Leftists Freak Out Over CBS’s Headline About Muslim Marxist Abdul El-Sayed as His Insensitive 9/11 Tweets are Revealed

The left is throwing a fit after one of their legacy media outlets wrote a provocative headline about Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed.

On Monday, CBS News went viral after writing this X post, which has so far garnered over 12 million views:

“As the nation prepares to mark 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001, Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, may be facing the risk of renewed scrutiny and fresh political attack,” The post reads.

As the nation prepares to mark 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001, Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, may be facing the risk of renewed scrutiny and fresh political attack. https://t.co/BHsuxDhOZj

— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 31, 2026

Below is the headline of the article in question, which states that El-Sayed posted controversial 9/11 tweets that he has since nuked from his account.

The first tweet revealed in the article suggests that the COVID pandemic was worse for America than the worst terror attack on our nation’s soil. The second puts 9/11 on equal footing with America’s overseas interventions.

More from CBS News:

In one, from April 2020, El-Sayed compared the nearly 3,000 Americans killed on Sept. 11 to the mounting COVID-19 death toll and argued for a response commensurate with the nation’s post-9/11 mobilization. In another, El-Sayed wrote that because more Americans had died from COVID than in the Sept. 11 attacks, he hoped “that means we’ll spend the next ten years fighting a war for public health & against poverty … like we launched a global #WaronTerror after 9/11. We could save lives rather than take them.”

In another deleted post, first reported by the Washington Free Beacon, El-Sayed wrote on Sept. 11, 2021: “Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my faith. Tomorrow, I’ll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my country.”

El-Sayed’s leftist supporters, though, did not bother reading the article. Instead, they accused CBS of promoting ‘racism’ and ‘Islamophobia.’

this reads as if Bari Weiss’s CBS News is deliberately trying to insinuate that Abdul El-Sayed did 9/11 or is somehow connected to 9/11 and now must answer for that https://t.co/02uGPQAKHS

— David Sirota (@davidsirota) August 31, 2026

what an insane headline. this is why the ellison’s bought cbs and put bari weiss in charge. https://t.co/YUuFK6zlue

— hasanabi (@hasanthehun) August 31, 2026

Hi @CBS @CBSNews @bariweiss do you think it’s super offensive and disgusting and Islamophobic to do a tweet about the potential first ever Muslim Democratic senator which begins by referencing 9/11? https://t.co/vLWH0BWF7D

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) August 31, 2026

Despicable anti-muslim woke right garbage from the house CBS account https://t.co/i0XX4Phl1c

— Tim Miller (@Timodc) August 31, 2026

What an insane, blatantly racist headline. Unreal. https://t.co/2RzoPyP1K7

— Yassamin Ansari (@yassaminansari) August 31, 2026

A complete racist slop article. The Ellisons spent billions to turn CBS into a polished version of Breitbart. El-Sayed “quacks like a duck”??? https://t.co/MgGzfyXtOS pic.twitter.com/MZxeVNDful

— Kenty 🔆 (@kentyb01) August 31, 2026

Hey @CBS, thanks for digging up these deleted tweets from Abdul El-Sayed.

So you are trying to say he is obsessed w solving our public health and poverty problems?

The only weird thing is your title — that he’s facing renewed risks of scrutiny? hunhhhh???????? for being even… https://t.co/B8IW3lNjR7

— Zachary Foster (@_ZachFoster) August 31, 2026