For starters, let’s give some unfriendly advice to Abdulrahman Mohamed “Don’t Call Me a Democratic Socialist Even Though I Most Definitely Am a Democratic Socialist” El-Sayed: If you’re running for statewide office in a nominally Christian nation, you might not want to compare yourself to our Lord and Savior.

But, hey, you be you.

Given a recent Fox News poll that had El-Sayed trailing Republican Mike Rogers, 51-47, and given the recent revelation that he hid as many as 100 YouTube videos (taqiyya, anyone?), Chuck Schumer appears to have already conceded the Michigan Senate seat. Nonetheless, he put on his brave face: “A path to winning back the Senate clearly goes through Michigan,” he said, “but we have a whole bunch of different paths.”

Sure, Chuck … anything you say. A loss in Michigan would mean that the Democrats would have to flip five Republican seats in order to overcome Vice President JD Vance’s tiebreaker in a 50-50 Senate. Good luck with that.

Those, like me, who think the Michigan Senate seat is Rogers’s to lose, a new Susquehanna poll is either a grotesque outlier whose pollsters deserve tarring and feathering, or a serious wake-up call.

Susquehanna has El-Sayed leading Rogers 46-39. A few points: First, this represents an 11-point gap between Susquehanna and Fox News, so somebody is really really wrong; second, even with this wild Susquehanna outlier, the RealClearPolitics average of polls still has El-Sayed at 45.2 and Rogers at 44.5, less than a point apart; third, even if Susquehanna has El-Sayed ahead by seven, they still have him well below 50%, which is where a candidate needs to be in a two-person race; fourth, Rogers lost his 2024 Senate bid to Democrat Elissa Slotkin by less than a point, so the idea that he’s now trailing a Muslim socialist by a greater margin than he trailed an incumbent congresswoman is, well, unlikely; fifth, El-Sayed has been consistently underperforming with key Democrat constituencies, such as blacks and women, and it’s not at all clear where or how he suddenly made up for this underperformance; and sixth, we might be seeing a Muslim version of the Bradley Effect in this polling — that is, a tendency for some fraction of independent and Democrat respondents to want to avoid sounding like an Islamophobe and thereby registering their support for El-Sayed when in fact they have real doubts about supporting him.

I think the most telling metric of all, though, will be polling that shows whether there’s a difference between support for El-Sayed and support for Michigan’s Democrat gubernatorial candidate, Jocelyn Benson. In the same Fox News poll that has El-Sayed trailing Rogers 51-47, Benson leads Republican John James 52-47. To me, that’s a really telling gap. It says that many indies, left-leaning voters, and centrist Democrats are inclined to split their tickets because they find Benson plausible and El-Sayed implausible.

That’s my story, and I’m stickin’ to it.

As for the Susquehanna poll: Perhaps, given the increasing competition within the industry and the need to stand out, they’ve resorted to a sort of WNBA model of polling: Do something really outrageous to attract attention and get folks talking about you. Maybe their calculation is that there’s no such thing as bad polling publicity. In any case, let’s pay attention to subsequent polls and see if anyone else produces numbers anywhere near Susquehanna’s. If their results can’t be replicated, we can confidently call BS on Susquehanna and never utter their name in polite company again.

Back to all those YouTube videos El-Sayed has hidden away: What on earth is he afraid of? Why would a candidate for statewide office all of a sudden try to whitewash, Soviet-style, his own history?

Perhaps to hide idiocies like this: “What if we tweaked the Constitution, amended the amendment, and instead of the right to bear arms, we change it to the right to have healthcare?” Yep, that’s what El-Sayed said in a YouTube video posted on April 6, 2023. And I can safely suspect that there’s a lot more where that came from — you know, like swapping spit with Hasan “America Deserved 9/11” Piker, and saying that football reminds him of slavery. Stuff like that.

Even though these videos can no longer be viewed, rough transcripts are still findable by enterprising oppo researchers.

This, folks, is the Shia Islam precept of taqiyya — a precept that allows its adherents to lie in order to gain advantage against the enemies of Islam.

Let’s be clear about another lie that El-Sayed and his ilk are perpetuating: namely, that Islam is a religion of peace rather than a religion of conquest. There’s universal agreement that Islam is the fastest-growing religion both in the U.S. and around the world. And their numbers in the U.S. are anything but trivial: The Pew Research Center puts the figure at 3.5 million, while the Council on American-Islamic Relations puts it at eight million.

And Islam’s mission is not — indeed, it never has been — to live and let live with other religions. As Paul Sperry writes in a sobering piece at RealClearInvestigations:

Also in the past year, Islamic activists have formed their own political super PACs, including one backing El-Sayed — Fighting for Michigan PAC — whose main contributor is a longtime leader in Muslim Brotherhood front groups in America blacklisted by the Justice Department as unindicted terrorist co-conspirators. Another is the Unity and Justice Fund, which Sharia watchdogs claim is part of a highly organized “electoral jihad” to change foreign U.S. policy and push Sharia-conforming laws.

Not even the great state of Texas is safe. Indeed, Texas is ground zero. “We’re seeing the massive expansion of mosques,” said Texas Congressman Chip Roy, who added that there are some 650 Islamic organizations in Texas alone. "These organizations,“ he said, are "buying up land,” to the point where the number of mosques in Texas is 330 — double what it was just two decades ago.

Do the math, folks.

Islam is definitely on the march, and Muslims definitely have a plan. And even if El-Sayed fails to capture Michigan’s Senate seat, he’s already broken new ground for his movement.

El-Sayed has yet to address the credible reports that his mother worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency, an innocently named entity with financial ties to the late Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and Hamas, and an entity that the U.S. Treasury Department designated a global terrorist organization in October 2004.

It’s probably just an AIPAC smear campaign — right, Abdulrahman Mohamed?

Yeah, right.