El-Sayed erupts at GOP rival over Muslim Brotherhood accusations in fiery Senate debate

In a Michigan US Senate debate, Democrat Abdul El-Sayed rejected Republican Mike Rogers’s suggestion that he had links to the Muslim Brotherhood, calling the accusation shameful and beneath him. The exchange centred on a letter El-Sayed reportedly signed in 2012 about Egypt’s police force, as well as claims about his family; the article says there is no evidence he is affiliated with the organisation.

Rogers said El-Sayed had urged Egypt’s then president Mohamed Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood member, to purge the police, and argued the organisation’s ideology concerns US law enforcement. El-Sayed said he had never been part of the group and that his mother is a nurse in Missouri; he has also said he was not raised by his biological mother. Social media posts by his half-sister alleging their mother’s past activism had resurfaced.