“It took you about five months to seemingly understand why that landed wrong with people and voters and constituents,” she added. “Do you think that leaders have a responsibility to challenge the extremist views in their own religion, especially considering you’re the first Muslim senator of the United States?”
"Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed’s victory lap after his midterm win in Michigan took a somber turn on the November 5 episode of The View, when co-host Sara Haines pressed him on comments he made after an attack on a Michigan synagogue in March.
"On March 12, a man drove a truck into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township and exchanged gunfire with security before killing himself, authorities said. El-Sayed condemned the attack at the time, but drew criticism for adding, “Hurt people hurt people. Violence is a cycle,” a reference to reports that the attacker’s relatives had been killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon." . . .
"After an opening segment on El-Sayed’s historic win as the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Senate, Haines turned the conversation to the controversy.
“'I’m a practicing Christian, you’re a practicing Muslim,” she began, explaining that she feels a particular responsibility to speak out when people invoke her faith to justify cruelty. “Your response, that ‘Hurt people hurt people’ after the Temple Israel attack in Michigan in March really stuck with a lot of people.”
“'It took you about five months to seemingly understand why that landed wrong with people and voters and constituents,” she added. “Do you think that leaders have a responsibility to challenge the extremist views in their own religion, especially considering you’re the first Muslim senator of the United States?” . . .
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