Senate Expert Flags El-Sayed Bid as Security Risk Over 41 CAIR-Linked Donors
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Updated · Fox News · Aug 7
Senate Expert Flags El-Sayed Bid as Security Risk Over 41 CAIR-Linked Donors
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Aug 7
Summary
Kyle Shideler told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee that Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed’s candidacy raises homeland security concerns tied to alleged Muslim Brotherhood-linked family connections and links to Emgage.
Ted Cruz pressed Shideler at a hearing on Muslim Brotherhood threats in the U.S., where the analyst cited El-Sayed’s father-in-law Jukaku Tayeb, a former CAIR-Michigan president, and Tayeb’s role on an ISNA founders committee.
Shideler also described Emgage as closely tied to CAIR and said one of its creators had been on a terror watchlist and consulted for Sami al-Arian, who pleaded guilty in 2006 in a Palestinian Islamic Jihad-related case.
Fox News Digital said El-Sayed’s campaign did not immediately comment and reported he had accepted donations from at least 41 people tied in some way to CAIR.
The hearing widened into Cruz’s claims about a 'Red-Green Alliance,' with Shideler affirming that the Muslim Brotherhood works with groups such as the Democratic Socialists of America and has active U.S. chapters or cells.