JD·范斯加大了对密歇根州美国参议院民主党候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德的攻击力度，称其将带领暴徒“焚毁”底特律。埃尔-赛义德如果在下周的选举中获胜，将成为美国首位穆斯林参议员，已遭到美国总统唐纳德·特朗普的“圣战分子”污名化。
JD Vance has escalated his inflammatory attacks on Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for US Senate in Michigan who has faced an onslaught of Islamophobia, claiming he would lead rioters in “burning down” Detroit. El-Sayed, who would become the country’s first Muslim senator if he wins next week’s election, has been branded a “jihadist” by Donald Trump, the US president.
副总统范斯此前已指控埃尔-赛义德是“可怕的邪恶”代表，称其为“一方利益牺牲他方利益而战”，导致埃尔-赛义德回应称，剥夺人们的医疗保健和负担得起的食品是“邪恶”的。周二在密歇根州豪威尔的竞选活动中，范斯进一步升级言论。
Vance, the vice-president, has already alleged El-Sayed was a representative of “terrible evil” who fights for “one group at the expense of others” – prompting El-Sayed to respond it was “evil” to deprive people of healthcare and affordable groceries. At a campaign stop on Tuesday, Vance went further.
范斯在向现场观众讲话时，试图将埃尔-赛义德的政治立场与巴黎左翼抗议联系起来，后者已导致数千人被捕。他形容这些抗议为“成群结队的蒙面暴徒，许多来自遥远的国家，占领了历史悠久的市中心”，并借此抬高埃尔-赛义德与左翼政治评论员哈桑·皮克的关系。
Speaking to the crowd in Howell, Michigan, Vance sought to connect El-Sayed’s politics to the leftwing protests in Paris that have led to thousands of arrests. Describing as “hordes of masked rioters, many from distant lands, taking over historic city centers”, the vice president also played up El-Sayed’s relationship with leftwing political commentator Hasan Piker.
“巴黎的毁灭现场或许在遥远的海洋彼岸，但请问自己：在美国真的难以想象吗？”范斯说。“我向你们保证，如果那些暴徒在燃烧纽约或底特律，哈桑·皮克和埃尔-赛义德就会站在那里领头并为之欢呼。”
“The scene of destruction in Paris may be an ocean away, but ask yourselves: are they really so hard to imagine here in the United States of America?”Vance said. “And I guarantee you, if those rioters were burning down New York, or Detroit, the Hasan Pikers and El-Sayeds would be right there leading them and cheering them on.”
他继续说：“我们在法国看到的——仇恨、忘恩负义、想要毁灭而非建设的欲望——正是腐蚀阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德的同样癌症。”特朗普及其盟友试图将法国的示威重新定义为移民危险和西方文明衰退的证据，而这些示威最初是学生针对破败学校和生活成本飙升的抗议。
He continued: “What we saw in France – the hatred, the ingratitude, the desire to destroy rather than the desire to build – that exact same cancer is what has corrupted Abdul El-Sayed.”Trump and his allies have sought to recast the demonstrations in France, which began as student protests against crumbling schools and the soaring cost of living, as evidence of the dangers of immigration and the erosion of western civilization.
范斯已多次访问密歇根州，期间共和党候选人迈克·罗杰斯正争取赢得埃尔-赛义德所竞争的席位，范斯对这位民主党人发动了一系列极端攻击。
Vance has made several visits to Michigan as Republican candidate Mike Rogers seeks to win the seat El-Sayed is vying for, launching a series of extreme attacks on the Democrat.
特朗普周日访问该州时，指责埃尔-赛义德“站在恐怖分子一边”，并称密歇根州需要“站出来对抗”他。他还反复使用其中间名“穆罕默德”。
Trump, on a visit to the state on Sunday, accused El-Sayed of being “on the side of the terrorists” and said Michigan needed to “stand up and fight” against him. He has also repeatedly used his middle name, Mohamed.
埃尔-赛义德在本周末自己的一场集会上说：“他们以为，指着我的名字和我的信仰，就能让你们忽略一个事实：你们加不起油、买不起杂货，也看不了医生。”研究人员认为，这轮中期选举竞选出现了自9·11事件余波以来美国选举政治中最集中的一波伊斯兰恐惧症言论。
El-Sayed told a rally of his own this weekend: “They think that by pointing at my name and my faith, that somehow you’re going to ignore the fact that you can’t afford your gas or your groceries, can’t see a doctor.”Researchers have suggested this midterm elections campaign has seen the most concentrated wave of Islamophobic rhetoric in US electoral politics since the aftermath of 9/11.
“我真的认为每个人都必须关注这场有组织的抹黑穆斯林美国人——不仅作为公民，更是作为人——的运动，”康涅狄格州民主党联邦参议员克里斯·墨菲周二上午在X上写道。
“I really think everyone needs to pay attention to this cordinated [sic] campaign to delegitimatize Muslim Americans – not just as citizens but as humans,” Chris Murphy, the Democratic US Senator for Connecticut, wrote on X on Tuesday morning.
针对特朗普的卫生与公众服务部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪近期的言论——他暗示“世界上五亿阿拉伯人”对科学或文学没有贡献——墨菲表示：“这些日益歇斯底里的攻击，是共和党人在选举后把我们带入一个非常、非常黑暗之地的前奏。”
Responding to recent remarks by Robert F Kennedy Jr, Trump’s health and human services secretary, who suggested “five hundred million Arabs in the world” do not contribute to science or literature, Murphy said: “These increasingly hysterical attacks are a prelude to Republicans bringing us to a very, very dark place after the election.”