Question: How long before this appears in an Apple or Google feed? Answer: Not until the day after Michigan's primary ... or possibly not until after the election. If then.
Big Tech may ignore sources like the Free Beacon, but that hasn't stopped Alana Goodman from digging into the Left's candidates. Today Goodman provides a close look at the family connections between Democrat Senate contender Abdul El-Sayed and the Muslim Brotherhood, through his father-in-law. Tayeb Jukaku helps lead an organization that the Department of Justice has linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, and which played a role in the fraud that resulted in the convictions in the Holy Land Foundation case.
Goodman follows the money – in this case, from Jukaku to a super-PAC promoting his son-in-law's bid for the US Senate:
Abdul El-Sayed's father-in-law, a top donor to a super PAC supporting the left-wing Michigan Senate hopeful, is among the top leaders of an Islamic organization identified by the federal government as a public facing group for the Muslim Brotherhood, a Washington Free Beacon review found. As part of his role with the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which the federal government linked to the financing of Hamas, Tayeb Jukaku contributes at least $5,000 to the organization annually.
Jukaku has served on the 20-member founding committee of ISNA since at least 2007, according to the organization's magazine, Islamic Horizons, and has been a member of the group for a "long time, cannot recall [when I joined]," according to Jukaku's online bio. Federal prosecutors identified the organization as an unindicted co-conspirator in the landmark 2007 terrorist financing case USA v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, which culminated in the conviction of the foundation's founders for funneling $12 million to Hamas. They also identified the ISNA as one of eight entities "who are and/or were members of the US Muslim Brotherhood." ...
Lorenzo Vidino, the director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, said ISNA "was historically, no question, an organization created … by the Muslim Brotherhood and fellow travelers from the Indian subcontinent as basically the Islamist organization in America." He noted that Tayeb was involved with the group "when they were putting out some really nasty stuff."
"To be on the founding committee, this is the elders of the organization," Vidino told the Free Beacon.
ISNA isn't Jukaku's only connection to the Muslim Brotherhood:
Jukaku also served as president of the Council on American-Islamic Relations's (CAIR) Michigan chapter from 2005 to 2010, according to the group's IRS disclosures. CAIR was also named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial and included on a list of groups "who are and/or were members of the US Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee and/or its organizations," a similar but separate distinction from the ISNA's Muslim Brotherhood affiliation. Jukaku remains on CAIR Michigan's board of directors.
Both ISNA and CAIR were unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation case, as Goodman reminds us. Both attempted to fight that designation in court, but lost the case in 2009 when a federal judge ruled that the DOJ had ample evidence to support the designation, including a joint bank account between HLF and ISNA that processed money which went to Hamas, as well as documentation from the Muslim Brotherhood's Shura Council naming ISNA as a member of their coalition.
Moreover, the Free Beacon isn't raising this issue out of a vacuum. El-Sayed's primary opponent Haley Stevens directly confronted him about his father-in-law's attempts to fund his campaign through dark money sources in their debate last week, which Goodman also highlights:
This itself is fascinating, given the context of MRC's report on Graham Platner. Not a single Protection Racket Media platform picked up on Stevens' point. Until Goodman's report today at the Free Beacon, not one major media outlet mentioned the funding channel from Jukaku to El-Sayed through a dark-money super-PAC. Needless to say, not one outlet linked that to Jukaku's connections to ISNA, CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and the Holy Land Foundation case.
Why might that be? Are they afraid to cover those connections, or are mainstream media outlets invested in El-Sayed for political purposes, as they clearly were with Graham Platner? Stevens literally challenged them to cover this in the debate, and yet not a peep has been heard until now. The Free Beacon continues to report news while legacy media covers Democrats in silence and misdirection. That strategy has succeeded in pushing radicals into general elections this cycle, but it needs to end in both Maine and Michigan – and everywhere else.
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