The Ben Shapiro Show - August 25, 2026


The CIRCUMCISION Question That Broke Democrat Politics


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00:00:00.000 Democrats are desperately trying to win a Senate seat in Michigan.
00:00:03.000 Their chosen candidate is a radical Muslim who campaigns alongside anti American Twitch streamer Hassan Piker.
00:00:09.000 And then he blames you for Islamophobia when you notice.
00:00:13.000 Also, he says that cutting the balls off of little boys is the same thing as circumcision.
00:00:17.000 So things are going awesome.
00:00:19.000 Except that he could actually win.
00:00:21.000 This is the Ben Shapiro show.
00:00:31.000 Well, Democrats desperately want to win the Senate.
00:00:33.000 And there are a bunch of Senate seats that are up for grabs.
00:00:35.000 Obviously, Texas with James Tallarico or Maine where Susan Collins could theoretically be in trouble.
00:00:40.000 Michigan is a Senate seat they need to maintain.
00:00:42.000 That is a Democratic Senate seat.
00:00:44.000 It has now come open.
00:00:45.000 And the candidate they chose for this is Abdul El Sayed.
00:00:48.000 Abdul El Sayed is, in fact, a radical Muslim.
00:00:51.000 He supports radical Islam in pretty much every manifestation he can find.
00:00:55.000 He lies about it, but it's not much of a lie considering he has openly stated that he was not going to.
00:01:01.000 Talk about the death of Ayatollah Khomeini because too many of his friends and supporters were upset about it.
00:01:06.000 He literally equated a radical Muslim attacking a bunch of Jewish school children in Detroit with the IDF killing a member of Hezbollah.
00:01:14.000 He spends his days hanging out with CARE and with Izna.
00:01:16.000 His family members are pretty much openly connected with Muslim Brotherhood associated groups.
00:01:21.000 And of course, he has campaigned alongside anti American Twitch streamer Hassan Piker over and over and over again.
00:01:28.000 Well, yesterday, Abdullah Syed decided to go on Fox News for an interview with Jesse Waters, and it got awkward because And one of the very weird things about the sort of red green alliance, as they say, the radical left radical Islam alliance, is that it makes for strange bedfellows.
00:01:43.000 So, radical Muslims, not much for the transing of the kids.
00:01:46.000 Muslims generally, moderate Muslims too, not much for the transing of the kids.
00:01:51.000 But Abdullah Syed is a good Democrat because, of course, he needs the coalition, he is very much for the transing of the kids.
00:01:56.000 So, he was asked about it by Jesse Waters, and things got awkward.
00:02:03.000 I just think the government shouldn't tell you what kind of health care you should have.
00:02:05.000 And if you're a minor, you want to try on kids?
00:02:08.000 Now, if you disagree with that, if you disagree with that, if you disagree that healthcare decisions need to be made by a doctor and their parents and a patient, then I just think we agree to disagree.
00:02:19.000 But, you know, you want to put government inside of the government selectively.
00:02:21.000 So, Abdul, you're a doctor, right?
00:02:26.000 I am.
00:02:26.000 So, you think it's okay for a parent to slash his kids off the university?
00:02:31.000 You think that's okay?
00:02:33.000 I mean, do you really want to have this conversation?
00:02:35.000 Are you circumcised?
00:02:38.000 Yeah, but I mean, that's a personal question.
00:02:41.000 Okay.
00:02:41.000 Doctor, you probably should want to move on.
00:02:43.000 You probably should want to move on.
00:02:45.000 Circumcision's different than castration.
00:02:47.000 I think it's a problem.
00:02:49.000 It's a problem that you think that you get to decide what happens between a parent, a doctor, and a patient.
00:02:56.000 And I'm just saying that, yes, circumcision is surgery on a kid's dingling.
00:02:59.000 So if you really want to bring that up, you can.
00:03:01.000 I just think you guys are really selective about how you want to talk about these things.
00:03:04.000 Abdul, Michigan's not going for that.
00:03:09.000 So, Abdul Sayed, being asked whether it's okay to cut people's heads off.
00:03:14.000 And he's like, hey, have you ever had a tonsillectomy?
00:03:20.000 This is where we are now.
00:03:21.000 So he is asked about cutting the balls off of small boys.
00:03:24.000 And his answer is, have you had a circumcision?
00:03:27.000 These are not the same thing.
00:03:29.000 These are not the same thing.
00:03:31.000 In fact, the only sort of female or male surgery for a child that would be in the same category would be female circumcision.
00:03:40.000 Because it turns out male circumcision still leaves the member intact and fully working.
00:03:44.000 That is not the case with female circumcision, unfortunately, commonly practiced in many Muslim areas of the world, among others.
00:03:51.000 But that's crazy towns.
00:03:53.000 Okay, so you literally had your candidate on national television comparing cutting the twig and berries off of children with circumcision, an elective procedure that generally lowers rates of sexually transmitted disease and penile cancer.
00:04:10.000 Not the same.
00:04:12.000 Also, a weird take from a Muslim, considering that Muslims generally are very pro circumcision, and Muslims also generally not very in favor of cutting the balls off the kids.
00:04:20.000 But again, the coalition and the power is all that matters here.
00:04:23.000 It is all that matters here.
00:04:25.000 Zanabdullah Sayyid is a radical.
00:04:27.000 Here he was in July 2025, openly saying that it was America that had created terrorists.
00:04:33.000 I think the approach that we've often taken to terrorism has been to figure out how to leverage the might of the U.S. military to go in and root out certain terrorist organizations, et cetera.
00:04:47.000 And where that's necessary, that's necessary.
00:04:51.000 But I also think we need to be curious about why those things happen in the first place.
00:04:56.000 What drives somebody to want to commit such a heinous act?
00:05:00.000 I have to be a student of people's pain.
00:05:03.000 Like, that's what I did in medicine.
00:05:05.000 That's what I try to do in politics.
00:05:08.000 Like, what happens when people are in pain?
00:05:11.000 And I think that part of what we have to understand is that sometimes when we move, we create so much collateral damage because too often we have been on the wrong side of our own policies.
00:05:29.000 I mean, this guy, I mean, that's a person who hates America, truly.
00:05:34.000 A person who hates America.
00:05:36.000 Now, he was asked about the bans on Sharia law that some people are considering across the country.
00:05:40.000 And the reason for that is because Sharia law, not just in the United States, but abroad, is very often considered the governing law in entire countries.
00:05:48.000 And a lot of Muslims believe that Sharia law should not be restricted to two Muslims who get together and create a voluntary arbitration procedure where their financial dealings are governed by like a local Sharia law court and then enforced under arbitration law.
00:06:01.000 That's not what they're talking about.
00:06:03.000 Abdullah Syed, though, compares it to banning canon law, which is weird since Canon law is about ecclesiastical law.
00:06:09.000 It governs people who are members of the clergy.
00:06:11.000 So, getting this one wrong as well.
00:06:13.000 Again, it turns out that importing lots of people from the third world and then having them run for Congress was not a great idea.
00:06:19.000 So, getting rid of Sharia law's white supremacy, can you explain that one?
00:06:26.000 Do you know what canon law is, Jesse?
00:06:28.000 I assume you're Christian, right?
00:06:29.000 Yeah, tell me.
00:06:32.000 All right, so canon law is the name for Christian law.
00:06:35.000 I don't begrudge you your right to practice your faith as you choose.
00:06:39.000 I don't know why the idea that I could practice my faith as I choose is a problem.
00:06:44.000 Nobody is trying to push Sharia law on anyone else, just like I hope nobody is trying to push canon law on anybody else, because we live in an America where you should have the freedom of your religion.
00:06:55.000 Nobody is trying to push Sharia law on anyone else is a hell of a statement globally, because that is not true on a global level at all.
00:07:03.000 Mike Rogers, who is running against Abdul El Sayed, he gets this one right.
00:07:07.000 Here he was campaigning.
00:07:10.000 El Sayed wants to represent.
00:07:23.000 And who believes the government is the answer?
00:07:31.000 That's a pretty strong campaign pledge.
00:07:33.000 Well, JD Vance, vice president, went after El Sayed's defense of Sharia law the other night.
00:07:40.000 El Sayed, this guy running for Senate in Michigan, he once argued not too long ago that criticisms of Sharia law were rooted in white supremacy.
00:07:51.000 I'd love to go back in time and tell my papaw that there's a man who claims to stand for working people who says not only should we have Sharia law, but if you criticize it, you're a white supremacist.
00:08:03.000 That's not my papaw's Democrat party, my friends.
00:08:07.000 Well, he is right about that.
00:08:09.000 Well, El Sayed's response naturally was to then criticize JD Vance for marrying an Indian woman.
00:08:15.000 Quote So do we think JD is taking Usha with him back to meet Paw Paw or no?
00:08:22.000 Because the idea is that Paw Paw is a big racist.
00:08:24.000 As always, the defense mechanism to being a radical Muslim and a fellow traveler with Hassan Piker is everyone must hate me because they're Islamophobic or whatnot.
00:08:33.000 Here was El Sayed doing the same routine on MS Now.
00:08:37.000 I'll tell you this.
00:08:38.000 Every time JD Vance opens his mouth, the first two things I can think is, man, that guy is boring.
00:08:42.000 And second, Peter Thiel had to spend a ton of money to get that man elected, barely in the state of Ohio.
00:08:49.000 Now, you know, I'm from Michigan, and we got issues with people from Ohio, but this one in particular I took somewhat confusedly because here's the thing about it.
00:08:58.000 He's painting this picture of going back in time to talk to his papa about me.
00:09:03.000 Now, why is he pointing to me?
00:09:04.000 Why is Donald Trump pointing to me?
00:09:07.000 They're pointing to me to try and say that somehow I'm less American than they are.
00:09:10.000 Now, what does that have to do with?
00:09:11.000 I don't know the color of my skin, how I pray.
00:09:14.000 But the confusing thing about it is that he thinks that there are some people who are more American than others because they can point to their papa who was here earlier.
00:09:24.000 I mean, again, trying to misdirect from your radicalism to JD Vance's papa is pretty ridiculous stuff, especially when Abdul El Sayed, of course, has been out campaigning, famously with Hassan Piker.
00:09:35.000 And it's Hassan Piker's party now.
00:09:36.000 He can cry if he wants to.
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00:10:50.000 Hassan Piker spent the weekend and live event in Seattle at his fear and live event in Seattle.
00:10:58.000 There's a picture of him with a bunch of other dweebs wearing a Chairman Mao outfit because he got to stand for the Maoists.
00:11:05.000 Even Clavicular was mocking him.
00:11:06.000 Clavicular said that it looked like an incel in real life meetup.
00:11:12.000 But who exactly was Hassan Piker doing there?
00:11:15.000 Well, he decided to get up there and do a mock version of We Are Charlie Kirk to mock the death of Charlie Kirk.
00:11:21.000 Don't worry.
00:11:22.000 He's a really good guy, Hassan Paker.
00:11:24.000 He's just a delight.
00:11:27.000 We lived for Jesus, unafraid to die.
00:11:53.000 So that guy's a piece of shit.
00:11:54.000 I mean, like a total piece of shit.
00:11:56.000 There are no redeeming features to this person.
00:11:58.000 None.
00:11:59.000 By the way, his fans are worse than he is because he tries to walk back some of his crazy and his fans boo him for doing it.
00:12:06.000 Here he was saying America doesn't deserve 9 11 and his fans boo him because they know he's lying.
00:12:13.000 America does not deserve 9 11.
00:12:15.000 That's my new thing.
00:12:16.000 He's worried about his image, which is why.
00:12:23.000 Okay, again, they know he's lying because of course he believes America deserved 9 11.
00:12:27.000 Then he came out and he suggested the liberals who are condemning his remarks about Charlie Kirk are somehow worse than Republicans.
00:12:36.000 I expect Republicans to do this.
00:12:40.000 I think if you are a liberal and you lean into the Republican pearl clutching operation around the martyrization of Charlie Kirk, you are literally, by my estimation, you're lower than the Republicans.
00:12:57.000 Okay.
00:13:01.000 You are the dog that is stuck to the bottom of my shoe.
00:13:07.000 The fact that this person is treated as a mainstream voice within the Democratic Party and by the entire media is amazing.
00:13:12.000 He also spent the weekend suggesting that Jews who support Israel are fair game.
00:13:20.000 And that real Judaism, I want to hear about real Judaism from Hassan Piker.
00:13:23.000 I want to hear about Judaism.
00:13:24.000 What does Judaism mean?
00:13:25.000 I think it should be defined by Hassan Piker.
00:13:29.000 I think that.
00:13:30.000 I think that's great.
00:13:31.000 I think his knowledge of Judaism is distilled wisdom.
00:13:36.000 He knows all there is to know about Jews.
00:13:37.000 Here's what he's really doing.
00:13:38.000 His whole idea is if you're a Jew who believes in really Jewish stuff, you're not really a Jew.
00:13:43.000 So if you're attacked, you're not being attacked for being a Jew, you're being attacked for being bad.
00:13:47.000 The Jews who agree with Simon Piker, those are the ones who are okay.
00:13:50.000 All the other Jews, they're fair game.
00:13:53.000 That's what he is saying.
00:13:54.000 By the way, this is the entire game right now of the truly anti Semitic left and some of the anti Semitic right.
00:14:00.000 The entire game right now is to say Zionist instead of Jew because you know.
00:14:04.000 That pretty much all Jews are Zionists, meaning that Jews believe there ought to be a Jewish state in Israel.
00:14:10.000 You know why they believe that?
00:14:11.000 Because we have been, you know, praying for that thing for 3,000 years.
00:14:16.000 Three times a day, we have been praying for it since the destruction of the Second Temple.
00:14:21.000 So it is a core part of Jewishness to believe there ought to be Jewish governance in Israel.
00:14:28.000 That is a core part of being Jewish.
00:14:30.000 Okay, so what anti Semites like to do is they like to say, okay, well, If we pretend that that belief is evil, then when we attack Jews for being Jews, we can get away with just calling them Zionists because we can, here, we'll find a Hannah Einbinder who will be out there, who doesn't give a crap about Judaism, doesn't know anything.
00:14:47.000 She says that as a Jew, she doesn't believe in Israel.
00:14:49.000 So she's the good kind of Jew.
00:14:50.000 So the best kind of Jew is the one that has no relationship with Judaism.
00:14:53.000 And that way, if we attack Jews and say it's okay for them to be killed, we're not really saying it's okay for Jews to be killed.
00:14:59.000 We're just saying it's okay for Zionists to be killed.
00:15:02.000 So according to Son Piker, if you're walking down the street wearing a yarmulke, And you don't believe in the Jewish state of Israel, that's bad and anti Semitic.
00:15:10.000 But if you're walking down the street wearing a yarmulke and you are killed, that's okay because you probably believed in the Jewish state of Israel.
00:15:17.000 Wait, here it comes.
00:15:21.000 I don't know how people don't recognize how dangerous this predicament is, how dangerous this is for Jews.
00:15:30.000 You're running around basically tying your entire identity to a country that inevitably will be seen as basically Jewish ISIS.
00:15:41.000 And you're saying, as Jews, this is all we care about.
00:15:46.000 The insane irony of a man who literally says that he likes Hezbollah and would vote for Hamas, that guy going around suggesting that Jews deserve the threats against them if they believe there ought to be a Jewish state of Israel, it's despicable.
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00:18:26.000 So Abdullah Syed then put out a statement I believe all Americans deserve the right to advocate for what they believe without fear of violence.
00:18:32.000 This is particularly true for communities that have been intimidated for their beliefs in the past.
00:18:35.000 My commitment to Jewish safety is the same as my commitment to the safety of my own daughters.
00:18:39.000 I don't believe him for one solitary second.
00:18:42.000 Not one.
00:18:43.000 He's, I promise you that if somebody attacks his daughter's preschool, he would not be saying hurt people hurt people, which is what he said when a Jewish preschool was actually attacked by a radical Muslim.
00:18:53.000 He says the anti Semitism is a scourge and we need to address it in all of its forms.
00:18:57.000 I stand against any rhetoric that puts the community at risk.
00:19:00.000 But to be crystal clear, nobody speaks for this campaign besides me and my campaign spokespeople.
00:19:04.000 What about the people?
00:19:05.000 Who actually are, you know, with you?
00:19:07.000 The people you campaign with, Abdul Al Sayed.
00:19:10.000 He says, while politicians and pundits try to make this race about a Twitch streamer, we're going to be talking about gas, groceries, goods, schools, and healthcare.
00:19:16.000 This is the exoteric versus the esoteric Abdul campaign.
00:19:21.000 The Abdul Al Sayed campaign has an exoteric campaign and the esoteric campaign.
00:19:24.000 The exoteric, meaning like directed at the public, is we're just talking about gas prices, man, and Medicare for all.
00:19:29.000 And the esoteric campaign, meaning the one that's directed at the insiders, the people who know, is truly about how America sucks.
00:19:36.000 Hell, all Hassan Piker's beliefs are basically correct.
00:19:39.000 And again, Abdul Al Sayed is not distancing himself from Piker.
00:19:42.000 Not one iota.
00:19:43.000 Not one.
00:19:45.000 Quote, folks can't afford groceries.
00:19:47.000 Folks can't afford gas.
00:19:48.000 Folks can't see a doctor.
00:19:49.000 And this is what Mike Rogers wants to talk about a Twitch streamer.
00:19:53.000 Okay, well, actually, you're the one who tied yourself at the leg to the Twitch streamer because you believe the same things he does.
00:20:00.000 Now, this is all creating some problems inside the Democratic Party because Hakeem Jeffries, who would like to be the Speaker of the House, and by all odds probably will be, is out there condemning anti Semitism.
00:20:10.000 He says the malicious claim that American Jews are inviting violence against themselves is dangerous and anti Semitic.
00:20:15.000 There is zero justification for threats against the safety of our Jewish brothers and sisters at a moment of rising hate.
00:20:20.000 We'll fight the cancer of anti-Semitism with the fierce urgency of now.
00:20:22.000 Well, it's nice to hear that now it's time for you to actually disown the members of your own party who are doing it.
00:20:28.000 Because by the way, Abdul Al Sayed could still win because Democrats are sticking with him.
00:20:34.000 Right now in the Kalshi markets, Kalshi is one of our sponsors, 59% odds that he wins to 41 for Mike Rogers.
00:20:43.000 So that radical Muslim Hassan Piker fellow traveler, Could easily be in the Senate of the United States.
00:20:50.000 Meanwhile, Jeffries is getting condemned by his own side because he met apparently privately with Jared Kushner, according to the New York Times, to discuss areas of potential common ground, according to five people with knowledge of the meeting.
00:21:01.000 The timing underscored that those around President Trump were well aware of the likelihood of a Democratic led house and trying to foster as much of a working relationship as possible before any change.
00:21:11.000 Jeffries commented about it.
00:21:13.000 Here's what he had to say He asked for a meeting and I took it.
00:21:20.000 To discuss the affordability crisis that exists that is not a hoax.
00:21:26.000 At the same period of time, I shouldn't have to say it, but I am.
00:21:29.000 No one is going to get a pass.
00:21:34.000 We're going to hold every single member of the Trump cartel accountable.
00:21:41.000 Beginning on day one.
00:21:45.000 If you're stealing from the American people, shortchanging the American people, Or screwing over the American people, you're going to be held accountable.
00:21:55.000 Well, it'd be fascinating to see how exactly Hakeem Jeffries tries to navigate these choppy waters.
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