Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El Sayed faces criticism over 2011 paper

Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has faced criticism over a 2011 research paper he wrote for the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University, the New York Post reported. The study was published in the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health and discussed health outcomes linked to interethnic mating among Arab women, according to the New York Post and Howl.link. [1][6][8]

Critics quoted by the New York Post and PJ Media claimed the paper reached racist conclusions by arguing that Arab women have better health outcomes when having children with Arab men. The New York Post also reported that El-Sayed has repeatedly referred to himself as a physician despite not completing his medical school residency. [1][6][7]

In other campaign developments, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez transferred 1 million dollars from her campaign to El-Sayed to support his bid against Republican candidate Mike Rogers, the Daily Mail reported. As FTMQ News reported earlier, El-Sayed is running for the United States Senate seat held by retiring Senator Gary Peters, after winning the Democratic primary against Representative Haley Stevens. [3][8][12][13]

El-Sayed previously served as executive director of the Detroit Health Department from 2015 to 2017 and later directed the Department of Health, Human and Veterans Services for Wayne County. He also served on President Joe Biden's 2020 Unity Task Force for Healthcare and co-authored a book on single-payer healthcare, according to Grokipedia. [11]

El-Sayed recently denied having any personal or family connections to the Muslim Brotherhood after facing questioning on NBC's Meet the Press, as FTMQ News reported earlier. He continues his campaign ahead of the Michigan Senate election scheduled for November 3. [4][12][13]