Michigan Democrat and Islamic candidate for U.S. Senate Abdul El-Sayed is catching more flack after unleashing his security team on a disabled veteran dog shelter employee during one of his campaign events, who assaulted him and tossed him out of the venue after he tried to ask him about lying to Egypt about having dual citizenship.
A video of the incident is currently going viral on social media platform X, thanks to conservative influencer Joe Redden, also known as The Older Millennial, who shared the clip on his account. In the video, the man is immediately booed inside the venue when he brings up the topic of the dual citizenship, which then results in the security team roughing him up and shoving him out the door.
This is just the latest incident involving El-Sayed being confronted by individuals over controversial topics and issues he has thus far not satisfactorily resolved. Earlier in October, a man heckled the Democratic candidate at a Michigan town hall event, demanding that he disavow any connections he might have to the radical Islamic terrorist group known as the Muslim Brotherhood.
According to a report from The Guardian, the heckler, known as Tommy, shouted at El-Sayed from the crowd, asking him if he would disavow the organization. “Sure, yeah, absolutely,” he said. For a period of nearly five minutes, El-Sayed explained that the question carried an implication of “dual loyalty,” coing on to compare it to the doubts that were raised when John F. Kennedy was running for president and was a Catholic.
Earlier in the month, El-Sayed was forced to address claims that he is a U.S.-Egypt dual citizen. A video shows the Senate candidate speaking at a GlobeMed conference in Detroit while he was serving as the city’s health director. While delivering his address, he explicitly said that he was in possession of dual citizenship, having spent summers in a different country.
“I carry dual citizenship, and I grew up spending most of my summers in another country where I understood what it meant not to have the right to self-govern,” El-Sayed told the crowd. According to Yahoo News, this marks the second documented occasion where he has identified himself as an Egyptian citizen. A resume that was published while he was working in academia listed his citizenships as USA and Egypt.
At the time this information was publicly released by the Washington Free Beacon, El-Sayed’s campaign denied that account. “Abdul is not a dual citizen by any verifiable metric and never has been,” campaign spokeswoman Roxie Richner said in a comment to the Free Beacon. Richner said that El-Sayed was told as a child that his grandfather pursued Egyptian citizenship on his behalf because his parents were born there.
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However, when he and his family tried to verify his status, they could not locate documentation establishing his citizenship. This was the very same matter that the man in the video clip brought up to El-Sayed that got him roughly tossed out of the event and booed by those who were in attendance. In January 2026, El-Sayed’s campaign claimed that the dual citizenship was an “error” based on faulty information.
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