David 🦁📟 🇮🇱

It’s not that there isn’t something admirable about a Western democracy where the son of an Egyptian immigrant can rise to the most exclusive club in politics. That is the American promise, after all. But the liberals sent into raptures by the election of Abdul El-Sayed as senator for Michigan are overlooking the nature of this particular son of an immigrant and the danger he poses. This week, the 42-year-old former public health official defeated the Republican Mike Rogers to become the first Muslim ever elected to the United States Senate. “Michigan, we did it,” El-Sayed told a baying crowd of supporters. He then switched into Arabic, turning his victory rally into a race-baiting, religious call-and-response for the purposes of taunting his opponents. “Inshallah”, God willing, had become “Alhamdulillah”, praise be to God, he crowed, and the crowd chanted it with him. If there is a more literal example of political Islam, I have yet to see it. Thus were faith and politics blended as momentum for a jihadi agenda; later in the speech, El-Sayed claimed that Michigan’s taxes should not fund “apartheid or genocide”, conjuring the most pernicious falsehoods of our times, designed to damage Israel’s means of self-defence, with an aura of liberal righteousness. To a British onlooker, the scene was horribly familiar. In 2024, the newly-elected Green councillor Mothin Ali celebrated in Leeds by shouting: “We will raise the voice of Gaza. We will raise the voice of Palestine. Allahu Akbar!” At the time, his fanaticism was matched only by his hubris: how was a local councillor going to free Palestine? But now Ali is now deputy leader of the Green Party and the government has started aping its ideological stances to shore up its left flank. These are signposts that point very clearly to the truth: this is Islamism on a mission, packaged within a revolutionary radicalism intended for an audience of ideologues and idiots. Asked in May whether he believed in Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, El-Sayed replied: “I often struggle with the question.” Nobody thought to ask him whether Pakistan – founded at the same time as Israel but with millions of deaths and refugees – has the right to exist as an Islamic republic. But then, the world is not engaged in a campaign of delegitimisation of Pakistan on behalf of the forces of jihad, which is the movement in which El-Sayed’s victory must be seen. It’s not like he’s ever been shy about it. On Oct 21, 2023, El-Sayed took to X to denounce “the genocide being perpetrated against innocent Palestinians”. Israeli troops would not enter Gaza for another six days, but this was never about the truth. Which brings us to a disturbing story written on the morning of Oct 7 by El-Sayed’s half-sister, a professor at the University of Chicago... New essay making sense of the midterms. Link in first reply:

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