密歇根州民主党参议院候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德周六在一次激烈的市政厅交流中否认了穆斯林兄弟会，这是一个伊斯兰主义政治运动。
Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed on Saturday disavowed the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist political movement, during a heated exchange at a town hall.
埃尔-赛义德如果当选，将成为首位进入参议院的穆斯林，他经常面临共和党的指责，称他对与伊斯兰恐怖主义有关联的利益持同情态度。最近几天，包括他的共和党挑战者迈克·罗杰斯和唐纳德·特朗普总统在内的共和党人就他可能与该组织的联系发表了评论。
El-Sayed, who could make history as the first Muslim elected to the Senate, has frequently faced Republican accusations that he is sympathetic to interests connected to Islamic terror. In recent days, Republicans including his GOP challenger, Mike Rogers, and President Donald Trump have commented about potential connections to the organization.
在密歇根州卡罗镇的一次市政厅会议上，一名与会者反复追问埃尔-赛义德关于穆斯林兄弟会的问题，称他尚未听到候选人否认该组织。
An attendee at a town hall in Caro, Michigan, repeatedly pressed El-Sayed about the Muslim Brotherhood, saying he had yet to hear the candidate reject the organization.
“阿卜杜勒，你会否认穆斯林兄弟会吗？”那名男子从人群中大声喊道。
“Abdul, will you disavow the Muslim Brotherhood?” the man shouted from the crowd.
埃尔-赛义德在否认该运动后，指责该男子暗中假设他的“双重忠诚”。
El-Sayed, after disavowing the movement, blasted the man for implicitly assuming his “dual loyalty.”
“你假设……因为我是穆斯林，所以我 somehow 会对宪法以外的某些东西有某种忠诚，”埃尔-赛义德说。他后来补充道，“对我来说，这部宪法是指引的明灯。”交流结束后，该与会者离开了现场，而人群则为埃尔-赛义德欢呼。
“You assume … that because I am Muslim, that somehow I would have some allegiance to something that is not our Constitution,” El-Sayed said. He later added, “For me, that Constitution is the guiding light.”The audience member walked out after the exchange as the crowd cheered for El-Sayed.
该候选人一直面临着关于他可能与该组织有联系的质疑。最新的攻击发生在埃尔-赛义德的同父异母姐姐的旧推文重新浮出水面之后，其中包括一条2012年的帖子，她在帖子中描述了自己与母亲进行了一次“关于她在70年代初在大学期间参与穆斯林兄弟会活动的精彩对话”。
The nominee has faced questions about potential connections to the organization. The latest attacks came after old tweets from El-Sayed’s half-sister resurfaced online, including a post from 2012 in which she described having “an amazing talk with my mom about her activism in the Muslim Brotherhood during the early 70s while she was in college.”
本周早些时候，埃尔-赛义德否认了他或其家人与穆斯林兄弟会有关联的指控，告诉记者，认为他家庭中有人属于该组织的想法“是一种疯狂的假设”。埃尔-赛义德表示，他不知道他母亲在1970年代的埃及到底在做什么，解释说他父母离婚时他只有3岁，之后由父亲和继母抚养长达数年，期间他没有见到母亲。
Earlier this week, El-Sayed denied allegations that he or his family has ties with the Muslim Brotherhood, telling reporters that to think that anybody in his family was part of the organization was “an insane thing to assume.”El-Sayed has said he does not know what his mother was doing in Egypt during the 1970s, explaining he was 3 when his parents divorced and didn’t see his mother for years after being raised by his father and stepmother.
“他们想谈论我，或是指向我的母亲或我的姐姐，”埃尔-赛德周四表示，并补充道：“我正在竞选公职。请根据我的行动和我的工作来评判我。”穆斯林兄弟会是一个伊斯兰主义运动，拥有全球分支，曾在埃及拥有显著的政治影响力，而该运动正是在那里成立的。该运动官方拒绝使用暴力手段来实现其目标。然而，该组织的分支曾与过去的袭击事件有关联。
“They want to talk about me or point to my mom or my sister,” El-Sayed said on Thursday, adding, “I’m running for office. Judge me by my actions and my work.”The Muslim Brotherhood is an Islamist movement with global offshoots that once wielded significant political power in Egypt, where it was founded. The movement officially rejects the use of violent means to secure its goals. However, offshoots of the group have been linked to attacks in the past.
特朗普于11月签署了一项行政命令，启动了一项程序，通过该程序，穆斯林兄弟会的某些章节或其他分支可能被考虑列为外国恐怖组织。
Trump signed an executive order in November that initiated a process by which certain chapters or other subdivisions of the Muslim Brotherhood could be considered for designation as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
埃尔-赛德曾暗示，关于他所谓与穆斯林兄弟会关系的质疑根植于偏见。
El-Sayed has suggested that questions about supposed ties to the Muslim Brotherhood are rooted in bigotry.
“暗示某种意义上，由于我的穆斯林信仰，作为可能成为首位拥有该信仰的参议员的人，我除了对宪法的忠诚之外还会有其他东西，这种说法应该受到质疑，”埃尔-赛德周日在MSNOW上表示。
“To insinuate that somehow, because of my Muslim faith, as somebody who might be the first senator who has that faith, that I would have anything but allegiance to the Constitution, that should be called into question,” El-Sayed said Sunday on MSNOW.