El-Sayed's dad reportedly part of group busted for once supplying money to Saddam Hussein

Adbul El-Sayed being interview by a reporter from Al-Jazeera Syria.

According to a new report, Michigan senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed's father is a board member for a charity group with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood that was once busted for funneling money to the late former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein as well as Hamas militants in Jordan.

Dr. Mohammed El-Sayed, an imam and engineering professor in Michigan and the candidate's father, sits on the board of a group called Life for Relief and Development, which touts itself as a charity that provides aid to people suffering in third-world countries. But, The Washington Free Beacon reported, the group's offices in the U.S. and in Baghdad were raided multiple times between 2004 and 2006 and its bank accounts closed over funds that were being sent to Saddam Hussein's regime around the time of the U.S. invasion. 

The group similarly channeled millions of dollars to Hamas militants in Jordan. At least one of the groups officials ended up pleading to violating the the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Numerous members of the Muslim Brotherhood sat on the group's board.

All of this comes as the candidate has repeatedly skirted questions over his ties and his family's ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, along with any allegiance he may have to countries in the Muslim world. In the past, El-Sayed has boasted, on video, that he's a dual citizen of the U.S. and Egypt, although his campaign has denied that he has Egyptian citizenship since criticism has mounted to during the race. 

And he continues to make statements that his Republican opponent Mike Rogers has seized on and highlighted to suggest that El-Sayed's interests really aren't America-first. The most recent example of that came in an interview this week in which El-Sayed suggested he was more concerned with securing funding for citizens in Syria than he is with addressing the finances of voters in Michigan. 

Watch the clip below -- it prompted one commenter on X to dub him the "Syria First candidate."