On Sunday’s edition of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” host Kristen Welker asked Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed if he would “set the record straight” on his alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
“No,” El-Sayed quickly replied, saying that neither he nor his family have any ties to the international Sunni Islamist network.
El-Sayed is lying.
He’s running as the most thinly veiled Trojan horse in American political history — on behalf of the Brotherhood and the Islamism it embodies.
The Washington Free Beacon helped expose how El-Sayed’s half-sister, a radical University of Chicago professor named Eman Abdelhadi, has explicitly lauded their family’s Brotherhood ties.
In 2012 Abdelhadi gushed over their mother, Fatten Elkomy: “Had an amazing talk with my mom about her activism in the Muslim Brotherhood during the early 70s.”
That same year, as the Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi reigned in Elkomy’s native Egypt, Abdelhadi bragged that her “family has long been MB.”
Care to answer Welker’s question again, Abdul?
Abdelhadi also took to Instagram to deliver an “October 7th blessing” one year after the barbaric pogrom committed by the Brotherhood’s Palestinian-Arab offshoot, Hamas.
Wearing a keffiyeh she intoned, “I want to say, Allahu Akbar.”
What a peach.
As for Elkomy, she worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency, designated by the Treasury Department as a terrorist organization in 2004 for providing “direct financial support” to Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda.
She was working there on 9/11.
How stupid does El-Sayed think we are?
Maybe he thought he could lie to Welker under the pretense of taqiyya, a sharia doctrine interpreted by some jihad-sympathizers as effective permission to lie to infidels.
But we have the receipts.
I’ve noted how El-Sayed’s father-in-law, Jukaku Tayeb, a founding committee member of the Islamic Society of North America, has donated $200,000 to El-Sayed’s campaign.
El-Sayed has also raked in a similar six-figure donation sum from current or former Council on American-Islamic Relations officials.
ISNA and CAIR are Brotherhood front groups on American soil, named as unindicted co-conspirators in the Justice Department’s massive 2008 terror financing bust of the Holy Land Foundation.
The United Arab Emirates named CAIR a terrorist organization in 2014, and the Brotherhood itself is banned as a terrorist organization in Egypt, the UAE, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
These are the groups now trying to elect Abdul El-Sayed to the US Senate.
For decades, leading Brotherhood clerics encouraged Islamists to infiltrate the West through immigration.
Once safely ensconced, the clerics argued, Islamists could attain positions of prominence to move their Western host countries closer toward Islamism.
That’s why Abdelhadi pursued academic jihad, joining the professoriate at the prestigious University of Chicago.
And it’s why her half-brother is now attempting electoral jihad at the highest level of American politics.
A prominent conservative member of Congress recently confided in me his fear that El-Sayed might be elected.
Would El-Sayed, this member worried, have access to sensitive intelligence?
Would he share our closest national-security secrets with hostile foreign actors?
The answers seem clear.
As a US senator, El-Sayed would pose a massive threat to American national security.
Rumor has it he covets a seat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — a perfect perch for a senatorial fifth column.
As a senator, El-Sayed wouldn’t advance America’s interests: He would advance the interests of the Brotherhood, and of Islamism more generally.
The implications are dire.
The Muslim Brotherhood is the mother’s milk of Islamism.
If El-Sayed is elected, it isn’t just the Brotherhood and Hamas that would have a plant inside the “world’s greatest deliberative body”: Al Qaeda and ISIS would have a friend as well.
So too would the Iranian regime — after the assassination of Ali Khamenei, El-Sayed refused to comment, noting, “there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad today.”
The United States and Iran are at war. Whose side is he on?
Senators are not required to procure security clearances, as executive branch appointees must; they are considered inherently trustworthy.
Oops.
The polls in Michigan are tight, but El-Sayed appears to be ahead.
If he wins, the Senate might be tempted to prevent him from being seated.
That would be an uphill battle.
Article I of the Constitution affords each house of Congress the ability to be the “Judge of the Elections, Returns, and Qualifications” of its own members — but in a 1969 case, the Supreme Court circumscribed this power, severely limiting Congress’ discretion.
What that means is as simple as it is stark: Mike Rogers must win in Michigan.
The alternative means giving the Muslim Brotherhood an asset in the United States Senate.
Josh Hammer is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and author of “Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish Nation and the Destiny of the West.”