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Islamophobia Is El-Sayed’s Deflection, Christian Convert Says

Abdu Murray, a Michigan resident who converted to Christianity from Islam, told the Daily Signal that defenders of Islamic jihad purposefully brand critics of the militant ideology as “Islamophobic” in order to protect their own radical beliefs.

During his interview, Murray specifically accused Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed of using the term as “a bit of a deflection” to avoid acknowledging that Islamic militants carry out attacks against non-Muslim civilians because they believe their religion instructs them to.

Murray’s comments come after El-Sayed appeared to justify an Islamist attack against a Jewish preschool in Michigan this March by saying that “hurt people hurt people,” after it was revealed that the terrorist lost his brother, a Hezbollah fighter, in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon.

“It’s a bit of a deflection,” Murray stated. “Here is what I would say: I think that the jihadists and the Islamists who are organizing it (the attacks) are doing it because they would do it anyway, regardless of what America is doing. Largely because they believe that Islam teaches that it will dominate the world and........

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