Politics of fear failed to stop El-Sayed's historic US Senate win
By Nathan LayneDEARBORN, Michigan, Nov 4 (Reuters) - The US president repeatedly branded him a jihadist. His Republican opponent questioned his loyalty to America. Campaign mailers suggested he had ties to terrorists and warned that, if elected, he would bring sharia law to Michigan.Before Abdul El-Sayed could make history as the first Muslim elected to the US Senate, he endured what critics called one of the most overtly Islamophobic campaigns in modern US politics.
