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Since left-wing candidate Abdul El-Sayed eked out a victory in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, some Democrats have called on voters to unite behind him. They’re wrong. He and his movement present an existential threat. Anyone who wants a sane Democratic Party should vote against him. Make these extremists unelectable.
In the latest episode, I did what the media refuses to do: fact-checked El-Sayed and the media’s fawning coverage of his campaign.
Listen to hear how:
El-Sayed has deep ties to the nightmarish, pro-terror DSA.
His blood libels about Israel and lies about money risk Michiganders’ lives.
He campaigns with vile antisemites and anti-democracy activists.
Michigan terrorists attempted to massacre LGBTQ+ people and service members.
and lots more.
Here’s an edited, hyperlinked, extended transcript of one section of this episode.
Transcript
Josh: In March, an Islamist terrorist rammed his car into a Detroit-area synagogue with lots of children inside. People who were there say it was nearly a massacre, and that the training they had received was essential in preventing it.
El-Sayed put out a video. He said he stands against attacks, so that’s something. Then came this madness:
El-Sayed: Hurt people hurt people. Violence is a cycle. Ayman (Muhammad) Ghazali lost family, including two children, in an airstrike in Lebanon last week. They were innocent people.
Josh: “They were innocent people?” All of them? The terrorist’s brother, targeted in the attack, was a commander of Hezbollah, a terrorist organization under U.S. law. And the terrorist put his children in harm’s way. Terrorists always do.
I interviewed neuropsychologist Orli Peter, who has treated people raised in societies run by Islamist terrorists. She explained that these groups launch attacks and then instruct or often force kids to run into buildings that they know are about to be hit.
Civilian deaths are tragic. Tons of kids were killed in Germany in World War II by the Allied forces. I’ve been to Nuremberg. It’s the reality of war. But when Israel fights back, everything it does is depicted as the worst possible thing. Those depictions help Islamist terror groups. Israel is on the front lines of fighting them.
El-Sayed pretended to trace the origin of the synagogue attack. Of course, he insisted it comes down to one source, and cautioned against a “narrative” that suggests otherwise.
El-Sayed: It’ll be shaped in part by the very people who launched that war, that led to those airstrikes, that killed those children, that drove this crazed attacker to violence.
Josh: Hear that? It wasn’t radicalization that drove this attacker, it was the war. In case that wasn’t clear, he repeats it.
El-Sayed: And they’ll use it all to justify the war that created this in the first place.
Josh: To him, that’s the start. Not the decades of terror from Hezbollah against Americans and everyone they could kill in Israel, including Druze children. Not the massive barrage of rockets from Hezbollah on October 7, designed to make people in the south vulnerable to slaughter, rape, and butchering. He does not mention the radicalization leading so many Muslim people and their supporters to carry out and praise terrorism.
New Report Shows Huge Changes in Western Terror
The new Global Terrorism Index is out, and packed with findings that should have made headlines:
It’s not like one guy got some new idea to go attack a synagogue; this is happening constantly. But to El-Sayed, it doesn’t exist. This is the same candidate who said he didn’t want to upset the many people in Dearborn who support Iran. He also used the October 7 anniversary to send out a fundraising email, without acknowledging what really happened on that date.
Earlier in this episode, I discussed the latest slaughter of Christians by Islamist terrorists in Africa. There are no Christian or Jewish terrorist groups going around the world trying to slaughter Muslims everywhere. No leaders in Jewish and Christian communities are trying to convince people to do so. That way of thinking does not exist on any widespread level in any other culture right now.
This is a fact that the media never acknowledges. Hear brilliant Egyptian political analyst Haisam Hassanein discuss the real sources of this extremism in Episode 34:
The Global Terrorism Index finds that terrorism has skyrocketed in the West, up 280% last year. The U.S. saw its highest level since 2019. Terror groups are recruiting and indoctrinating kids as young as eight. The report specifically discussed Islamo-leftism.
In the past, mainstream news giants, including the New York Times, the AP, and CNN, reported on the index. They’ve stopped because it doesn’t suit their agenda. So great people who want society to be better, want peace, don’t know what’s happening.
El-Sayed: We can and must condemn the broken politics that allows leaders to make war that they pretend has no consequences. Violence never ends violence. It only perpetuates it.
Josh: Tell that to World War II veterans who stopped the Nazis.
Teach that to kids in lessons about the Civil War. Say, “The North shouldn’t have done anything about slavery because violence only begets violence.” Tell that to police who sometimes have to fight in order to stop violence.
Of course bad things happen in war. And where did he get “no consequences” from? Consequences are the whole point. Democracies continue to exist because they fight anti-democratic forces. Everyone who ignores Islamist terrorism is weakening democracies against it. The fewer young people know it’s a thing, the fewer people will be prepared to stand against it in the future.
I agree that too many people wear blinders in order not to see what they don't want to see.