During a Saturday appearance on MS NOW, Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed responded to questions about his family’s alleged connections to the Muslim Brotherhood by comparing the scrutiny to what John F. Kennedy faced decades earlier. He told host Ali Velshi that the inquiries seemed designed to suggest he holds divided allegiances. El-Sayed is seeking to become the country’s first Muslim senator.
Velshi raised the volume of questions El-Sayed receives about the Muslim Brotherhood, terrorism, and radical Islamism. El-Sayed answered that the core purpose of those questions is to insinuate dual loyalties. He said he recognizes a long pattern of such concerns in American political history.
