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Jake Lang Booted from El-Sayed Rally After Islamophobic Posts

7/19/2026

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Jake Lang was publicly confronted and escorted out of Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan Senate campaign rally.
Abdul El-Sayed and his supporters clapped, chanted “USA,” and urged the audience to “clap him out.”
Mehdi Hasan and Ruwa Romman praised the incident on social media.
Jake Lang later posted Islamophobic remarks and referenced a prior punch after an anti-Muslim march and a ten-day Tennessee jail sentence earlier this year.

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Jake Lang was publicly confronted and escorted out of Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan Senate campaign rally.
Abdul El-Sayed and his supporters clapped, chanted “USA,” and urged the audience to “clap him out.”
Mehdi Hasan and Ruwa Romman praised the incident on social media.
Jake Lang later posted Islamophobic remarks and referenced a prior punch after an anti-Muslim march and a ten-day Tennessee jail sentence earlier this year.