Yesterday, Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed was Americanized slightly on Wikipedia. October 29, 11:09:
This introduction to the page hadn’t been touched for 10 years, according to archive.org, which shows a 2016 version as its earliest capture. That changed on October 29, 20:15:
The politician’s full name of “Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed” was removed from the introduction in favor of restating the headline name.
Allahu Akbar, as they say in Michigan.
Separately, I was listening to NPR today in my neighbor’s 2018 Toyota Camry (I volunteered to drive it to a tire shop). The intrepid journalists characterized Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed as America’s first Muslim candidate for U.S. Senate and celebrated Democrats for their virtue. Mehmet Oz ran for Senate in Pennsylvania as the Republican nominee in 2022, but perhaps being Republican cancels out “Mehmet is the Turkish version of the Arabic name Muhammad” (Wikipedia)?
@Philip, Why are you jumping to conclusions? For all we know, he could have denounced Islam, converted to something else, and be halfway through his new spiritual journey. Let’s not rush to judgment just yet!
Now that Barack Hussein Obama is campaigning with Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, it won’t be long before all global-scale problems are solved (it seems that their first priority is a river-to-the-sea freeing of Palestine).
The irony is that non-white and non-Muslim Americans vastly outnumber Muslims, yet Muslims have a much higher level of representation in elected office relative to their share of the population.
Phil, what’s the big deal with the change?