WOW—Abdul El Sayed Killed Kittens & Puppies and Is Speaking alongside Islamist Cleric Advocating Pedophilia, plus Police Report Shows Maine Troy Jackson Slapped his Girlfriend
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00:01:07.140Welcome. It is Vertical Center Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
00:01:10.480It's nice to have you with us on this Monday, wherever you are listening.
00:01:13.760And we have got a lot to cover in the show.
00:01:15.680We're going to take a deep dive center into Michigan, Maine, and a shocking CBS poll that should worry every American.
00:01:21.860Well, on Friday's podcast, we did a deep dive across the country of some of the radicals whom Democrats are nominating to run for Senate.0.76
00:01:29.560We went through the records and we just played the receipts that they're nominating communists, they're nominating Islamists,
00:01:34.560they're nominating the most extreme slate of candidates, I think, that any party has ever nominated in American history.
00:01:42.600Friday's pod is chilling if you listen to it.
00:01:44.980And we're here today to say it wasn't nearly bad enough, that what we thought we knew on Friday, everything has gotten worse by now.
00:01:56.120And we're going to do a deep dive into two in particular.
00:01:58.880In the Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed and Maine, Troy Jackson.
00:02:05.620Both of them, as bad as you thought it was, it's worse.
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00:03:56.600All right, Senators, so let's start with Michigan and what we learned, as you referenced,
00:04:01.560when we thought it couldn't get any worse than it is, it does.
00:04:04.540yeah i gotta say right now comrade mandami in new york is looking over in michigan going
00:04:10.380wow that guy is whacked out he's extreme i i mean it is this bad yeah we played a bunch of clips on
00:04:18.280friday but but i want to read this new headline to you because the headline sounds like something
00:04:23.960out of the onion here's the headline it's from the free beacon abdul el sayed to headline islamic
00:04:31.120event alongside Pakistani cleric who forced his 13-year-old niece into marriage was denounced
00:04:41.740for pedophilic rhetoric. Tariq Massoud urged his congregants to marry off their own female
00:04:49.440children and invoke Sharia law on the question of women's education. Let me just read a little
00:04:54.700bit of this because the facts are going to horrify you and blow you away. Michigan Senate
00:05:00.040candidate Abdul El-Sayed will spend Labor Day weekend alongside a Jew-hating Pakistani cleric
00:05:06.300who has promoted anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and admitted to forcing his 13-year-old niece
00:05:13.540into marriage. El-Sayed is scheduled to speak at the Islamic Society of North America,
00:05:19.180ISNA's annual convention held in Detroit from September 4th through 7th. Now what is this group
00:05:24.780isna this group isna his father-in-law el-sayed's father-in-law was a founding member of isna so
00:05:33.040this is a group el-sayed is very closely connected with by the way that same father-in-law who was a
00:05:39.000founding member of isna is el-sayed's single biggest super PAC contributor so he's bankrolling
00:05:45.300el-sayed's campaign he was a founding member of isna and isna is affiliated with the muslim
00:05:51.320Brotherhood. El-Sayed is nonetheless speaking at their conference. He's speaking on a panel
00:05:57.920titled, quote, Cultivating God Awareness in a Turmoiled America. Now, who is Tariq Massoud?
00:06:09.820He is an influential Pakistani cleric who's also on the Isna roster speaking at the same conference.
00:06:15.060Massoud is a mufti qualified to issue religious laws he's scheduled to speak on a panel about
00:06:22.420avoiding mental illness in youth apparently by marrying them off at age 13 yeah including how
00:06:29.340parents can quote prevent or minimize the impact of any trauma leading to a mental illness
00:06:35.620According to multiple Pakistani media reports, Masood in 2021 admitted in a sermon that he forced his 13 year old niece into marriage and he advised his followers to do the same with their young female relatives.
00:06:54.440Masood also said it was a husband's decision whether or not his wife can go to college or must remain a housewife, citing Sharia.
00:07:03.700in 2024 Canadian activist urged the government to block Massoud's visa to the country over his
00:07:13.500quote pedophilic rhetoric not only that but Massoud has had an extraordinary and hateful
00:07:22.320views about Jews in 2024 he preached a sermon titled quote the final humiliation of the Jews
00:07:29.720in which he said that Jews, quote, cunning minds had worked to bring the world under their control.
00:07:38.460Quote, the Koran condemns Jews, and he adds, not all Jews are the same,
00:07:45.160but he claims the amount of, quote, evil and turmoil among Jews was unmatched by any other community in the world.
00:07:54.420By the way, Masood is moderating his panel with Syed Imtiaz Ahmad, who's the president of ISNA.
00:08:02.060ISNA is, of course, the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated organization that was founded in part by El-Sayed's father-in-law.
00:08:09.900Now, given these facts, which are just beyond shocking, and by the way, nothing I've said is disputed,
00:08:18.040do you want to hear El-Sayed's defense, what his response is to this?
00:08:22.820Yeah, it's truly amazing. So get ready and take notes, my friends.
00:08:27.120OK, so Al-Sayed's campaign does not deny that he's speaking at the conference.0.94
00:08:31.820He does not deny that this pedophilic, Jew-hating, radical, Sharia-loving cleric who married his 13-year-old niece off and who urged others to marry their 13-year-old family members off as well.0.91
00:08:47.520He doesn't deny any of that, doesn't deny they're at the same conference.0.97
00:09:17.360it's not like he's speaking at the same conference on the same stage in the same place where the
00:09:22.640same people are organized to hear him speak yes it is yes it is by the way organized by his father-in-law
00:09:29.160yeah by his father-in-law it's not like it's all in the family here like this is totally a different
00:09:33.640they're breathing basically separate air during the time they're on stage like there's gotta you
00:09:38.220gotta give the guy a little bit of a break so i want to ask you like rewind and just listen to
00:09:43.840the last three minutes of this pod like it literally if the onion ran it if if snl was
00:09:48.920willing to make fun of leftists if snl made fun of let's have a cleric who urges marrying off your
00:09:54.660your 13 year old family members and saying women have no rights and under sharia law the men
00:09:59.220control them like if you made that up you'd say come on that's too extreme i mean this guy is the
00:10:05.160democrat nominee for senate in michigan not a word of what i said does his campaign dispute
00:10:12.840their only argument is he's on a different panel not his fault different panel so a okay by the
00:10:20.700way you and i have been held a pretty intense um scrutiny if there's any conservative that says
00:10:26.540something that's remotely um outside the norm or pushes anything and nothing compared to what you
00:10:35.000just described you and i have spoken at very large comments like well you know so and so we hear is
00:10:40.340attending sometimes i'm speaking like it's a it's a one-off and and i laugh because i'm like man if
00:10:45.260if the democrats and the media held the same standard they try to do like when i'm speaking
00:10:49.660an event it's a three-day event and i'm like and it makes me laugh and by the way ben ben ben have
00:10:54.400you spoken at any conferences that that are organized by a group founded by your father
00:10:58.360father-in-law who also happens to be the biggest donor to your super back yeah no no never happened
00:11:03.000and that's my point right there this is not a one-off that this is this is who he is okay but
00:11:09.520it gets worse all right you've you've traveled with me all over the country and and i make fun
00:11:16.040of how the media likes to make fun of republicans and and one of the examples i give is is i say a
00:11:22.500joke i tell online is is look the media says that that republicans all republicans especially me
00:11:28.560we live kittens at midnight under a full moon and and the joke i tell it at rallies is i say
00:11:38.740look that's ridiculous because everyone knows that kittens are breakfast food now that's a joke
00:11:47.100that's a joke about how ridiculous attacks are here's the amazing thing that joke is almost true0.89
00:11:56.660about Abdul El-Sayed I'm going to read to you a headline from the Daily Mail0.91
00:12:00.700quote abdul el sayed oversaw animal slaughterhouse as over 4 000 puppies and kittens
00:12:11.860killed under his watch that's real that's real this guy has literally killed 4 000 puppies and
00:12:20.840kittens and here's the article just to show that i'm not making this up his record overseeing
00:12:25.560detroit's troubled animal control system which saw high rates of animal euthanasia
00:12:29.560has received far less attention as he's campaign.
00:12:32.980From 2015 to 2017, El-Sayed served as executive director and health officer of the Detroit Health Department,
00:12:38.960a powerful post that put him over the city's animal control operation during some of its darkest days.
00:12:44.840In a 2017 ABC News profile of his bid for governor, El-Sayed pointed to his record as Detroit's health director,
00:12:51.760boasting that his team had, quote, rebuilt the animal control system.
00:12:55.400but according to records obtained by the Daily Mail, nearly 4,680 dogs and cats were euthanized
00:13:06.020by Detroit Animal Care and Control during the period when El-Sayed was in his post.
00:13:11.340The 2015 numbers were particularly stark. In that single year, the DACC euthanized 1,988 dogs and
00:13:20.040272 cats this figure represented 26.4 percent of all dogs euthanized in the country say that again
00:13:33.580please because look i could see someone listening going well okay well that's not fair if he's
00:13:37.740running animal control i guess that's part of what animal control does is euthanize animals
00:13:42.120Let me read this again. When he was running Michigan's Animal Control, the one thousand nine hundred and eighty eight dogs that he was responsible for killing represented twenty six point four percent of all dogs euthanized across the country.
00:14:01.000that is stunning and i got one question for you where's pita is pita protesting him as pita said
00:14:10.480a word or is pita simply going to be partisan and say okay he's a democrat so we don't care
00:14:17.780if he killed a quarter of all the dogs killed in the country in one year because we support
00:14:24.040democrats i would love to see pita show up in protest i'm not going to hold my breath but but
00:14:28.400it is fairly amazing by the way the dog catcher jokes and politics now actually work in this
00:14:34.380scenario so that's the one perk out of this yeah by the way here's some of the some of the totals
00:14:42.600the DACC had only about a 20% save slash live release rate in 2015 according to animal rescue
00:14:51.860site best friends meaning roughly 80 percent of animals were not released alive so in 2016 it
00:15:00.260improved it bumped up to 60 percent and it was a dramatic improvement uh and in 2017 the save rate
00:15:06.440was 63 percent so his numbers were terrible and it's just kind of an interesting record to be
00:15:17.280running on responsible for murdering over 4 000 cats and dogs and puppies and kittens yeah it is
00:15:25.080and this is again this is what keeps breaking it every time we think we have it all it keeps
00:15:30.860getting worse and by the way we got some audio on this that we want to play for you in just a moment
00:15:35.340but before we get to that i do want to talk to you real quick about anti-semitism it is on the rise
00:15:40.680around the world every day and the jewish people continue to pay the price from growing threats
00:15:45.720against jewish communities to acts of violence harassment and intimidation many jewish families
00:15:51.560are living with fear simply because they are jewish synagogues schools and community centers
00:15:57.520are strengthening security as hatred is spreading far beyond the headlines and that is why the
00:16:03.680international fellowship of christians and jews is working every day in israel and now around the
00:16:09.500world providing security emergency assistance food and critical care for the vulnerable jewish
00:16:16.660communities for more than 40 years the fellowship has stood alongside the jewish people delivering
00:16:21.360practical support when it is needed the most hatred it continues to spread but compassion
00:16:27.560and action can make a massive difference so i want you to join me in joining the international
00:16:33.380fellowship of christians and jews in simply praying that's all i'm asking you to do is to
00:16:38.860pray for the safety of the jewish people for peace in israel and for an end to anti-semitism
00:16:45.240together we can remind god's people that they're not alone if you want to know what you can pray
00:16:50.860for i want you to go to pray ifcj.org stand with israel in prayer today by visiting pray ifcj.org
00:16:58.400that's pray ifcj.org all right i want you to take a listen to this local abc7 report on this animal
00:17:05.700shelter and the whole controversy. Back in June, animal advocates and rescues teamed up to demand
00:17:12.100that the city clean up animal control. Dogs and cats were dying unnecessarily from disease,
00:17:17.920and then there were the allegations of neglect and even cruelty. It's going to take the city
00:17:22.260administration and the mayor getting involved, sitting down with these groups and talking about
00:17:26.500it. What can we do to improve animal services in Detroit? Because right now, it's not working.
00:17:30.540The city then set up an animal welfare reform group, but it was a long and frustrating six
00:17:35.300months for many, Frederick Williams' Beagle McScrappy was seized when he was evicted and
00:17:40.560died before he could save enough money to get him out. And then there was Kato, killed
00:17:45.280when his owner couldn't pay the fees fast enough, and both dogs never bit anyone.
00:17:50.140I was pretty much begging him, like, listen, I don't get paid for another two weeks. Like,
00:17:53.940I tried to borrow money, but it still wasn't enough.
00:17:56.340And now that there's a change in leadership at Detroit Animal Control?
00:17:59.900Hopefully things are going to be very much better than what they were.
00:18:02.480Action News wanted to talk to Melissa Miller, the new head of Animal Control, but her boss, Health Department Director Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, told us no because of our coverage, coverage that highlighted the deplorable conditions.
00:18:15.180And where is Harry Ward now? He's been reassigned to take care of the horses at Detroit Police Mounted Patrol.
00:18:21.880I feel like it's a slap in the face and I feel like I don't understand how the city can allow him to work with animals again after seeing the deplorable conditions at DAC.
00:18:29.860and we fought so hard to get him out of here and now he's back working with animals again so
00:18:33.780obviously our fight isn't over in detroit kimberly craig seven action news i mean you you see the
00:18:39.340story there and i love how outside the guy that's like all about transparency right he's like now
00:18:43.440i'm not talking to you guys did a bad story on me yep look democrats are used to the media just
00:18:49.080being their their cheer cheerleaders and press agents and so any criticism they don't don't
00:18:53.700know how to handle all right so you've heard the stunning news about the conference he's speaking
00:18:58.280at alongside this radical calling for pedophilia of your young family members you've heard the
00:19:03.860stunning news that he was responsible for killing over 4 000 dogs and cats and puppies and kittens
00:19:08.480surely there can't be more and and as the the old movie uh airplane says yes there can and
00:19:14.900don't call me surely uh i want you to take a moment and acquaint yourself with abdul al-sayad's
00:19:22.080sister. Now, Abdul's own record is of being a Marxist, Islamist, America hater. I got to say,
00:19:33.360as bad as he is, his sister is something really special. She's a professor at the University of
00:19:40.460Chicago, and unfortunately, so many of our professors are radical. She's a full-on communist.0.98
00:19:45.280she's a marxist she's a rabid islamist she is a naked jew hater and she hates america i'm going0.97
00:19:53.500to back all this up these are not empty charges all right october 7th october 7th when hamas0.99
00:20:01.480massacred over 1200 innocents in israel when they raped little girls and women in the streets
00:20:09.300that morning abdul's sister emin abdel hadi tweeted the following this is the entirety of
00:20:19.140her tweet morning freedom with a palestinian flag wow that that was her tweet celebrating
00:20:27.640that was at 551 a.m on october 7th 2023 that's while people while women and girls are still
00:20:34.920being raped she's celebrating and you might say well maybe she didn't know the facts well then
00:20:41.340let's go till later in the day on October 7th so Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders his own record0.88
00:20:48.260attacking Israel and and welcoming anti-semitism is unfortunate but here's what Bernie Sanders
00:20:54.020said on October 7th I absolutely condemn the horrifying attack on Israel by Hamas and Islamic
00:21:01.280jihad. There is no justification for this violence, and innocent people on both sides will suffer
00:21:07.740hugely because of it. It must end now. So that's what Bernie Sanders said the morning of October
00:21:12.3607th. Here's what Abdul's sister said at 11.07 a.m. on October 7th, retweeting or quote tweeting
00:21:19.640Bernie Sanders. What a disappointment. If you can't stand with the people that have been held
00:21:27.340in an open prison for 16 years finally fighting their oppressors how can you claim to stand for
00:21:34.920justice so understand her complaint is bernie sanders was not pro hamas enough she needed him
00:21:42.500to be even more pro hamas that's how radical she is that's how much she hates israel that's how
00:21:49.860much she hates jews and and and and and by the way she's also a communist so listen to her
00:21:57.720this is her own voice talking about what she thinks about capitalism capitalism is at the
00:22:04.340root of pretty much all of our social ills and has some way that it plays a lot into all the
00:22:11.220oppressions that we face. So for me I don't see issues of sexuality or race or
00:22:20.340gender as separate from issues of economic justice. Capitalism has done a
00:22:26.340really good job of dividing us and has done a really good job of objectifying
00:22:31.500our bodies and just basically stealing from generation after generation of
00:22:38.280people who aren't at the top. So socialism really affects every type of political activity that I'm
00:22:44.500in. There's no separation for me between all of these things. Senator, you listened to how well
00:22:53.440thought out her answer was. This is a core belief. I think it's pretty clear that you have core
00:23:01.260beliefs in this family and this is the radicalization of a family one of them has to dial
00:23:08.220it back a little bit even though he didn't dial it back for years let's also be clear about that
00:23:12.780and al-said and so it's like okay i guess we can pull it back just a little bit while i'm trying
00:23:18.460to you know become an elected official yeah look and and and al-said has talked about how he hates
00:23:25.260thanksgiving it turns out his sister does too here's what she's tweeted on on thanksgiving and
00:23:30.060july 4th quote we can't have nice things under settler colonialism may all the empires fall
00:23:39.000and then on july 4th quote excuse me if i don't celebrate the transfer of stolen land
00:23:45.500from one colonizer to another hashtag july 4th and then amazingly enough so she didn't think
00:23:53.420bernie sanders was woke enough or israel hating enough or america hating enough
00:23:56.980she also didn't think the university of michigan was so the university of michigan in this on
00:24:02.120december 8th 2023 tweeted out in the context of the national discourse the university of michigan
00:24:10.720unequivocally condemns calls for the genocide of jews or any other peoples as this is antithetical
00:24:18.860to our values so okay fairly mild tweet saying that university of michigan is against the genocide
00:24:25.080of jews what what what was abdul's sister's reaction to this quote the students you have
00:24:31.740been arresting and disciplining have not been calling for a genocide of jews they have been
00:24:37.600calling for an end to the current actual ongoing genocide of the palestinian people
00:24:42.480i am ashamed to be a michigan wolverine wow that was in response to michigan saying they
00:24:54.060opposed the genocide of jews that made her ashamed to be a michigan wolverine and final thing i want
00:25:00.260you to hear about her surely she's she's proud to be a professor at the university of chicago i mean0.66
00:25:05.160after all that's her employer that's where she teaches she teaches right now she poisons the
00:25:09.920minds of young students right now at the university of chicago obviously she's proud of that well0.86
00:25:15.100turns out she's not give a listen to what she has to say about the university of chicago
00:25:19.040where she is a professor right now the university of chicago it's evil like you know it's a colonial
00:25:25.680landlord like why would i why would i put any of my political energy into this space and i kind of
00:25:31.460had a little bit of disdain for uh for for like people who spent a lot of time doing that and the
00:25:38.020genocide really collapsed that and made me realize that um two things one is that well my students
00:25:45.880needed me I'm so it was like oh I actually have to organize here to take
00:25:50.140care of my students who I do care about but I also realized and I think this is
00:25:55.900a lesson this is a painful lesson that a lot of us in the Palestine solidarity
00:25:59.320movement have been learning is that we don't have power we can shift the moral
00:26:05.380authority all we want we've won the moral question like we that was the
00:26:09.040imperative that we've had we will done check like put Palestine in the national
00:26:13.880consciousness we did it you know make people sympathetic to Palestine teach the history we
00:26:19.260did it like now you have white boys on the north side of Chicago being like hey man free Palestine
00:26:23.480I'm like okay did not see it coming glad it's here but what we don't have is power and I think
00:26:32.380for me the question of base building is about I think the question that I I'm asking myself and
00:26:37.500I'm asking you to ask yourself is where can I actually build power turns out I work at one of
00:26:43.500the biggest employers in the city of Chicago. I work at a place that is a landlord, a health
00:26:48.980care provider, a police force, but they are, right? And a place where I have access to thousands
00:26:57.700of people that I could potentially organize. And you know what? It's not fun. Organizing academics,
00:27:02.880next time you're in your organizing meeting being frustrated, please think of me.
00:27:06.680please think about me trying to organize like academics like it's brutal I never saw this
00:27:14.740coming however but I'm just like actually this is where I need to build power right like this is my
00:27:21.540best possible structural leverage and so I do I do one-on-ones with my liberal colleagues who
00:27:28.020were like well I don't know but you know I just think we should live the life of the mind here
00:28:27.860where do you think abdul el-sayed thinks he needs to build power this is a family raised on hate
00:28:37.220and this is a family devoted to hate that's how radical the democrats nominees are this cycle
00:28:45.480yeah and by the way she's not the only person out there and el-sayed that that you need to
00:28:50.720be paying attention to we've got some news that deals with troy jackson in that race in maine
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00:29:53.560all right senator let's go to troy jackson and maine uh just when you think things can't get
00:29:58.800any crazier in the democratic party uh yet again we got new headlines and new stories out of maine
00:30:04.500as well so like michigan maine has had a fairly extraordinary uh saga with their democrat nominee0.69
00:30:11.740They started off with Graham Plotner, the Nazi communist misogynist who was ultimately so bad that even though he had a Nazi tattoo on his chest, the Democrats stuck with him.
00:30:23.120But once he had serious allegations of sexual assault, they finally abandoned him.
00:30:37.120And so now he's their nominee because understand all they care about is power, sort of like El Saeed's sister.
00:30:43.140They're interested in power. Well, it turns out whoever is in charge of vetting for the Democrat Party in Maine needs to go back to remedial school because they're really, really bad at the job.
00:30:55.440Here's a headline from the Banger Daily News.
00:30:59.400Quote, Troy Jackson punched a man and pushed his partner in 1988, police report says.
00:31:08.040Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Troy Jackson's longtime partner told an officer that he, quote,
00:31:13.960pushed her around after Jackson broke down a door and punched a man at a Fort Kent home in 1988,
00:31:21.980according to a police report obtained exclusively by the Banger Daily News.
00:31:26.360Jackson, who was 19 at the time, does not dispute the assault of the man, a misdemeanor charge resolved by a fine.
00:31:31.860But Lana Pelletier, who has been in a relationship with Jackson for roughly 40 years,
00:31:37.480says she has no memory of making the statement attributed to her by police and denies he pushed her.
00:31:42.420In a statement, Jackson denied he'd ever been violent with her.
00:31:45.740Quote, nearly 40 years ago, when I was 19 years old, I got into a fight with another man.
00:31:50.800I took responsibility for it then, I take responsibility for it now, Jackson said in a statement.
00:31:56.300Quote, but let me be clear, I've never been violent with my partner, Lana, or any other woman.
00:32:00.740This happened nearly four decades ago, and I assure Mainers that this incident in no way reflects on the man I am today or the life I've led in years since.
00:32:08.440It's almost identical to Graham Plattner's denials.
00:32:10.740Well, I want you to listen to at least one witness, Maine resident Kim McBriarty, describing witnessing Troy Jackson abusing his girlfriend.