🧩 BND Motif Index · M1244
Brotherhood candidate
A Muslim candidate is branded an Islamist, the Muslim Brotherhood's man, a jihadist who hates Jews and America, his faith taken as his politics: Trump on the candidate Obama is stumping for, 'a Muslim brotherhood, a jihadist who hates Jews and blacks and Americans'. The charge Islamophobia answers.
- 9claims filed under it
- 6left shows it came up on
- 2center shows it came up on
- 6right shows it came up on
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
↔️ answers and mirrors:
- 🧩 Islamophobia counter: the Brotherhood charge answered as Islamophobia
⏱️ told here 6 days after its answer (2026-10-09 → 2026-10-15)
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Trump criticizes Michigan Senate candidate El-Sayed as jihadist 2026-10-25 to 2026-10-28
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-26 “El-Sayed denies any personal affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ Verdict with Ted Cruz 🎙️ The Mark Levin Show 🎙️ The Megyn Kelly Show 🎙️ Top Story with Tom Llamas (NBC) - 2026-10-26 “Trump calls Abdul El-Sayed a jihadist and questions his ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.”
🎙️ The Megyn Kelly Show 🎙️ BBC Global News Podcast - 2026-10-26 “El-Sayed is a radical Islamist with sketchy ties to that ideology.”
🎙️ The Dan Bongino Show 🎙️ The Megyn Kelly Show - 2026-10-25 “Donald Trump says the candidate Obama is now campaigning for is 'a Muslim brotherhood, a jihadist who hates Jews and blacks and Americans'.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-10-24 “Abdul El-Sayed lied about his family's ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ Verdict with Ted Cruz 🎙️ The Mark Levin Show 🎙️ The Megyn Kelly Show 🎙️ Top Story with Tom Llamas (NBC) - 2026-10-23 “Mike Rogers accused Abdul El-Sayed of being bought by the Muslim Brotherhood.”
🎙️ CNN 5 Things 🎙️ Pod Save America 🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) 🎙️ The Adam Mockler Show 🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show - 2026-10-23 “Abdul El-Sayed, running for the Senate in Michigan, is tied to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hasan Piker.”
🎙️ The Mark Levin Show - 2026-10-21 “Abdul El-Sayed's family has long supported the Muslim Brotherhood and terrorist organizations.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ Verdict with Ted Cruz - 2026-10-21 “Abdul El-Sayed is a radical Islamist who is an instrument of a specific organization and mindset.”
🎙️ The Michael Berry Show
M1244 · first seen 2026-10-25 · last 2026-10-27 · what this is · how the index works