The FBI raided the home of the left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s mother in the early 2000s, likely in connection with a terror financing case that shut down the Islamic charity she worked for, according to El-Sayed’s sister, Eman Abdelhadi.
Abdelhadi, a University of Chicago professor and the daughter of El-Sayed’s Egyptian-born mother, Fatten Elkomy, referenced the raid in a June 2016 article detailing her experience at a New York City vigil for the Pulse nightclub shooting. Elkomy took issue with a line from one of the vigil’s speakers, then-New York governor Andrew Cuomo, who promised to “do what we did after 9/11” and “build back a monument better than ever before.”
“I flashed back to memories of the FBI raiding mosques, homes—including my own—and Muslim charity organizations,” Abdelhadi wrote. “If the crowd remembered how the state had imprisoned thousands of Muslims after 9/11, it certainly did not show it or did not care.”
Abdelhadi did not elaborate on the raid in the article. She did, however, further detail her experiences with the FBI in an August 2024 piece in Zeteo headlined, “I Tweeted Chicago Protesters Were ‘Ready’ for Harris. Then, I Got the Call From the FBI.”
