{"id":8749,"date":"2026-08-06T23:36:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T23:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=8749"},"modified":"2026-08-06T23:36:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T23:36:57","slug":"the-gops-ugly-response-to-abdul-el-sayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=8749","title":{"rendered":"The GOP\u2019s ugly response to Abdul El-Sayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>\n            On Tuesday, Republican primary voters in Michigan gave a double-digit victory to a congressional candidate who had dropped out of the race, choosing him over Amir Hassan, a President Donald Trump-backed former Muslim with an identifiably Arabic name.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=8743\">What happens now that a Senate panel voted to hold Fauci in contempt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            On Wednesday, some people attending a Trump speech in Las Vegas booed the mention of another Arabic-sounding name before GOP Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo urged them to stop. Austin Abdelnabi was a police officer recently killed in the line of duty, and his brother once worked at the White House.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Either of these episodes could be dismissed as coincidences \u2014 as one-offs that say little about much of anything.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But it would seem little coincidence that they happened as Republicans this week launched an overtly Islamophobic campaign against the new Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Trump has toyed with and even employed Islamophobia for political purposes over the past 20 years. His \u201cbirther\u201d campaign against Barack Obama, which implied that Obama might be a secret Muslim, helped launch Trump\u2019s political career.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But in his second term, he\u2019s increasingly flaunted \u2014 and encouraged his party to flaunt \u2014 prejudices and xenophobia out in the open.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            And the GOP\u2019s response to El-Sayed\u2019s nomination shows how it has embraced these ugly politics. Some of it\u2019s thinly veiled, but much of it doesn\u2019t even bother with subtleties.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            National Republicans on Wednesday quickly greeted the former public health official\u2019s victory by repeatedly employing his full name \u2014 Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed \u2014 in a press release and, soon after, in an ad.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Sen. Jim Banks of Indiana went on to refer to El-Sayed on Fox News as \u201cAbdulrahman,\u201d as did Fox host John Roberts. Fox host Jesse Watters started his show that night with a clip of El-Sayed helping people pronounce \u201cAbdulrahman.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            It all harked back to Trump repeatedly invoking Obama\u2019s middle name, Hussein.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            It\u2019s true that Republicans cited El-Sayed\u2019s full name. But campaigns don\u2019t tend to use people\u2019s full names in campaign ads unless they\u2019re trying to convey something. In this case, it\u2019s pretty clear what that something is.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama on Wednesday posted that \u201cAbdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed is a RADICAL ISLAMIST\u201d and even called him a \u201cTERRORIST.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            The Senate Leadership Fund, the Senate GOP\u2019s super PAC, warned that El-Sayed will \u201cunleash terror.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas late Tuesday on Watters\u2019 show called El-Sayed and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani \u201cIslamist[s].\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cYou see the green-red convergence where the communist and the Islamists \u2013 they want Sharia\u202flaw,\u201d Cruz claimed. \u201cThey hate Jews. They hate Christians. They hate capitalism. They hate America.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            (There is no evidence that El-Sayed or Mamdani supports Sharia law. El-Sayed has described himself as a capitalist and, while he\u2019s critical of Israel, there is no evidence he has used hateful rhetoric toward Jews or Christians.)\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"President Donald Trump waves after speaking at an event at the Red Rock Casino Resort and Spa in Las Vegas on August 5.\" class=\"wp-image-8747\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/a82b41e1b91b003a24342c1fd98b9d74.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/a82b41e1b91b003a24342c1fd98b9d74.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/a82b41e1b91b003a24342c1fd98b9d74-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>President Donald Trump waves after speaking at an event at the Red Rock Casino Resort and Spa in Las Vegas on August 5.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>John Locher\/AP<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Trump also repeatedly said at the Las Vegas speech that El-Sayed hated Jews.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Cruz then held a hearing Wednesday focused on the alleged threat of the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrating American society. He featured a poster of El-Sayed titled \u201cFrom the Middle East to the Midwest\u201d and said Democrats are \u201cnow openly embracing terrorist organizations waging war in America.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            (Republicans have pointed to a 2011 El-Sayed op-ed in which he urged the US government to support anti-government protesters in Egypt, even if a revolution could empower the Muslim Brotherhood. But the Trump administration has declined to officially label the entire Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, instead doing so only with some of its branches.)\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            El-Sayed\u2019s GOP opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers, and Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas both falsely attributed a comment from left-wing streamer Hasan Piker, who campaigned with El-Sayed, to the Democratic candidate.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cNever in a million years did I think that I would be running against someone who believes America deserved 9\/11,\u201d Rogers said.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But it was Piker who said in 2019 that the United States \u201cdeserved 9\/11.\u201d (He later walked back that comment, saying it was \u201cinappropriate.\u201d)\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=8739\">Why US water systems are vulnerable to foreign cyberattacks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            Cotton later corrected his post.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But as the Piker situation shows, there are some legitimate related issues here.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            El-Sayed made a choice to campaign with the controversial streamer during the primary \u2014 which drew criticisms even from his Democratic opponents, Rep. Haley Stevens and state Sen. Mallory McMorrow. El-Sayed defended his decision to campaign with Piker and decried the left\u2019s \u201cpenchant for cancel culture.\u201d But with El-Sayed now the nominee, some Democrats fear what that partnership will mean in the general election.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Still, it\u2019s a significant leap for Republicans to go from that decision to labeling El-Sayed a terrorist and using his Muslim faith to otherize him.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But it\u2019s also not at all surprising in context.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            While Trump has used Islamophobia and xenophobia for years, it\u2019s much more blatant these days.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            He\u2019s admitted to calling some majority-Black countries \u201cshithole\u201d countries, after denying it during his first term. He campaigned in 2024 on a false conspiracy theory that Haitian migrants in Ohio were eating people\u2019s pets. He\u2019s regularly derided Somali immigrants, including by calling them \u201cgarbage\u201d and saying he didn\u2019t want them in the United States. He\u2019s doubled down on rhetoric urging certain migrants to \u201cgo back\u201d to where they came from. And he\u2019s shared racist videos and declined to back away from them.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Some congressional Republicans have picked up that ball and run with it \u2014 particularly when it comes to Islam.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            They\u2019ve said\u202f\u201cMuslims don\u2019t belong in American society\u201d;\u202flabeled Muslim\u202fcongresswomen\u202f\u201cterrorists\u201d; expressed a\u202fpreference for dogs over Muslims; told Mamdani to \u201cgo back to the Third World\u201d because he ate rice with his hands; and said that Muslims \u201cbreed their way through our society.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Abdul El-Sayed departs following a news conference at the Spirit of Detroit shortly after winning the Democratic nomination for US Senate in Michigan, on Wednesday, Aug. 5.\" class=\"wp-image-8748\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1a2a02a354d9d75d5ffb109961c1d5b7.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1a2a02a354d9d75d5ffb109961c1d5b7.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1a2a02a354d9d75d5ffb109961c1d5b7-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Abdul El-Sayed departs following a news conference at the Spirit of Detroit shortly after winning the Democratic nomination for US Senate in Michigan, on Wednesday, Aug. 5.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Julia Demaree Nikhinson\/AP<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Some Republicans rebuked some of these comments, but there has been nothing in the way of a true reckoning.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            El-Sayed responded to the tactics Wednesday by urging people to correctly pronounce his full name if they are going to use it.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            He told CNN\u2019s Kaitlan Collins that the GOP using his full name and invoking his faith is meant \u201cto insinuate that somehow I\u2019m less American.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cMy name is not raising your gas prices. My name is not taking us to war. My name is not the reason you can\u2019t afford your groceries,\u201d he said at a separate press conference. \u201cYou know what is? Their BS policies.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            It\u2019s not clear whether this strategy will actually pay dividends for the GOP.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            A Gallup poll in 2024 showed 25% of Americans said they wouldn\u2019t vote for a Muslim presidential candidate. But that was down from 38% in 2015, and it\u2019s been disproportionately Republicans (who likely wouldn\u2019t vote for El-Sayed anyway) who have said that.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            At the same time, even as the Democratic base has turned sharply against Israel, it\u2019s possible having a vocally anti-Israel, Muslim nominee like El-Sayed could turn off some voters who feel strongly about that issue. Party leaders have generally resisted landing firmly on either the side of the Palestinians or the Israelis for a reason.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But regardless of the efficacy of the GOP\u2019s strategy, it\u2019s a pretty stunning moment to have a national political party so openly and quickly embrace it.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Just six days after 9\/11, then-President George W. Bush spoke at the Islamic Center of Washington, DC, and said the \u201cface of terror is not the true faith of Islam\u201d and that intimidation of Muslims \u201cwill not stand in America.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Then-Sen. John McCain at a town hall late in the 2008 presidential campaign sought to dissuade supporters who suggested Obama might have terrorist sympathies and said he couldn\u2019t be trusted because he was \u201can Arab.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cNo, ma\u2019am,\u201d McCain said. \u201cHe\u2019s a\u202fdecent family man [and] citizen\u202fthat I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            We\u2019re a long way from the party of Bush and McCain.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            One of the other candidates who ran against Hassan in the Michigan congressional GOP primary, Al Lemmo, acknowledged to The New York Times this week that his campaign staff had run an explicitly anti-Muslim campaign against Hassan.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Lemmo said he didn\u2019t like that strategy because he knows lots of Muslims and they\u2019re \u201creally nice,\u201d but that his ads \u201cdidn\u2019t so much appeal to bigotry against Muslims as kind of counted on it.\u201d\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=8737\">What eggs, jalape\u00f1os, chickens and chameleons have in common this summer: salmonella<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            There\u2019s apparently going to be plenty more where that came from.\n    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, Republican primary voters in Michigan gave a double-digit victory to a congressional candidate who had dropped out of the race, choosing him over Amir Hassan, a President Donald Trump-backed former Muslim with an identifiably Arabic name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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