Mohamed Soltan is the President of the American Committee for Middle East Rights (ACMER) and an Egyptian American activist who was sentenced in absentia to life in prison by a Cairo court for supporting the Muslim Brotherhood. Egypt declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization years ago, following uprisings in the country and the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. Earlier this year, Egypt also hailed the U.S. decision to designate the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt a terrorist organization, too.
In 2015, Soltan was sentenced to life in prison following two years of imprisonment. In May of that year, Soltan was released at the request of President Obama and returned to the U.S., where he works as an international investment advisor and "human rights activist."
But now we're learning that ACMER has been funneling money to Abdul El-Sayed's Senate campaign, too, further solidifying the ties between El-Sayed and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Egyptian sentenced to life for funding Muslim Brotherhood giving money to Abdul El-Sayed’s U.S. Senate campaign https://t.co/r5g1xx6PjB
— The Midwesterner (@Th_Midwesterner) August 24, 2026
Federal Election Commission reports show ACMER sent Fighting for Michigan PAC $25,000 on June 12, following two contributions from Mohamed Soltan to Abdul for U.S. Senate on April 15.
The individual contribution constitutes the maximum permitted by federal election law.
Other ACMER officials also contributed to El-Sayed’s effort to become the first Muslim Senator in U.S. history.
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, while ACMER Executive Director Kristina Blyad gave $1,000 to Abdul for U.S. Senate on February 13.
Blyad also serves as treasurer for ACMER’s Separate Segregated Fund, MERIT PAC, which contributed $1,500 to Abdul for U.S. Senate on June 3.
The donations follow a documented history of El-Sayed supporting the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
El-Sayed has supported the Muslim Brotherhood for years. In 2011, he wrote a column for the Huffington Post urging Americans to support the protesters in Egypt. El-Sayed said the Muslim Brotherhood's takeover of Egypt didn't necessarily mean the nation would look like the Islamic theocracy of Iran, noting that the Muslim Brotherhood is Sunni Muslims, calling them "less hierarchical than the Shiite brand of the [Islamic] religion."
Mubarak resigned just weeks after El-Sayed's column was published, laying the groundwork for the Muslim Brotherhood-backed Mohamed Morsi to become president in June 2012.
Mohamed Soltan isn't the only figure with terror ties to back El-Sayed's far-left campaign. Iraqi-American activist Anas Shallal held a fundraiser for El-Sayed in April, and Shallal supports Cuba and its late communist leader Fidel Castro, the Free Palestine movement, and NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Mohammad Ali Elahi leads the Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn Heights, one of Michigan's largest mosques. Ali Elahi contributed to El-Sayed's campaign and held memorial services for Ayatollah Khamenei after he died in strikes back in February. That's why El-Sayed's campaign refused to comment on Khamenei's death.
Following his primary win over Haley Stevens, the Muslim Brotherhood celebrated with an article titled "Abdul Rahman al-Sayyid conquers the Zionists and runs for the Senate" on their official website. We also learned El-Sayed likes radical Islamic author Dr. Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips. He's an unindicted co-conspirator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombings, and an apologist for Islamic terrorism and child marriage. Sen. Ted Cruz also laid out El-Sayed's ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in a Senate hearing. And Townhall reported on El-Sayed's mother, Fatten Fathy Elkomy, who worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA), which was designated a terror organization in 2004 and has ties to Hamas, the Taliban, and al Qaeda.
This isn't just a coincidence. It's a pattern. Terrorist groups and affiliated organizations have a vested interest in getting Abdul El-Sayed elected to the U.S. Senate, and Michigan voters should know exactly who they'd be sending to D.C. should he win in November.