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<p>The half-sister of Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed wrote in 2016 that federal agents had searched the home she shared with their mother, the Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/fbi-raided-home-of-el-sayeds-mother-senate-candidates-sister-wrote-in-unearthed-article/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> Saturday.</p>
<p>Eman Abdelhadi, a University of Chicago professor, made the remark in an <a href="https://shadowproof.com/2016/06/17/queer-muslim-unwelcome-new-stonewall/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">essay</a> about a New York vigil for victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting. She recalled the FBI raiding mosques, Muslim charities and homes — “including my own.” The essay did not say when the search occurred.</p>
<p>Their mother, Fatten Elkomy, worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA), a Missouri-based charity, from 1999 through at least 2004, according to court records the Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/abdul-el-sayeds-mother-worked-for-terror-group-that-funded-bin-laden-and-taliban" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously reported</a>. Federal agents raided the charity’s offices in October 2004, the same month the Treasury Department designated its global network as a terrorism supporter, citing financial support for Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda and Hamas.</p>
<p>Elkomy was never charged. Exhibits in the government’s later prosecution <a href="https://www.nrsc.org/press-releases/the-midwesterner-abdul-el-sayeds-mother-worked-for-designated-terror-group-iara-that-provided-direct-financial-support-to-osama-bin-laden-taliban-hamas-2026-08-18/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">referenced</a> her more than a dozen times, including her role in wire transfers and a request to send more than $24,000 to the charity’s Iraq office. The charity’s executive director and a board member later pleaded guilty to illegally moving money to Iraq in violation of U.S. sanctions, and IARA itself admitted in 2016 to funneling roughly $1.4 million there.</p>
<p>In a separate 2024 <a href="https://zeteo.com/p/tweet-chicago-protesters-ready-harris-fbi-palestinian" target="_blank" rel="noopener">essay</a>, Abdelhadi wrote that as a teenager she watched her mother sort through the family’s belongings for anything that might be misread during a raid, and that her mother periodically fielded calls from the FBI.</p>
<p>The disclosure comes days after El-Sayed, during Wednesday’s final debate against Republican Mike Rogers, <a href="https://www.wxyz.com/news/national-politics/america-votes/wxyz-tv-to-host-u-s-senate-debate-between-mike-rogers-and-abdul-el-sayed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggested</a> the attacks stemmed from his mother being “a nurse in Missouri.” Rogers has pressed El-Sayed on both the IARA employment and Abdelhadi’s 2012 social media posts describing their mother’s activism in the Muslim Brotherhood as a college student in Egypt during the 1970s.</p>
<p>El-Sayed has denied that he or his family have any ties to the Brotherhood, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michigans-el-sayed-cornered-by-liberal-outlet-over-muslim-brotherhood-then-lashes-out" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> NBC News he had never discussed the subject with his mother. He has said his parents divorced when he was 3 and that he was raised by his father and stepmother. His campaign has previously <a href="https://www.snopes.com/news/2026/08/25/el-sayed-mother-charity-terrorism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Elkomy’s work at the charity involved helping orphaned children.</p>
<p>El-Sayed’s campaign did not immediately respond to the Daily Wire’s request for comment.</p>
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