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DETROIT \u2014 Michigan Senate hopeful Dr. Abdul El-Sayed waxed poetic at a Saturday Islamic convention that has faced criticism for inviting multiple 9\/11 conspiracy theorists \u2014 six days before the 25th anniversary of the devastating terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n

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The lefty pol delivered remarks alongside \u201cThe Young Turks\u201d founder Cenk Uygur and Muslim cleric Zaid Shakir \u2014 both of whom have questioned the government\u2019s narrative of the Sept. 11 attacks \u2014 at the Islamic Society of North America\u2019s annual convention in Detroit Saturday night.<\/p>\n

El-Sayed faced heat earlier this week after a since-deleted tweet resurfaced from Sept. 11, 2021 where he mourned the lives lost on 9\/11 and trashed America in the process.<\/p>\n

But the democratic hopeful remained mum on the topic Saturday and instead used the panel as a platform to focus on anti-Muslim hate across the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe found ourselves in a moment now where, as people point to us, Muslim Americans, they want to tell us that we don\u2019t belong,\u201d El-Sayed remarked to the crowd of about 1,000 attendees.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey want to tell us that this country is not ours. They want to tell us that because of our names or how we pray, that somehow we are less than.\u201d<\/p>\n

The aspiring senator praised his home state for not showing him similar bias as he continues to trek around Michigan on his campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMichiganders don\u2019t care how you pray; they care what you pray for and what you hope for,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t care what your name is; they care if you care to know their name. Good-hearted people, open-minded, big-hearted, asking how we can come together beyond our differences.\u201d<\/p>\n

While El-Sayed remained tight-lipped to avoid making any controversial statements, his fellow panelists were more fired up and made several anti-Israel comments. <\/p>\n

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Uygur criticized the US\u2019s support for Israel, saying, \u201cit is unbearable to me as an American,\u201d and referred to the horrifying October 7 attacks in a rather flippant way.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Oh my god, on October 7, the worst thing since the Holocaust,\u2019\u201d he snarked about the mainstream media\u2019s coverage of the attacks on Israel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey make it sound like the Palestinians are occupying the Israelis rather than the other way around,\u201d Uygur claimed. \u201cNo, I\u2019m not going to let them get away with that anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNone of us are going to let them get away with that anymore,\u201d the controversial speaker warned. \u201cBut they\u2019re going to have to come through me first.\u201d<\/p>\n

Uygur, who is the uncle of notorious streamer Hasan Piker, is no stranger to making outlandish statements, sharing in February that \u201cI no longer believe [the] official 9\/11 story,\u201d in a shocking X post.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTwo paper passports did not burn and were found on the rubble but it was so hot WTC7 burned down across the street. Nonsense,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Similarly, Shakir has previously argued that there are \u201cglaring weaknesses and inconsistencies\u201d with the official account of what happened in the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n

He complained in an article that \u201c9\/11 has been used by both the government and a significant segment of the Christian Right in this country, along with their allies, to launch a war on Islam.\u201d<\/p>\n

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