Fatten Elkomy, Abdul El-Sayed's mother, attended Alexandria University, where, according to a 2012 Brookings report cited by the Free Beacon, the Muslim Brothers dominated the campus Islamic student group in that era. El-Sayed himself wrote in his book, Healing Politics, that his mother was a leader on campus, though he left out that her campus leadership role was in the Muslim Brotherhood. Elkomy also worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency, which the Treasury Department designated in 2004 for financing al-Qaeda and Hamas. Court exhibits in the federal case against the group named her more than a dozen times in connection with wire transfers between 1999 and 2002, and her brother worked there as a bookkeeper. When Rogers raised Elkomy’s terror connections at last week’s debate, El-Sayed asked whether Rogers was going after his mom and accused him of using “foreign names” to scare voters. To be fair to El-Sayed, no man should have to answer for his mother’s college politics from more than 50 years ago. Had El-Sayed told Welker that his mother was involved as a student, that some of his extended family in Egypt support the Brotherhood, and that he thinks they are wrong, that would have been an honest answer and probably the end of the story. Instead, he said no, twice, on national television. El-Sayed’s problems are not his mother’s decades-old activism. His problems are his own defenses of the Brotherhood, his college membership in a Brotherhood college group, and his donors.