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Why a Senate win for Abdul El-Sayed has Capitol Hill running scared

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On Sunday’s edition of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” host Kristen Welker asked Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed if he would “set the record straight” on his alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

“No,” El-Sayed quickly replied, saying that neither he nor his family have any ties to the international Sunni Islamist network.

He’s running as the most thinly veiled Trojan horse in American political history — on behalf of the Brotherhood and the Islamism it embodies.

The Washington Free Beacon helped expose how El-Sayed’s half-sister, a radical University of Chicago professor named Eman Abdelhadi, has explicitly lauded their family’s Brotherhood ties.

In 2012 Abdelhadi gushed over their mother, Fatten Elkomy: “Had an amazing talk with my mom about her activism in the Muslim Brotherhood during the early 70s.”

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That same year, as the Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi reigned in Elkomy’s native Egypt, Abdelhadi bragged that her “family has long been MB.”

Care to answer Welker’s question again, Abdul?

Abdelhadi also took to Instagram to deliver an “October 7th blessing” one year after the barbaric pogrom committed by the Brotherhood’s Palestinian-Arab offshoot,........

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