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Abdul El-Sayed protested against 'ex-terrorists' who converted to Christianity, unearthed report reveals

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Abdul El-Sayed protested against 'ex-terrorists' who converted to Christianity, unearthed report reveals

Michigan’s progressive Democratic Senate nominee, while sitting atop an organization with ties to an alleged terrorist group, once protested an event where a trio of "ex-terrorists" discussed their conversion to Christianity.

Abdul El-Sayed, who is running in Michigan’s highly watched and hotly contested race for Senate against GOP nominee and former Rep.

Mike Rogers, was a leader of a protest against three "ex-terrorists" that spoke on-campus at the University of Michigan in 2007, according to an unearthed report.

The protest, chronicled by the Michigan Daily at the time, was against three speakers, Walid Shoebat, Zachariah Annani and Kamal Saleem, self-described former terrorists who were making the rounds during the mid-2000s to discuss their lives in the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Muslim Brotherhood before converting to Christianity.

TOP GOP SENATOR REVEALS WHAT DEM COLLEAGUES ARE FRETTING ABOUT BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Students attending the talk staged a walk-out, which El-Sayed cheered afterward.

"We’ve done something good today, and we need to keep that going in the future," El-Sayed said.

El-Sayed's campaign spokesperson, Cole Wozniak, told Fox News Digital that the candidate had "unequivocally denounced terrorism." "Two decades ago, he protested against speakers who have been widely condemned by experts, including in national security, for spreading misinformation and fabricating their backstories," Wozniak said.

"Mike Rogers and his allies are pushing lies because they don't want to talk about the record-high prices Michiganders are paying for gas and groceries because of Trump's illegal war in Iran." There are also questions about the backgrounds of Shoebat, Annani and Saleem.

The New York Times reported in 2008 that before speaking at the Air Force Academy, organizations criticized their appearance and several Arab-American civil rights organizations questioned why they had not been arrested or deported given their apparent connections to terrorist groups.

Event organizers told the Michigan Daily that it was meant to educate people about the dangers of Muslim extremism, not promote intolerance.

On the other hand, the protesters, who were clad in yellow, argued that their pushback was highlighting that the event was "generalizing an entire group of people." SCHUMER DUCKS QUESTION ON CAMPAIGNING WITH SOCIALIST CANDIDATE WHO REFUSES TO BACK HIM AS LEADER El-Sayed at the time was the vice president of the Muslim Students Association (MSA), which is alleged to have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization that the White House requested last year that the State and Treasury departments determine whether certain chapters should be designated as foreign terrorist organizations and specially designated global terrorists.

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