For all those years, you thought the Quakers were a harmless bunch of anti-war types. And since "anti-war" is an acceptable, but somewhat smarmy, viewpoint, you thought they were basically harmless.
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D.), appearing alongside a convicted murderer and a registered sex offender in a webinar with a prison abolition group, endorsed "any and all efforts to get people out of jails and prisons" and said locking up criminals was akin to "robbing" them of their freedom.
El-Sayed was the featured guest on a webinar hosted by the Carceral State Project and the American Friends Service Committee in August 2020 regarding their report "I Don't Want to Die in Prison." The American Friends Service Committee advertised the show—using the hashtags #FreeThemAll and #AbolishPrison—as a platform to "discuss the report findings and the road to decarceration and abolition with Abdul El-Sayed."...
"American Friends Service Committee" is the formal name for the Quakers.
Pretty much ruins that oatmeal breakfast you had in mind, eh?
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