Amy V. Doukoure on recurring Muslim Brotherhood allegations
Lead staff attorney for the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations
“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.”
Source and context
Reporting
About this source
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.
Before the quotation
Bridge Detroit reported Doukoure’s comment while examining recurring allegations that El-Sayed had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
After the quotation
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.
How this statement is classified
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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