FBI Raid on El-Sayed’s Mother’s Home Revealed in Resurfaced Article From Abdul’s Sister
By LifeZette News Staff October 25, 2026 The FBI raided the home of Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s mother in the early 2000s, according to writings by his sister, Eman Abdelhadi. The raid was likely connected to a terror financing investigation involving the Islamic charity where their mother worked. Abdelhadi, a University of Chicago professor, described the raid in a June 2016 article about attending a New York City vigil for the Pulse nightclub shooting. Their mother, Fatten Elkomy, was born in Egypt. At the vigil, New York governor at the time Andrew Cuomo promised to “do what we did after 9/11” and “build back a monument better than ever before.” Abdelhadi said the remarks brought back stark memories. “I flashed back to memories of the FBI raiding mosques, homes—including my own—and Muslim charity organizations,” Abdelhadi wrote. She added, “If the crowd remembered how…
