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Senate Democrat Candidate Declared 'Obligation' to Follow Sharia Law in Michigan— Then Denied He Ever Said It

In 2009, a 24-year-old medical student named Abdul El-Sayed sat down with the New York Times and explained why he'd taken out a special mortgage on a $123,000 condominium in Ann Arbor. The mortgage was "Sharia-compliant." And the reason, in his own words, was simple.

"Ultimately, the question is, when I die and I stand before God and go through everything I did in my life, I don't want to say I did it the easy way instead of the Shariah-compliant way. Not because of fear but because of obligation."

That man is now the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate in Michigan.

The quote isn't ambiguous. It isn't taken out of context. It's a man declaring, on the record, that following Sharia law in every aspect of his life is a sacred obligation he intends to uphold until the day he dies.

Which makes what happened during his 2018 campaign for Michigan governor especially interesting. During that race — which he lost — El-Sayed denied ever saying he was "Sharia-compliant." The New York Times apparently disagreed, given that they published exactly that, attributed to him by name, seven years earlier. But denial is cheaper than explanation, and El-Sayed chose the discount option.

The Sharia quote would be enough on its own. But it doesn't exist on its own.

CNN reported that El-Sayed purged more than 100 YouTube videos from his account before launching his political career. His campaign's response was that the videos no longer "reflect his beliefs" — a curious defense, given that some of the deleted content was only two years old at the time. Beliefs apparently have a shorter shelf life than yogurt when you're running for office.

Then there are the photos. Multiple photos of El-Sayed appearing alongside Nation of Islam figures Troy Muhammad, the leader of the Nation of Islam's Detroit chapter, and Marcus Muhammad, the mayor of Benton Harbor. Marcus Muhammad posted a photo arm-in-arm with El-Sayed at an election night watch party on August 4. Troy Muhammad posted a photo from a Detroit NAACP event in June 2025. These are lieutenants of Louis Farrakhan — the head of an organization that has railed against "the Jews" for decades.

So we have a direct quote about Sharia obligation. We have more than 100 scrubbed videos. We have photos with Farrakhan's inner circle. And we have a flat denial of a statement that's sitting in the New York Times archive for anyone with a search bar.

The progressive defense will be that questioning any of this is "Islamophobic." That's a word designed to end conversations, not win arguments. Nobody's questioning El-Sayed's right to practice his faith. The question is whether a man who declared a lifelong obligation to religious law — then lied about saying it, then deleted a hundred videos, then posed with Farrakhan allies — has been honest enough with Michigan voters to earn their trust.

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