Hammer says "Brotherhood front groups" are trying to elect El-Sayed
Josh HammerPolitical commentator writing a syndicated column
In a syndicated column, Hammer cites donations he attributes to El-Sayed's father-in-law, an ISNA founding committee member, and to current or former CAIR officials. He calls ISNA and CAIR "Brotherhood front groups" and says these groups are trying to elect El-Sayed.
“These are the groups now trying to elect El-Sayed to the U.S. Senate.”
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Where this statement fits
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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HotAir publishes a Creators-syndicated column. October 18 is this publication's date; other outlets carried it earlier. The column's allegations are not proof that an organization transferred money.
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Hammer opens by calling El-Sayed's Meet the Press denial of Muslim Brotherhood ties a lie. The quoted sentence follows his donation figures and his description of ISNA and CAIR as Brotherhood front groups.
After the quotation
He goes on to say El-Sayed would pose a "massive threat to American national security" as a senator and that Rogers must win. The donation figures are Hammer's; the column does not cite the filings behind them. We use HotAir's October 18 publication date for this syndicated column.
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Relative to the allegation that El-Sayed's campaign takes money from terrorist-linked sources, Hammer says donors tied to ISNA and CAIR, which he calls Brotherhood front groups, are funding El-Sayed and trying to elect him. He adopts the allegation in his own voice and uses it against El-Sayed, so the label matches Rogers's statements here. The label records his stance, not whether the claim is true.
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