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El-Sayed Faces Scrutiny Over Muslim Brotherhood Allegations
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In Short: Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is under fire for alleged family ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
During a heated exchange at a town hall meeting, Republican candidate Mike Rogers accused El-Sayed of having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, a group designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. Government.
Rogers further alleged that El-Sayed had donors to his campaign from Hamas, which supports Hezbollah, and questioned his allegiances, saying, "So — being bought off by the Muslim Brotherhood, having donors to his campaign from Hamas that support Hezbollah, is not a problem?"
El-Sayed's half-sister, Eman Abdelhadi, had previously posted on social media that their mother was an activist with the Muslim Brotherhood, a claim El-Sayed dismissed, saying, "My mom who is a nurse in Missouri. It doesn’t make any sense and it’s actually quite beneath you, Mike. It’s really quite beneath you."
President Donald Trump also weighed in, calling El-Sayed a 'Muslim radical' and a 'jihadist Muslim Brotherhood member,' despite El-Sayed's denial of any affiliation with the group.
El-Sayed has also faced criticism for his past support of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood politician Mohamed Morsi, and for putting his name on a letter urging the president to 'purge the media and the police.'
"This should raise serious questions," Mariam Wahba of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies told the Free Beacon about El-Sayed’s past support for the Brotherhood.
El-Sayed has defended his position, stating, "I’m not running to be a Muslim senator. I’m running for the U.S. Senate and happen to be Muslim."
What's confirmed
- During a heated exchange at a town hall meeting, Republican candidate Mike Rogers accused El-Sayed of having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, a group designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. Government.
- President Donald Trump also weighed in, calling El-Sayed a 'Muslim radical' and a 'jihadist Muslim Brotherhood member,' despite El-Sayed's denial of any affiliation with the group.
- "This should raise serious questions," Mariam Wahba of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies told the Free Beacon about El-Sayed’s past support for the Brotherhood.
What's still developing
- The 66-year-old was also an activist with the Muslim Brotherhood — a terror-designated Islamist political movement seeking to establish sharia rule in Muslim-majority countries — according to a social media post from her daughter, Eman Abdelhadi, El-Sayed’s half-sister, The Post previously reported.
- Senate seat, because El-Sayed would become the first-ever Muslim to serve in the U.S.
- Abdul El-Sayed, who is running for the US Senate in the upcoming November midterm elections, confronted a heckler on Saturday at a town hall in Michigan who asked him to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood.
- READ: Abdul El-Sayed’s sister faces backlash over being ‘Anti-American’ on X (August 14, 2026) Trump has also criticized El-Sayed’s political positions and associations with progressive figures.
- “Do I think there are moderate Muslim Brotherhood individuals we are going to have to reach out to and talk to. Yes,” Rogers said.
- "He's a Muslim Brotherhood guy, 100%," Trump said during a lunch in the White House Rose Garden.
- NEW YORK (VINnews) – Michigan’s high-stakes U.S. Senate race is drawing national attention as Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed faces growing scrutiny over allegations involving his family’s Muslim Brotherhood connections, his relationship with controversial commentator Hasan Piker, and his positions on Israel.
- El-Sayed, who is Muslim, quickly answered—“Sure, yeah, absolutely”—before questioning the heckler, who identified himself as “Tommy,” about the thinking behind it.