If Michigan Democrats want to bring Sharia to the United States Senate, they’ve got the candidate to do it.
The winner of last week’s Democratic primary, Abdul El-Sayed, declared in a New York Times interview in 2009 that he had a lifelong “obligation” to live by the strict Islamic code that most Americans associate with the most repressive regimes of the Middle East.
And now he’s trying to become a lawmaker in the United States.
The article in the “newspaper of record” was publicized in a report published Tuesday by the Washington Free Beacon.
The New York Times report didn’t dwell on the aspects of Sharia that stand out the most to normal people — like Afghanistan’s Taliban and the terror group’s restrictions on women and liberties Westerners take for granted.
It was, instead, a thumb-sucking look at community banking, of all things, and the Ann Arbor-based University Bank’s “Islamically approvable ‘mortgage-alternative’ financing for residential and commercial real estate in 15 states.”
Hellbound and Down 