Jesse Watters
- Role
- Host of Jesse Watters Primetime, interviewing El-Sayed
- Statement date
"You said getting rid of Sharia law was white supremacy."
Source and context
Interview
About this source
Fox’s complete upload of the August 24 evening broadcast, published August 25 UTC. Full extracted captions were reviewed around the exchange; surrounding cross-talk is imperfectly transcribed, so quotations use only clearly corroborated passages. The interview includes El-Sayed’s rejection of imposing his religion, Watters’s distinction between religion and Sharia, and El-Sayed’s redirect to household costs. August 24 is the event date.
Reporting
About this source
Independent reporting corroborates the broadcast date and El-Sayed’s explanation that religious observance should not be imposed on others. Other interview subjects are outside this dossier.
Before the quotation
Watters shifted from Iran policy to a replay of El-Sayed’s older speech, then asked for an explanation.
After the quotation
El-Sayed invoked canon law and religious freedom. Watters distinguished criticism of Sharia from wanting El-Sayed to abandon his religion; the interview continued into economic issues.
How this statement is classified
The exchange directly contests El-Sayed’s characterization of anti-Sharia measures, without requiring an inference about Watters’s position on every religious-freedom question.
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- Published here
- People and groups discussed
- Abdul El-Sayed
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