Why is it a ‘risk’ for Democrats to condemn Islamic terrorism?

Published March 25, 2026 1:16pm ET



Democrats have oriented their party around the whims of terrorist sympathizing antisemites. That is most true in Michigan, where even condemning an Islamic terrorist trying to murder Jewish preschoolers is somehow a struggle.

Abdul El-Sayed, the former director of the Department of Health, Human, and Veterans Services in Wayne County, is among the Democrats running for U.S. Senate in Michigan. El-Sayed is a competitive third in a three-candidate primary (pulling 17% in polls, just behind the two leaders at 23% each). More importantly, he is endorsed by a who’s-who of progressive Democrats: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA). In other words, he is not some random nobody Democrat.

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