前众议员迈克·罗杰斯（共和党）正在竞选密歇根州的空缺参议员席位，他在周日表示，从未称对手阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德（民主党）为“恐怖分子”。罗杰斯在NBC新闻的《会见新闻界》节目采访中回应了特朗普总统针对埃尔-赛义德的反穆斯林言论。主持人克里斯滕·韦尔克询问罗杰斯是否同意特朗普称埃尔-赛义德为“暴力恐怖分子”。
Former Rep. Mike Rogers (R), who is running for Michigan's open Senate seat, on Sunday said he never called opponent Abdul El-Sayed (D) a "terrorist." Rogers addressed President Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric toward El-Sayed during an interview on "Meet the Press" on NBC News. Host Kristen Welker asked if Rogers agreed with Trump in calling El-Sayed a "violent terrorist." "No, I don't," Rogers said. "I've never called him a terrorist. I've never called him a terrorist.
“不，我不同意，”罗杰斯说。“我从未称他为恐怖分子。我从未称他为恐怖分子。这次选举是我对阵阿卜杜勒。我是说，他是一名与美国民主社会主义者结盟的候选人，拥有一些相当激进的不喜欢美国的支持团体。我认为这些才是人们应该据以决定选举的议题。”罗杰斯声称埃尔-赛义德回避了关于其涉嫌与穆斯林兄弟会关系的提问，穆斯林兄弟会是一个在埃及成立的伊斯兰主义组织，曾影响并支持该地区的原教旨主义运动，并指责韦尔克没有就涉嫌关联追问埃尔-赛义德。
This election is about me versus Abdul. I mean, he's a Democrat-Socialist-of-America-aligned candidate who has these pretty radical support groups that don't like America. I think those are issues people ought to decide their election on." Rogers claimed that El-Sayed has dismissed questions about alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group founded in Egypt that has influenced and supported fundamentalist movements across the region, and accused Welker of not pressing El-Sayed on the alleged connection.
韦尔克指出埃尔-赛义德曾在2012年写信支持埃及抗议者反对前总统穆巴拉克，并结合罗杰斯当时的言论进行了背景阐释。“‘我认为我们是否必须接触并同一些温和的穆斯林兄弟会成员对话？是的。但我们必须密切关注，’”她引用罗杰斯当时的话读道。“你承认在2012年当时，你愿意同一些温和成员合作，正如你所说的，穆斯林兄弟会的温和成员吗？”
Welker pointed to El-Sayed writing a letter in 2012 in support of Egyptian protesters against former President Hosni Mubarak, and contextualized it with remarks Rogers made around that same time. "'Do I think there are moderate Muslim Brotherhood individuals we are going to have to reach out to and talk to? Yes. But we are going to have to watch it carefully,'" she read, quoting Rogers at the time. "Do you acknowledge that at the time, in 2012, you were willing to work with some moderate members, as you said, of the Muslim Brotherhood?"
罗杰斯称他的言论被“严重断章取义”，并指责韦尔克“任由[埃尔-赛义德]对你撒谎”。“发生的情况是，我们曾有过这样的关系，即以色列和埃及在其情报机构之间有关系，而穆斯林兄弟会试图破坏这些关系，”罗杰斯在与韦尔克的反复交锋后说。“那将意味着该地区会有更多暴力。”
Rogers said his words were taken "so much out of context" and accused Welker of "letting [El-Sayed] lie to you." "So what happened was, we had relationships where Israel and Egypt had relationships in their intelligence services that the Muslim Brotherhood was trying to undo," Rogers said after a back-and-forth with Welker. "And what that would’ve meant is more violence in the region.
因此，作为情报委员会主席，我说：‘我们必须想办法尽量不切断那种关系’，顺便说一句，他们确实那样做了。”罗杰斯后来声称，穆斯林兄弟会支持阿卜杜勒在初选中获胜。这位来自密歇根州的民主党人出生于密歇根州，父母是埃及移民，如果当选，将成为首位在参议院任职的穆斯林裔美国人。他强烈否认与穆斯林兄弟会有任何个人联系，尽管共和党人挖出了艾勒-赛义德过去的言论，称这些言论对2012年和2013年短暂统治埃及的伊斯兰主义运动表示同情。
So as chairman of the Intelligence Committee, I said, 'We’re going to have to find a way to try to not sever that relationship,' which they did, by the way." Rogers later claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood supported Abdul's primary win. The Michigan Democrat was born in Michigan to Egyptian immigrant parents and, if elected, would become the first Muslim American to serve in the Senate. He has vehemently denied any personal ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, though Republicans have dug up past statements by El-Sayed they say are sympathetic to the Islamist movement that briefly took over Egypt in 2012 and 2013.
艾勒-赛义德回击了特朗普的反穆斯林侮辱，特朗普曾嘲笑他的名字，叫他“穆罕默德”，并在周日将他比作2001年9月11日恐怖袭击中联合航空93号航班的劫机者。“我明白美国总统对我名字的发音感到个人受辱，”艾勒-赛义德周日晚在密歇根州大急流城对支持者说。“但各位，我不在乎他怎么念我的名字，”他补充道。“我甚至不在乎他能不能记住我的全名。因为到了11月，他只能管我叫‘参议员’。对你来说，我将是穆罕默德参议员，老兄。”
El-Sayed has clapped back at anti-Muslim insults from Trump, who has mocked his name by calling him "Muhammad," and on Sunday likened him to the hijackers aboard United Flight 93 during the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. "I get that the President of the United States takes personal offense to my first name," El-Sayed told supporters in Grand Rapids, Mich., late Sunday. "But y’all, I don’t care how he pronounces my name," he added. "I don’t even care that he remembers my whole name. Because he can just go on and call me ‘senator’ after November. I will be Senator Muhammad to you, bro.”