Despite denials, El-Sayed has a LOT of ties to the Muslim Brotherhood | Hour 3

And again, thank you so much for your support. Last hour, I gave you some of the highlights, if you will, of the problems surrounding Abdul El-Sayed and his candidacy for U.S. Senate up in Michigan. And the biggest ones, the most dangerous ones, I mean, obviously, there is a danger to, you know, these Democratic Socialists of America, the Marxification of the Democrat Party. That's all obviously very concerning. But the other part of that equation is the Green Party. the red-green alliance. So yes, the red, the Marxist, the red part of that alliance is concerning, but then Abdul El-Sayed, he checks both boxes because of his ties to all of these, let's just call them jihadi-adjacent figures and organizations. And he just keeps trying to deny any of these connections exist. He can't seem to be clear when asked about things and his position on things. And he just says, you know, let's move on and you shouldn't be asking me about this stuff when, in fact, we absolutely should be asking about these things. Because all of the evidence points in one direction, which is that he is a fan of, if not a member of, the Muslim Brotherhood, which is a designated terrorist organization all around the world. So he recently appeared on Meet the Press. And he was asked whether he or any of his family members had any ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. And he denied this. He then accused his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, of Islamophobia, which, of course, is a made-up term by the Council on American Islamic Relations or CARE and a lot of these Islamic activists and apologists. And they say, oh, you're being Islamophobic as a way to shut up. their opponents. That's the reason, right? They make it the equivalent of saying that's racist. They know the game. They've adopted the language of the left and the tactics of the left in America, okay? His campaign has called all of these allegations and any connections, they say it's all debunked as racist and untrue. Okay, Islam is an ideology. It is not a race, okay? So you cannot claim racism when people criticize Islam. Okay, that's not racist. It's criticizing an ideology. You would not call somebody racist if they were criticizing Christianity, right? That's perfectly acceptable in the West. Now, as I went over yesterday, or in the last hour, his half-sister, Abdul El-Sayed's half-sister, Iman Abdel-Adi, a University of Chicago professor who shares a mother with El-Sayed, but then they're The parents divorced after El-Sayed was born, and then the mom remarried, and she had this half-sister. And she posted onto social media that my family has long been Muslim Brotherhood and talked about her mother's activism in the Muslim Brotherhood during college in the 70s. And on July 3rd, 2013, the day that the Egyptian military removed the Muslim Brotherhood leader, Mohamed Morsi, They overthrew him. She wrote that she had family members jailed for being part of the Muslim Brotherhood, and she was praying for the relatives who support it and told them to lay low and stay safe, okay? Their mother, their shared mother, whose name is Fatin Elkomi, or Elkomi, she attended Alexandria University, where, according to a 2012 Brookings report, Brookings is an institution on the left, it's a think tank of the left, they cited this report that the Muslim Brothers dominated the campus Islamic student group during this time period. El-Sayed himself wrote in his own autobiography that his mom was a leader on campus, but he left out that her campus leadership role was in the Muslim Brotherhood. So when he was asked by NBC about family ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, and he said, no, that is what we would call a lie. It's a lie. Fatin El-Khammi, his mommy, worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency, which the Treasury Department designated in 2004 as a terrorist organization for financing al-Qaeda and Hamas. Court exhibits in the case, a federal case against this group, named her more than a in connection with wire transfers between 1999 and 2002, and her brother worked there as a bookkeeper as well. When this was raised about these terror connections, when Mike Rogers raised these connections at the debate that the two had, El-Sayed asked whether Rogers was going after his mom. Oh, you're going after my mom now? And accused him of using foreign names to scare voters. Eric Erickson, the talk show host out of Atlanta, did a big write-up about all of these connections on his sub stack. He made it open. Usually it's behind a paywall, but this is all open for anybody to see, he said, because this is really important that people understand what it is that we are seeing with the candidacy of Abdul El-Sayed. His problems are not his mother's decades-old activism. His problems are his own defenses of the Muslim Brotherhood, his college membership in a brotherhood college group, as well as a whole metric boatload of donors that he seems to attract for some unknown reason. Back in January 2011, as protesters filled the streets of Cairo during the Arab Spring, which brought down the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, El-Sayed wrote in the Huffington Puffington Post that the United States should back the uprising... and that Americans had nothing to fear from the Brotherhood. This is what El-Sayed wrote himself, that even if it took power in Egypt, he said, the resulting government would look nothing like Iran because the movement was less hierarchical than other Islamists, and they're willing to compromise. Morsi is different. He made much the same pitch to President Obama in another piece at the Guardian newspaper, and the Brotherhood got its chance in Egypt. Mohamed Morsi won Egypt's presidency in 2012, and by November, he granted himself sweeping new powers by decree. And then, in an Egyptian news portal, he published a statement from 46 self-described leaders of the Egyptian community in America, backing Morsi's revolutionary decisions and calling on him to, quote, purge the media and the police as quickly as possible. The 33rd signature on that letter was none other than Dr. Abdul Rahman El-Sayed of New York, who was then in medical school at Columbia. In the months that followed, at least six Egyptian journalists were hauled into court for insulting Islam and insulting the president. El-Sayed did not simply misjudge the Brotherhood. In 2011, he assured Americans that the Brotherhood government would not turn into a repressive theocracy. In 2012, when it did exactly that, he put his name to a demand that it go further down that path. 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He has been on that founding committee for since at least 2007. That is a post, that's a position, that requires him to give at least $ 5, 000 every year to the group. He was also president of the Council on American Islamic Relations, or CARE, in Michigan from 2005 to 2010, and is actually still a member of that board, too. Fox News found that El-Sayed had taken more than $ 115, 000 from at least 41 different people who work for or have led CARE, including CARE's executive director, a fellow by the name of Nihad Awad, who said he was, quote, happy to see people breaking the siege of Gaza on October 7th. So he was celebrating the massacre. Those are remarks that even the Biden White House couldn't suffer. They condemned that as anti-Semitic. The Free Beacon, Washington Free Beacon, found donations from Abdul Mahgoud Darderi, a former foreign affairs spokesman. for the Muslim Brotherhood's political party in Egypt, as well as donations from Hani Sacher, the CEO of a charity whose board has included both El-Sayed's daddy and his father-in-law. Sacher appears in a 1992 directory of American Brotherhood leaders that federal prosecutors entered into evidence in a terrorism financing trial. Yes, there are tons of these financial ties. This directory that listed Hani Sahar, that directory in 1992 has a history worth knowing, says Eric Erickson. On August 20th, 2004, a federal indictment unsealed in Chicago named a person by the name, a man by the name of Ishmael Al-Barassi. an accountant from Annandale, Virginia. Al-Barassi was an unindicted co-conspirator in a 15-year scheme to finance Hamas. Al-Barassi was no bystander. He had served on the board of the Islamic Association for Palestine and on the Palestine Committee, the body that the Brotherhood created in the U.S. specifically to support Hamas politically and financially. He had been an assistant to Moussa Abu Marzouk when Marzouk ran Hamas's political operation. Prosecutors said the two shared a bank account and used that account to launder hundreds of thousands of dollars for Hamas. Hours after the indictment was unsealed, two off-duty Baltimore County, Maryland police officers noticed a woman who turned out to be Al-Barassi's wife videotaping the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Hmm. Wonder what, what would she be doing at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge? Filming it from the family's SUV as he was driving and she was filming it and then she lowered the camera when they saw the police car. And the chief of the bridge's police force said that the tape, the videotape, didn't have any images or video of the water and Didn't have anything of the skyline. It was just all video of the bridge. The footage included close-ups of cables and other features that are integral to the bridge's structure. Again, we may never know why she was so interested in the structural integrity of the bridge. Maybe she just really loves bridges, you know? El Barase, who was driving the car while his wife was videotaping, was on the FBI watch list, which held him as a material witness. His lawyer said that the family was simply coming home from the beach. Now, he was never charged over that videotape. What mattered was what the FBI found when it searched his house. In a hidden sub-basement, which I'm sure we all have these hidden sub-basements to be sure, agents found the archives of the Muslim Brotherhood in North America. including the internal records for the Palestine Committee, which the Muslim Brotherhood set up to do its work in America. Those papers became key evidence in the government's case against the Holy Land Foundation, and it was entered into evidence under the label El Baraseh Search. One document recovered from that basement, or sub-basement, was a memo dated May 22, 1991. That memo was written by a fellow named Mohammed Akram, also known as Mohammed Ad-Luni. And it was addressed to the Muslim Brotherhood's Shura Council in North America. And he wrote that the long-term plan, which the council had adopted way back in 1987, he fleshed out the plan and asked that it be put on the agenda for the council's next meeting. The stated goal was, quote, the enablement of Islam in North America, which he defined as an Islamic movement led by the Muslim Brotherhood that would present Islam as a civilizational alternative and support the global Islamic state wherever it is. Now, I have talked about this before in the past. In Islam, there are only two houses. Dar al-Islam, the house of Islam, and Dar al-Harb, House of War. It is black or white. You are either under Islam and you are in the House of Islam or you are in the House of War. Akram called the work in America, quote, a civilization jihadist process. He wrote that the brothers must understand it's a kind of, quote, grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within. so that God's religion would be made victorious over all others. Among the institutions he wanted built was a political organization with a central party, local political offices, political symbols, and alliances. He conceded the Brotherhood could not do the job alone and would need to master the art of coalitions. Red-green alliance, anybody? Attached to the memo was a list of 29 groups, Under the heading, a list of our organizations and our friends. That included ISNA, the Islamic Society of North America, first on the list. Also, the Muslim Students Association, they were listed second. Also, the Islamic Circle of North America was on that list. Why is this important with regard to El-Sayed? Well, would it surprise you to learn that he may have been involved in some of those organizations? It shouldn't. All right, real quick. Every government number gets revised, right? Every projection gets walked back. Gold does not file corrections like GovCo. Revelation Gold Group helps families hold physical gold and silver, including in a tax-advantaged gold IRA. It's real. It's in your name. And 10 minutes tells you if your retirement account qualifies. If you want to learn more, go to calendarmetals.com. That's calendarmetals.com. There is a link in the podcast description. Or if you want to talk to somebody, you can call 888-465-3049. Prosecutors used this memo that they took from the sub-basement of Al-Baraseh, right? They took this memo and they used it in the Holy Land Foundation trial. That ended in 2008. There were five convictions of the charity's leaders, convictions for funneling over $ 12 million to Hamas. By the way, those five, they're called the Holy Land Five. Mayor Zoran Mamdani, during his failed career as a rapper, he did a song honoring the Holy Land Five. Just in case anybody was unclear about who he was talking about, that's who he's talking about. This Holy Land Foundation trial remains the largest successful terrorism financing prosecution in American history. Eric Erickson writes at Substack, The same trial also revealed FBI recordings of a 1993 meeting. Weeks after the Oslo Accords, right, this was supposed to be about Israel-Palestine peace and all of that, the Oslo Accords, about 20 leaders of the Brotherhood's Hamas support network in America gathered at a Marriott hotel near the Philadelphia airport. They did not know the FBI had wired the room. They referred to Hamas as Samah, which is Hamas spelled backwards. They discussed how to keep building support for Hamas among American Muslims while hiding it from everybody else. One leader told the room, quote, War is deception. Just in case anybody had any doubts about how they view the issue, they view it as war. Another talked about gaining influence with Congress by working through American media, universities, and research centers. By the way, if you're keeping track at home, Check, check, and check. They have done all of that. One of the men in that room was Nihad Awad. A few months later, the Council on American Islamic Relations was founded in Washington, and Awad became its executive director, a job he still holds. CAIR has always denied being a Hamas front and fought the government's characterization of it as such. Awad is also one of Abdul El-Sayed's donors. So you've got ISNA and CARE both named in the Holy Land Foundation case. When they fought the label of unindicted co-conspirator, they went to court to have this label removed from them because that is what they were. A federal judge ruled back in 2009 that the government had in fact provided ample evidence tying them to Hamas, noting, among other things, a joint bank account. where checks were made out to the Palestinian Mujahideen, the original name of Hamas's military wing. Okay, Eric Erickson pointing out here, this is not a conspiracy theory. This was all proven in court. Then there is a book that he cites called An Unholy Alliance by Michael Youssef, which lays out how Islamists... And the progressive left have found common cause. I will insert here that, yes, they are opposed to Western civilization and Christianity. It's the thing that they share. And so they have found common cause in that. And America represents that most. So obviously they have common cause there. He recounts the experience of a writer named Amil Imani. who got into a closed-door Islamic Circle of North America fundraiser in Texas where the keynote speaker was Tariq Ramadan, the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. By Imani's own account, Ramadan told the audience not to assimilate, but to quietly work their way into political institutions and universities and to run for office. The Bush administration revoked Ramadan's visa in 2004 and later kept him out of the country over his donations to a charity that funded Hamas. Hillary Clinton, though, lifted that ban in January of 2010 as Secretary of State, and in September 2024, a Geneva appeals court convicted Ramadan of rape. Okay, so this again from the book Unholy Alliance by Michael Youssef. He goes on then to give the example, and I've talked about this example before, of this unholy alliance, this red-green alliance, and sort of the ultimate example of it was the Iranian Revolution, the Islamic Revolution. 1979. The Ayatollah Khomeini's followers marched arm-in-arm with Iran's communists and secular leftists against the Shah, and the Soviet Union assisted in the red-green alliance in the revolution. Once the Ayatollah had power, his men turned their guns on the leftists. The Brotherhood has always been willing to march beside people it intends to bury. Erickson says, we are watching this in the U.S. The DSA is the useful idiot partner. The memo from the sub-basement said the Brotherhood could not do the job alone and and would need coalitions and alliances with people outside its ranks. Michael Youssef, in his book, calls the common ground the Omnicause. This is a fusion of climate activism, identity politics, and anti-Christian sentiment that lets secular socialists and Islamists march under one banner. What holds the coalition together is a hostility to Israel that has, in too many corners, curdled into just outright anti-Semitism. The DSA brings a secular face, an army of volunteers, and a path inside the Democrat Party. The largely Muslim-backed money behind the anti-Israel left has helped the DSA grow its influence. So that's where the DSA is getting the rocket fuel of campaign funds. That's where they're getting this money from, in their political organizations and their PACs and such. It's from Muslim-backed money. American Priorities spent more than a million dollars. That's a Muslim PAC. They spent more than a million dollars to help elect Claire Valdez and Daria Liza Avila Chevalier. These are two DSA-backed candidates in New York. Their ads never mention Israel at all. They sold the two women as Mamdani endorsed. The socialists believe they are building their own movement. However... The Muslim Brotherhood memo describes this exact arrangement 35 years ago, and the example of how it turns out is Iran. Benjamin Weingarten has a massive piece about Abdul El-Sayed's connections to the Muslim Brotherhood through his family and all of his appearances, his participation in various groups. You can read it at Substack. Again, Benjamin Weingarten. I'm going to run through this pretty quick because you've got a lot of the details already that I brought through various other sources, and he kind of puts it all together, but it's a huge piece. First off, he says, the records show that El-Sayed has served in, repeatedly spoken before, and surrounded himself with Muslim Brotherhood affiliates, including unindicted terrorism co-conspirators. He garnered gobs of campaign cash and endorsements and political support from these organizations, and he's promoted the Brotherhood, its agenda, and supportive narratives consistent with its U.S.-based front groups, okay? Those front groups include the Muslim Students Association. This is a foundational entity to the Brotherhood's operations. Established in 1963 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, it was the group's first formal American organization. It would serve as a, quote, front for Muslim Brotherhood organizing and recruiting. Its chapters now number over 150 across America and Canada. They've hosted Islamic supremacist speakers, raised funds for groups later shuttered for funding terrorism. More than a dozen MSA leaders and members have faced terrorism charges. As an undergrad, El-Sayed served as the vice president of the University of Michigan's MSA chapter. His wife, who he met and married there, served as its president. Said to be an active member of the chapter, El-Sayed helped lead a walkout and spoke in protest of a Young Americans for Freedom hosted event that featured three repentant ex-jihadists. So three jihadists who left the jihadist movement came to speak on campus and he led a walkout against them. That's who El-Sayed is. The MSA spawned and served as a feeder for a slew of organizations listed in a 1991 memorandum, chiefly including ISNA, the Islamic Society of North America. And I've already gone over their connections to El-Sayed. Also, his mommy, right, who ISNA maintains a foundational supporting relationship with another entity founded by the MSA, listed as an unindicted co-conspirator. In the Holy Land case, that was the North American Islamic Trust, or the NAIT, and they actually hold title to like a quarter of all the mosques in America. Okay? Next, his connection to CARE. El-Sayed has spoken before this organization on numerous occasions, and again, his father-in-law was the president of CARE's Michigan chapter and a board member of CARE. That's his father-in-law. Another Al-Sayed endorser tied to the Muslim Brotherhood via the Holy Land case is American Muslims for Palestine, or AMP, which backed him via a 501c4 called American for Justice in Palestine Action. Several former IAP leaders founded AMP a year after the Palestine Committee entity folded in an apparent attempt to skirt a $ 156 million Anti-Terrorism Act judgment against it for supporting Hamas, okay? So there was this one Palestine committee set up by the Muslim Brotherhood, but they folded because they, you know, had to pay out $ 156 million for supporting Hamas, so it folded. So they created another group, And this is the IAP, or it would birth the National Students for Justice in Palestine, as well as... Students for Justice in Palestine College Chapters. And these are the kids that were all out there protesting after October 7th, right? Also, in 2011, El-Sayed was a graduate student. He wrote a series of articles about supporting the Muslim Brotherhood. Once again, nobody has asked him what changed. Why did he change his mind? Why would you be in support of the Muslim Brotherhood, writing a series of articles in support of the Muslim Brotherhood and Morsi, right? Why would you be calling for the purging of police and media over in Egypt? Why would you be doing all of that? And then now you say, oh, you know, I've evolved or something. I've I no longer hold some of those views. Okay, well, which ones? And why did you change your mind? Nobody is asking him these questions. On his campaign website, El-Sayed calls for immediate reinvestment in humanitarian-focused foreign aid. And then he names one beneficiary specifically. You know what it is? Take a guess. UNRWA, the U-N-R-W-A, which is, of course, the pivotal tool for Hamas, right? This was the UN-sanctioned organization that was helping Hamas steal all of the food and aid. They were training up the next generation of jihadist kiddies through their schools and stuff. They allowed their schools and their facilities to be used as Hamas command centers and weapons depots and such. That's who he wants to refund. That's who he wants to give money to. El-Sayed also backed the building. of the infamous Ground Zero Mosque. This is what the Islamic groups wanted to do in New York City. They wanted to build a mosque near Ground Zero right after the worst terrorist attack on American soil after 9-11. He also has said that he has devoted himself to live his life in a Sharia-compliant way. And then he concealed... books on his bookshelf, these Islamic texts in which he has immersed himself, including an exegesis written by a Muslim Brotherhood member pledging support to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. This was during that interview I mentioned earlier. This is the guy that has a chance to enter the U.S. Senate, which then, of course, raises the question, does he get access as a U.S. Senator to certain pieces of information plans, background, like what committees could he be put on? If Republicans lose control of the Senate and they can't stop somebody from being put onto a committee, like say, I don't know, intelligence, armed services, like would Democrats put El-Sayed on one of those committees? Why wouldn't they? If the rank and file, if the activist base If they pressure Chuck Schumer hard enough, do you think he's not going to cave to their demands? See, this is what's at stake. If El-Sayed wins and there's a Democrat majority in the Senate, he very well could be on one of these committees. That is dangerous. Absolutely dangerous. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support. and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast. So if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecalinershow.com. Again, thank you so much for listening and don't break anything while I'm gone.