An Egyptian American activist who was sentenced to life in prison in absentia by an Egyptian court over his support for the Muslim Brotherhood has emerged as a financial supporter of Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign for U.S. Senate in Michigan.

Mohamed Soltan, 38, president of the American Committee for Middle East Rights, has contributed to El-Sayed’s Abdul for U.S. Senate candidate committee, while ACMER has also contributed to Fighting for Michigan PAC, the super PAC supporting the former Wayne County health official.

Federal Election Commission reports show ACMER contributed $25,000 to Fighting for Michigan PAC on June 12.

The contribution followed two donations from Soltan to Abdul for U.S. Senate on April 15. The individual contribution amounted to the maximum permitted under federal election law.

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Soltan was sentenced to life in prison by an Egyptian court in 2015 after spending two years behind bars with his father, Salah Soltan, a leading Muslim Brotherhood figure who served as deputy minister of endowments under former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.

Mohamed Soltan faced charges related to protests against the military coup that removed Morsi from power, including allegations involving funding for and membership in the Muslim Brotherhood. He launched a hunger strike while imprisoned.

In April 2015, an Egyptian court sentenced Soltan, then 27, to life in prison following proceedings he described as unjust.

The Obama administration pushed for his release, and Soltan was freed in May 2015 before returning to the United States.

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He later worked as an international investment adviser and human rights activist.

His father, Salah Soltan, was sentenced to death and life imprisonment in separate cases involving allegations that more than 50 leading Muslim Brotherhood members established a “control room” to direct “violence and chaos” during the 2013 military coup.

Other ACMER officials have also financially supported El-Sayed.

ACMER Treasurer Muna Jondy contributed $15,000 to Fighting for Michigan PAC on June 7 and $7,000 to Abdul for U.S. Senate on June 24.

ACMER Executive Director Kristina Blyad contributed $1,000 to El-Sayed’s campaign on February 13.

Blyad also serves as treasurer of ACMER’s Separate Segregated Fund, MERIT PAC, which contributed $1,500 to Abdul for U.S. Senate on June 3.

The contributions come as El-Sayed’s past statements concerning the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt have received renewed attention.

In January 2011, El-Sayed wrote a Huffington Post column titled “Why the U.S. Should Support the Protestors in Egypt,” arguing that Americans should support the uprising that ultimately preceded the Muslim Brotherhood’s rise to power and Morsi’s presidency.

El-Sayed addressed concerns about what a Muslim Brotherhood government might resemble.

“Second, as it stands, the Muslim Brotherhood lacks a popular leader akin to the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran,” El-Sayed wrote under the name Abdulrahman El-Sayed while serving as an assistant professor at Columbia University.

“Thus, the movement will not be able to consolidate power as readily in these turbulent times as their counterparts did in Iran, and will therefore have limited input in shaping legislative procedure (it is this vital input on procedure which ultimately crated the Iranian ‘Islamic Republic’ as we know it today, rather than a liberal democracy run by an Islamic party, a la Turkey),” he continued.

El-Sayed concluded by arguing that supporting the protesters was in America’s interest.

Abdul, You’re calling me “hateful” yet you never answered my question. Show me 1 thing I said that is incorrect and I will make a public apology. You can’t, because everything I reported about you and your ties to Muslim Brotherhood, a terrorist org, is 100% TRUE. pic.twitter.com/JNRzSac4pJ

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) August 16, 2018

“Ultimately, it is in America’s interests to support Egyptian protestors’ efforts to achieve ‘the ability to speak [their] mind and have a say in how [they] are governed; confidence in the rule of law and the equal administration of justice; government that is transparent and doesn’t steal from the people; the freedom to live as [they] choose’ (as President Obama said in Cairo only months ago),” El-Sayed wrote.

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned weeks after the column was published. Morsi became president in June 2012.

By November 2012, Morsi had issued a declaration expanding presidential authority, ending judicial review of presidential decisions and dismissing the attorney general.

A November 25, 2012, Bawabat Al-Ahram statement signed by 46 Egyptian Americans endorsed what the signatories called the “revolutionary decisions” they had “long called for.” According to a Grok translation of the Arabic statement, it described the previous judicial structure as containing “remnants of the previous regime.”

The statement called on Morsi to “purge the media and the police as soon as possible,” and said the signatories “strongly reject these voices that appeal to America and Europe to take a position against the Egyptian regime.”

“Dr. Abdul Rahman El-Sayed – New York” appeared as the 33rd of the 46 listed signatories.

You literally signed a pledge to Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. I have the proof HERE. Your name is signature number 33 Abdul!

Why are you calling facts “hateful”. The Muslim Brotherhood is a TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. Here is the proof for everyone to see. pic.twitter.com/3zh1adpSY3 — Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) August 16, 2018

El-Sayed’s campaign has received support from several other figures whose political activities have drawn attention.

Streamer Hasan Piker, who has supported El-Sayed’s progressive politics, previously argued “[America deserved 9/11].”

Iraqi American activist Anas Shallal held a fundraiser for El-Sayed in April, according to Fox News.

Shallal’s Instagram account contains posts supporting Cuba, Fidel Castro, the Free Palestine movement, Colin Kaepernick, Zohran Mamdani and Black Panther Assata Shakur, who was convicted in the 1973 killing of a New Jersey state trooper before later fleeing to Cuba.

El-Sayed has also been associated with Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi, spiritual leader of the Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn Heights. El-Sayed received $800 in campaign contributions from Ali Elahi in 2017 and has appeared with the imam in photographs published online, according to Fox News.

Michigan voters are being asked to send Abdul El-Sayed to the Senate. Before casting their votes, they deserve a clear examination of the associations that have defined much of the recent coverage of his candidacy.

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Ali Elahi held memorial services in March for Ayatollah Khamenei following U.S. military strikes that killed the Iranian supreme leader on Feb. 28. He described the military attack on “our leader” as “evil,” carried out by “the most wretched hands on Earth.”

Audio from a private El-Sayed campaign strategy call published by The Washington Free Beacon featured El-Sayed advising staff not to comment on Khamenei’s death.

“I … want to remind you guys that there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad today,” El-Sayed said. “So, like, I just don’t want to comment on Khamenei at all. Like, I don’t think it’s worth even touching that.”

Religious appeals also surfaced before Michigan’s Aug. 4 primary.

At an American Muslim Diversity Association Masjid mosque in Sterling Heights on July 17, an imam encouraged political participation while discussing El-Sayed and Rep. Rashida Tlaib.

“When Allah will help you with your intention, the change will come,” the imam said in video highlighted by the Middle East Media Research Institute. “We know that Rashida Tlaib – she is a sister … she’s representing us in Congress.”

“So we have a lot of things coming in our side, the tide is changing, we need to take advantage of that and get involved,” the imam continued. “Abdul El-Sayed, if he gets elected, he’s going to be the first (Muslim) U.S. senator in the history of the United States.”

The imam cited the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America and said “they recommend to vote to serve a legitimate Islamic objective.”

“This is the fatwa from AMJA,” he said.

After El-Sayed defeated Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Birmingham, in the primary, the Muslim Brotherhood’s official website celebrated the result with an article titled “Abdul Rahman al-Sayyid conquers the Zionists and runs for the Senate,” according to a Google translation.

“During his election campaign, (El-Sayed) focused on calling for the cessation of unconditional U.S. military aid to the Zionist occupation, criticizing the continued U.S. support in the war on the Gaza Strip and demanding that taxpayers’ money be redirected to domestic issues,” the translation read.

“The primary elections highlighted the escalation of the division within the Democratic Party on the US policy towards the occupation, in light of the growing influence of the Progressive Current, which demands a reconsideration of US military support, in exchange for the continuation of the traditional current in adopting positions in support of the occupation,” the Muslim Brotherhood wrote.

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