Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is facing renewed questions after denying that he or members of his family have had connections to the Muslim Brotherhood.
During Sunday’s broadcast of “Meet the Press,” NBC host Kristen Welker asked El-Sayed to respond directly to allegations that his family had ties to the controversial Islamist organization.
“No,” El-Sayed answered.
Welker pressed him further, asking whether he was saying that neither he nor his family had any such connections.
El-Sayed again replied, “No,” then accused Republican opponent Mike Rogers of promoting Islamophobic attacks targeting him and his relatives.
But statements from El-Sayed’s half-sister, Eman Abdelhadi, appear to contradict his broader denial. Abdelhadi has said their mother was involved with the Muslim Brotherhood.
In a 2012 post on X, Abdelhadi wrote about speaking with her mother about “her activism in the Muslim Brotherhood during the early 70s while she was in college,” adding “#respect.” The Washington Free Beacon first reported the post.
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Their mother, Fatten Elkomy, attended Egypt’s Alexandria University. The Brookings Institution has reported that the Muslim Brotherhood maintained a significant presence at the university during the 1970s.
Abdelhadi, a professor at the University of Chicago, made another reference to the family’s history in a separate 2012 post: “My family has long been MB, but I’ve always felt that it has navigated the political sphere poorly/destructively.”
In a 2013 post, she also wrote, “Praying for all my family that supports the #MB in #Egypt. Lie low, stay safe.”
An El-Sayed campaign spokesperson told Fox News that the candidate is “a dad and a doctor” who has spent his career working to protect the health and safety of Michigan residents.
“Independent fact checkers have repeatedly debunked Mike’s lies, but their campaign continues to use bad faith attacks on Abdul’s faith and family,” the spokesperson said. “Mike wants to distract from Trump’s agenda that is terrorizing Michigan families at the pump and at the grocery store.”
The campaign has also maintained that claims linking El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood have been “debunked as racist and untrue.”
NBC News had not immediately responded to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.