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

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/el-sayed-erupts-at-gop-rival-over-muslim-brotherhood-accusations-in-fiery-senate-debate/
- Published: 2026-10-22T00:25:54+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-22T01:30:53+00:00
- Original publisher: Fox News (publisher lean: Far right)
- Original article: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/el-sayed-erupts-gop-rival-over-muslim-brotherhood-accusations-fiery-senate-debate
- Topics: Government, Politics, World

## Key points

- El-Sayed denied links to the Muslim Brotherhood during a Senate debate.
- Rogers cited a 2012 letter about Egypt’s police force.
- The article says there is no evidence of El-Sayed’s affiliation.

## Summary

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.

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