RFK Jr attacks Arab societies, claims they produce no literature and foster ‘hatred and war’
WASHINGTON, DC: At a campaign stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Monday, October 26, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr launched into broad attacks on Arab societies.
While speaking at an event for Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers, Kennedy claimed that Arabs had stopped contributing to science and literature. He went further, accusing Arab societies of directing their energies toward “hatred and war.”
Kennedy’s comments came amid an already heated Senate race. Rogers has repeatedly targeted his Democratic opponent, Abdul El-Sayed, over alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
RFK Jr claims Arabs no longer contribute to science
Kennedy told the Michigan crowd that he was glad he arrived while Rogers was discussing the Muslim Brotherhood.
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Novel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature." https://t.co/ikZHqklQjE
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"I'm happy that I came in when Mike Rogers was talking about the Muslim Brotherhood," Kennedy told the Michigan crowd, insisting that discussing the Muslim Brotherhood was "not Islamophobia."
He argued that the organization had introduced a dangerous ideology that departed from traditional Islam.
He went on to contrast the group's influence with what he described as Islam's nearly 1,000-year "golden age," during which Muslim societies made groundbreaking contributions to literature, science, medicine, and engineering.
"There are 500 million Arabs in the world," he continued, "and yet they don't produce science, they don't win the Nobel Prize, they don't win the Fields prize [sic, Medal], they don't win the Wolf Prize, they don't produce literature."
Emphasizing that societies during the "golden age" were "the first to make books," Kennedy alleged, "All of that tradition has been destroyed by the Muslim Brotherhood.”
“They've created stagnant societies that do two things, hatred and war and victimization. They've let down their own people and destroyed those societies."
RFK Jr links Muslim Brotherhood to Arab society’s decline
Kennedy made the remarks while campaigning for Rogers, who is challenging Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan's Senate race. Rogers has repeatedly raised allegations about El-Sayed's purported ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
The accusations stem from a 2012 social media post by El-Sayed's half-sister, with whom he did not grow up. She claimed that their mother had some involvement with the group in the early 1970s.
El-Sayed pushed back, saying he had no idea what his mother was doing at the time. He called the effort to link him to the organization “insane.”
Kennedy's speech focused on the Muslim Brotherhood. He argued that the organization's influence had prevented Muslim societies from returning to their historic golden age, linking it to stagnation and what he described as a fixation on conflict and victimhood.
