Matt Whitlock says El-Sayed "has spoken out on support of Sharia law"
Matt WhitlockRepublican communications strategist and former NRSC adviser, posting on X
Republican strategist Matt Whitlock replied to Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's endorsement of El-Sayed by saying she was justifying support for someone who has spoken out in support of Sharia law.
Responding to
El-Sayed supports Sharia law and treats opposition to it as white supremacy.
“This is a pretty wild pretzel to twist into just to justify supporting somebody who actually has spoken out on support of Sharia law.”
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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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Whitlock's reply to a September 30, 2026 post by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, who wrote that she backs El-Sayed because Mike Rogers would confirm judges hostile to the separation of church and state.
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Nessel had posted that, as a Jew, she supports El-Sayed because "nothing is more dangerous to religious minorities in the U.S. than the creation of a state religion," and that Mike Rogers would confirm judges hostile to the separation of church and state.
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Nessel's post drew many critical replies on X; Whitlock's was among them.
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Why this label?
The reference point is El-Sayed's position on Sharia law, which he describes as religious freedom and which Vance characterized as support for Sharia. Whitlock adopts the support-for-Sharia reading and uses it against El-Sayed, so we labeled it Condemned. Challenged the characterization loses because he endorses the critical description rather than disputing one. Evidence level: his own post.
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