Alan Lyons

I’m so sick of seeing people across social media claim Abdul El-Sayed is only getting heat “because he’s a Muslim man.” That’s not the reason. Other Muslims have been elected to office without this reaction. Repeating it just makes you look stupid. Here are the actual problems: 1- In 2012 he signed a letter to Mohamed Morsi (the Muslim Brotherhood president of Egypt) supporting his power grab and calling on him to “purge the media and the police as quickly as possible.” 2- His biological mother, Fatten Elkomy, worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA), which the U.S. Treasury designated for supporting terrorism. His half-sister has publicly said their mother was active in the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in the 1970s. 3- His half-sister Eman Abdelhadi posted on social media about their mother’s Muslim Brotherhood activism and expressed support for family members backing the Brotherhood in Egypt. 4- He refused to condemn the IRGC when directly asked by an Iranian-American student whose family was targeted by them. Leaked audio also shows he deliberately stayed silent on Khamenei’s death because “there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad,” prioritizing his base over basic condemnation of a terrorist regime. 5- His father, Mohamed El-Sayed, sits on the board of Life for Relief and Development, a Michigan-based Islamic charity that paid a $780,000 settlement to the U.S. Treasury for violating sanctions by transferring money into Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. The group has also faced raids and scrutiny over alleged ties to terror-linked networks. These are documented facts.

Just look at the massive crowd of Iranians who traveled from across Europe to stand for an Iran free from terrorist Islamists, despite the threats. While many European cities have seen riots and destruction disguised as “protests,” these Iranians demonstrated with respect and dignity. They waved the historic Lion and Sun flag alongside the American, Israeli, and their host countries’ flags, raising them high, not burning them. This is what a real protest for freedom looks like.