John F. Kennedy did indeed face heavily scrutiny during his 1960 presidential campaign. It was rooted in anti-Catholic prejudice; critics questioned whether a Catholic president could truly serve American interests independently from the Vatican and the pope. What El-Sayed has said about himself and Kennedy, however, is insulting to America’s collective intelligence.
El-Sayed’s attempt to compare himself to Kennedy back in the 1960s, a time when America was also grappling with an institutionalized system of racial segregation in the South, is a tactic that America’s gravest enemies have used for years to smear the country. It is based on reminders about historic wrongs that were corrected long ago — from slavery to colonialism and discrimination against Catholics. This is a mentality that is troubling for anyone pretending to support American interests. Why can’t El-Sayed simply deal with the valid concerns at hand in this senatorial election? That answer is apparent. Read more HERE.
Racism and discrimination are worlds apart from prudent scrutiny about a dangerous entity such as the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) gaining power and influence in the United States. El-Sayed’s connections to the group even drawn suspicion, albeit briefly, from CBS’ chief legal correspondent, Jan Crawford, who quickly backtracked when she realized that she had gone off the reservation: she ended up deleting and apologizing for a social media post in which she praised a man who questioned El-Sayed about his family’s Muslim Brotherhood ties. Still, the fact that she expressed concern about El-Sayed’s Muslim Brotherhood ties in the first place demonstrated that even some leftists are concerned about this.
The evidence is clear: Back in 2012, El-Sayed’s half sister Eman Abdelhadi wrote:
Had an amazing talk with my mom about her activism in the Muslim Brotherhood during the early 70s while she was in college #respect
— Eman Abdelhadi (@emanabdelhadi) June 24, 2012
Abedlhadi wrote on June 24, 2012, days after Egypt elected Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi as president: “My family has long been MB.” And on July 3, 2013, she wrote: “I have had family jailed for being a part of it…Praying for all my family that supports the #MB in Egypt. Lie low, stay safe.”
Now El-Sayed is dismissing what he claims are “crazy” questions about his dual loyalties, yet there is nothing crazy about them, particularly given his family’s ties to Muslim Brotherhood. For El-Sayed to resort to the tired old gaslighting phrase of “crazy” when busted makes him look even more guilty.
His cronies have predictably wielded the “Islamophobia” subterfuge, which Muslim Brotherhood operatives have always heavily manipulated in order to shut down all criticism and scrutiny about Islam. This has effectively enabled Islam to expand its Sharia tentacles throughout America, using the woke to transmit the Muslim Brotherhood agenda. El-Sayed should keep talking. The more he does, the more he shows up what he really is.
“Abdul El-Sayed invokes JFK to dismiss ‘crazy’ questions over family’s alleged ties to Muslim Brotherhood,” by CJ Womack, Fox News, October 18, 2026:
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed compared himself to former President John F. Kennedy during a Saturday “MS NOW Reports” interview with Ali Velshi, likening questions about his family’s alleged Muslim Brotherhood ties to scrutiny Kennedy faced over his Catholic faith.
El-Sayed invoked Kennedy’s 1960 presidential campaign while arguing that questions about his family were intended to cast doubt on his allegiance to the United States.
“I also know that I tread a long history of this: when John F. Kennedy ran for president, he was asked about whether or not his allegiance would be to the Constitution or to the pope and the Vatican…” he began.
“The Constitution guarantees me the right as I choose to pray or any of us, to pray as we choose to pray or not to pray at all,” he continued. “Nobody understands how important that document is like somebody who has their rights constantly threatened and so I will stand for that constitution. And it’s a crazy thing to assume that somehow I’d have dual loyalties as somebody who’s avidly running to protect the right to choose, who’s running to protect LGBTQ rights, who’s running to protect religious freedom…”
Cathryn Paradise says
JFK’s Catholic faith was not tied to a terrorist group bent on over throwing the culture and enslaving the people.
Daniel Bielak says
+1
Counted says
+1000
Taffy says
The voters in the US should note that it took a military coup to oust Morsi and the evil Muslim Brotherhood from office in Egypt to return the country to a state where it can live among the nations of the world and not grind down its population with the most radical Islam.
There should be enough sane voters in Michigan to vote for Roger’s instead of el-Sayed, but unfortunately there is a contingent that would vote democratic, even if the Dems ran a brass monkey for office. The upsetting thing is that el-Sayed had enough support to make it this far, by defeating Haley Stevens, the incumbent, in the primary.
Michigan better awaken itself or the whole state will soon look like a Detroit and Dearborn.
Kepha says
Dunno. The USA is full of useful idiots who will vote for Obama because they’re desperate to prove their anti-racist cred; and those who will vote for El-Sayed simply to prove that they aren’t “Islamophobic”. And then there’s Trump derangement syndrome.
gravenimage says
Grimly often true. MSNOW had a piece where they said that saying the Muslim Brotherhood was bad is “gutter politics”–and one commenter said that opposing the MB is a “crime syndicate”. They never asked if the MB *really was* anti-American.
Kepha says
Having read one of Seiyyed Qutb’s books (translated long before “fundamentalist” was ever appended to “Islamic”), I am himbly grateful to be part of the “gutter politics”. Qutb hated the USA for what we are more for anything that we’ve done. The MB should be put under the “meaningful membership in a totalitarian party” that once was a reason to refuse an immigrant visa.
gravenimage says
I take your point, Kepha–but characterizing concerns over Jihad and Sharia as “gutter politics” is grotesque.
Voltaic says
Mister El-Sayed, I knew Jack Kennedy -and you’re no Catholic.
Bexarkat says
JFK had a track record of loyalty to the United States of America including heroic service in World War II. El-Sayed has nothing to defend himself against the claim of disloyalty. Indeed, just the opposite is true, he claims to follow Sharia law and Islamic belief places Sharia above every other law – including the Constitution of the United States.
James Lincoln says
Bexarkat,
Yes.
JFK served in a time when a Democrat could be patriotic.
Yes, heroic service in World War II PT 109.
Huh!?! says
If the implications weren’t so grim, it would be laughable. In referencing the U.S. Constitution, El-Sayed needs to be educated that the Constitution does not give way to a political system, disguised as a religion, that seeks to destroy the U.S. As the mid-terms are upon us, praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. Vote! Vote! Vote!
Raja says
By comparing himself to JFK he has proven that he is a thorough bed a sly guy who cannot be trusted at all.
Voters need to be aware that Catholics, for that matter any Christian has never killed any human with a yell: Jesus is Lord! Whereas islam is a war machine that keeps steamrolling with all the tools of devil no matter how good a person/nation is.
somehistory says
Yes, Raja. People should compare him to the mayor’ of NYC, and ilhan elmi, and ratshida tlaib.
See how closely he comes to being like those other muzzies who have proven to have connections to muzzie terror organizations.
It was honest to ask JFK if he would bow to the vatican if an issue arose. There had never been a Catholic president, so people had questions
They didn’t ask enough questions about bo and look what he did….helping the mb back to power in Egypt, and bringing in so much islime.
Chevelle says
Educated white women will always vote for the Islamist if you run one. More importantly, they will vote an Islamist in in the primaries, which usually seal elections in blue states. This is the new reality if Muslims decide to run in every blue state areas.
I also see educated white women choosing the Islamist male candidate over an Islamic woman or a liberal white woman in these important elections. Men naturally come off as more stronger leaders and charismatic such as Abdul and mandami. If a Somalians Islamist male challenged Omar in the primary, I think he’d win.
But you said Rasihda Talab the slop, that caught my eye. Because… I live in her district. It is NOT Muslim. It’s like I said. It’s white women who push over the edge their candidates. Dearborn is also NOT totally Islamic. They just vote Muslims as a whole.
I think rogers can win. It’s hard to say what’s going on exactly, a lot of people are afraid to put the rogers signs up, or come out as against Abdul right now. We could win. If it rains heavy, we lose for sure.
Talab is the worst scum Islamist trash in America. Maybe they block my comment . An open USA hater and an open Islamist Hamas invader terror agent. There’s bullying here against us. Everybody is scared to say pro rogers.
somehistory says
I have three daughters. All three have university degrees. They are also White. They would not ‘choose” this slime.
And btw, “more stronger” is inicorrect.
gravenimage says
Chevelle, I am also an educated white woman and I am not vioting for Muslims. Try again.
Many Anti-Jihad women here at Jihad Watch are also highly educated.
Voltaic says
Still hurts, does it?
A papist in the White House?
Didn’t last long.
But what if it was a Calvinist Democrat elected to the White House? Would a fair question be: Are Republican voters predestined to go to Hell?
Kepha says
Speaking as a “Calvinist” myself, I can scarcely see someone committed to the faith of the Westminster Standards or the Three Forms of Unity even being allowed into the Democratic Party, save as a quiet infiltrater.
And the way it works is this, Jesus wears a garment with the words “Whosoever will may come” on the front. We follow him, and see on his back the words “Chosen before the foundation of the world” ad “You did not choose me, but I chose you.”
Nabil Bissada says
“El-Sayed compares questions about his family’s Muslim Brotherhood ties to scrutiny JFK faced over his Catholic faith”
Nothing in common between the Catholic believes and Islam believes.
Catholic according to the Bible the teaching of Jesus Christ: love, peace, respect others religion, respect women, forgiveness, marriage one woman, equality, etc.
Muslims Brotherhood are the god father for all Islamic terrorists’ organization.
Islam according to the Koran and the sharia law based on pedophilia, murder, rapping, kidnapping, theft, lies, stealing, no women respect, head of the women same as her sex privacy must be covered, stoning adultery, cuts hand of thieve, no freedom of religion and speech, no human rights, no democracy, Fairwell sex with the dead wife in her first six hours, Man can have up to four wives,
DEMOCRACY BROUGHT HITLER, AND MUSLIMS WHO ARE WORSE.
BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND ISLAM, I HAVE ISALMOPHOBIA.
EVERY MUSLIM IS A TIMING BOMB.
gravenimage says
No, Fascism is not democracy. The first things Hitler did after being elected was destroy democratic safeguards.
Chevelle says
Here is my gripe. I don’t believe in 2026 half the American voter even understands what the musl brother hood is. So this will not make much of a dent if he outright said yes he’s with the Muslim brotherhood. Who would really care? People , this isn’t 2004. He might lose a few voters. But most don’t care, they would vote for Islamic extremisms .
I live here and it will be razor thin, I see Mamdani winning a close one, but rogers could pull it off as well. We need the rest of the Jew support to come to us immediately and come to their senses now. We could win.
gravenimage says
Grimly possible re ignorance ove what the Muslim Brotherhood and its goals are, Chevelle.
By the way, most Jews in NYC did *not* vote for Mamdani. The impliction that he was elected by foolish Jews is just mistaken.
https://www.jta.org/2025/11/05/politics/mamdani-wins-33-of-the-jewish-vote-in-nyc-compared-to-63-for-cuomo-exit-poll-shows
Chevelle says
I made a mix up. I meant to say Abdul Al Sayed, not Mandami. In this case, the Abdul guy had 50 percent of the Jews in his camp in Michigan.
If you had to tell me, which one is the more radical of the two in your opinion?
And can you rank all the Muslim politicians for me in order by radicalism? I see you post here a lot; you know more than me.
gravenimage says
Al Sayed has not been elected yet, si the idea that most Jews in Michigan are voting for him is unconfirmed. And there are only about 105,000 voting-age Jews in all of Michigan–about 0.0103% of the population. If the egregious Al Sayed *does* win, it will not be because Jews elected him.
And yes–Al Sayed is even worse than is Mamdani–or perhaps just more emboldened and hence more honest.
somehistory says
A seat in the Senate has more power connections than a mayor of NYC. For that reason, he’s worse.
Chevelle says
I mean rank them all on their dangerousness and Islamic radicalist ideology. Dont we got a Muslim in Arizona on Republican? So these others like Omar Talab Abdul mandami must be worse. But how worse.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
This comparison would only have made sense had JFK had family ties to the IRA, which at the time was a Catholic terrorist organization fighting Britain
somehistory says
And it should be pointed out that no cohort of JFK….no Catholics ….were constantly talking about taking down the nation and “destroying the miserable house” and none were marching with flags of other nations, demanding that thousands of illegal Catholics swarm and steal through fraud.
There is so much difference between JFK, and this muzzie with his ideas of takeover. Rogers has a lot of ammunition.
somehistory says
“The simple question that set off Abdul El-Sayed
Bianca Across the Nation debates Abdul El-Sayed’s fiery response after a man asked him to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood, question whether it crossed the line ”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/the-simple-question-that-set-off-abdul-el-sayed/vi-AA2fBE6Z?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6ad78f2ec1e6474689d0359891322c58&ei=38
gravenimage says
Yes–disgusting.
Wellington says
How bogus a comparison but fitting since El-Sayed is a bogus human being overall.
gravenimage says
He is a pious Muslim, Wellington.
Wellington says
Yes indeed, gravenimage, and that is all part of the reason why he is a bogus man since Islam is the ultimate example of a bogus religion.
gravenimage says
+1
gravenimage says
El-Sayed compares questions about his family’s Muslim Brotherhood ties to scrutiny JFK faced over his Catholic faith
………………………………………………………..
What crap. JFK was a decorated war hero, who had already proven his love of America. And he had *no* links to anyone trying to destroy America. Just despicable false comparison.
somehistory says
JFK’s family had been in America for generations as was also true of his wife.
This can not be said about the lying mb-tied muzzie.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Somehistory.
Tim gallagher says
Christianity is the complete opposite of evil, barbaric Islam. Anyone that could not see through the bullshit this Muslim scumbag is spouting must have shit for brains. Unfortunately our western societies have many such foolish people.
somehistory says
Admitting that he was not born in MI. vance said he was lying about his place of birth.
“Vice President J.D. Vance highlighted a strange lie that Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed once told about whether he was an American.
Speaking at the Michigan Democratic Party’s spring 2017 convention, El-Sayed, who was born in a suburb of Detroit in 1984 to Egyptian parents, said, “I’m done with this notion that certain kinds of people cannot rise up to be a part of leadership in this society,” The Washington Free Beacon reported.
“We have an opportunity to rethink the way we do government, despite the fact that I may be an immigrant from North Africa,” the then-gubernatorial candidate added.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/jd-vance-calls-out-abdul-el-sayed-s-most-confusing-lie-that-reveals-a-revulsion-toward-native-born-americans/ar-AA2fGgty
gravenimage says
He probably wants to be president…
somehistory says
“Hidden camera catches Democratic operative alleging El-Sayed campaign has violated federal election law”
“Undercover activist James O’Keefe is at it again.
The covert camera mastermind, whose videos have been targeting progressive political operations going back to the first Obama administration, is putting his stamp on the Michigan Senate race with a video released Monday.
And Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign can’t be happy about it.
The video featured a Democratic operative identified as Abdoul Beckwith stating that El-Sayed gets funding from overseas donors and candidly admitting that “it’s not allowed.”
O’Keefe cited a section of federal law that explicitly prohibits a “foreign national” from donating “money or other thing of value” to any candidate in a federal, state, or local election in the U.S.
But according to an O’Keefe Media Group account, Beckwith said there are ways around that:”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/hidden-camera-catches-democratic-operative-alleging-el-sayed-campaign-has-violated-federal-election-law/ar-AA2fGPXx?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6ad9091f399140d5afc936e4b6be75c4&ei=42
gravenimage says
This does not surprise–more creeping Sharia…
Sarprina81 says
Islam is a threat to all Americans as well as Jewish people.
Islam is a threat to all civilized nations.
Anybody with ties to Islamic groups should be eyed with suspicion if not on a terror watch list.