The article exposes how Trump allies spread a false claim linking Abdul El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood, undermining his Michigan Senate campaign with misinformation.
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Michigan US Senate candidate signaled support for Egypt’s pro-democracy movement in 2012, not Islamist groupThe Republican campaign to defeat Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan Senate race by casting him as an Islamic extremist is based on a false claim first made by the conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer eight years ago, a Guardian review of the evidence reveals.Loomer, an influential outside adviser to Donald Trump who calls herself “a proud Islamophobe”, has claimed since El-Sayed entered politics in 2018 that an open letter he signed in support of democracy in Egypt in 2012 was a public endorsement of the Muslim Brotherhood. The text of the letter, however, does not even mention the Muslim Brotherhood, and is not, as Loomer maintains, “a pledge” of support for the Egyptian Islamist group. Continue reading...
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