Shapiro challenges El-Sayed’s assurance about Sharia
Writing personally as the author of a Daily Wire opinion column.
“that is not true on a global level at all.”
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Shapiro’s column characterizes the Piker passage as part of a broader political shift in the Democratic coalition.
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In his August 26, 2026 Daily Wire opinion column, Shapiro recounts El-Sayed’s comparison of Muslim religious observance with Christian canon law. Immediately afterward, Shapiro disputes El-Sayed’s assurance that nobody is trying to impose Sharia by evaluating it globally. Locator: the two consecutive paragraphs beginning with the discussion of Sharia and canon law, browser text lines 69–71. The quotation is a contiguous fragment of Shapiro’s own response, rather than the words he attributes to El-Sayed
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The next paragraph shifts to criticism of El-Sayed’s campaigning with Hasan Piker. The Sharia passage itself disputes the assurance at a global level. DI’s case concerns El-Sayed’s defense of personal religious practice and opposition to Sharia bans; Shapiro’s broader objection is preserved without treating it as evidence that El-Sayed seeks to impose religious government.
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Case context: Abdul El-Sayed’s Sharia-law defense: religious freedom or support for religious government?
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Relative to El-Sayed’s portrayal of his Sharia-law position as personal religious freedom, Shapiro challenges the assurance that no one is imposing Sharia by arguing that it is untrue globally.
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