In this special edition of Enemies of the State, Director of the United West, Tom Trento and investigative journalist Laura Loomer take on Abdul Rashid Al-Saeed, the Democratic candidate for Governor of Michigan, Abdul Rahman Muhammad El-Said.
00:00:20.000Tom Trento, director of the United West, with a special edition, Enemies of the State, entitled, Marxist Jihad in Michigan.
00:00:29.000Indeed, the political craziness going on in Michigan resulted in an investigative expose by the United West along with investigative journalist Laura Loomer.
00:00:50.000Give us a little tease as to what they're going to see.
00:00:54.000Well, you're going to find out how Marxists on the ground who are working with the Democratic Party are now working with Sharia-compliant individuals to Islamify the state of Michigan.
00:01:07.000A couple of years ago, the United West got involved with Sharia Crime Stoppers, an amazing organization doing educational work in the state of Michigan, training law enforcement on Islamic jihad and related issues.
00:01:20.000And through our involvement with them, they made us aware of this unique campaign that's going on now for the governor of the state of Michigan by this Muslim individual who's the so-called perfect man, according to the major media outlets, Abdul Rahman Muhammad El-Said.
00:01:37.000But as we dug a little more deeply, we saw that there was Sharia compliance personally.
00:01:43.000There was a platform committed to Karl Marx's Taskapital.
00:01:48.000We saw involvement with individuals that had ties to terrorism.
00:01:53.000We needed a United West investigative expose.
00:01:57.000And we went to our dear friend Laura Loomer, investigative journalist to lead the efforts.
00:02:02.000Laura, tell us what it was like when you got into Dearborn, Hamtramck, and the metro areas of Detroit.
00:02:11.000I didn't feel like I was in America anymore.
00:02:13.000Honestly, I've traveled to the Middle East.
00:02:15.000I've traveled with you to the Middle East.
00:02:17.000And I felt like when I was walking through the streets of Hamtravak, walking past the mosque, walking past the grocery store, I felt like I was in the Middle East.
00:02:27.000I decided that I needed to confront the candidate himself.
00:02:31.000I decided to find Abdul Al-Said, and I attended one of his campaign events in Michigan, and I confronted him.
00:02:37.000And I asked him about his own practice of Sharia law and how he reconciles the difference between his own personal Sharia and these Marxist political talking points which completely contradict and go against what he stands for as a devout Muslim.
00:03:02.000I just wanted to know how you reconcile your own personal practice of Islamic law with your Marxist, socialist, political platform that directly contradicts tenets within Islamic law.
00:03:14.000My faith is about what I choose to do my life, right?
00:03:23.000It doesn't mean I want to take away your ability to choose to do that.
00:03:26.000So, you know, for me, it's about what kind of society we want to build in a pluralistic, beautiful country like ours.
00:03:33.000And it's not about trying to enforce one's own personal choices because I think what's beautiful about our country is everybody is they make their own personal choices.
00:03:42.000So I choose my own faith and you choose yours or none at all.
00:04:23.000Well, as you can see, Abdul al-Saeed dodged my questions and ran away from me and wouldn't be forthcoming about Sharia.
00:04:29.000So I decided to take my questions to the experts themselves.
00:04:33.000I met up with Philip Haney, who is a founding member of the Department of Homeland Security, and he provided me with excellent information about Sharia and how it's being utilized in the Michigan gubernatorial race.
00:04:48.000I'm a founding member of the Department of Homeland Security, which was started in March of 2003.
00:04:55.000I'm a recognized subject matter expert in the global Islamic movement and the strategy and tactics of the Muslim Brotherhood operating here in the United States.
00:05:06.000I retired from customs and border protection on the 31st of July 2015.
00:05:13.000And since then, I've been traveling around the country talking about sovereignty, our right to choose the form of government we live under, and the Constitution, and how the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamic groups are seeking to undermine our sovereignty and replace it with Sharia law.
00:05:31.000How is Abdul Al-Saeed connected to the Muslim Brotherhood?
00:05:35.000Well, his first connection was as vice president of the Muslim Students Association at the University of Michigan.
00:05:43.000That chapter of the MSA is known as one of the oldest in America.
00:05:48.000The MSA was the first Muslim Brotherhood front group created in America in the middle 1960s.
00:05:56.000And it is the parent of now the largest Muslim Brotherhood front group in the country, Islamic Society of North America.
00:06:04.000So starting with the MSA vice presidency during his college career, he was recently endorsed by Linda Sarsour, who essentially is the face of the Islamic Society of North America, And she endorsed him at their annual national convention back in July of 2017.
00:06:44.000When I think about building power, I think about brothers like Abdul Sayyid who is in this room today, who is running to be the first Muslim governor of the state of Michigan.
00:06:56.000He can't, sisters, my brothers, he's a wonderful brother.
00:06:59.000He is well qualified to be the next governor of Michigan, but he can't do that without you.
00:07:05.000That brother doesn't, not only does he need your masha'Allah and Bismillah and Ga'a, he needs your money.
00:07:11.000And so my favorite person in this room, that's mutual, is Imam Surraj Wahaj, who has been a mentor, a motivator, an encourager of mine, someone who has taught me to speak truth to power and not worry about the consequences, someone who has taught me that we are on this earth to please Allah and only Allah, that we are not here to please any man or woman on this earth.
00:07:33.000And you might think this is weird, but every once in a while when I get into that deep, dark place, Imam Surraj comes and talks to me and that he helps me to emerge out of those spaces.
00:07:46.000May Allah bless you and protect you and keep you for a long time for our community because we need you now more than ever.
00:07:55.000As you can see, there's some pretty scary and disturbing things going on in Linda Sarsour's head.
00:07:59.000But what's even more disturbing and scarier than that is the fact that Abdul El-Said, who's currently running to become the first Muslim governor of Michigan, didn't distance himself from Sarsour, even after she expressed admiration and support for Siraj Wahaj, who was a co-conspirator in the 1993 attempt to blow up the World Trade Center in New York.
00:08:17.000Siraj once said, It's my duty and our duty as Muslims to replace the United States Constitution with the Quran.
00:08:38.000So he's endorsed by the ISNA, major front group for the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:08:44.000He himself was vice president of another major front group for the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:08:49.000And his father-in-law is currently vice president of the Council on American Islamic Relations, another third front group for the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:09:00.000So everywhere you turn, Abdul al-Sayed is connected directly with the Muslim Brotherhood here in the United States.
00:09:08.000All right, your interview with Phil Baine is amazing.
00:09:52.000Is there a precedent of the Muslim Brotherhood using the American political system to push Islam to influence American culture or Western civilization?
00:10:05.000I call it saturation, like water coming into a sponge.
00:10:09.000And the best recent example is the one we know of called the Arab Spring, which was a social political movement initially driven by the young people in Egypt.
00:10:20.000And when it reached a certain momentum, the Muslim Brotherhood literally came in and co-opted the whole political movement and redefined it as an Islamic movement for the sake of implementing Sharia law in Egypt.
00:11:35.00030 million people rose up simultaneously and pushed Morsi out of the position as the leader of Egypt and put him in prison along with the entire leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:11:50.000In co-opting that movement, they essentially overplayed their hand and they showed to the whole world exactly what their intention was all along.
00:11:59.000The Arab Spring never was actually a social secular political movement.
00:12:05.000It always was about implementing Sharia law.
00:12:11.000Are there any examples of the Muslim Brotherhood currently operating within the United States in an attempt to influence our political system?
00:12:19.000Yes, well, they are a Muslim Brotherhood.
00:12:21.000Let's start with CARE Council on American Islamic Relations.
00:12:25.000Their office is literally a block, maybe two at the most, from the U.S. Capitol.
00:12:31.000And they actually have access to members of Congress and Senate on the Hill.
00:12:37.000And you say, well, shouldn't they have access?
00:12:40.000Well, the problem is that more than 10 years ago, or about 10 years ago, it was proven irrefutably in federal court under the Department of Justice that groups like CARE and ISNA and the Muslim Students and other Muslim Brotherhood front groups were irrefutably tied to support of Hamas.
00:13:01.000So there you have proven individuals, leaders of organizations in federal court for more than 10 years that are literally walking up and down the halls of Congress influencing members who are on committees either to vote for or against legislation that either favors the Muslim community and or would be detrimental in their worldview.
00:13:28.000So it's happening right in front of our eyes and the leadership in the federal government and elected and law enforcement have known this for more than 10 years.
00:13:39.000It's not a fact, it's not a problem that they don't know it.
00:13:45.000That in itself is an evidence of influence, isn't it?
00:13:49.000To be able to continue operating openly when it's already been proven in federal court that they're tied to a globally designated terrorist organization.
00:14:00.000As you were going through this wonderful interview with Philip Haney, really one of the nation's top experts, subject matter experts, qualified, what were your feelings about his nature and his demeanor?
00:14:14.000Well, I was shocked, really, because it was my first time meeting Philip in Michigan.
00:14:18.000And when I first saw him, I would never have suspected that this guy had the amount of knowledge in his head that he does about Islamic terrorism, how to hunt terrorists down, how to profile terrorists.
00:14:32.000And when you see him, he just looks so innocent, right?
00:14:35.000But knowing that he's sitting across from you and profiling you and examining you and he's an expert in speech patterns, all of these things, it was just such an honor working with him, really, because I learned so much and his perspective is invaluable.
00:14:53.000Hey, very good job, Laura, in interviewing one of America's top subject matter experts.
00:14:59.000What is the summation of Philip Haney's conclusion?
00:15:05.000Well, Mr. Haney's conclusion was very factual.
00:15:09.000And ultimately, what he concluded is that Abdul Al-Saeed is personally Sharia compliant and he's running to become the first Muslim governor of Michigan under a socialist Marxist political platform, right?
00:15:25.000It's this combination of Marxism and Sharia to fundamentally transform Michigan as a state, which, you know, if you look at the individuals who he's working with, his imperfect team, you know, they're spread out all across the country, right?
00:15:41.000So this is an attempt to implement civilization jihad all across America.
00:15:46.000There are plenty of publicly available connections that prove that Abdul Al-Sayed is, let's just say, an active member of these Muslim Brotherhood front groups.
00:16:00.000The jihad is the cause of us, and death is the cause of Allah is the hope of us, and beyond all of that, Allah is the guide of us.
00:16:15.000Allah is the cause of us, and the peace of us, and the peace of us, and the peace of us, and the peace of us.
00:16:48.000So Laura, in addition to sitting down with Philip Haney, you were able to sit down with Richard Manassiri, the head of Sharia Crime Stoppers, the guy who knows Marxist jihad in Michigan like no other person.
00:17:00.000Yeah, it was a fascinating interview and it was great speaking and collaborating with Richard on the ground in Michigan because being a native of Michigan, he's able to see how this red-green alliance between these Sharia-compliant Muslims and the Marxists on the left are starting to transform his community and the state of Michigan.
00:17:21.000Thank you so much for joining me today.
00:17:27.000I'm a proud father and grandfather, resident of Michigan, and co-founder of Sharia Crime Stoppers.
00:17:34.000Sharia Crime Stoppers is an organization that is trying to resurrect training for local law enforcement so they can do their job.
00:17:42.000Local law enforcement wants to do their job and they've had no training in topics like Sharia, jihad, sedition, honor violence, pedophilia, etc. related to the Sharia community in Michigan.
00:17:55.000So one of our goals across the country is to resurrect the training which was removed under the Obama administration so local law enforcement can understand that some parts of Sharia are criminal.
00:18:08.000When you look at Abdul al-Sayed as a candidate, he's been positioned as a perfect man.
00:18:13.000How does a perfect man have such an imperfect team?
00:19:19.000The primary election is August 7th in Michigan, which means that we need to leave it all on the field between now and next.
00:19:30.000These are people that are talking about a new wing, a far left wing to the Democratic Party.
00:19:37.000Abdul is on record saying he's left of left.
00:19:40.000He is probably left of Bernie Sanders, and he is getting support, and I think people should take him very seriously because he has a young millennial support like Bernie did, and he's even left of them.
00:19:52.000So he is part of the message, even on national television, about people of color redefining the Democratic Party.
00:20:00.000Well, you know, hopefully you have principles.
00:20:02.000You have things we can identify with, not just the color of your skin.
00:20:06.000And unfortunately, if you belong to a certain group, either a gay group or a black group or you are identified as somehow you adopt all of their values and you put that together, when in fact, we need to understand its principles.
00:20:22.000So the team that he's assembled that support him includes the Muslim Brotherhood, his father-in-law, Dawood Walid, CARE.
00:20:29.000So we've got a mixture of some pretty bad characters, but only if you care about things like personal safety.
00:20:35.000If you care more about diversity, he is perfect.
00:20:38.000If you have diversity at all costs, then you don't even worry about it.
00:20:41.000If you're concerned, however, about the way diversity in its extremes can lead to unsafe environments for you and your family, then he's surrounded himself with a diversity at all costs team, and some people think that's a major detriment to our own personal safety.
00:20:58.000Does he really support diversity, though?
00:21:00.000Because if you look at some of the candidates who he's surrounded himself with, and you mentioned Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is a self-proclaimed socialist running in New York, you look at Linda Sarsour, you look at Keith Ellison and the individuals who have endorsed him at CARE.
00:21:17.000All of these individuals have one thing in common.
00:21:22.000Their perpetual hatred for the state of Israel and the anti-Semitism and Jew hatred that they spout.
00:22:21.000What do you think about the U.S. Embassy being in Jerusalem?
00:22:24.000I think it's just a continuation of a policy that's existed for a long time, which is to deny Palestinians their natural rights to a capital.
00:22:40.000Abdul would be facing some legislation with regards to Palestine.
00:22:45.000There has been attempts by right-wing factions within political arenas in Michigan to advance a bill called the anti-BDS bill, which would prevent normal people from not buying products from Israel, from a land that occupies and kills.
00:23:02.000What message by waving the flag at this Abdul rally today, what message are you trying to spread?
00:23:08.000We're sending a message clearly to the Israel lobby in the United States that preventing us from our First Amendment rights to boycott the state of Israel for its crimes against humanity with regards to Palestinians is a big no.
00:23:22.000So you are supporting Abdul on August 7th?
00:23:39.000And so unfortunately, Abdul has surrounded himself with people on his imperfect team that have been promoting anti-Americanism as well as anti-Israel.
00:23:51.000How should the Jewish and the Christian, the atheist, the non-religious voters in Michigan feel about possibly having a Muslim governor?
00:24:02.000To do any kind of research, you would understand that Islam is a theocracy.
00:24:07.000It is a political movement with a veneer of religion.
00:24:13.000And so the political movement, by the way, happens to be totalitarian.
00:24:19.000So if it's totalitarian, in a sense, Islam, the left and Islam share this mentality that there's an elite group of people who can tell everybody else how to behave and that we can all coexist because there's an elite group of people who in a totalitarian way can tell us what to do.
00:24:36.000Well that means that you and I will have less free speech.
00:24:39.000You and I would not be able to have this interview probably in the regime of Abdul, maybe the second or third year, they would come after people like us because we're having a conversation.
00:25:10.000And to the extent that Sharia needs to take over the world, people who follow the book, Old Testament or New Testament, are in fact the enemy.
00:25:26.000And look, ladies and gentlemen, what we have is Marxist Jihad in Michigan.
00:25:33.000And as Laura has indicated in this investigation, and with five or ten people in Michigan working with us, with the United West team, the conclusion is very simple.
00:25:43.000Abdul Rahman Mohammed El-Saeed and his imperfect team, as you said, Laura, their desire is to revolutionize the state of Michigan and remake it into some third world country in an amazing fashion.
00:26:14.000All right, there you have our investigative expose, which has documented this bizarre coalition of the hard left, the Marxist-socialist left, joining together with the green axis, Islamic theocratic superiority supremacy.
00:26:31.000This coalition seeks to revolutionize the economic stability of the state of Michigan.
00:26:40.000It seeks to gain more control over private property, enlarge the government, open up the state to complete open borders and sanctuary status of immigrants from all over the world.
00:26:56.000In fact, remake the state of Michigan.
00:26:59.000It also seeks to join this red-green coalition together to help destabilize Israel in the Middle East and advance Islamic superiority in the Middle East.
00:27:12.000All of this has to come under consideration by the good voters in Michigan.
00:27:16.000Do you want your 101-year-old state founded on Judeo-Christian principles to continue along in a capitalistic Judeo-Christian direction?
00:27:27.000Or do you want to hand over your beautiful state, the Wolverine state, to those hell-bent on destroying it, remaking it in such a way that no one who loved Michigan would ever want to live there again?