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To be sure, there is much religious extremism in US politics. However, none of it is related to Islam, and all of it is related to an evangelical Christianity of the stripe used to advance white nationalist and Zionist goals. Indeed, Thomas Teepell, the man who insinuated in his question to El-Seyed that the Senate candidate is a crypto-Muslim Brother, acknowledged that he, himself, is a religious extremist, when he disagreed in his exchange with El-Seyed that the US Constitution is senior to his faith. Like the Muslim Brotherhood, Teepell believes politics must be based on the laws of God. The only difference is that Teepell wants a politics based on a (white, nativist) Christian God and not a (brown-skinned, immigrant) Muslim God. As for El-Seyed, he believes US politics should be based on the US constitution, not religion. Irritatingly, the Wall Street Journal managed to present this story in a way that associated El-Seyed and Islam with religious extremism, without identifying the religious extremism of Teepell, and at the same time failing to acknowledge the ubiquity of evangelical Christian extremism in US politics. The truth of the matter is that Islamic political extremism is absent in US politics. Christian political extremism, on the other hand, is pervasive.