Abdul El-Sayed is everything the media falsely praised Charlie Kirk for.
Michigan Democratic candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed exposed the lack of patriotism in the beliefs of a Christian troll (reportedly a former staffer of Sen. Josh Hawley and the son of a GOP strategist) who asked him if he disavowed the Muslim Brotherhood, countering, “Do you disavow any attempt to read any religious doctrine into the laws of our country? You don't disavow that. So I think it's you who needs to understand the Constitution now.”
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And the earth stood still for a moment.
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The Q and A went about as expected as Tommy lobbed his stale talking point gotcha, demanding to know if El-Sayed would disavow the Muslim Brotherhood. But then El-Sayed took Tommy to school about the Constitution protecting all of our rights to pray or not as we see fit.
The masterclass ended with El-Sayed putting Tommy on the spot about using any religious doctrine to make laws and when Tommy wouldn’t disavow that practice, El-Sayed told him he was the one who needed to understand the Constitution.
El-Sayed: Do you know what the Constitution of the United States is?
Tommy: I have one simple question. Will you disavow the Muslims?
El-Sayed: Sure. Yeah, absolutely. But I want to ask you the question that you’re asking. Why are you asking the question?
Tommy: Well, because they’re a terrorist group.
El-Sayed: Okay. No, no. But what are you implying? Do you assume that I wouldn’t?
Tommy (revealing his bias): Yes.
El-Sayed: Why not?
Tommy: Because I have not heard you disavow them yet.
El-Sayed: Have you disavowed them? I haven’t heard you disavow them yet. Do you agree? But here’s the thing about it: you’re asking the question because implicitly you assume that I’ll have dual loyalties, right? You assume that somehow I wouldn’t disavow, or that I’ll have some higher order allegiance than the Constitution, correct? Tommy, is that what you imply? Why would you think that about me?