[DailyWire] El-Sayed is the inevitable political result of Michigan’s multi-decade experiment with mass Muslim immigration.
Political observers might have been surprised when socialist Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed began gaining traction in Michigan, a state that is far from deep blue.
I wasn’t.
I grew up in metro-bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
, Michigan, just outside Dearborn, which is home to the largest Moslem population in the United States. Over the years, I’ve watched this population more than double, and its influence has spread beyond the city of Dearborn — where businesses advertise in Arabic and the Islamic call to prayer is broadcast over loudspeakers throughout the day — to the entire metro-Detroit region. Just last year, officials in my hometown of Canton, Michigan, approved the construction of a massive Islamic mosque and education complex called the Moslem Education Community Center of America — MECCA for short. Groundbreaking took place last month.
El-Sayed is the inevitable political result of Michigan’s multi-decade experiment with mass Moslem immigration. His parents are both Egyptian immigrants colonists, and his father was a part-time imam. His father-in-law is a founding committee member of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which has close ties to the Moslem Brüderbund, according to the federal government.
El-Sayed himself is a practicing Moslem, and while studying at the University of Michigan served as the vice president of the Moslem Students Association, which also has ties to the Moslem Brüderbund.
Pointing any of this out is, of course, Islamophobic, according to El-Sayed. We’re not supposed to ask why El-Sayed was worried about offending "a lot" of people in Dearborn who, in his own words, were "sad" about the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
 ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...>
. We’re not supposed to think it strange that El-Sayed honored the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by fretting about "the cultural and social biases that fuel discriminatory behavior and hate crimes" against Moslems. (Unlike Norm MacDonald, he was not joking).
And yet these are exactly the kinds of questions many Michiganders are now asking themselves. How did our state become home to public vigils mourning the death of a Hezbollah terrorist leader? How did a rally in Dearborn come to feature chants of "Death to America"? How did the mayor of Dearborn, who has endorsed El-Sayed, come to believe it was acceptable to tell a Christian constituent he was "not welcome" in his own city simply for objecting to renaming city streets after someone who celebrated Islamic terrorism?
And perhaps most importantly: Why does one of the leading candidates seeking to represent Michigan in the U.S. Senate feel compelled to embrace and align himself with the very people at the center of this disturbing trend?
Because he has to. Not just because he practices the same faith, nor because the Moslem bloc in Michigan has grown to become a powerful political force in the state, but because the left-wing coalition El-Sayed represents has been built around an increasingly visible alliance between Marxist ideology and Islamist activism.
Like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, whose victory in 2024 El-Sayed has said inspired his own run, El-Sayed is the perfect standard-bearer for this unholy alliance. He is able to cater to the far leftists in places like Ann Arbor and Traverse City with his attacks on the wealthy and talk of universal healthcare — never mind his hypocrisy on both fronts — while also winning over Dearborn’s Moslems who reject much of the Left’s cultural agenda.
These two groups might have very different visions for what the ultimate political outcome should be, but they at least agree on the immediate priority: subverting and destroying the values and institutions that have long defined our country.
Take a drive through metro-Detroit, where church buildings are being converted into mosques, where the FBI is training security at Jewish synagogues, and where Hezbollah and Iranian flags are proudly displayed, and you’ll realize that, in Michigan, they have a head start.
The truth is that the groundwork for this political moment has been years in the making. El-Sayed hasn’t created a new coalition — he has inherited one built over decades through immigration, demographic change, and the rise of identity-based politics. Whether he succeeds in his primary campaign for the Democratic nomination will be a test of just how strong and how deeply rooted this coalition has become.
Troy Jackson wins Maine Democratic Senate nomination, keeps mum on Israel, AIPAC
[IsraelTimes] Troy Jackson accepted the Democratic nomination for Maine’s US Senate race on Saturday with no mention of Israel, sidestepping an issue that has become a focal point for many Maine Jews as they assess the party’s new standard-bearer.
Jackson secured the nomination in a landslide 566 to 5 vote by delegates at the nominating convention. Saundra Pelletier, the only remaining challenger after the rest of the field dropped out in the days leading up to the gathering, picked up the handful of votes that didn’t go to the winner.
While Jackson took several shots during his acceptance address at Sen. Susan Collins, the incumbent Republican he will now face in the general election, it was Pelletier who used her remarks to specifically malign Collins’ voting record on Israel.
"She voted to increase federal funding in defensive arms for Iran, and did not vote to take moderate measures to hold Netanyahu accountable," Pelletier said, receiving a chorus from the crowd.
The victory for Jackson came after the state’s former Democratic nominee, Graham Platner, a staunch Israel critic, left the race earlier this month amid a sexual assault allegation, which he has denied. The resulting scramble to replace him upended the Democratic primary and prompted fresh scrutiny from Jewish Mainers of Jackson’s recent evolution on Israel.
Jackson, a former state politician and union advocate, had previously said little publicly about the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict during his two-decade career in state legislature. However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
during the race to replace Platner, he has embraced the term "genocide" to describe Israel’s war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
and called for an end to US military aid to Israel on his campaign website, both positions championed by Platner before his exit. Jackson also has said he wouldn’t accept any funding from AIPAC.
But on Saturday, as a sea of supporters sporting his campaign’s blue and yellow "Troy Jackson" t-shirts cheered their new nominee, Jackson omitted any mention of Israel from his remarks. Instead, Jackson reaffirmed his commitments to passing Medicare for all, supporting union rights and restoring child sacrifice abortion rights nationwide, among other issues.
During his address following the decisive victory, Jackson also offered a message to Maine voters who remain on the fence:
"Whether you supported me from the beginning, supported another candidate, or are still deciding what you think of this fifth-generation logger from Allagash," Jackson said. "I’ve always known this, that your trust has to be earned, and so I want you to hear this directly from me. There is a place in this campaign for all of you. There is work for you in this movement, and I will spend every day, now through November, earning that trust because today we turn the page."
Amy Fried, a professor emerita of political science at the University of Maine who attended Saturday’s conference as an alternate delegate but did not cast a ballot, said that while she believed Jackson had addressed Israel in the lead-up to Saturday because "a lot of people are interested in the topic," his speech reflected the issues he had been "concerned about his whole political career."
"Obviously, he’d have to take votes on foreign policy and funding when he’s in the Senate," Fried said. "But I think that his main interest is always in issues that have to do with housing and healthcare, you know, all of the matters that are sort of more day-to-day kitchen table issues."
While Jackson avoided revisiting his recent stances on Israel, which have raised concern among some Jewish voters in Maine, about a dozen pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel protesters rallied outside the convention hall in support of his candidacy.
"It’s a really positive step that you have nominated Troy Jackson," one protester shouted through a megaphone. "I think he’s going to be a strong voice for the kind of values that I believe in and the people of Paleostine, the children of Iran, and all the other places the US bombed."
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