Did you hear the news? There’s a Dearborn-based Muslim Democrat running to be the next U.S. senator from Michigan, and he’s taken a courageous stand in favor of our preemptive strike on Iran.

April Fools!

Abdul El-Sayed, the aspiring senator in question, is anything but a profile in courage. Instead, he’s behaving like a typical “progressive,” lashing out against our operation in Iran, calling it an “illegal and unjustifiable war,” claiming that our staunchest Middle Eastern ally, Israel, “has captured too many of our politicians through AIPAC contributions,” and accusing our “pedophile president” of taking us into another war solely because “he doesn’t like the front page news” of his “relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.”

What makes El-Sayed different from a doctrinaire Democrat, though, is his decision to remain silent on the strike that killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — you know, the guy who bankrolled decades of international terrorism; the guy who routinely called us “The Great Satan” and twice tried to assassinate Donald Trump; the guy on whose hands is the blood of nearly a thousand American warriors; the guy whose murderous thugs have shot tens of thousands of his own people in the streets of Tehran. That guy.

Why? Because, in his own words, via the leaked recording of a strategic communications call: “I also want to remind you guys that there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad today. So, like, I just don’t want to comment on Khamenei at all. Like, I don’t think it’s worth even touching that.”

Got that? A lot of El-Sayed’s constituents are “sad” that his country took out the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism.

As The Washington Free Beacon reports, “As an ayatollah, Khamenei was also a religious leader under Shia Islam. Iran has the biggest population of Shiite Muslims in the world. Khamenei became an ayatollah overnight in 1989 despite lacking the religious prerequisites after ascending to the role of supreme leader.”

The Free Beacon adds, “Dearborn, Michigan, has the largest per capita concentration of Arab-Americans and Muslims of any city in the US. It is also predominantly Shiite Muslim, despite Sunni Islam being the far larger branch of that religion globally.”

El-Sayed’s failure to speak out on an issue of such surpassing importance to his constituents is hardly a profile in courage. Indeed, it seems more like a profile in cowardice.

Or maybe it’s something else entirely. Maybe El-Sayed is merely applying one of the precepts of Shiite Islam, taqiyya — namely, that you’re allowed to lie to and mislead the unbelievers, the infidels, in order to conceal your true intentions and advance the cause of Islam.

Taqiyya. You might want to commit that word to memory.

As far as Michigan’s Senate race goes, I don’t think El-Sayed has much of a chance. Congresswoman Haley Stevens, a white woman with a normal-sounding name, is the favorite to come out of the Democrat side. And former Congressman Mike Rogers, who narrowly lost his 2024 Senate bid, is again the favorite on the Republican side.

Still, El-Sayed’s candidacy bears watching because it’ll give us a sense of just how far a charismatic Muslim can go in today’s Democrat Party. Here, though, we might harken back to the prophetic words of Winston Churchill, who long ago saw the incompatibility of Islam with our Western way of life:

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen. All know how to die. But the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa … and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science — the science against which it has vainly struggled — the civilisation of modern Europe might fall as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

Recently, after a Muslim terrorist attack on Temple Israel, a major synagogue in metro Detroit, El-Sayed released a lengthy video that included a condemnation of the attack, although it was couched in excuses — such as the terrorist “lost family, including two children, in an [Israeli] airstrike in Lebanon last week.” What El-Sayed failed to report, though, was that the attacker’s brother was a Hezbollah commander.

Later, El-Sayed let the Jew-hating mask slip when he said he had to weigh the “risk” of condemning the attack. This ultimately caused him to lash out at his fellow Democrats: “The ‘risk’ I took that these cowards will NEVER take is having the courage to call out an illegal and unjustified war that’s killing children, wasting our tax dollars, and spiking gas prices, too.”

So, El-Sayed is calling out his cowardly fellow Democrats for not denouncing our preemptive strike on Iran while courageously hedging on his condemnation of a terrorist attack on a nearby Jewish synagogue. Got it.

That’s bravely brave, Sir Robin!

Incidentally, the name El-Sayed translates from Arabic as “the master” or “the lord,” so caveat emptor, you Jew-hating lefty loons who might be inclined to cast a “progressive” diversity vote in Michigan’s August 4 Senate primary.