Senate Democratic candidate Abdul el Sayed claimed that “preemptively” banning sharia would be discriminatory and lashed out at his November rival, Mike Rogers, as a “beta.”

In an at-times heated interview on Fox News’s Jesse Watters Primetime, el Sayed was confronted over his past comments that it was white supremacy to ban sharia, a religious law followed by Muslims. El Sayed began by comparing it to Christian canon law, a set of nonlegally binding rules and regulations that govern the conduct of members and parishes.