January 1, Democrat Candidate Equates Oklahoma Sharia Ban With Trail of Tears

Wyatt’s Take

• Abdul El-Sayed is trying to make Oklahoma look evil for protecting its laws from foreign religious courts.
• Comparing a simple Sharia ban to the Trail of Tears and the Tulsa tragedy is an insult to real American history.
• Heartland voters know the difference between keeping our country safe and rewriting the past for political points.

A resurfaced video shows Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed linking Oklahoma’s effort to ban Sharia law to the forced removal of Native Americans, the destruction of Black Wall Street, and the Oklahoma City bombing during a 2022 speech at a Council on American-Islamic Relations event.

The comments came at a CAIR gathering where El-Sayed spoke about state lawmakers passing measures to stop foreign religious law from creeping into Oklahoma courts.

“They tried to do this in Oklahoma,” El-Sayed said in the clip. “They compared Sharia to the Trail of Tears, to Black Wall Street, to the Oklahoma City bombing.”

Critics say the comparison cheapens actual tragedies and ignores why states passed the bans in the first place.

Oklahoma voters approved a constitutional amendment in 2010 that bars courts from considering international or religious law when deciding cases.

Supporters argue the measure simply protects the U.S. Constitution and keeps judges from enforcing rules that treat women and non-Muslims as second-class citizens.

El-Sayed’s remarks have reignited debate over whether Democrats are willing to defend American legal traditions or prefer to import parallel systems that clash with them.

Wyatt Matters

Middle America still believes the Constitution comes first, and families across the heartland expect their leaders to defend that principle without apology.