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It turns out the Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan is everything we thought he is.
Apparently, the party of pink hair, open borders, endless virtue-signaling, and creative definitions of “moderate” decided it was time to add a little international intrigue to the résumé.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed recently highlighted how his mother “taught me so much about both how to stand with others, and how to stand alone.” Of course, he meant that he doesn't stand for America and is a blatant anti-Zionist [which is the same as being anti-Semitic].
So far, so wholesome if you don't count the America/Israel stuff.
Then the family biography takes a turn that sounds less like a Senate campaign introduction and more like something the FBI might have filed in a folder marked “Please Explain.”
“They ended up getting divorced,” El-Sayed said of his birth parents during a 2017 speech before the Islamic Foundation. Maybe dad refused to be anti American and anti-Zionist; I don't know.
“And my mother, she remarried a gentleman who was working as a translator in the Middle East and moved back to the Middle East.”
But according to reporting by the Midwesterner, El-Sayed’s birth mother, Fatten Fathy Elkomy, worked from 1999 through at least 2004 for the Islamic American Relief Agency, also known as the Islamic African Relief Agency, a jihadi organization that would love to impose sharia across the globe.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed recently highlighted how his mother “taught me so much about both how to stand with others, and how to stand alone.” Of course, he meant that he doesn't stand for America and is a blatant anti-Zionist [which is the same as being anti-Semitic].
So far, so wholesome if you don't count the America/Israel stuff.
Then the family biography takes a turn that sounds less like a Senate campaign introduction and more like something the FBI might have filed in a folder marked “Please Explain.”
“They ended up getting divorced,” El-Sayed said of his birth parents during a 2017 speech before the Islamic Foundation. Maybe dad refused to be anti American and anti-Zionist; I don't know.
“And my mother, she remarried a gentleman who was working as a translator in the Middle East and moved back to the Middle East.”
But according to reporting by the Midwesterner, El-Sayed’s birth mother, Fatten Fathy Elkomy, worked from 1999 through at least 2004 for the Islamic American Relief Agency, also known as the Islamic African Relief Agency, a jihadi organization that would love to impose sharia across the globe.
The IARA operated more than 40 offices around the world and publicly focused on health care, orphans, and disadvantaged people in conflict zones. The organization no longer exists as it was dissolved after a federal criminal case, and while they claimed to provide aid and assistance to all people without regard to religion or race, that claim doesn't sit well with those who know how Islamic charities tend to work.
So, in October 2004, the U.S. Department of the Treasury designated the worldwide network and five senior officials as supporting terrorism. Treasury said the organization had ties to Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda.
According to a 2004 Treasury announcement:
According to a 2004 Treasury announcement:
“IARA is identified as a non-governmental organization (NGO) formerly affiliated with Maktab Al-Khidamat (MK), which was co-founded and financed by UBL (Usama Bin Laden or Osama bin Laden) and is the precursor organization of al Qaida”Now, obviously, none of this means Abdul El-Sayed personally supports terrorism. A person's family history is not automatically their political ideology, but let's not disregard some of the things he has said.
Here are a few examples:
He described America's political system as a "disease" and President Trump as its "worst symptom." In his view, the "disease" is a system that allows "corporations and billionaires and special interest groups like AIPAC to buy and sell politicians to rig the system against us."
In 2021, he posted publicly (and later made private) about Trump, comparing his role in the Jan. 6 to Osama bin Laden's role in 9/11, saying Trump "recruited, radicalized and reassured" rioters in a parallel way.
He has called ICE a “rogue agency” that “has nothing to do with immigration” or the southern border, instead “normalizing paramilitary forces,” “weaponizing the idea of immigration against the Constitution,” and that “cannot be reformed” but “has to be abolished.”Statements critical of Israel:
He has repeatedly accused the Israeli government of genocide in Gaza, apartheid (in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza), and war crimes. He has called Netanyahu a war criminal for conducting a genocide and described Israel as having become a “rogue nation” or “rogue state” due to its government’s choices, saying the U.S. should treat it accordingly under international law (stop selling weapons, end diplomatic cover at the ICC/ICJ/UN).
When asked if the Israeli government is “as evil” as Hamas, he replied: “Yes. Killing tens of thousands of people makes you pretty damn evil… Hamas, evil. Israeli government, evil. You can say both.” He has also called the Israeli government “bloodthirsty” (not limited to Netanyahu; referencing a long-standing “illegal apartheid regime”).
He strongly opposes all U.S. military aid to Israel (offensive and defensive, including systems like Iron Dome—“Weapons are weapons”), arguing it funds genocide/apartheid, annexation efforts (e.g., southern Lebanon), and wars “we don’t need to fight” (including involving Iran). He wants the money used instead for Michigan priorities and has criticized AIPAC heavily as spending tens of millions to influence races for “one more vote” supporting this aid.
On Israel’s “right to exist as a Jewish state,” he has said he “often struggle[s]” with the question because it requires defining “Jewish state” and whether that is consistent with “liberal values.” He has disputed the idea of an “ethnostate,” noted that no one asks about Palestine’s right to exist (which “doesn’t exist”), and emphasized that Israel “exists” while the key issue is whether it has a right to U.S. tax dollars. He supports equal rights to “peace, dignity, and self-determination” for Palestinians and Jewish Israelis, leaving the ultimate form (one state, two states, or otherwise) to them.
In interviews, he has said he is “haunted” by “nightmares about the children who’ve been orphaned at the hands of the Israeli military” (contrasting with positive “dreams” about Israel attributed to others).
But for a Democratic Party that routinely demands a 47-point background investigation before allowing Republicans to exist within 500 yards of public office, this is certainly an interesting family résumé to explain.
After all, when your party has spent years insisting that everybody's background matters, somebody might eventually notice when the background of your own Senate nominee comes with a footnote from the U.S. Treasury Department.
And that's when the campaign slogan “stand with others, and stand alone” starts sounding like extremely useful advice from the communications department.
After all, when your party has spent years insisting that everybody's background matters, somebody might eventually notice when the background of your own Senate nominee comes with a footnote from the U.S. Treasury Department.
And that's when the campaign slogan “stand with others, and stand alone” starts sounding like extremely useful advice from the communications department.
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