The Ben Shapiro Show - October 19, 2026


El-Sayed Just Had a Disastrous Weekend

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00:00:00.000 The left wing in the United States has become exactly the same as it is in France, a merger of the commies and the third worldist radical Muslims. 0.88
00:00:07.000 So, Abdul El Sayed, Abdul Rahman El Sayed, the Senate Democratic candidate over in Michigan, who, yes, remains pro Muslim Brotherhood even if he lies about it. 0.82
00:00:16.000 And I say that not because he is Muslim, but because there are lots of Muslims who don't back the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:00:21.000 Abdul El Sayed is not one of them.
00:00:22.000 He literally wrote a letter in 2012 that he signed calling for Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood president, to crack down on the dissidents.
00:00:31.000 Every member of his family, his sister, his mom, his dad, his stepmom, like literally all of them are associated with groups that are either front groups for the Muslim Brotherhood or are associated with Muslim Brotherhood leadership.
00:00:45.000 The notion that Abdul El Sayed condemns the Muslim Brotherhood is laughable on its face.
00:00:50.000 It's laughable on its face.
00:00:52.000 What principles of the Muslim Brotherhood does he disavow?
00:00:55.000 Okay, so he was asked by somebody at a town hall about the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:00:59.000 His immediate response was, Why are you picking on me for being a Muslim?
00:01:02.000 He's doing the same victim routine.
00:01:05.000 Barack Obama did when people questioned him about his politics back in 2008.
00:01:10.000 Oh, you're almost.
00:01:11.000 Barack Obama used to do this.
00:01:12.000 Because I have a weird name.
00:01:12.000 You're only.
00:01:13.000 You're only asking me because I have a weird name.
00:01:15.000 It's because you're a radical.
00:01:15.000 No, no, no, dude.
00:01:17.000 Abdul Rahman El Sayed, whose name I'm perfectly happy pronouncing.
00:01:20.000 I'm not going to call him Muhammad El Sayed.
00:01:23.000 I call him by his name.
00:01:24.000 Abdul Rahman El Sayed is a radical who sympathizes with radical Muslim groups all over the world.
00:01:30.000 There's not a single action anywhere on earth against radical Islam that he has ever supported.
00:01:35.000 Not one.
00:01:35.000 You cannot name one.
00:01:36.000 It does not exist.
00:01:39.000 Well, here was Abdul Al Sayed being asked a question, and he's much, much angrier at the question than he has ever been at the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:01:47.000 It's a simple question.
00:01:48.000 No, your friend's got the mic.
00:01:49.000 I'm asking you a simple question.
00:01:50.000 You give me your name, I'll answer the question.
00:01:52.000 Okay, Tommy.
00:01:52.000 Hi, Tommy.
00:01:53.000 How are you?
00:01:54.000 I'm great.
00:01:55.000 Do you know what the Constitution of the United States is?
00:01:55.000 Are you?
00:01:57.000 I have one simple question. 0.99
00:02:00.000 Will you disavow the Muslim Brotherhood? 0.99
00:02:01.000 Sure.
00:02:02.000 But I want to ask the question that you're asking.
00:02:02.000 Yeah, absolutely.
00:02:05.000 Why are you asking the question?
00:02:06.000 Well, because they're a terrorist group.
00:02:10.000 No, no, but what are you implying?
00:02:10.000 Okay.
00:02:12.000 Do you assume that I wouldn't?
00:02:14.000 Yes.
00:02:15.000 Because I have not heard you disavow them yet.
00:02:15.000 Why not?
00:02:18.000 Have you disavowed them?
00:02:18.000 I haven't heard you disavow them yet.
00:02:20.000 Do you?
00:02:20.000 Great.
00:02:21.000 But here's the thing about it.
00:02:23.000 You're asking the question because implicitly you assume that I'll have dual loyalties.
00:02:28.000 Right?
00:02:29.000 You assume that somehow I wouldn't disavow or that I'll have some higher order allegiance than to the Constitution.
00:02:37.000 Correct?
00:02:38.000 Tommy, is that what you imply?
00:02:40.000 Why would you think that about me?
00:02:42.000 No, no, no, no.
00:02:43.000 Why would you actually think that about me?
00:02:46.000 But I just did.
00:02:46.000 But why would you actually think that?
00:02:48.000 Why would you?
00:02:48.000 Have you asked everybody in your life if they disavowed you?
00:02:53.000 So why are you asking me?
00:02:54.000 No, no, no.
00:02:56.000 Answer the question, Tommy.
00:02:57.000 Everybody knows the answer to it.
00:02:58.000 Answer the question.
00:03:01.000 All right.
00:03:02.000 So let me just tell you.
00:03:03.000 Let me just tell you.
00:03:05.000 I'm going to swear an oath to the Constitution of the United States.
00:03:08.000 And that Constitution guarantees us all that life will practice whatever faith we want.
00:03:13.000 Don't fake it up.
00:03:15.000 Okay, nobody is claiming he can't be a Muslim in Congress.
00:03:18.000 There are already Muslims in Congress. 0.97
00:03:19.000 The reason that he is being asked the question is because he said about a Muslim terrorist who tried to kill Jewish school children, hurt people, hurt people.
00:03:27.000 The reason he's being asked the question is because he was a spokesperson for the Muslim Student Association when he was in college, which is a front group for the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:03:36.000 The reason he's being asked the question is because his father in law gave him hundreds of thousands of dollars, and his father in law is deeply involved with the Islamic Society of North America, which is, in fact, allegedly a front group for the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:03:47.000 Because literally everyone in his life is Muslim Brotherhood associated.
00:03:52.000 That is why he is being asked the question.
00:03:54.000 And him participating in Takiyah now and just lying that he has nothing to do with Muslim Brotherhood beliefs after literally signing a letter calling for Mohammed Morsi, the head of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, to crack down on dissent in Egypt is laughable.
00:04:09.000 It's laughable.
00:04:11.000 And now he's doing the routine where he claims that he's like JFK.
00:04:13.000 Back in 1960, there were people who didn't want JFK elected president because they said maybe he was loyal to Rome.
00:04:18.000 Well, here's the difference JFK was pretty clearly not loyal to all the beliefs of the Pope.
00:04:24.000 Abdul Rahman El Sayed has yet to describe the beliefs of the Muslim Brotherhood that he disagrees with. 0.62
00:04:31.000 If he has disavowed the Muslim Brotherhood, it's not enough, but we need to stop this game in politics. 1.00
00:04:35.000 It's a stupid, stupid game. 1.00
00:04:36.000 We say, did you change your view on X? 1.00
00:04:38.000 And the person says, sure, sure.
00:04:41.000 Okay.
00:04:42.000 I want to know what changed.
00:04:44.000 Really, what changed?
00:04:46.000 Will you stop accepting money from people who are legitimate front people for Muslim Brotherhood associated groups?
00:04:51.000 Of course not.
00:04:53.000 You were caught on tape saying that you wouldn't Say anything positive about the death of Ayatollah Khomeini because you were afraid that your constituents in Dearborn would get angry at you.
00:05:03.000 So, El Sayed's entire straw man, I don't know that it's going to play. 1.00
00:05:05.000 It shouldn't if you're not a moron. 1.00
00:05:07.000 But maybe there are lots of morons out there. 1.00
00:05:08.000 Maybe. 1.00
00:05:09.000 It's a moron that's in the moment. 0.99
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00:06:13.000 Here he was straw manning and saying, All you want is for me to disavow Islam. 0.91
00:06:16.000 No, We would like for you to actually explain how the Muslim Brotherhood is wrong, how you were wrong to sign a letter in support of them in 2012.
00:06:27.000 His sister in law is on a terrorist watch list. 0.82
00:06:29.000 His sister literally tweeted, About how she was supportive, and the entire family was supportive of the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:06:37.000 Here's El Sayed admitting his sister in law was on a terror watch list.
00:06:41.000 There's reporting in a lawsuit that now backs it up and documentation with the lawsuit that Miriam Jukaku, who's your sister in law, was on the terrorist watch list.
00:06:50.000 What's your response? 0.97
00:06:51.000 Basically, it's exactly the point.
00:06:53.000 She did nothing wrong and was captured on that and then sued and got off.
00:06:57.000 So the idea that you can be placed on something like that because of exactly the infrastructure that Mike Rogers and his Flogcram camera.
00:07:03.000 And his Patriot Act and his surveillance state can do is exactly the point.
00:07:07.000 So she sued, and what happened afterwards?
00:07:08.000 You know what happened, right?
00:07:09.000 No. 1.00
00:07:09.000 She was removed. 1.00
00:07:12.000 Okay, well, why was she put on it in the first place? 0.62
00:07:14.000 And the answer is because of her open associations with Muslim Brotherhood ideas.
00:07:17.000 That would be the reason.
00:07:19.000 So Mike Rogers is pointing out this sort of stuff. 0.98
00:07:22.000 And Dana Bash just goes to war on behalf of El Sayed here. 0.88
00:07:28.000 So Hassan Piker, who really came to the state, he had him here multiple times, five different events, took him to college campuses.
00:07:35.000 And this guy is full of hate. 0.98
00:07:37.000 And vitriol, not only for Jewish Americans, for black Americans. 1.00
00:07:41.000 You listen to his comments, this guy is as vile as they come. 0.97
00:07:44.000 He has said he was excited about his answer because he did not disavow the Muslim Brother. 0.99
00:07:49.000 He didn't disavow it. 0.83
00:07:51.000 He goes on this word salad trying to get around the fact that he can't do it.
00:07:55.000 He said, sure, yes.
00:07:55.000 No, that's not true.
00:07:56.000 Dana, listen.
00:07:57.000 I don't want to debate with you.
00:07:57.000 I'm not.
00:07:58.000 I'm not.
00:07:59.000 He's so eager to protect this guy.
00:07:59.000 I don't want to debate with you.
00:08:02.000 Congressman, I just want to say that.
00:08:03.000 And it is.
00:08:03.000 It's an ideology.
00:08:04.000 Okay, again.
00:08:07.000 So he says, yes, absolutely.
00:08:09.000 And that's sufficient.
00:08:10.000 Okay, just some questions that a true media would ask Abdullah Sayed.
00:08:14.000 Why did you sign a letter in 2012 that literally said this?
00:08:17.000 He was attending school at Columbia We, leaders of the Egyptian community, support the revolutionary decisions taken by the president.
00:08:25.000 And we call on him to purge the media and the police as quickly as possible.
00:08:30.000 Hmm, that's weird.
00:08:32.000 How about that half sister?
00:08:34.000 His half sister, Iman Abdullahadi, tweeted My family has long been Muslim Brotherhood.
00:08:41.000 She wrote that she had relatives who'd been jailed for membership in the organization.
00:08:45.000 She expressed concern for her relatives in Egypt who supported the Brotherhood and urged them to keep a low profile.
00:08:51.000 She wrote in June 2012 that she had discussed their mother's Muslim Brotherhood activism while their mom was attending college in Egypt in the early 1970s.
00:09:01.000 His mother was, in fact, active with the Muslim Brotherhood while she was in Egypt in the 1970s.
00:09:08.000 His father in law, Tayeb Jukaku, is a member of the board of ISNA.
00:09:14.000 ISNA is connected to the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:09:16.000 It was an undecided co conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing case.
00:09:21.000 His father, Mohammed, studied and taught at Alexandria University before leaving Egypt in 1978.
00:09:29.000 It's fairly, fairly clear that his dad was not Muslim Brotherhood disassociated.
00:09:37.000 I don't know, man.
00:09:37.000 That's a lot of smoke.
00:09:39.000 And you saying that you, again, here's my question.
00:09:42.000 Can you name a, like, here's all I want.
00:09:45.000 Can you name a single action taken against radical Islam on planet Earth that is supported by Abdullah Syed? 0.70
00:09:52.000 You cannot.
00:09:52.000 It doesn't exist.
00:09:55.000 Now, listen, the vice president did a fine job when it came to his statements about France over the weekend.
00:10:03.000 But I will say he did a pretty poor job.
00:10:06.000 Of going after Abdulrahman El Sayed at the CBS Town Hall in Michigan.
00:10:12.000 He did not perform as well as he ought.
00:10:15.000 So, for example, he was asked about the Iran war and oil prices.
00:10:19.000 This would have been an opportunity to turn around and clock Abdulrahman El Sayed.
00:10:24.000 And he didn't do it.
00:10:26.000 And I understand that JD Vance is gaming for the 2028 nomination.
00:10:29.000 I understand that JD Vance is at best ambivalent about the president's actions in Iran, but he is not doing his electoral duty by not turning around and clocking Abdulrahman El Sayed here.
00:10:41.000 He is not.
00:10:41.000 He's in Michigan, who stumped for Mike Rogers.
00:10:43.000 He is failing in his PR duties here.
00:10:47.000 But what I would say is, what is Abdul El Sayed saying about it?
00:10:51.000 And what is Mike Rogers saying about it?
00:10:53.000 And what are their actual ideas to fix the problem?
00:10:56.000 And what I'd say is, we drew down way too much oil and gas capacity, and we drew down way too much refining capacity.
00:11:03.000 We are bringing that stuff online, but it does take a little bit of time.
00:11:07.000 Now, I see what Abdul El Sayed says about the war in Iran.
00:11:10.000 I see he criticizing decisions that the president has made, the military has made.
00:11:14.000 But fundamentally, we are where we are.
00:11:17.000 And you have to, in my view, I'd like to know what is Abdullah Syed's solution for the problem that we have right now?
00:11:26.000 That's a terrible answer. 0.74
00:11:27.000 Legitimately, a terrible answer.
00:11:29.000 And the vice president's answer there should be the president of the United States did something that no other president has done.
00:11:34.000 He took on a government in Iran that declared that it wanted America to be obliterated, that had killed hundreds, if not thousands, of American troops around the region and funded every terrorist group in the region and declared it was developing nuclear weapons and actively was doing so.
00:11:47.000 And the president took that on.
00:11:48.000 Now, you can disagree with the means by which the president took it on.
00:11:51.000 But Abdul Rahman El Sayed doesn't just disagree with the means of going after Iran.
00:11:56.000 He disagrees with going after Iran entirely or Hamas or Hezbollah or any other radical Islamic group on planet Earth. 0.58
00:12:05.000 He disagrees with all of it because, on a fundamental level, he is in sympathy with those groups. 0.98
00:12:10.000 That's the answer.
00:12:12.000 That's the actual answer there.
00:12:13.000 And I understand that JD Vance's own ambivalence on foreign policy is leading him down this particular path where he has to almost glaze.
00:12:21.000 Abdulrahman El Sayed, where we are, where we are, is a terrible answer.
00:12:24.000 It's a bad answer.
00:12:26.000 And Vance, who is very PR slick, should know better than that at the very, very least.
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