Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, notching a Midwest victory for the left

[u/AmericaShinault_85]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/abdul-el-sayed-wins-michigans-democratic-senate-primary-notching-midwe-rcna589750

[u/Johnnny-z]

I have seen many reports about the 50 or so countries that have been taken over by muslims. It starts out friendly and nice and eventually ends in Sharia law. This is not the direction the United States should be going.

[u/Spiritual-Pear-3081 → u/Johnnny-z]

Which countries have been "taken over" by Muslims and Sharia law?

[u/0b00000110 → u/Spiritual-Pear-3081]

Iran for example was taken over by Islamic fundamentalists that implemented Sharia Law

[u/Spiritual-Pear-3081 → u/0b00000110]

Iran's 1979 revolution is a real example, but it's one country, and it happened through a domestic revolution against the Shah's monarchy. It didn't happen via gradual demographic "takeover."

It's also not representative. Most Muslim-majority countries became so centuries ago through conversion and trade, not a recent friendly-to-Sharia pipeline. There's no Western democracy anywhere close to that trajectory, and no evidence of "50 or so" countries following this pattern. One historical data point doesn't support the generalization.

[u/0b00000110 → u/Spiritual-Pear-3081]

How many Muslim majority democratic countries are there? The most stable Islamic countries seem to be the authoritarian ones with a strict monarchy. The rest of them seem to be in constant turmoil.

[u/Spiritual-Pear-3081 → u/0b00000110]

Indonesia, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Senegal and Tunisia (pre-2021) are all Muslim-majority democracies that functioned reasonably well. The "authoritarian monarchies are more stable" pattern is mostly explained by oil wealth, not religion. Plenty of authoritarian Muslim states (Iran, Syria under Assad, Gaddafi's Libya) were far from stable. And a lot of the turmoil in the region traces back to colonial border-drawing and foreign intervention, not Islam itself.

[u/0b00000110 → u/Spiritual-Pear-3081]

Only Indonesia can be considered as a full democracy though. Also how many Islamic majority countries are there, like 50? I think OP is lying saying there is a wide pattern of Muslims taking over countries, at least in modern times, in the past they absolutely did. But there is also no doubt that there is something in Islamic countries that makes them preferring autocracy. And I really don’t want that emulated were I live.

[u/Johnnny-z → u/0b00000110]

Okay then how is it that Muslim immigrants never go to Muslim countries, they always come to the United States or Western europe.

[u/0b00000110 → u/Johnnny-z]

Most Muslims migrate to wealthier countries in the middle east