El-Sayed booked for major Islamic convention alongside clerics with radical pasts
Abdul El-Sayed will share the stage with Muslim leaders who prayed for Hamas' victory and Iranian success at the ISNA annual convention this weekend.
TL;DR
- Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan, is scheduled to speak at the ISNA annual convention.
- Other speakers at the convention include clerics who have made controversial remarks, such as praying for 'mujahideen' in Palestine and Lebanon, and asking God to 'grant victory to our brothers in Iran'.
- One scheduled speaker, Yasir Qadhi, previously made remarks denying the Holocaust, which he later repudiated.
- Siraj Wahhaj, also scheduled to speak, was named as a possible co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center terrorism case.
- El-Sayed's campaign has received over $100,000 from members of a group with alleged terror ties.
- El-Sayed has previously faced criticism for endorsements from a pastor who praised Louis Farrakhan and for his associations with streamer Hasan Piker.
- Republicans have focused on El-Sayed's past associations with controversial figures in the Michigan Senate race.