# El-Sayed’s silence over mom’s FBI questioning raises transparency concerns

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/el-sayeds-silence-over-moms-fbi-questioning-raises-transparency-concerns/
- Published: 2026-11-02T18:33:03+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-02T22:50:50+00:00
- Original publisher: Fox News (publisher lean: Far right)
- Original article: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/el-sayeds-silence-over-moms-fbi-questioning-raises-transparency-concerns
- Topics: Government, Politics, World

## Key points

- Mike Rogers is pressing El-Sayed over his mother’s past questioning.
- Federal agents questioned her for about three hours in 2004.
- She was not charged in the charity investigation.

## Summary

Abdul El-Sayed, a Democratic candidate for the US Senate in Michigan, is facing renewed criticism from Republican rival Mike Rogers over his mother’s questioning by federal investigators in 2004. The scrutiny is part of wider allegations about family associations and El-Sayed’s views on the Muslim Brotherhood; the article reports no evidence of direct ties between El-Sayed and the group.

Federal agents questioned El-Sayed’s mother, Fatten Elkomy, for about three hours after raiding the Missouri offices of the Islamic American Relief Agency, where she worked. The charity was shut down in 2008 over alleged breaches of sanctions and restrictions on terrorism-related financing, but Elkomy was not charged, and the article says there is no evidence she helped transfer funds to terrorist organisations. El-Sayed has said he was not raised by his mother and has no ties to the group; his campaign did not respond to the article’s request for comment.

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