Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, has faced sustained scrutiny over newly exposed connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, designated a terrorist group by several countries and whose Egyptian branch was designated a terrorist organization by the United States in 2025 for supporting Hamas. On NBC’s Meet the Press in October 2026, he answered “No” when asked whether he or his family had any connections to the group.
The denials fly in the face of public records and statements from relatives and associates. His half sister, posted on social media in 2012, “My family has long been MB.” She also referenced their mother Fatten Elkomy’s activism with the Brotherhood in the early 1970s while in college in Egypt, noted that family members had been jailed for membership, and wrote of praying for relatives supporting the group in Egypt.
El-Sayed’s campaign has also received donations from individuals with documented Brotherhood links, including Abdul Mawgoud Dardery , a former foreign affairs spokesman for the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party in Egypt and people listed in a 1992 U.S. Muslim Brotherhood leadership directory submitted as evidence in the Holy Land Foundation terror financing trial. And in 2012 he signed an open letter calling on Morsi’s Brotherhood backed government to “purge the media and police.” He had earlier written a 2011 HuffPost column urging U.S. support for Egypt’s revolution while downplaying concerns about the Brotherhood gaining power. His father in law has held leadership roles with the Islamic Society of North America, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land case. Just when we thought the corruption in our Government was overwhelming. An anti American terrorist is just inches away from a seat at the table of the Republic. We have reached new depths of the American Catastrophe.
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