Trump escalates attacks on Muslim Senate hopeful, drawing Arab American rebuke

US President Donald Trump (left) and Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (right), who is seeking to become America's first Muslim Senator. President Trump intensified attacks on Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed at a rally in Port Huron Sunday, calling him a “jihadist” who was “on the side of the terrorists” and questioning his loyalty to US. The remarks drew condemnation from a former Trump ally in the Arab American community.Trump said El-Sayed, a former Detroit health official, would “have to go through a metal detector before he’s allowed to go into Senate”. He repeatedly invoked the 9/11 attacks and compared blocking El-Sayed from the Senate chamber with passengers fighting hijackers aboard United Flight 93.El-Sayed would become the first Muslim American senator if elected. He has denied any ties to extremist groups and called attacks on his loyalty “shameful”. At a Grand Rapids rally later Sunday, he responded to Trump’s repeated mockery of his name: “I don’t even care that he remembers my whole name because he can just go on and call me ‘senator’ after Nov,” El-Sayed said. “I will be Senator Muhammad to you, bro.”Bishara Bahbah, a founder of...