El-Sayed Urged Egypt’s Mus­lim Broth­er­hood Pres­i­dent To Purge Police, Media

Michi­gan Demo­c­ra­t­ic Sen­ate can­di­date Abdul El-Sayed once put his name on a let­ter cheer­ing Egypt’s pres­i­dent — who was a senior Mus­lim Broth­er­hood fig­ure — and urged him to “purge the media and the police,” accord­ing to a report from the Wash­ing­ton Free Bea­con.
The explo­sive doc­u­ment was also report­ed in April by con­ser­v­a­tive fire­brand Lau­ra Loomer.
The Ara­bic-lan­guage state­ment ran on the Egypt­ian news site Al-Ahram Gate in Novem­ber 2012, just days after then-Pres­i­dent Mohamed Mor­si grabbed sweep­ing new pow­ers for him­self. Forty-six self-described lead­ers of the Egypt­ian-Amer­i­can com­mu­ni­ty signed on, hail­ing Morsi’s moves as “rev­o­lu­tion­ary” and blast­ing crit­ics who want­ed the Unit­ed States and Europe to step in.
Sig­na­ture No. 33 was “Dr. Abdul R …