In that talk, he criticized Oklahoma’s 2010 “Save Our State” constitutional amendment (later struck down by federal courts as unconstitutional for specifically targeting Islamic law). He said voters banned “Shariah law” without knowing what it meant, framed the ban as part of a longer history of discrimination (linking it to the Trail of Tears, the Tulsa Massacre, and the Oklahoma City bombing), and attributed it to the same “forces” of white supremacy. He did not call for implementing Sharia as American law; the speech’s theme was unity, civil rights for Muslims, and quoting the U.S. Constitution (“We the People… in order to form a more perfect union”).
El-Sayed has repeatedly denied any intent to impose Sharia and affirmed separation of church and state:
- In a 2017 interview, when asked if he was part of a conspiracy to bring Sharia to the U.S., he said “No.” He has described his faith as personal and stressed that as a religious minority he depends on church-state separation so he (and others) can practice freely—or not practice at all.
- During his 2018 Michigan gubernatorial run, he stated he does not believe Sharia law is a question in the state and rejected associations based solely on his being Muslim.
- More recently he has reiterated support for constitutional governance and religious liberty for everyone.
Sharia is a broad body of Islamic guidance covering personal ethics, prayer, family matters, finance, etc.; interpretations vary widely. As a practicing Muslim, El-Sayed follows personal religious obligations derived from it, which is ordinary for adherents of any faith and does not equate to advocating theocratic rule or parallel Islamic courts overriding U.S. law. No public record shows him pushing Sharia as civil/criminal law in the United States.
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