1 Trending: HHS: Biden Admin’s Office Of Refugee Resettlement Was A Fraud-Fueled ‘Smuggling Operation’ For Alien Children

2 Trending: SCOTUS To Hear Major Case On Trump’s Deportation Agenda

3 Trending: Need A Reason To Vote? GOP Just Stopped Your Taxes From Paying Noncitizens’ Medical Bills

4 Trending: DOJ Brings Complaint Against Minnesota Judges For ‘Pandering’ To NYT About Deportations

Abdul El-Sayed Refused To Condemn The Islamic Terror Regime That Persecuted My Family Members

When I see echoes of the radical movement that destroyed Iran crop up in my home, America, am I going to back down? Absolutely not.

Share Article on Facebook

Share Article on Twitter

Share Article on Truth Social

Share Article via Email

Is he really asking me for the mic back right now?

I’m halfway through my question to a pensive, kneeling Abdul El-Sayed when he extends his right hand toward me, stopping about six inches from my face. He glances at the microphone in my hand.

Half a second later, he swiftly pulls his hand back, adjusts his right sleeve with his left hand, looks back up at me, and smoothly settles into a neutral position.

Islamic Terror Regime Supporters in America

Over the last few months, I had grown increasingly frustrated with Abdul El-Sayed’s unwillingness to speak clearly about the Islamic Republic of Iran, the regime that has ruled my parents’ homeland for 47 years. After joint U.S.-Israeli strikes killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Abdul was caught on a leaked audio tape admitting that he didn’t “want to comment on Khamenei at all” because “there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad.”

As a Persian-American, I find it reprehensible that any person in America would support a man like Khamenei and the Islamic terror regime he led. But what’s even more concerning to me is when a sizable chunk of Khamenei supporters rally behind a candidate for the U.S. Senate who, in my mind, shares a lot of the same beliefs as them.

So when I saw a flyer for a campus town hall event with El-Sayed, I knew I had to attend. This would be the perfect chance for me to ask him a question, face-to-face, about the repression that my family and so many other families experienced under a radical Islamic government. For background, my cousin was chased through the streets of Iran by the so-called “Morality Police” because her hijab showed too much hair, and my........

© The Federalist