 12 and mandates that women cover their entire faces and bodies in public at all times. In Iran, laws are similarly repressive. Morality police in 2022, for instance, beat to death 22-year-old Mahsa Amini for failing to fully cover her hair in public, an episode that sparked nationwide protests.

A federal appeals court ultimately ruled the Oklahoma ballot measure unconstitutional, but seven other states have banned courts from considering foreign or religious laws, including Sharia law. Republican Sens. John Cornyn (Texas) and Tommy Tuberville (Ala.) introduced a bill in October to “prohibit the application of Sharia Law in the United States.”

News of El-Sayed’s remarks comes after revelations of other historical comparisons the Democrat has made, specifically between the 9/11 terrorist attack and the war on terror. In since-deleted posts on X and a 2021 op-ed, El-Sayed argued that both were “perpetrated ignorantly” and driven by “tribalistic grievance,” the Washington Free Beacon reported last month. In his op-ed, El-Sayed wrote that the war on terror was an “echo of the worst of our history—the decimation of Native Americans, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Jim Crow segregation, Japanese interment [sic].”

It is unclear whether CAIR—whose leader, Nihad Awad, said he was “happy to see” Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack against Israel—paid El-Sayed for his 2022 speech. According to a June financial disclosure report, the candidate received at least $5,000 for a speech to CAIR-Oklahoma at some point within the prior two years.

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El-Sayed has spoken to other pro-terror groups in addition to CAIR, which Govs. Greg Abbott (R., Texas) and Ron DeSantis (R., Fla.) designated a foreign terrorist organization in late 2025. In May of last year, El-Sayed appeared at an Islamist convention with speakers who have called for the destruction of Israel, praised Hamas leaders, and expressed “euphoria” over the Oct. 7 attack. In September, he spoke at another anti-Israel conference alongside Hamas sympathizers. The far-left candidate headlined an October fundraiser hosted by an Arab-American PAC whose leader called for Israeli Jews to be sent “back to Poland.”

El-Sayed did not respond to a request for comment.