Editors at National Review Online raise concerns about Michigan’s Democratic US Senate candidate.
Mike Rogers hammered Abdul El-Sayed in last week’s Michigan Senate debate over the Democratic candidate’s family ties to the terror group, and Meet the Press host Kristen Welker followed up in a subsequent interview with the Democratic candidate, asking if it was true.
“No,” El-Sayed twice insisted. As the Washington Free Beacon reports, that is not accurate. At least, not according to El-Sayed’s half sister, who proudly noted their mother’s radicalism.
“My family has long been MB,” Eman Abdelhadi, an assistant professor at the University of Chicago who would go on to celebrate the October 7 massacre, wrote of the Muslim Brotherhood in the summer of 2012. “I have had family jailed for being a part of it,” she added a year later. “Praying for all my family that supports the #MB in Egypt. Lie low, stay safe.”
(Abdelhadi’s 2012 post coincided with the accession of Mohamed Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood ally, to Egypt’s presidency after the 2011 Arab Spring ousted Hosni Mubarak. That November, El-Sayed himself signed an open letter affirming his support for Morsi and calling on the new regime to “purge the media and police.”)
Their mother, Fatten Elkomy, also worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency — an organization the U.S. Treasury accused of supporting outfits like Hamas and al-Qaeda in 2004. “An exhibit list filed in court referenced Elkomy more than a dozen times,” CBS News reported of the Justice Department’s 2007 indictment of the organization, “documenting participation in wire transfers and recorded phone calls between 1999 and 2002, as well as an IARA-USA transfer request form for over $24,000 to its Iraq office.”
This isn’t the only family connection to an extremist group. The candidate’s father-in-law, Tayeb Jukaku, a prolific contributor to a pro-El-Sayed super PAC, has similar ties.
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