🧩 BND Motif Index · M1058
Islamophobia
The charge that a Muslim candidate is tied to the Brotherhood, sharia or a foreign cause is answered as bigotry: the attack is said to be Islamophobic fear-mongering, as against Abdul El-Sayed in 2026 and Zohran Mamdani the year before.
🗣️ Arguments🗂️ Faith and the sacred🗂️ Bad faith
- 8claims filed under it
- 6left shows it came up on
- 2center shows it came up on
- 2right shows it came up on
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
↔️ answers and mirrors:
- 🧩 Brotherhood candidate counter: the Brotherhood charge answered as Islamophobia
⏱️ answered 6 days after this was first told here (2026-10-09 → 2026-10-15) - 🧩 Do you condemn? answers it: the disavowal demand on a Muslim candidate called Islamophobia
⏱️ answered 12 days after this was first told here (2026-10-09 → 2026-10-21) - 🧩 Dual loyalty the answer to it: the charge called bigotry
⏱️ told here 4 days after its answer (2026-10-05 → 2026-10-09) - 🧩 Sharia takeover the answer to it: the charge called bigotry
⏱️ told here 27 days after its answer (2026-09-12 → 2026-10-09)
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 6
🎙️ CNN 5 Things 🎙️ Hacks on Tap 🎙️ HasanAbi (podcast) 🎙️ The Adam Mockler Show 🎙️ The Majority Report (podcast) 🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast)
⚖️ center 2
🐘 right 2
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Trump criticizes Michigan Senate candidate El-Sayed as jihadist 2026-10-25 to 2026-10-28
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-27 “Donald Trump and Mike Rogers are using Islamophobia and false claims of ties to the Muslim Brotherhood to target Abdul El-Sayed.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-27 “Republicans use lies, fear and division to suggest that Americans of a certain name or faith are dangerous and less patriotic.”
🎙️ The Mark Levin Show - 2026-10-26 “Republicans are using racist attacks to portray Abdul El-Sayed as a scary Muslim guy.”
🎙️ The Majority Report (podcast) 🎙️ Breaking Points - 2026-10-26 “Donald Trump uses rhetoric about Muslims to tap into fear.”
🎙️ Left, Right & Center 🎙️ The Adam Mockler Show - 2026-10-23 “Mike Rogers used racist tropes to question Abdul El-Sayed's loyalty to the United States.”
🎙️ CNN 5 Things 🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) - 2026-10-23 “Abdul El-Sayed says Mike Rogers is using religious profiling to question his loyalty to the Constitution.”
🎙️ Morning Wire - 2026-10-21 “The Republican campaign against El-Sayed relies on Islamophobia and his family's alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.”
🎙️ Hacks on Tap - 2026-10-21 “Islamophobic fear-mongering is being used against Abdul El-Sayed.”
🎙️ HasanAbi (podcast)
M1058 · first seen 2026-10-24 · last 2026-10-27 · what this is · how the index works