Former GOP gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon is sounding the alarm on her belief that Democratic Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayeds opposition to Sharia law bans, association with far-left streamer Hasan Piker and progressive policies will “permanently” change America.
“This is not, if this person gets in, how much damage can they do in six years?” Dixon told Fox News Digital.
“This is someone who fundamentally disagrees with the Constitution and the founding of this country and has come out and said the founding of this was wrong and he disagrees with this. This is somebody who wants to go into government to permanently change America.”
Dixon highlighted El-Sayeds past opposition to Sharia law bans, saying Americans need to know where he stands.
“This is a guy who has gone out and he’s done speeches on why it is a terrible thing to ban Sharia law. That, to me, the average American is terrified of the idea of groups coming in and taking over our culture and saying that they are going to change how we live and how women are treated,” she said.
During a 2022 speech to the Council on American-Islamic Relations Oklahoma chapter, El-Sayed said efforts to ban Sharia law were rooted in white supremacy and driven by “the same exact forces” behind the forced removal of Native Americans and the destruction of Black Wall Street.
“That comparison, to me, is something that the American people, and certainly the people of Michigan, need to know that that’s how closely aligned he is with the Islamist values and the fact that he would bring Sharia law into our lives and defend it in that way,” Dixon said.
Sharia law is a body of Islamic religious principles governing personal, family and financial matters, with interpretations varying on issues including child marriage, womens rights and criminal penalties.
Turning to El-Sayeds recent campaign appearances with Piker, Dixon took aim at El-Sayed for refusing to distance himself from the popular streamer.
Piker, who has about 10 million social media followers, has faced backlash for saying that “America deserved 9/11,” as well as for controversial comments about Hamas and the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and for recently wearing an outfit resembling that of former communist dictator Mao Zedong.
“At the same time, [he is] campaigning with a man who says America deserved 9/11 and refusing to back down on that,” Dixon said.
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El-Sayed pushed back on criticism of his association with Piker during an April “Fox & Friends” appearance, saying, “[Just] because you appear with somebody, doesn’t mean you agree with them on everything.”
But Dixon said El-Sayeds ties to Piker and stance on Sharia law remain issues that “you cant ignore.”
“Everybody I’ve talked to, I’ve said, this is about whether or not we preserve America, or we have somebody who’s completely against everything that we are, and it goes well beyond what we’ve seen with Democrat and Republican,” she said.
Looking back at El-Sayeds 2007 University of Michigan commencement speech, where he served as the student speaker alongside former President Bill Clinton and told the crowd th
