Abdul El-Sayed Won’t Apologize for Vile Remarks on JD Vance’s Wife & Children
An Egyptian-American Muslim running for Michigan’s open Senate seat says he has “deep animosity” toward Vice President JD Vance, who seeks to preserve Americans’ unique culture amid a flood of diverse migrants.
“I have deep animosity for someone who will bend the moral arguments in their favor to develop themselves,” Abdul El-Sayed told a podcaster.
His ruling came after he said Vance’s recognition of a unique American culture contradicted his marriage to his Indian-born wife and the future of his American children. He stated:
It’s a strange thing to be an American vice president who argues that some people are more American than others, when your own family doesn’t fit into the group you call [more] American… It is profound hypocrisy to want to build an America in which one’s own parents do not have the same place as others, and then not to talk about it.
But El-Sayad’s caricatured criticism of Vance ends up validating Vance’s comments, even as it also helps El-Sayad gain traction in the Michigan Democratic Party’s political diversity.
His caricature validates Vance’s argument because it exposes the aggressive nature of El-Sayad’s political ambition in a country where the imported The Islam of its supporters within the immigrant Muslim community is inflexible and incompatible with the tolerant, free and open culture of Americans.
“I look at my kids every day, and a lot of what I do is try to create an America where these kids are as American as everyone else,” El-Sayad said, as if the Egyptian-derived Islam that surrounds his children should be considered as dominant as the Christianity that has guided American culture since the first settlers.
“I want them to believe that they are as American as anyone else…I am as American as possible,” El-Sayad said without acknowledging the great distance between Islam and ordinary American life.
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El-Sayad’s vision of an American also includes minimal enforcement of the country’s popular immigration laws. He repeatedly insisted the abolition of the CIEwhich would massively increase costly and chaotic migration from various countries, including his father’s homeland, Egypt.
El-Sayed hides these conflicts behind his call for more government-provided health care and other social benefits, denouncing “racism” and downplaying his favored immigration policy, which takes up little space on his campaign website.
Vance, for his part, carefully strives to preserve a society in which the culture and families of ordinary Americans can thrive – while ensuring decent respect and freedoms for diverse people, incompatible, premodernand minority cultures that are imported by the country’s economic policy of mass immigration.
Vance is Catholic and outlined his political task in a 2025 speech at the Claremont Institute 2025, drawing harsh criticism from progressives and other migration advocates.
“While our elites tell us that diversity is our greatest strength, they are destroying the very institutions that allow us to thrive and build common purpose and meaning as Americans,” he told his audience, adding:
While our elites tell us that diversity is our greatest strength, they are destroying the very institutions that allow us to thrive and build common purpose and meaning as Americans. We are faced with a society that has less in common than ever before and whose cultural leaders seem completely uninterested in solving this problem…
If you think about it, identifying America simply as agreeing with the principles of, say, the Declaration of Independence is a definition that is both over-inclusive and under-inclusive.
What do I mean by that? Well, first of all, that would include hundreds of millions, if not billions, of foreign citizens who agree with the principles of the Declaration of Independence. Do we have to admit them all tomorrow? If you follow this logic of America as a purely religious nation – America purely as an idea – that’s where it will take you.
But at the same time, this response would also reject many people who the ADL would label as domestic extremists, even though those same Americans saw their ancestors fight in the Revolutionary War and the Civil War…I think people whose ancestors fought in the Civil War have far more rights to America than those who say they don’t belong there.
So I think one of the most pressing issues we face as statesmen is redefining the meaning of American citizenship in the 21st century. I think we need to do a better job of expressing exactly what that means. And I won’t pretend to have a complete answer to give you, because I don’t.
“America is not just an idea: we are a particular place with a particular people and a particular set of beliefs and way of life,” he said. “You can’t trade 10 million people from anywhere in the world and expect America to remain unchanged. »
Vance, who does not proclaim “deep animosity” toward his domestic political rivals, also explains how his family fits into this flexible vision:
I believe, and my own story bears witness to this, that yes, immigration can enrich the United States of America. My lovely wife is the daughter of immigrants to this country, and I am certainly better off — and I believe our whole country is better off — because of it. But we should expect everyone in our country – whether their ancestors were here before the Revolutionary War or arrived on our shores just a few months ago – to feel a sense of gratitude. And we should be skeptical of anyone who doesn’t lack it, especially if they claim to lead this great country.
On the campaign trail, Al-Sayed downplays the culture shock caused by his Islamic ambitions and also keeps a low profile with his headscarf-wearing wife – even as he pleases his progressive supporters by mocking Vance for his alleged hypocrisy.
It is profound hypocrisy to want to build an America in which one’s own parents do not have the same place as others, and then not to talk about it. And so at least with me, you know, when I think about my children, there’s a linearity that I want an America where her children, my children, all of our children, can live without being told that they’re inferior and don’t deserve… I made a case for love for her children, frankly, right? Because I want them to believe that they are as American as anyone else.
El-Sayed can rely on this dual policy in the Democratic primaries, where he encounters little or no media skepticism.
But in the general election, the political tensions generated by his Islamic priorities in American society will be compressed into numerous 30-second attack ads intended to be broadcast to many millions of ordinary, honest Americans. His assertions of contempt for Vance will not resolve this political dilemma.
