El-Sayed rejects justification for the September 11 attacks in anniversary statement
Abdul El-SayedDemocratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, delivering an anniversary statement published by his campaign
In his September 11 anniversary statement, El-Sayed rejected any justification for killing innocent civilians and mourned the people killed in the attacks. The statement supplies later evidence of his stated views; it did not mention Rogers or Piker.
Responding to
Abdul El-Sayed believes the United States deserved the September 11 attacks.
“Nothing can justify the murder of innocent civilians. Nothing.”
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Where this statement fits
Mike Rogers’s 9/11 accusation against Abdul El-Sayed
After Michigan’s August 2026 Senate primary, Mike Rogers asserted that Abdul El-Sayed believed America deserved the September 11 attacks. His campaign defended that accusation by citing El-Sayed’s association with Hasan Piker and reluctance to disavow him. El-Sayed had explicitly rejected justifying 9/11 and argued that appearing with a person did not imply agreement. He described Rogers’s attacks as an effort to divide voters through Islamophobia. Pod Save America hosts Jon Favreau and Dan Pfeiffer later debated the strategy and construction of a related Republican ad without endorsing its factual claims.
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The campaign’s press release says El-Sayed released a video statement that morning and links an X post.
Before the quotation
The campaign’s September 11 release introduces a video statement commemorating the attacks. Before the selected words, El-Sayed discusses American civic ideals and honors those killed in terrorism.
After the quotation
He mourns the victims, families, and destruction, then calls for building a more inclusive and just country. The release says he attended Lansing’s remembrance ceremony that morning. Rogers and Piker are not named. The published text was checked; the linked video was unavailable.
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Why this label?
This statement provides contrary contextual evidence to the belief attributed to El-Sayed in Claim 113. He expressly rules out justification of the attacks. The classification concerns that attribution; the source does not establish an explicit reply to Rogers or condemnation of Rogers’s campaign conduct.
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The Dispute Index. "El-Sayed rejects justification for the September 11 attacks in anniversary statement". First published: 2026-09-13. Last updated: 2026-09-25. https://disputeindex.com/events/503-in-his-september-11-anniversary-statement-el-sayed