El-Sayed's family ties to Muslim Brotherhood surface after he denied any link

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Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is facing new scrutiny after he denied that he or his family had any ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

On Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” NBC’s Kristen Welker pressed El-Sayed whether he could “set the record straight” on allegations that his family had connections to the controversial Islamist group.

“No,” El-Sayed replied.

“No, you don’t have any ties, and your family doesn’t?” Welker followed up.

“No,” El-Sayed repeated before suggesting his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, was floating Islamophobic attacks against him and his family.

However, according to his half-sister Eman Abdelhadi, their mother was an active member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

“Had an amazing talk with my mom about her activism in the Muslim Brotherhood during the early 70s while she was in college #respect,” Abdelhadi wrote in a 2012 X post, as first reported by the Washington Free Beacon.

Their mother, Fatten Elkomy, had attended Egypt’s Alexandria University, which, according to a report from the Brookings Institution, had strong Muslim Brotherhood activity back in the 70s.

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