Mehdi Hasan calls the claim that El-Sayed pushes Sharia law absurd
Mehdi HasanJournalist and commentator, appearing on Piers Morgan Uncensored
Debating Rep. Nancy Mace on Piers Morgan Uncensored, journalist Mehdi Hasan called Sharia law a Republican "boogeyman" and said the idea that Zohran Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed are pushing Sharia law is absurd.
Responding to
El-Sayed supports Sharia law and treats opposition to it as white supremacy.
“So the idea that they're pushing Sharia law is absurd.”
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Where this statement fits
Abdul El-Sayed’s Sharia-law defense: religious freedom or support for religious government?
JD Vance characterized Abdul El-Sayed’s opposition to Sharia bans as support for Sharia and hostility to its critics. El-Sayed defended his position as equal religious freedom and rejected imposing his faith. Hasan Piker challenged the premise of a threatened imposition while questioning El-Sayed’s reliance on a canon-law analogy. Andrew Kolvet, Dana Loesch and Todd Aglialoro disputed that analogy, arguing that it understated Sharia’s relationship to civil government.
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Clip published September 20, 2026 from the Piers Morgan Uncensored episode first posted September 17, in which Mehdi Hasan answered Rep. Nancy Mace's remarks about Islam and Sharia law. Wording was checked against the audio.
Before the quotation
Mace had said communities were "pushing back on Sharia law type of things." Hasan answered that "There's no Sharia law," called it "a boogeyman that the Republicans tried 15 years ago," and asked, "Which Sharia law? Zohran Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed support Sharia law?"
After the quotation
He said both men were more supportive of gay and transgender people than Mace, then turned to Mace's criticism of Gov. Kathy Hochul for wearing a hijab in a mosque.
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The reference point is El-Sayed's position on Sharia law and the characterization, advanced by JD Vance and others, that he supports it. Hasan rejects that characterization as absurd, so we labeled it Challenged the characterization. Defended or excused is the closest alternative, but Hasan does not address El-Sayed's own reasoning about Sharia bans; he disputes the claim made about him. Evidence level: the published broadcast clip, checked by ear.
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