Amy V. Doukoure on recurring Muslim Brotherhood allegations
Amy V. DoukoureLead staff attorney for the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations
CAIR-MI attorney Amy V. Doukoure said that linking El-Sayed to bad actors, even through a false tie, stigmatizes him and the Muslim community.
“Just by tying him, even if it’s a false tie, to bad actors or whatnot, they are able to stigmatize him, because that is how they’ve been stigmatizing our community for decades.”
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Mike Rogers's allegation about Abdul El-Sayed's campaign received funding from a terrorist organization
At a September 10, 2026 Republican National Convention midterm speech, Michigan Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers said Abdul El-Sayed was funding his campaign with money from “terrorist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood.” Rogers did not name a donor, amount, or campaign-finance filing in the speech. The research documents an outside-support chain involving CAIR Action, Unity & Justice Fund, and a Super PAC supporting El-Sayed, while examining whether any record establishes the specific allegation.
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Bridge Detroit reported on recurring allegations linking El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood before Rogers’s September 10 campaign-finance statement. The article contains direct quotations from El-Sayed and Doukoure that characterize the broader pattern of attacks; neither quote directly addresses the later allegation about campaign funding.
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Bridge Detroit reported Doukoure’s comment while examining recurring allegations that El-Sayed had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
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The comment concerns the broader pattern of allegations and not the funding allegation made three days later. It is recorded separately from a direct factual rebuttal.
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Doukoure challenged the characterization and effect of recurring attempts to link El-Sayed to alleged bad actors. Her statement predates and does not directly address Rogers’s specific campaign-finance allegation.
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