[WashingtonFreeBeacon] The far-left Senate hopeful also claimed the 'greatest threat' to US security was '"homegrown" and "radicalized" White men'Abdul El-Sayed, a candidate in the Democratic primary for Michigan's open Senate seat, repeatedly drew an equivalence between 9/11 and the ensuing war on terror in since-deleted posts on X and a 2021 op-ed, arguing that both were "perpetrated ignorantly" and driven by "tribalistic grievance."
"Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my faith," El-Sayed wrote on the 20th anniversary of the terror attack that claimed nearly 3,000 innocent lives. "Tomorrow, I'll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my country."
The numbers El-Sayed referenced appear to come from a study published in September 2021 by Brown University, which estimated that 929,000 people had been killed overseas in the war on terror. That number includes hundreds of thousands of terrorists.
In another post, which the candidate also deleted, El-Sayed shared a quote from a 2021 op-ed he wrote for the Arab American News, a paper published in Dearborn, Mich.
And so on and so forth. Read all about his personal red-green alliance at the link.
Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed (D)is an American physician, former public health professor, government official, and politician who served from 2023 to 2025 as the director of the Department of Health, Human, and Veterans Services for Wayne County, Michigan. He ran for governor of Michigan in the 2018 election. He was born in Detroit to parents who immigrated from Egypt. His scholarship at Columbia’s med. school was funded by a Soros fellowship, but he chose public health over getting a medical licence.