Abdul El-Sayed’s Alleged Muslim Brotherhood Ties Resurface After NBC Denial
- On Sunday, Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed denied he or his family have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, addressing accusations Rep. Mike Rogers raised last week during their first debate.
- These assurances contradict social media posts from 2012 and 2013 by Eman Abdelhadi, El-Sayed's half-sister, who wrote that her family "has long been" Muslim Brotherhood and that relatives were "jailed" over membership.
- El-Sayed's mother worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency, designated as a terrorist organization in 2004 by the Treasury Department, which named her over a dozen times regarding cash transfers to al-Qaeda and Hamas.
- El-Sayed dismissed the debate as a strategy by Rogers to exploit his faith, while expressing regret for comments made earlier this year regarding a Hezbollah sympathizer that critics said justified the perpetrator's actions.
- Formed in Egypt in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood spawned Hamas in Gaza and was designated a terrorist organization by President Donald Trump in January; around 2 percent of Egyptians are members, though many hold favorable views.
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On 'Meet the Press,' El-Sayed denied his family's ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Hours later, the receipts landed.
The campaign for Democrat Abdul El-Sayed has released a bizarre statement after unearthed text messages seemingly contradict his claims denying ties between his family and the Muslim Brotherhood.El-Sayed is vying to keep the U.S. Senate seat from Michigan under Democratic control, but he has had trouble with some traditional Democrat voters, including Jews, because of his extremism.'Abdul's family is directly tied to the Muslim Brotherhood. Mayb…
'Set the record straight!': Abdul’s alleged Muslim Brotherhood family links surface after NBC denial
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for Michigan’s U.S. Senate seat, is facing fresh scrutiny after denying links to the Muslim Brotherhood during an NBC interview. The controversy intensified after old social media posts by his half-sister, Eman Abdelhadi, resurfaced, including a 2012 post describing their mother’s activism in the Muslim Brotherhood while attending college in Egypt in the early 1970s. Other posts referred to the family’s l…
El-Sayed Denies Muslim Brotherhood Ties Amid Sister's Posts
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed denied Muslim Brotherhood family ties on Meet the Press, even as the Free Beacon found his sister's posts claiming them. On Sunday, Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed repeatedly denied on Meet the Press that he or his relatives have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. The Washington Free Beacon found 2012 and […]
Unearthed Posts Show Abdul El-Sayed’s Sister Declaring Affiliation with Islamic Terrorist Group, Contradicting Denials
Michigan Democrat U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed’s sister publicly described their family’s longstanding affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood in newly unearthed social media posts, contradicting his categorical denial of family connections to the extremist organization.
Democratic Senate candidate Michigan accuses his rival, Republican Miker Rogers, of being behind an "islamofoba and racist" campaign against him, but does not talk about Eman Abdelhadi's post about the relationship between his family and the terrorist group.
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