WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ahead of the second Michigan Senate debate tonight, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) is out with a new game, Jihad Jeopardy. The game exposes Abdul El-Sayed and his family’s extensive ties to designated terrorist organizations, including the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Qaeda.
“Abdul El-Sayed and his family have such extensive ties to designated terrorist groups that it was easy to fill an entire jeopardy board with the specifics. Abdul has serious questions to answer and it should alarm every single Michigander that he continually refuses to do so,” said NRSC Regional Press Secretary Samantha Cantrell.
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Abdul El-Sayed cannot stop pandering to designated terrorist organizations:
- Abdul pledged his support for a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and called on him to “purge the media and police.”
- His mother’s employer was wiring money to Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban, and Hamas in the years leading up to September 11, 2001.
- His sister-in-law appeared on the terrorist watch list.
- He received over $315,000 in Muslim Brotherhood-tied contributions to win his primary.
- He accepted $115,000 from associates of CAIR, a designated terrorist organization, to his Senate campaign, including from their executive director who was “happy” about Hamas’s attack.
- The Muslim Brotherhood celebrated his victory in the Democrat primary.
- His father-in-law, Tayeb Jukaku, was the president of CAIR Michigan and a founder of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which was accused of having ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Game Categories, Clues and Answers:
On the Record
$200 Clue: Discussing the Temple Israel attacker in April who sought to murder hundreds of Jewish students, El-Sayed used this phrase to excuse the terrorist’s actions.
Answer: What is “hurt people hurt people”?
$400 Clue: El-Sayed used this one-word description for issuing a statement after the Temple Israel attack.
Answer: What is a “risk”?
$600 Clue: At a July 2025 event, El-Sayed blamed this country for creating terrorism.
Answer: What is the United States?
$800 Clue: In a 2012 letter, El-Sayed urged Egypt’s president, and leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, to “purge” these two institutions.
Answer: What are the media and police?
$1000 Clue: In a 2011 essay, El-Sayed argued that Egypt under the Muslim Brotherhood would look nothing like this country.
Answer: What is Iran?
Follow the Money
$200 Clue: An August 2026 report put donations to El-Sayed from affiliates of CAIR, a designated terrorist organization, above this dollar amount.
Answer: What is $115,000?
$400 Clue: Unity & Justice Fund, an affiliate of this designated terrorist group, gave $175,000 to Fighting for Michigan PAC, which backs El-Sayed.
Answer: What is CAIR?
$600 Clue: An El-Sayed donor is the former spokesman for the Egyptian political party backing what group taking power?
Answer: What is the Muslim Brotherhood?
$800 Clue: El-Sayed holds up to $425,000 in this mutual fund. Its late cofounder was identified in an FBI memo as a Muslim Brotherhood leader, and his home was raided during a terrorism-financing investigation.
Answer: What is Amana Mutual Funds?
$1000 Clue: El-Sayed donor Sufian Nabhan served on the board of this organization, co-founded by Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzook.
Answer: What is the Islamic Association for Palestine?
All in the Family
$200 Clue: Abdul El-Sayed claimed on his resume and in a speech at 2016 that he was a dual citizen of the US and this country.
Answer: What is Egypt?
$400 Clue: El-Sayed’s half-sister, Eman Abdelhadi, wrote in 2012 that her family had long been members of this group.
Answer: What is the Muslim Brotherhood?
$600 · Daily Double · Clue: El-Sayed’s mother wired money to Afghanistan in support of Osama bin Laden for this organization, designated by the U.S. Treasury in 2004 as a foreign terrorist organization.
Answer: What is the Islamic American Relief Agency?
$800 Clue: El-Sayed’s father-in-law Tayeb Jukaku, a leader of Michigan’s CAIR chapter, also served on the founding committee of this organization, connected to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Answer: What is the Islamic Society of North America?
$1000 Clue: El-Sayed’s sister-in-law joined a 2016 lawsuit challenging her placement on this government database.
Answer: What is the terrorist watch list?
Shared Stages
$200 Clue: El-Sayed drew criticism for appearing with this streamer, whose past remarks included saying America deserved 9/11 to which El-Sayed claimed he’s “not here to disavow people’s views.”
Answer: Who is Hasan Piker?
$400 Clue: Osama Siblani, who spoke before El-Sayed at a Dearborn fundraiser, called these two terrorist organizations “freedom fighters.”
Answer: What are Hamas and Hezbollah?
$600 Clue: El-Sayed and Amer Zahr headlined 2019 fundraisers for this charity, connected to Hamas financing and other suspected terrorist ties.
Answer: What is Islamic Relief USA?
$800 Clue: Speaking to the Oklahoma chapter of this organization in October 2022, El-Sayed said, “You can’t understand a Sharia ban without understanding the Trail of Tears.”
Answer: What is CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations)?
$1000 Clue: Zaid Shakir, scheduled on a convention panel with El-Sayed, urged tactics up to guerrilla war to change government policy. He also promoted a conspiracy theory blaming “Zionist forces” for this 1993 terrorist attack.
Answer: What is the World Trade Center bombing?
Clerics & Connections
$200 Clue: An imam at a mosque El-Sayed attends praised slain Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh as a “heroic” one of these people celebrated for dying for a cause.
Answer: What is a martyr?
$400 Clue: Mohammad Ali Elahi, who campaigned with El-Sayed three times, was appointed by Ayatollah Khomeini to head the navy’s political-ideological office in this country, working to reindoctrinate officers in Islamic values.
Answer: What is Iran?
$600 Clue: Hassan al-Qazwini, whom El-Sayed congratulated at a mosque opening, demanded that members of Congress supporting the Antisemitism Awareness Act be indicted and convicted of this crime.
Answer: What is treason?
$800 Clue: A cleric who shared the stage with El-Sayed claimed this widely recognized number of Jewish Holocaust victims was exaggerated.
Answer: What is six million?
$1000 Clue: El-Sayed asked a documentary crew to keep this item out of a secular shot. It held works by an unindicted World Trade Center bombing co-conspirator who defended suicide bombers and wife-beating, and by writers influential to al Qaeda and ISIS.
Answer: What is a bookshelf?
Groups & Influence
$200 Clue: Asked on Meet the Press whether he or his family had Muslim Brotherhood ties, El-Sayed gave this one-word lie.
Answer: What is “No”?
$400 Clue: El-Sayed described an obligation before God to live in compliance with this religious legal system throughout his life.
Answer: What is Sharia law?
$600 Clue: El-Sayed joined a 2012 statement backing Egypt’s Mohamed Morsi’s sweeping expansion of presidential power. Morsi belonged to this Islamist movement.
Answer: What is the Muslim Brotherhood?
$800 Clue: At least $315,000 in campaign contributions to El-Sayed are tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, which began pouring in after Islamic jurists opened zakat funds to political spending through this type of religious decree.
Answer: What is a fatwa?
$1000 Clue: El-Sayed campaign ally Mohammad Ali Elahi helped establish a research unit at the Martyrs Foundation. Treasury sanctioned the foundation for financing Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad, including payments to the families of these types of terrorists.
Answer: Who are suicide bombers?
Final Round: A Critic in His Own Party
Clue: Michigan Democrat Attorney General Dana Nessel criticized El-Sayed’s response to the Temple Israel attack as appearing to excuse this type of action at the synagogue and its school.
Answer: What is domestic terrorism?
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