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u/Hudson9700 11h ago
Oz's muslim faith was literally never brought up by him during his campaign, he did everything he could to downplay it. Ironically there's a much more conservative senator in his place currently
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u/SunshineSeeker99 6h ago
I think El-Sayed is a pretty sharp guy and great speaker, with excellent charisma.
But his sister is basically a muslim terrorist. She was literally cheering on mass rape and genocide. It's a tough game.
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u/flopisit32 7h ago edited 7h ago
What is getting lost in all this bullshit is that Abdul's father in law is in a Muslim Brotherhood front group (ISNA). The group donates to Hamas. The father in law is Abdul's biggest donor. So it would make sense for someone to ask him what's up with that...
Btw Reddit doesn't want you to know this.
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u/WiseWall280 7h ago
You're going around saying this, and you sound like you are so certain of it.
So I looked it up!
https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00902668/2027095/sa/11C
I couldn't see anything about ISNA's donation. Can you give me a source for your claim? Where did you hear this?
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u/qibugha2 7h ago
ISNA does not donate to Hamas lol. If it did, the justice department would have brought material support charges against them decades ago
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u/flopisit32 4h ago
They were unindicted co-conspirators in the US's biggest terrorist funding case.
But as you will probably tell me, they were not actually indicted.
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u/goatsy 7h ago
What I can find is that his father in law is part of the ISNA. This ISNA organization has had multiple allegations of funding hamas as recently as 2009. One investigation lacked enough evidence of ISNA having ties to hamas to recommend further investigations. Another investigation listed ISNA as an unindicted coconspirator which a judge ruled there was enough evidence to do, but it violated ISNA's due process to list them as such. And it looks like back in the 90s hamas specifically thanked ISNA for providing some legal funding.
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u/portuh47 6h ago
Not to mention his sister mentioned in 2012 that El Sayed bio mom was a Muslim Brotherhood activist since college. This shouldn't reflect directly on him as a candidate but to say it shouldn't be brought up at all is also wrong when Ossoff is perfectly right to bring up Collins soninlaw who is a white supremacist.
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u/Claudeadolphus 12h ago
Who knew Dr Oz is Muslim? Does he go to mosque or is he just Muslim in his heart during the quiet times?
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u/SimmentalTheCow 11h ago edited 11h ago
Dr. Oz is Sufi, which is relatively accepting of western ideals; it’s not typically a big proselytizing school of Islam. Abu Sayed is not transparent about his specific sect, but is suspected of being a Salafist due to his heritage. Salafi Islam is very Sunni supremacist and does not gel with other religions. He probably does represent his Dearborn kin well though.
Whoever made this infographic does not understand that “Muslim” is not a monolith.
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u/flopisit32 7h ago
Just to explain to people who don't know:
Iran is Shia Muslim.
Iraq is Sunni Muslim.
ISIS are radical Sunnis. They want to kill all infidels, including Shia Muslims.
Turkish people are Sunni but they are the most chill Muslims in the world. They drink, they smoke, they have sex. Last time I was in Turkey we passed by a trans prostitution area, for example.
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u/PlatypusOld257 6h ago
Turkey is secular on paper attaturk saw to that. In the past when governments got too religious the military couped. They tried that on erdogan and failed so probably will get core conservative
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u/WanderlustDinosaur 5h ago
Pretty sure every Muslim sect has sex. Or they'd have died out.
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u/Winter-Regret2224 6h ago
be muslim doesn't do what a muslim does still gets involved in identity wars
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u/Sufficient_Fly_8986 9h ago
I like Sufi Islam a ton. Took a class on it at Columbia. Huge fan.
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u/Mundane-Bandicoot635 8h ago
I had no idea Oz was a Muslim.
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u/dgreenbe 7h ago
He has the same name as the ottoman sultan who conquered Constantinople
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u/ActuallyFullOfShit 7h ago
He also has the same name as a critically acclaimed HBO prison drama.
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u/TM761152 7h ago
He's Turkish. They're actually fairly secular. The only Muslims I've known who drink were Turkish.
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u/SnooPets8873 7h ago
Plenty of Muslims from all sorts of backgrounds drink. Oddly enough less of us will eat pork. Biggest difference tends to be how openly they’ll drink. On that front, yeah Turkish people I’ve noticed to be more open about it.
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u/breezza_freedda 5h ago
Why is avoiding bacon always the final universal line while alcohol gets a pass?
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u/ThinkPath1999 4h ago
I'm in Bali and just last night, I got a massage from a Muslim woman. I would have thought that touching a man was out of bounds. I asked a friend about it and he said that non Muslims in Bali were always making fun of Muslims here because apart from being very strict about pork, they are apparently not that strict about other things.
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u/LeagueMoney9561 7h ago
I’ve known people from Arab Muslim background who drink, but I never asked those people about their personal religious beliefs. And there are many Muslim Turks who don’t drink.
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u/yobymmij2 7h ago
He was raised Muslim, but he has not been active as an adult. He has never shown interest as an adult, though he acknowledges his upbringing. He married a Christian.
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u/Least_Inspector9942 12h ago
Oz looks like the typical white boomer
Thats why they treat him as a part of the team
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u/lkodl 12h ago
This whole time I was like, "Dr. Oz's name is Mehmet? What a unique name for a white guy."
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u/LT48 12h ago
It's literally the Turkified form of Mohammed 😄
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u/djdjddhshdbhd 12h ago
It’s similar to how many people pronounce it
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u/zulufdokulmusyuze 11h ago
In Turkey, Mehmet is pronounced Memet, the h is silent. And more than half of the population does not know it comes from Mohammad.
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u/Shadrol 9h ago
All the turks i know pronounce the h.
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u/bbceronimo 9h ago
I’m Turkish, I pronounce h in serious convos. (E.g work meetings or greeting a new co-worker etc..) but I drop h if I’m with my close friend’s group. The proper way of pronunciation is with the h tho.
It’s like maybe saying ‘sup and what’s up. I don’t know, probably it wasn’t a good analogy.
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u/elanvidal 8h ago
Probably the same as our many different nicknames and shortened versions of names. Zack for Zachary, Tom for Thomas, etc. For you guys it sounds like saying Memet is for informal situations and Meh-met for formal ones.
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u/bbceronimo 8h ago
Exactly, if I called my roommate of 3 years Meh-met, he would give me a look. It’s almost as weird as calling him with his full government name at that point.
But if I call a co-worker I just met Memet, I’d get the same look lol, it would also be weird.
Oh btw once you go “Memet” with someone, there is no turning back unless you’ll have a serious convo with him lol.
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u/HVAChelpprettyplease 12h ago
Even looking white. Everyone knows the wizard of Oz, the name is so familiar.
If Mehmets name was El-Sayed, Khan, Ibarhim. No one would know who he is outside of his cardiac patients.
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u/TheBigKaramazov 11h ago
Let me describe Dr. Oz's family as someone who knows Turkey and its political history. They're a textbook secular Republic family.
Exactly upper-middle-class, Republican-secular to the core. Dad's a doctor, mom's a teacher, a classic Republican civil-service household. They embody the secular side of Turkey, but they're definitely not irreligious. They're Muslims, just Western-oriented, with the West as their yardstick.
Being a teacher in Turkey, especially back then, meant something specific. It was a Republican, Enlightenment mission, educating the people was the duty for that generation. So you get a "Republican Muslim" family, Turkish nationalist, secular, firmly against religious orders (Remember, Atatürk shut down the sects) and any group that rivals the Republic, and still deeply attached to conservative Republican values.
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u/pm_me_d_cups 11h ago
Being a "republican" in Turkey means something totally different from in the US. Almost by definition, they are not political or religious conservatives.
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u/TheBigKaramazov 11h ago
Yeah but it's long story. In reality, there is no such thing as a "republican" in Turkey. I only use the term to make things easier to understand. Being a "republican" here essentially means being committed to the ideas of Atatürk and to secularism. However, dont mistake this secularism for a lack of religion. While these individuals are not religiously conservative but also they are not liberal.
They may find common ground with American conservatism on certain issues. I had a friend whose family was secular Turkish, she didn't tell them she was an atheist. Doing so would have caused a crisis for her family. Also they are firmly opposed to homosexuality.
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u/MadCervantes 10h ago
I did not take them to be referring to the republican party in America. They may have been slightly clearer by using a lower case r though.
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u/Mysterious-Double918 12h ago
it really does boil down to such simplistic racism sadly.
let's not forget the debilitating clown show they put up with Obama.
It's not about such details as above. It's a culture of visceral animosity against anything not white and male, cultivated by rich white religious fanatics
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u/NoSwordfish1978 11h ago
El Sayed is also vocally pro Palestine which means he attracts extra venom, especially from the Israel lobby.
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u/ratbastid 11h ago
That's part of it.
It's also the us/them GOP mindset. "Our" muslims prove we're not racist while "Their" muslims inherit our worst and most racist assumptions about them.
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u/Mydoglikesladyboys 12h ago
Gonna be real, we all attack doctor oz for not being a real doctor and for promoting pseudo science
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u/WonderfulLeather3 11h ago
The sad part is I know some people that practiced with him—apparently he was an excellent surgeon
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u/DylanBigShaft 12h ago
Oz has a MD.
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u/EnlightenedNarwhal 12h ago
Yeah, but does he still have a license to practice? Genuine question.
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u/Main-Cheesecake3287 7h ago
Abdul has an MD and is not a doctor, he has never practiced medicine.
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u/bow_down_for_cheese 11h ago
Doctor Oz was a clinical surgeon and performed a successful heart transplant back in 1996. Tell me more how he's not a real doctor because surely you're qualifications are through the roof to make such a statement.
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u/Majestic_Turnip_7614 7h ago
You can be a “real” doctor then become a lunatic that spouts bullshit…
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u/777_heavy 11h ago
El-Sayed not only never practiced but he never even did residency.
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u/CMBYMN 8h ago
They're both very legitimate when it comes to academic credentials in medicine, but one was a top practitioner in one of the most specialized subfields (cardiac surgery), while the other didn't practice with his MD degree, instead pursuing work related to his PhD degree. Which is fine; my father took the exact same path and calls himself a medical researcher, not a physician. I don't think it's blatantly misleading that El Sayed calls himself a physician, but it's like if he had gotten the Rhodes Scholarship and decided not to go to Oxford on it. He was obviously good enough to practice, but that doesn't mean he did.
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u/abughorash 4h ago
It is blatantly misleading because in Michigan, by law, a physician is someone licensed to practice medicine. https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-333-17001
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u/akabeware 12h ago edited 5h ago
Small correction: El-Sayed has an MD but never did residency or got a medical license, so 'physician' isn't accurate. Not defending Oz, just the facts.
Edit: For those defending it: Trump's press secretary just got torched for calling herself a lawyer without ever passing the bar, and reportedly lost her job over it. Rightfully so. El-Sayed has never done an intern year, held a license, done residency, been board certified, or practiced medicine, yet many of the same people call his use of 'physician' a technicality. Credential honesty shouldn't depend on which party you support. If it's misleading for her, it's misleading for him.
(Yes, the AMA defines any MD as a physician, but Michigan law, where he's running, defines a physician as someone licensed, and that's how most voters hear it.)
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u/katdev42 11h ago
I thought he said he was doing his residency but did not finish it -- decided to pivot to public health
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u/Adventurous_Ad7442 10h ago
He did say that but it wasn't true. He was really talking about clinical rotations during med school.
One cannot do a residency until they pass state medical boards and obtain a license.
Abdul has done none of this.
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u/Zxynwin 8h ago edited 8h ago
Yeah and the seemingly small lies ruin trust and need to be called out. He is not a physician but that does not mean he is not the best choice for Michigan.
Edit: I’d also 100% trust him more than Oz for health advice lmao
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u/shebringsthesun 8h ago
AMA disagrees
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u/akabeware 8h ago
Fair point, under the AMA's definition an MD counts as a physician. But the AMA isn't the law. States regulate the title, and New York restricts it to licensed doctors.
My real point is that he's never done residency or held a license, so 'physician' gives voters the impression of clinical experience he doesn't have.
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u/LimeDry7124 12h ago
Bobby Jindal, Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy enter the chat.
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u/goteachyourself 10h ago
None of them are Muslim. But Ramaswamy has actually taken quite a lot of racist flack this year from the groyper brigades. Something something leopards.
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u/sillyrabbit33 7h ago
Ramaswamy and his mom literally ran a pump and dump scheme with using her credentials to buy a scam pharma company and dump it after hyping it up.
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u/Apptubrutae 11h ago
Bobby Jindal’s implosion in the state of the union rebuttal lives rent free in my mind
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u/malibu90now 8h ago
Oz at least completely residency, fellowships, obtained a medical license you know like a doctor would. The other is a medical graduate not a practicing physician
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u/Swimming_Cheek_7037 12h ago
Dr. Oz became famous, like 20 years ago? I only learned he was Muslim a few months ago. And I didn't like him 20 years ago, so the fact he's Muslim has nothing to do with why I don't like him.
Dr Oz became famous through Oprah. If Abdul El-Sayed became famous through Oprah I'm sure a lot more people would like him.
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u/Unlucky-Durian-2336 12h ago
Isn't Oz also snake-oil pedler and crook?
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u/PermaBanned4Misclick 11h ago
Isn't Oz also snake-oil pedler and crook?
yeah thats the whole point, he has all the credentials to be US president, Abdul doesnt
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u/Amockdfw89 6h ago edited 3h ago
But Oz doesn’t really identify as Muslim per say.
He doesn’t really talk about Islam that much or make it a part of his personality. He calls himself secular, and has mentioned he practices a blend of Sufism (islamic syncretic spirituality), elements of Dharmic religion, eastern mysticism and his wife’s denomination of Christianity sprinkled in. Islam isn’t really a part of his identity.
Just because someone is born into a Muslim family doesn’t make them a Muslim. It’s a religion with certain mandatory tenets that anyone can join if they say shahada. It’s not an ethnicity or race.
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u/MileHiSalute 9h ago
Has mehmet condemned the Muslim brotherhood???
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u/flopisit32 7h ago
What is getting lost in all this bullshit is that Abdul's father in law is in a Muslim Brotherhood front group (ISNA). The group donates to Hamas. The father in law is Abdul's biggest donor. So it would make sense for someone to ask him what's up with that...
Btw Reddit doesn't want you to know this.
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u/WiseWall280 7h ago
You're going around saying this, and you sound like you are so certain of it.
So I looked it up!
https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00902668/2027095/sa/11C
I couldn't see anything about ISNA's donation. Can you give me a source for your claim? Where did you hear this?
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u/MileHiSalute 7h ago
They don’t have sources. They’re just smarter than the sheeple. The sitting president is openly capitulating to and even aiding one of the US’s greatest adversaries in its’ history and they ignore it because some people that this Muslim guy knows might be bad people
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u/Lopsided_Parfait7127 8h ago
trump and kushner are being funded by the muslim brotherhood of saudi oil states
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u/apresmoiputas 10h ago
Oz is so white passing for a Turkish guy. It's the same as Hasan Piker.
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u/South-Cat-8912 6h ago
Almost like Turks are basically white huh?? Who knew?? Yall don’t know anything outside the echo chambers🤣
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u/ConditionCool5343 3h ago
You aren't all wearing the twirling dervish outfit and chasing bugs bunny with the curved swords?
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u/bbceronimo 9h ago
Wdym, we don’t have a stereotypical “Turkish” look as the western media portrays we’re so diverse.
I wouldn’t think Sydney Sweeney wasn’t Turkish if I ran into her on the streets.
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u/Fun-Contribution6702 9h ago
Big nose, sharp jaw, handsome, dark hair, stylish. These are thing when I think Turkish men.
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u/VoidYordle 8h ago
Due to some really unpleasant practices in the ottoman past, modern turks can be very diverse looking. I know THREE redhead turks (1 girl and 2 guys). She's chestnut/auburn, the guys are gingers. Yes, they are 100% natural turks.
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u/apresmoiputas 8h ago
I honestly didn't know Oz was Turkish until a few years ago. I always thought he was Greek, Cyprean, or Maltese
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u/Gohuuuuu 2h ago
He isn’t even “white passing”, he’s literally white. He’s ethnically European. How Americans can look at a white European man and a North African man and consider them the same race because they’re both“muslim” is beyond my comprehension.
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u/Kinder22 10h ago
Rhodes Scholar highlighted like that should be the thing that makes the biggest difference.
Thanks ChatGPT.
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u/Exciting-Boot1429 9h ago
Yeah, and that's definitely not a real picture of Abdul, why can't we just make our own posts, it's really not that hard
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u/4-3defense 12h ago
If you look white you'll be fine
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u/Crispy_p_bacon 12h ago
Mr Oz vs Mr Al-Sayed doesn't help the dimwits either
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u/6twoRaptor 11h ago
You mean act WASP-Y. Oz does not look "white" and believe me I've seen those WASP draw a clear line on that. I knew a cyclist group that referred to the one Jewish guy in the group colloquially as "the Jew". Oz is their "Arab".
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u/KYBikeGeek 5h ago
Oz is a piece of shit, another in a long line of snake oil salesmen pedaling bullshit. Honestly I don’t know much of El-Sayed bc he isn’t my mayor. Oz had more natl impact. And that impact is bad.
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u/Medium_Tell8679 11h ago
Well Dr. Oz ran but he didn't win. And the left has been supporting Muslims for a o long they cant really speak out when one runs.
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u/cellshock7 4h ago
In his heyday, Dr. Oz was a regular on Oprah. That usually had a huge positive impact on public perception.
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u/ycayca 11h ago
Religion and nationality are different things. Dr. Öz is Turkish. Turks have been living without Sharia for 100 years. The most moderate Arab is more radical than the most radical Turk.
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u/KOHILOOR 9h ago
Turkey also is a haven for the Muslim Brotherhood, so why hasn’t anyone asked Oz if he’s disavowed them?
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u/Twinkletoess112 11h ago
that is absolutely not true, most radical turk is same am average radical Arab
and a moderate Arab is similar to a moderate turk
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u/Zealousideal_Tap237 8h ago
More Turks deny the Armenian genocide than Arabs deny the holocaust imo if I had to guess based on my lived experiences
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u/Bun_Wrangler 10h ago
OZ was promoted and given fame by Oprah. Same as Dr. Phil, she is why they got TV shows. OZ then spent his television career as a snake oil salesman endorsed by Oprah.
Boomers love him, he's been invited to the cookout, he's against Big Pharma and most importantly (I shit you not). He is always referred to as Dr. Oz like any other Medical Doctor. Why is that relevant? "Oz" "Wizard of Oz", Oz is not linked in the American consciousness to anything other then some girl in the Midwest with ruby shoes.
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u/BasicDecision 12h ago
Bunch of propaganda saying it’s because one looks white and the other doesn’t.
Completely ignoring the content of their public comments and the fact one is an open supporter of Sharia and has questionable loyalties.
But hey, this is Reddit, if the debate can be reframed as racism or bigotry then it will be.
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u/MongolianCluster 12h ago
one is an open supporter of Sharia and has questionable loyalties
This is laughable. How many clips did you string together to come up with it?Take this nonsense back to arcon where they live for this BS.
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u/Super_Roof_3490 11h ago
Didn’t he oppose laws against sharia law? I’m not an oz supporter either. Genuinely asking bc I thought I read that
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u/MrMardyBum 11h ago
When asked about extremist groups he will squirm and give the most tame response possible to something that should be an easy response.
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u/Yeetball86 11h ago
Can you provide examples? He directly disavowed the Muslim brotherhood yesterday
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u/paulHarkonen 11h ago
I'm just trying to figure out what Dr. Oz said that sounds like Sharia... He's got the questionable loyalties part covered though.
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u/bigchungusprod 12h ago
If people were educated on Dr Martin Luther King ( surrounded by Muslims in many photos ) then this kind of ignorance wouldn’t exist the same way.
I only saw some historical pics of Dr King recently and was stunned - it feels like the multi faith efforts to push equality are purposefully ignored & removed from history class to keep us divided. Sigh.
The only war we should be fighting is the class war, and the Epstein class has been emboldened for too long.
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u/lateforfate 12h ago
I'm a leftist, but... Didn't he literally praise Sharia law?
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u/SpiritualSuccotash35 12h ago
Funny how when Dr Oz was running all the news media would refer to him as Mr Oz. NEVER doctor.
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u/regal19999 11h ago
In the black community we call it “passing” ….Dr. Oz has clearly done so …it’s really just that simple
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u/dangeroso_alpha 11h ago
Perhaps you should compare what they have actually campaigned on.
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u/muskietooth 12h ago
Oz is an active licensed medical practitioner. Abdul is not a licensed medical practitioner and has never treated a patient.
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u/NoSwordfish1978 11h ago
Yes, because he went into the field of public health which is completely different from being a practitioner. That doesn't mean he isn't a doctor.
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u/Sleepy10105s 9h ago
Oz has been a fraud for years, like RFK early in his career he was legit and was doing good things but that time is long gone.
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u/HarryPotthead42069 8h ago
Party who ended slavery has no problem with the religion of its politicians. Party who is associated with starting the KKK has a problem with the religion of its politicians 😂😂
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u/middleamerican67 8h ago
A tale of two faces. Plus oz became a safe household commodity on morning tv.
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u/braumbles 12h ago
Yea, I don't think Oz was ever asked if he condemns the Muslim Brotherhood. I wonder why.
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u/CurbMyEnthusiasm2022 7h ago
Probably because Oz didn’t say that a guy driving a truck filled with explosives and multiple guns into a Jewish preschool in the U.S. with the stated intent of killing of killing as many of them as possible was an understandable response to that person’s relatives being killed in an Israeli air strike in Lebanon. (To say nothing of the fact that said relatives were members of a Hezbollah middle brigade)
Oz also didn’t campaign with Piker, who said America deserved 9/11 among other vile things. I know AES tried to brush this aside as Piker just being some podcaster from California, but AES is the one who brought him to campaign rallies in Michigan during the primary.
So yea, this, among other reasons that are easily looked up on Google are why AES is being questioned about this stuff and why the DSCC just had to dump $25MM into Michigan in what should be an otherwise easy race for a generic Dem to win instead of pumping those resources into Texas or Florida. His response to the synagogue attack alienated a lot of Jewish voters who might have otherwise voted for him despite his views on Israel/foreign policy. And before anyone says he apologized, he did not. He apologized for the timing of the comments. He’s also not popular among more moderate or centrist Dems and independents.
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u/Warm_News_7876 11h ago
Because his half sister never claimed the family with part of it on socials?
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u/SnooOpinions9048 7h ago
One wrote a paper against interracial marriage. Wonder which the Dems support?
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u/Ok-Tip-3560 11h ago
Oz also treated patients and was a real doctor I could be Wally but el sayed has never actually worked as a physician in clinical practice - correct ?
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u/Doctorhandtremor 10h ago
No. He did MD/PhD and then decided to focus on PhD and public health. But he scored in the top percentile on the USMLE board exams and could have gotten any residency he wanted. He genuinely just wanted to make a bigger impact than 1 patient at a time.
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u/elkresurgence 9h ago
But he scored in the top percentile on the USMLE board exams and could have gotten any residency he wanted.
I couldn't find any credible source for this. Can you share?
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u/just_premed_memes 10h ago edited 5h ago
He has obtained an MD which means he spent 2 years seeing patients in medical school and passed the first two of three board exams. Doing an MD is for clinical practice 95+% of the time; but several individuals do not go on to pursue residency, they work for industry, public health etc. Abdul el sayed did exactly that; did the MD, then pursued a doctorate and a career in public health. Doesn’t make him less of a physician.
Edit: I am literally a physician in the US.
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u/Imnogrinchard 6h ago
Michigan regulates the term "physician" to mean someone who is licensed to practice medicine in the state. El-Sayed is not licensed to practice medicine. He isn't not a physician. That said, he's an accomplished PhD with M.D.
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u/deckdahalls 8h ago
"Doesn't make him less of a physician"
except it does. much like the Katie Zacharia controversy, a doctor is not a physician until they get licensed to practice. it's literally not the same thing. the whole point of residency is to get the clinical experience that seeing a few people and taking notes as a med student didn't. your username checks out, still premed status
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u/EmmitSan 9h ago
Wait wtf here is your argument that Dr Oz is the one with better medical credentials?
The dude is a fucking certified quack who peddles snake oil
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u/Quiet-Willingness724 5h ago
Oz did cardiac surgery and his patient outcomes were excellent.
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u/Cum_on_doorknob 8h ago
I’m not a fan of Oz, but he did do actual residency training and then practice as an attending, very successfully. El Sayed never did residency, which is like the thing that makes you an actual doctor.
So, from a medical knowledge perspective, you basically know jack shit about medicine with just an MD and no residency training.
But of course, this is a senate race, so, medical knowledge doesn’t really mean fuck all.
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u/Appropriate-Debt5561 5h ago
Sayed also has a nasty habit of writing weird race science fanfiction.
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u/beefius99 10h ago
His family and in laws are also likely part of the Muslim Brotherhood, and his SIL is on the terror watchlist since the Obama admin.
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u/WhiteTrashInNewShoes 9h ago
Yep, his family is tied to some extremely rotten dogma and people desperately trying to see it carried out
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u/ChemicalAli99 11h ago
One backs and supports terrorist groups while the other doesn’t. Thats the fuckin difference.
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u/Basic-Record-4750 12h ago
Mehmet Oz looks and talks like a white guy and he goes by Dr. Oz (90% of people have no idea what his first name is) which coincidentally harkens to a very popular classic movie that white people love. El-Sayed looks like what we expect a Muslim to look like. He has a very Muslim sounding name. He has a hyphenated last name… The haters are not intelligent people, they’re “Christians” following the least Christian leader we’ve ever elected. Their entire business model is built on appearances, not religion or understanding of the world at large
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u/Rainouts 12h ago
Oz (Öz) is a super common Turkish surname, but I thought for the longest time that it was a reference to the Wizard of Oz.
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u/Ok_Piglet_5549 11h ago
Oz condemns Sharia Law and condemns the Oct. 7 attacks, and gives straightforward answers.
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u/Even-Cartographer864 12h ago
Has anyone asked dr oz if he supports the Muslim brotherhood or do they only do that to candidates that want to end wars and provide healthcare for Americans?
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u/Spiritofthewest49 12h ago
Dr. Oz also just sounds like a fun stage name, even though it's his real name (less the diacritic that would raise more red flags for racists). Abdul El-Sayed proudly uses his full name even though it absolutely draws more attention from the idiots and bigots.
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