El-Sayed faces renewed scrutiny over alleged family links to Brotherhood

A campaign town hall exchange between Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed and Republican operative Tommy Teepell has revived scrutiny of alleged family links to the Muslim Brotherhood. El-Sayed said he would disavow the group, then argued that questions about his background risk treating his Muslim faith as grounds for suspicion; the clash has become a flashpoint in a close race.

The article says El-Sayed’s half-sister, Eman Abdelhadi, wrote in 2012 and 2013 about relatives who supported or were jailed over membership in the organisation, and alleged that their mother had been active in it as a student in the early 1970s. Republican candidate Mike Rogers has used the posts in campaign attacks and an advert, while Donald Trump has also repeated accusations of ties. The exchange has drawn more than 13 million views on X; CBS correspondent Jan Crawford deleted a post praising Teepell and apologised, saying it breached CBS standards.