El-Sayed is not the only radical in his family.
Abdul El-Sayed, the Islamic Democrat hoping to win an open U.S. Senate seat in Michigan, is apparently not the only radical in his family.
Fatten Fathy Elkomy, El-Sayed’s birth mother, long worked for an Islamic organization that was identified by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2004 as a specially designated global terrorist organization, reported the Midwesterner.
IARA may have ‘provided direct financial support’ to Osama bin Laden and, by extension, Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
The Treasury Department stated in a release at the time of the terror designation that the international offices of the Islamic African Relief Agency, or IARA, may have “provided direct financial support” to Osama bin Laden and, by extension, Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
“IARA is identified as a nongovernmental organization (NGO) formerly affiliated with Maktab Al-Khidamat (MK), which was co-founded and financed by UBL [Osama bin Laden] and is the precursor organization of al Qaida,” the department said.