Abdul El-Sayed's dad sits on board of Islamic charity accused of funneling cash to Saddam Hussein

So there's another interesting allegation surrounding the Democratic candidate for Senate from Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed. This one involving a charity that his father, Muhammad El-Sayed, has served on the board of for several years. Muhammad El-Sayed has been a board member of Life for Relief and Development since 2020, at least. Life for Relief and Development has a long history of drawing from Muslim donors. And in 2004, at the height of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Life for Relief and Development's Baghdad office was raided. And soldiers found boxes of evidence and rings of documents suggesting that the charity, which was supposed to help the needy and the disadvantaged, had actually been funneling donors' money via the nation of Jordan to the regime of the since-deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. That evidence kicked off a long-running criminal and civil case against the group that only concluded in 2014 when Life for Relief and Development paid a settlement of around $780,000. $180,000. Now, during that investigation, federal investigators also found ties between Life for Relief and Development and the Islamic African Relief Agency, another charity suspected of funneling support for bad actors in the Middle East, specifically Hamas, and a charity for which Abdul El-Sayed's mother happened to be employed for a short time. Now, this is just the latest example of El-Sayed or members of his family being accused of being linked to unscrupulous actors with ties to the Middle East. Ties to Islamic extremists and ties to out-and-out terror groups. He spent most of the past few weeks trying to deflect and answer charges that he is at least a supporter of, if not an out-and-out member of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood has been active in the Middle East for around a century. It's a very powerful political Islam group that has been linked to the rise of Hamas. which emerged from several Brotherhood-linked charities in the Gaza Strip in the late 1980s. Most recently, in 2012, El-Sayed drew unwanted attention when he turned out to have signed a letter supporting the Muslim Brotherhood during a crackdown by the Egyptian government during unrest in that country that was part of the Arab Spring. Now there's no evidence that Mohammed El-Sayed was involved in the actions of Life for Relief Development in giving money to Saddam Hussein, but the latest claims show that there are real questions that El-Sayed has to answer about who he will actually represent in the U.S. Senate should he win next week. Will he represent The people of the state of Michigan, which does have one of the largest Arab populations in the U.S., but also has a bunch of other concerns related to the economy and energy. Or will he use his power for the next six years to focus purely on issues of the Middle East, thousands of miles away from his nominal constituents?