Unearthed clip expos­es clash between El-Sayed and ex-GOP rival: ‘Mus­lims def­i­nite­ly hate you’

Abdul El-Sayed, the Demo­c­ra­t­ic nom­i­nee for U.S. Sen­ate in Michi­gan, once fired back at accu­sa­tions he might have ties to the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood, a group that advo­cates imple­ment­ing Mus­lim code, known as Sharia law, as a legal framework.“Now, you may not hate Mus­lims. But I’ll tell you, Mus­lims def­i­nite­ly hate you,” El-Sayed said at a 2018 Michi­gan guber­na­to­r­i­al forum.The state­ment, made in response to a ques­tion from Michi­gan law­mak­er Patrick Col­beck about his reli­gious affil­i­a­tions, demon­strates El-Sayed’s resent­ment toward efforts to use his Mus­lim faith as a link to Islam­ic groups like the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood. It also shows efforts to address fears that, as a Mus­lim, he would try to imple­ment Sharia law as the law of the land.VANCE UNLOADS ON EL-SAYED OVER SHARIA REMARKS: ‘THAT …