This Might Be Abdul El-Sayed’s Most Dishonest Ad Yet

And the award for most misleading ad of the 2026 midterm cycle goes to….Abdul El-Sayed, for a new ad titled “Prayer” in which the Muslim Democrat candidate for Senate in Michigan leans over in what looks like your grandfather’s living room to reflect on his life of faith. El-Sayed is not happy with the president calling him “Muhammad,” which is a great name, considering it overtook Noah as the most popular name for babies in England for the third year running. Dogged by daily questions about his family ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, most recently in a prolonged standoff with a young man in Michigan named Tommy, El-Sayed’s final pitch to voters is that he’s a man of God facing down discrimination and religious persecution in the Land of the Free.

This is craaaaaazy

— Stephen Kent (@StephenKentX) October 20, 2026

“Prayer” is an incredible manipulation of America’s liberal spirit around the freedom of religion. It begins with Abdul holding a fresh coffee and putting on a plaid button-down instead of the usual muscle T-shirt. He looks sullen.  “My name is Abdul; it means servant,” he says in sadness, “I pray every day.” Fact check: True. El-Sayed prays five times a day and protects that time with the help of his campaign staff.

He moves on to reflect on his ultimate “why”: to “leave this earth better than we found it.” The next frame is El-Sayed surrounded by black voters in what you’d assume is a Baptist or AME church, followed by an image of a Jewish menorah. He begins by calling on the centrality of his faith and arguing that Washington needs more of it to counter a culture of hopelessness and despair.

He’s right that faith can overcome hopelessness, inshallah…But El-Sayed’s “Prayer” ad is a pretty craven deception, and the bar for this is quite low in American political advertising. “I’m Abdul El-Sayed, man of faith, and that’s a good thing,” he concludes, suggesting that his religion is under attack, when what’s at issue is his unwillingness to rebuke a terrorist organization (Muslim Brotherhood) with an ounce of sincerity.

If you’re not up to speed, Abdul El-Sayed’s reported ties to the Muslim Brotherhood begin with his family: his half-sister has publicly described their mother as active in the group during her college years in 1970s Egypt and said the family “has long been” MB, with relatives jailed for membership. His father-in-law has long served in leadership with the Islamic Society of North America, an organization federal prosecutors identified as linked to the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood. During college at the University of Michigan, he was vice president of the Muslim Students Association — a group with historical origins as a Brotherhood campus vehicle — and later cited Tariq Ramadan, grandson of the Brotherhood’s founder, as an intellectual inspiration while also signing a 2012 letter supporting the Brotherhood-backed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi. El-Sayed has denied any meaningful ties, calling these accounts hearsay.

Like his “Prayer” ad, this is all a simple exercise in ‘taqiyya,’ a framework within Islam to allow for lying and the concealment of religious motivation when dealing with enemies, also known as non-Muslims.

This is difficult for the atheist-whites who’ve colonized the Democratic Party to understand, but amongst religious people (namely the Abrahamic religions), to whom you pray is an important matter. It turns out Allah, as understood through the prophet Muhammad, and God as known in the Old and New Testaments ask very different things of you.

Black voters in Michigan know this, which is why Abdul El-Sayed has struggled to secure their votes. Matters are made even worse by El-Sayed’s socialist politics.

A Washington Post-Schar School poll released last month found that among likely black voters, 83% said they’d prefer Democrats run the Senate, but only 67% backed El-Sayed. While El-Sayed has not taken on the “socialist” label, he has primarily campaigned with avowed socialists, communists, and Marxist influencers: Bernie Sanders, Hasan Piker, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Former President Barack Obama has had to get involved in Michigan to shore up the black vote, which has notably broken with Democrats in several past elections of Democratic Socialist candidates running on an end to capitalism and cutting off ties with Israel.

Something that comes up often in focus groups of black voters is that Abdul El-Sayed isn’t focused on Michigan; rather, Palestine and the Middle East. Democrats have an ongoing problem within their coalition, which is that the “woke era” theory of politics — where distinct racial minorities with vastly different cultures and priorities will all come together neatly — was disproven by each Donald Trump campaign and the demographic breakouts for socialist candidates around the country.

So El-Sayed went to Sunday church services in Flint, Michigan, alongside Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA). If you think he looked uncomfortable during praise and worship, that’s because he would be — he’s Muslim, not Christian.

Something oddly refreshing about El-Sayed is that he stands as a reminder that religious pluralism, while a good operating system for a free country, inevitably must face the question of whose faith is correct — and who are kuffar…infidels. 

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 Stephen Kent is a conservative columnist and co-creator of GeekyStoics on YouTube. Follow him on X @StephenKentX.

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