El-Sayed family ties scrutiny

What's happening

Republican Mike Rogers and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed met in their second and final Michigan Senate debate in Detroit, where Rogers said El-Sayed has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and asked whether he is for America or terrorist groups overseas.3(source: Oct 21: Rogers and El-Sayed clash in final Michigan Senate debate)

How we got here

1. On NBC's Meet the Press, Kristen Welker asked Abdul El-Sayed whether he or his family had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, and El-Sayed answered no.1(source: Oct 12: El-Sayed denies family Muslim Brotherhood ties as sister's posts surface)
2. El-Sayed's half-sister Eman Abdelhadi wrote in a 2012 post about their mother's activism in the Muslim Brotherhood in the early 1970s while in college, and also wrote in 2012 that her family has long been MB and in 2013 asked for prayers for family members supporting the MB in Egypt.1(source: Oct 12: El-Sayed denies family Muslim Brotherhood ties as sister's posts surface)
3. Their mother, Fatten Elkomy, attended Alexandria University, which a Brookings Institution report described as having strong Muslim Brotherhood activity in the 1970s, and El-Sayed suggested his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, was floating Islamophobic attacks against him and his family.1(source: Oct 12: El-Sayed denies family Muslim Brotherhood ties as sister's posts surface)
4. El-Sayed confirmed that his sister-in-law, Mariam Jukaku, was on the federal terrorist watchlist and was a plaintiff in a 2016 lawsuit challenging her placement on the list, and he is scheduled to campaign with former President Barack Obama.2(source: Oct 18: El-Sayed Confirms Sister-in-Law Was on Terrorist Watchlist)
5. At the final debate, Rogers said El-Sayed signed a 2012 open letter urging an Egyptian politician to purge the media and police.3(source: Oct 21: Rogers and El-Sayed clash in final Michigan Senate debate)