{"id":102727,"date":"2026-08-26T19:23:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=102727"},"modified":"2026-08-26T19:23:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:23:31","slug":"muslim-senate-candidate-faces-backlash-for-comparing-sharia-law-to-canon-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/muslim-senate-candidate-faces-backlash-for-comparing-sharia-law-to-canon-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidato musulm\u00e1n al Senado enfrenta cr\u00edticas por comparar la ley isl\u00e1mica con el derecho can\u00f3nico"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is facing backlash after comments he made during a television interview comparing Muslim sharia law to Catholic canon law.In a heated exchange that aired on the evening of Aug. 24 on Fox News\u2019 \u201cJesse Watters Primetime,\u201d Watters asked El-Sayed if he thinks opposing sharia \u2014 the religious law of the Islamic faith \u2014 is akin to \u201cwhite supremacy.\u201dWatters pointed to a 2022 speech El-Sayed made for the Oklahoma branch of the Council on\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe Now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? Sign in<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"cppw-paywall__microcopy\">Enjoy unlimited access, cancel anytime.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is facing backlash after comments he made during a television interview comparing Muslim sharia law to Catholic canon law.In a heated exchange that aired on the evening of Aug. 24 on Fox News\u2019 \u201cJesse Watters Primetime,\u201d Watters asked El-Sayed if he thinks opposing sharia \u2014 the religious law of the Islamic faith \u2014 is akin to \u201cwhite supremacy.\u201dWatters pointed to a 2022 speech El-Sayed made for the Oklahoma branch of the Council on\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-102727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-news"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","mfb_rest_fields":["title","jetpack_publicize_connections","jetpack-related-posts","jetpack_sharing_enabled","jetpack_featured_media_url"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102728,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102727\/revisions\/102728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102727"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=102727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}