Abdulrahman El-Sayed: My Obligation Is to Follow Sharia Law Until the Day I Die

We may have lost Francesca, but we still have Abdulrahman.

Revealed: El-Sayed Proclaimed 'Obligation' To Follow Sharia Law Until the Day He Dies

'When I die and I stand before God ... I don't want to say I did it the easy way instead of the Shariah-compliant way,' El-Sayed told the New York Times in 2009

Andrew Kerr and Jessica Schwalb

Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed once declared his sacred "obligation" to follow Sharia law in every aspect of his life until he meets his maker on the day he dies, according to unearthed comments he made to the New York Times in 2009 as a young man buying his first home.

"Ultimately, the question is, when I die and I stand before God and go through everything I did in my life, I don't want to say I did it the easy way instead of the Shariah-compliant way. Not because of fear but because of obligation," said El-Sayed, who the Times identified at the time as a 24-year-old medical student and Rhodes scholar who had just taken out a "Sharia-compliant" mortgage to purchase a $123,000 condominium in Ann Arbor.

Sharia, or Islamic religious law, sets strict rules for living that include harsh restrictions on women and gruesome, medieval-era forms of criminal justice. Sharia law also prohibits the paying or earning of interest, a restriction that has led some banks to offer special mortgages for devout Muslims, like El-Sayed, which tack onto the principal what a typical borrower would pay in interest across the life of the loan.

The young El-Sayed's expression of lifelong devotion to Sharia law takes new meaning following his narrow primary victory last week and raises the question of how much Sharia law continues to guide him.

El-Sayed has played a delicate balancing act on the campaign trail when it comes to his personal faith. While he has embraced his status as a Muslim man before voters, the progressive Democrat often frames his faith in broad brush strokes to avoid specifics. In October 2025, for example, El-Sayed told Religion News Service that his faith "orients me to try and be a better person" and to "treat people -- all people -- with dignity and humanity and respect."

But El-Sayed has bristled when pressed on the topic of Sharia law. During his failed 2018 campaign for Michigan governor, El-Sayed denied ever saying he was "Sharia-compliant" during an interview with the Jewish conservative journalist Laura Loomer--a strong critic of Islam--before cutting the interview short and scolding his staff for not stopping it sooner.

El-Sayed also rejected allegations that he intended to subvert the Constitution and implement Sharia law. A documentary about his 2018 gubernatorial bid shows him telling the filmmakers not to shoot a bookshelf in his home that contained the Quran and controversial works about Islam, including Cutting the Fuse, a 2010 book that argues that suicidal terrorism is driven by foreign military occupation, not Islamic extremism.

El-Sayed's private bookshelf also contained a copy of A Thematic Commentary on the Qur'an written by Muslim Brotherhood member Sheikh Mohammed al-Ghazali, who said "the refusal of implemenation [sic] of sharia is apostasy" as he testified in defense of 13 Islamic terrorists who had gunned down an Egyptian professor who called for the separation of church and state in Egypt. Al-Ghazali testified during the 1993 trial that the slain professor was "without doubt" an infidel and said most Islamic scholars would agree that such apostates should be killed, but that he personally believes the professor should have received a life sentence instead, the Washington Post reported.

"You're going to want to not get these things in the shot," El-Sayed said in the documentary, How To Fix A Primary, as he pointed to his bookshelf which contained al-Ghazali's writings. "We're trying to keep the shot secular."

It's all taqiyya all the time.

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El-Sayed is also heavily invested in so-called Sharia-compliant investment funds managed by Amana Mutual Funds, whose late cofounder and chairman, Yaqub Mirza, was identified in a 1988 FBI memo as one of several "members and leaders of the IKHWAN," which is shorthand for the Muslim Brotherhood. El-Sayed reported in his latest financial disclosure that he and his wife own between $150,000 and $425,000 in Amana's funds, which excludes investments in companies that earn more than 5 percent of their revenue from "haram sources" including interest, gambling, alcohol, tobacco, pornography, and pork.

In 2002, federal antiterrorism agents raided Mirza's home as part of a wider antiterror operation against the Safa Group, a cluster of Islamic entities based in Virginia, the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post reported. No charges were filed, and Amana Funds itself was spared serious scrutiny during the probe, according to a local report.

Scott Jennings notes something it's hard to miss: these foreign anchor-babies sure do seem to hate football and holidays and fireworks and all the little details of basic
normie American culture.

Why it's almost as if they seek to overthrow it and replace American culture with their own shithole country foreign "culture."

Overton @overton_news The CNN panel didn't like hearing it, but Scott Jennings went ahead and said it anyway.

Jennings says the attacks on American holidays from socialist candidates like Francesca Hong and Abdul El-Sayed are actually a window into something much deeper.

And when Kaitlan Collins tried to downplay El-Sayed's comments about July 4th, Jennings fired right back.

The communists can no longer hide their hatred of America and all of its traditions.

JENNINGS: "When you're so crazy that Bernie Sanders and AOC won't even endorse you, you're pretty far out there!"

"I think these holiday conversations are actually valuable."

"She hates Thanksgiving. Today, our own k-file here at CNN uncovered the fact that over in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed wants to get rid of the 4th of July."

"And I think the reason these things..."

COLLINS: "I think he said we should get rid of fireworks."

JENNINGS: "He was very critical of the 4th of July."

COLLINS: "Getting rid of fireworks is different than getting rid of the 4th of July."

JENNINGS: "I think you're downplaying the message..."

"I think these are windows into the souls of these anti-American, radical communists."

"If you hate Thanksgiving and you hate the 4th of July, what you're really saying is I hate some of the pillars that undergird American culture."

"And how are you going to have a conversation with a voter about affordability or public safety or anything else, if you're trying to get rid of Thanksgiving and the 4th of July?"

"I mean, if I was Christmas and Easter I wouldn't be feeling too comfortable right now if these people win!"

Abdulrahman's wing-man Hasan Piker sure doesn't seem to like anything about America:

He is a big fan of Hamas's rape-terrorism and murder of what he calls "baby settlers" and the rest of the world calls "babies."

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