El-Sayed’s ‘Support’ for the U.S. Constitution is But a Mirage. n August, Stephen M. Kirby, PhD — creator of the Muslim Oath Project — put four questions to Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed designed to ferret out whether El-Sayed truly supports the U.S. Constitution. He was specifically asked whether he affirms Americans’ First Amendment rights to criticize Muhammad and to apostatize from Islam. Faithful observant Muslims can do neither. There was no response. The result was published on the Muslim Oath Project. In October, in an exchange with a voter at a townhall, El-Sayed said this: “You assume… that because I am Muslim, that somehow I would have some allegiance to something that is not our Constitution… For me, that Constitution is the guiding light.” El-Sayed can glibly say he supports the U.S. Constitution now, but his previous refusal to answer the Muslim Oath Project’s specific questions shows otherwise. On October 20th and 21st, the Muslim Oath Project put these questions to El-Sayed’s campaign again. And again, there was no response. El-Sayed can proclaim he supports the Constitution all he wants but, until he answers the specific questions noted above, his general proclamations are meaningless. Moreover, his perfunctory annunciation of support may fairly be taken as taqiyya — arising from the religious duty Islam imposes on adherents to lie to infidels to advance the cause of Islam. A few Muslim candidates have answered the questions satisfactorily, but most have not. El-Sayed is in the latter camp, so he falls into the Muslim Oath Project’s category ‘Would Not Express Support for the U.S Constitution’.