Sen. Candidate El-Sayed Oversaw Animal 'Slaughterhouse' and This Is Not Just a Story About Killing Dogs

Robert Spencer : Aug 19, 2026
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What does killing large numbers of dogs have to do with being Sharia-compliant? Everything, because Islam hates dogs. Muhammad, according to Islamic tradition, ordered them killed.

[PJMedia.com] From 2015 to 2017, the socialist Muslim Senate candidate from Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, was executive director and health officer of the Detroit Health Department. In that capacity, he was in charge of Detroit's Animal Control operation at a time when that department was engaged in some highly questionable activities. El-Sayed has boasted about how he "rebuilt the animal control system," but he actually seems to have left a wide swath of destruction in his wake. And this is not just a story about the ethical treatment of animals. (Images: Screengrab, Pexels-edited)

The Daily Mail reported Thursday that "his record overseeing Detroit's troubled animal-control system" includes "high rates of animal euthanasia," particularly involving the killing of dogs. It seems that "nearly 4,680 dogs and cats were euthanized by Detroit Animal Care and Control (DACC) during the period when El-Sayed was in his post at the Detroit Health Department," and far more dogs than cats were put to death.

The Daily Mail notes that in 2015, "DACC euthanized 1,988 dogs and 272 cats—a total of 2,260 animals." To understand the scope of the killing machine El-Sayed was operating, consider the fact that the 1,988 dogs whom his team put to death that year "represented 26.4 percent of all dogs euthanized in the county, according to Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development's Animal Shelter Annual Report."

El-Sayed's death-to-dogs operation slowed down a bit in 2016, but was still quite active: "DACC euthanized 1,056 dogs and 29 cats that year."

Why did he do this? Could it be connected in any way to El-Sayed's general outlook on life, and to values and principles that he will take into the Senate with him if he is elected? Why, yes, there is indeed a connection, and it's an important one. In March 2009, Abdul El-Sayed said: "Ultimately, the question is, when I die and I stand before God and go through everything I did in my life, I don't want to say I did it the easy way instead of the Shariah-compliant way."

What does killing large numbers of dogs have to do with being Sharia-compliant? Everything, because Islam hates dogs. Muhammad, according to Islamic tradition, ordered them killed. In one tradition, an early Muslim recounts that "ordered the killing of dogs and we would send (men) in Medina and its corners and we did not spare any dog that we did not kill, so much so that we killed the dog that accompanied the wet she-camel belonging to the people of the desert." (Sahih Muslim 3811)... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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