I spoke to
@FoxNews about this Abdul El-Sayed exchange with Sarah Haines on The View.
The View’s Sara Haines holds Abdul El-Sayed’s feet to the fire over his “hurt people, hurt people” comments after a Muslim terrorist attacked the Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield last year.
She challenged him TWICE after he tried to wriggle out of it.
Good for Haines. No one else on that panel was willing to bring this up.
HAINES: “Your response that ‘hurt people, hurt people’ after the Temple Israel attack in Michigan in March really stuck with a lot of people and you did apologize for that but it took you a while to…it took you about five months to seemingly understand why that landed wrong with voters and constituents…”
EL-SAYED: “I was trying to argue about…or offer context around the fact that that individual had lost a child, niece and nephew in an air strike…”
“I want us...to be have an adult conversation about the ways in which actions ricochet around the world and create worse for all of us.”
That’s when Haines clapped back again.
HAINES: “I just think that if that had been done anywhere near what I believed, I would be so furiously enraged that they would use the words that I have led my life with to hurt people that way and that was young kids, so I just was surprised it took a minute for you to understand that part.”
So in other words, El-Sayed apologized because of the optics, but not because he disagrees with his original sentiment that people should empathize with radical Islamic terrorists.
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