El Sayed courted voters at mosques where speakers dubbed US House of Satan and called for final annihilation of Jews

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed courted voters inside at least five Islamic centers that have a history of ultraviolent rhetoric that include branding the United States “the House of Satan” and calling for “the final annihilation of Jews,” The Post has learned.El-Sayed visited the Islamic Center of Detroit in March 2026 to shore up support, addressing the packed room of men during a Ramadan prayer gathering and soliciting signatures to qualify for the Michigan Democratic primary.“I have to get on the ballot to be able to get your vote, inshallah.So, my team is here in the back … we need your signature to get on the ballot,” El-Sayed told the congregation, after he was welcomed to the pulpit by a mosque leader who introduced him as “our beloved brother Dr.

Abdulrahman.”“Please don’t leave here without doing that,” he urged, according to a video on the center’s YouTube channel reviewed by The Post.  During the same service, a leader read a closing prayer in Arabic, which called for Allah to take the “worst revenge” upon Zionists.“The Zionists have spread corruption in the land.Your forbearance has deceived them, so show them your power … They killed our brothers and sisters, so take the worst revenge upon them,” the leader sang, according to the footage.“Raise no banner for them in the lands of the Muslims … foil their plans in every time and place,” he continued.”Last year, an Islamic scholar told the congregation that as Muslims they were “living here in America, in the house of Satan,” before making a wild claim that the US Constitution was based on Islam.“I’m expecting some rough time during the next four years, so it is important for us to be able and ready to say no, this is not a Christian country, this was not built by the Judeo-Christian tradition,” proclaimed Dr.

Zulfiqar Shah in January 2025 in a taped service.“It was built upon the Islamic ideology.”And in March 2024, a relig...