Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed said Saturday that he disavowed the Muslim Brotherhood after an attendee raised the issue at a town hall, then asked why the question had been posed.
According to The Hill, El-Sayed answered, “Sure. Yeah, absolutely,” before questioning the attendee’s reason for asking. Fox News reported that, in an MS NOW Reports interview the same day, he compared questions about alleged family ties to the Muslim Brotherhood with scrutiny John F. Kennedy faced over his Catholic faith. Fox also reported that Whoopi Goldberg and other “The View” co-hosts defended him.
Separately, the Daily Wire reported that El-Sayed confirmed his sister-in-law, Mariam Jukaku, had appeared in the federal Terrorist Screening Dataset and had pursued legal efforts to have her name removed.