From Vanity Fair · Ta-Nehisi Coates · · 1m 30s
Haley Stevens Chooses Rogers Over Hate
Michigan congresswoman Haley Stevens joins Mike Rogers in a campaign of anti-Muslim rhetoric.
In brief
Michigan congresswoman Haley Stevens joins Mike Rogers in a campaign of anti-Muslim rhetoric. Haley Stevens endorsed Mike Rogers, who claims Abdul El-Sayed is a tool of Muslim Brotherhood, despite El-Sayed winning the Democratic Senate primary. Originally reported by Vanity Fair.
Haley Stevens Endorses Mike Rogers
Michigan congresswoman Haley Stevens endorsed Republican Mike Rogers, claiming she chose country over hate.
“I’m choosing country over hate. This is not anti-Muslim at all.”
Rogers Cites MLK on Hate
Mike Rogers invoked Martin Luther King Jr. to argue solving hate requires love, not darkness.
“You cannot solve darkness with darkness; you have to solve it with light. You can’t solve hate with hate; you have to solve it with love.”
Perfecting Church as Campaign Site
The pair chose Perfecting Church, a Black church in Detroit, to frame their campaign in social justice terms.
Rogers Targets El-Sayed as Muslim
Rogers claimed Abdul El-Sayed is a tool of shadowy forces originating in the East, including the Muslim Brotherhood.
“The Muslim Brotherhood celebrated exactly one victory in the United States in the primary this year. Abdul El-Sayed’s.”
Trump Calls El-Sayed Mohamed
President Donald Trump referred to El-Sayed as 'Mohamed' or 'Abduladadalalalala' at rallies.
“Somebody said his name isn’t Mohamed. I’m the president, I can call him whatever the hell I want. To me, he’s Mohamed.”
Newsmax Labels El-Sayed
Newsmax described El-Sayed as an 'anti-Israel Muslim' and a Midwest variant of Zohran Mamdani.
“THE LEFT IS FORGETTING THE HEINOUS ATTACKS OF 9/11”
Kennedy Jr. Attacks Arabs
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed Arabs don’t produce science or Nobel Prize winners.
“There’s 500 million Arabs in the world, and yet they don’t produce science, they don’t win the Nobel Prize, they don’t win the Field[s] prize, they don’t win the Wolf Prize, they don’t produce the literature they used to produce.”
Obama Racial Attacks
Barack Obama faced racist attacks, including being called 'Barack the Magic Negro' and 'food stamp president'.
“Point box toward Mecca for tastier waffles.”
El-Sayed’s Campaign Target
The campaign of hate aims to render Muslims and Arabs more killable through historical coups and racism.
“In 1953 the CIA backed a coup that overthrew a democracy in Iran. In 1965 it supported a coup in Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim population in the world, that killed between 500,000 and a million people.”
The main idea
Haley Stevens endorsed Mike Rogers, who claims Abdul El-Sayed is a tool of Muslim Brotherhood, despite El-Sayed winning the Democratic Senate primary.
