Abdul El-Sayed Compares His ‘Radical’ Agenda to Jesus

Abdul El-Sayed has a radical problem, and, apparently, his solution in a resurfaced clip is to invoke Jesus Christ. That's where we are in the Michigan Senate race.

A clip from a May appearance on “The Progressive Christians Podcast” started making the rounds again this week. El-Sayed was asked about being called a radical for supporting policies such as Medicare for All, opposing war, and challenging corporate influence. The host compared those positions to the teachings of Jesus.

El-Sayed went with it.

Abdul El-Sayed compares himself to Jesus Christ:

"Jesus was considered radical in his time too." pic.twitter.com/hkSITnW9AP
— Sarah Gallagher (@sgallz_) August 19, 2026

“You know, Jesus, peace and blessings be upon Him, was considered radical in His time too. And there is a radical nature to being willing to stand forthright in a time of corruption.”

That's the play. A Muslim socialist comparing himself to Jesus Christ, on a Christian podcast, to explain why his radical politics are actually fine.

The full interview gives El-Sayed a little more room to explain himself. Earlier, he talked about how his Muslim faith informs his politics while rejecting the idea that Muslim political participation means forcing Islamic beliefs or laws on other people. He cited a Quranic verse that he translated as “There’s no compulsion on faith.”

Then the conversation moved to the word “radical,” and that is where Jesus entered the chat.

This was also not a one-off line that El-Sayed immediately moved away from. In another recent podcast appearance, he invoked Jesus while explaining his views about wealth and political power.

“If you followed the teachings of Jesus Christ, it was about upending the system against the richest and most powerful and the ways that they used their power and their money to subjugate other people. Like, that was the essential teaching.”

A Muslim candidate invoking Jesus to sell socialism to Christian voters is a political calculation, not a theological one. Michigan voters will see through it.

That gamble matters because El-Sayed is already on thin ice with key voters.

He won the Democrat primary over Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens of Michigan (MI-11) by fewer than 5,000 votes out of more than 1.5 million cast. The primary also exposed some trouble for El-Sayed among black voters, something that came roaring back into view this week when a man heckling him at a Detroit event accused him of not caring about black people. El-Sayed responded, “I am Arab, I’m also African.”

There has been plenty more.

Deranged: El-Sayed Staffer Tries to Tie Mike Rogers' Patriotic Truck to the KKK and White Supremacy

El-Sayed recently tried to hammer Republican nominee Mike Rogers for attending the Sanilac County Fair while repeating claims about sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln “starving for food.” That attack did not exactly land cleanly.

Then one of El-Sayed's campaign staffers decided Rogers' Woodward Dream Cruise video, featuring a vintage truck, an American flag, and Toby Keith's “American Ride,” had “the aesthetics of a 1960s white flight suburb and a KKK cross burning.”

Michigan voters get the final word in November. If this week is any indication, El-Sayed is going to make it very easy for them.

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