Unearthed interview reveals El-Sayed’s Sharia ‘obligation’: ‘Not because of fear’

Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, said he felt religiously obligated to follow Sharia-compliant practices in a resurfaced 2009 interview with The New York Times. "Ultimately, the question is, when I die and I stand before God and go through everything I did in my life, I don’t want to say I did it the easy way instead of the Shariah-compliant way," El-Sayed told the Times. "Not because of fear but because of obligation." El-Sayed, enrolled in medical school at the ti