DETROIT — A Black Christian pastor who went viral online for clashing with the city council in the nearby majority-Arab city of Dearborn issued a stark warning about Michigan senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed."Can you imagine him being in the Senate, being able to recommend federal judges to presidents?" Pastor Lorenzo Sewell of 180 Church said during an interview with Fox News Digital."That's his goal.
His goal is to be able to recommend federal judge to presidents for appointments, and then we're going to find ourselves in Sharia law all over this land."The Democratic nominee for Senate in the Wolverine State said in a 2009 New York Times interview that he was following Sharia law when he took out a special type of loan for an Ann Arbor condo.Sharia Law typically prevents interest on loans, and in some cases, Sharia-compliant Muslims can obtain loans wherein the amount of interest that would be paid over time is instead added to the purchase price of the home.Reverend Lorenzo Sewell speaks during the Republican National Convention (RNC) at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US, on Thursday, July 18, 2024.
( )VANCE UNLOADS ON EL-SAYED OVER SHARIA REMARKS: ‘THAT’S NOT MY GRANDPA’S DEMOCRATIC PARTY’"Ultimately, the question is, when I die and I stand before God and go through everything I did in my life, I don’t want to say I did it the easy way instead of the Shariah-compliant way," El-Sayed told the Times. El-Sayed's spokeswoman Roxie Richner told the Washington Free Beacon when the report resurfaced earlier this month that, "While he lives by the rules of his faith, as many Americans of various faiths do, Abdul opposes any effort by any religious community to write their faith laws into the laws of our country."In a response to Fox News Digital, Richner characterized Sewell's comments as "cheap attacks and hateful rhetoric" from an ally of El-Sayed's Republican opponent, Mike Rogers.EL-SAYED'S AGENDA PUTS ‘PERMANENTLY’ CHANGED AMERICA ON ...