The US Senate race in Michigan state between the Democratic nominee, Abdul El-Sayed, and his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, is this year’s most important election in America. It’s significant, on a number of levels, not the least of which is that Mr El-Sayed is an Arab-American Muslim of Egyptian descent. Prior to this, the country had four Arab Americans elected to the US Senate – former majority leader George Mitchell, James Abourezk, James Abdnor and John Sununu – none of them Muslim.