Soft-pedaling a Michigan gubernatorial candidate who actually has some rather shady things about him

Bruce Bawer at PJ Media writes about a gush piece that recently appeared in the left-leaning UK paper The Guardian about Abdul El-Sayed. The Guardian profile was replete with humanizing little anecdotes (his staffers are "young, fun and smart") and, of course, the not-so-implicit dare to readers to examine how accepting they are of the possibility of a Muslim governor for Michigan.

But what is omitted from the piece is the most important information about El_Sayed that is out there:

There are a few details about El-Sayed that Philp doesn't mention, obviously because they would damage the glowing picture he's trying to paint of the guy. For one thing, El-Sayed is chummy with Linda Sarsour, the hijab-wearing Women's March organizer who is a vocal proponent of jihad and sharia law (and who has enthusiastically endorsed his candidacy). At the University of Michigan, El-Sayed was vice-president of the Muslim Student Association, an affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood.

His wife wears hijab, a fact that seriously undermines the image he seeks to project, and her father is a former president and current board member of the Michigan chapter of the terrorist-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). In 2012, when he was in med school, El-Sayed received a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship. Paul Soros, who died the next year, was George Soros's brother; some sources maintain that the Soros empire is funding El-Sayed's campaign and grooming him to eventually become president.

One of the main ways Leftists lie is by leaving out the truly relevant facts involved in whatever they're touting. We saw it with Latin-American Marxists such as Che Guevara, Daniel Ortega and Hugo Chavez. We saw it with the feeble attempts to spin the eighteen-year pause in average global temperatures. We've seen it with the glossing over of what Paul McHugh, psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital has said concerning transgenderism.

In this case, you now have the arrow in your quiver. Should someone engage you in a conversation about this El-Sayed guy, you are equipped to paint the full, disturbing picture.