Gad Saad just proved that education is not enough to shield Abdul El-Sayed from criticism, much to the left’s disdain.
It started when Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama, took to X to accuse El-Sayed of being a “radical Islamist” and saying that the voters of Michigan “voted to send a terrorist to the Senate.”
Look:
Born in Detroit to Egyptian immigrant parents, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is a Rhodes Scholar with two doctorates who became Detroit’s youngest-ever health director at age 30 before going on to teach epidemiology at Columbia University.
Calling him a “radical Islamist” makes you look… pic.twitter.com/Kw1DyLt1th
— Ariana Jasmine (@arianajasmine__) August 6, 2026
Leftists rushed to the Michigan candidate’s defense, including one Democratic Socialist supporter who flashed his education credentials like they are proof of something.
Look:
Born in Detroit to Egyptian immigrant parents, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is a Rhodes Scholar with two doctorates who became Detroit’s youngest-ever health director at age 30 before going on to teach epidemiology at Columbia University.
Calling him a “radical Islamist” makes you look… pic.twitter.com/Kw1DyLt1th
— Ariana Jasmine (@arianajasmine__) August 6, 2026
“Born in Detroit to Egyptian immigrant parents, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is a Rhodes Scholar with two doctorates who became Detroit’s youngest-ever health director at age 30 before going on to teach epidemiology at Columbia University. Calling him a ‘radical Islamist’ makes you look stupid, not him,” she wrote.
That’s when Saad comes in with proof that being educated and being a radical are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
Look:
The leader of ISIS had a doctorate. The second in command of al Qaeda during the Bin Laden era was a physician. That someone e is educated does not mitigate their ideological commitments. https://t.co/W3DeV6cjLw
— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) August 8, 2026
“The leader of ISIS had a doctorate. The second in command of al Qaeda during the Bin Laden era was a physician. That someone e is educated does not mitigate their ideological commitments,” he wrote.
X users weighed in:
How about the top PhDs and MDs of the Third Reich?
— Dr Walid Phares (@WalidPhares) August 9, 2026
Al Zawiri a doctor
Fathi Shakaki(founder of Palestinian Islamic Jihad) – children’s doctorThese are 2 examples but many Islamic terrorist leaders are physicians
These ppl literally judge character&beliefs based on degrees
— Ehud Ezra 🐕 (@EhudEzra1) August 9, 2026
Dr. Mengele graduated top of his class from Germany’s most prestigious medical school.
— Lela Klajman (@LelaKlajma7iin) August 9, 2026
During the Wannsee conference in 1942…
Etc. Evil has a Degree too pic.twitter.com/ybAEtqiujU
— Adrian Hough (@Adrian760031) August 9, 2026
The “brainwashing” begins early these days. I left NYU due to this very phenomenon over 50 years ago. This is nothing new. We are now dealing with generations of the “indoctrinated.” Logics won’t apply anymore. We’re beyond logic. It’s become the true “existential” threat. Fight
— Blackster (@Blackster17X) August 9, 2026
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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