MI Primary Winner El-Sayed Campaign Backed by Over $100,000 from Dozens of Members of Group With Alleged Terror Ties

Andrew Mark Miller, Kiera McDonald : Aug 6, 2026
Fox News

(Grand Rapids, MI) — [FoxNews.com] Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed's campaign has collected more than $115,000 from individuals who work for or have held leadership roles with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has been designated a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates and formally designated or labeled as such in Florida and Texas. The donor list includes several of CAIR's highest-ranking officials, including national Board Chair Manal Fakhoury, national Board Treasurer Eyas Abdeen, national Vice Chair Emad Sabbah, and CAIR-Michigan board member Jukaku Tayeb, El-Sayed's father-in-law. Tayeb has been one of the largest financial backers of the super PAC supporting El-Sayed's campaign and is also part of the founding committee of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a group linked to Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood funding, Washington Free Beacon first reported... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Click Here to read. (Screengrab image: via CNN video)