'The View' co-hosts defend El Sayed comparing himself to JFK over Muslim Brotherhood scrutiny
"The View" co-hosts defended Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed over his comparison of questions about his family's alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood to scrutiny former President John F.Kennedy faced over his Catholic faith.El-Sayed made the comparison during an "MS NOW Reports" interview on Saturday, likening questions about his family's alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood to scrutiny Kennedy faced over his Catholic faith.Co-host Whoopi Goldberg highlighted an incident at a recent town hall when El-Sayed was asked whether he would disavow the Muslim Brotherhood.
El-Sayed did so, but objected to the question, saying the audience member was "implicitly assuming that I’ll have dual loyalties.""I liked what he said.He compared the question he received to John F.
Kennedy's question because John F.Kennedy, as you know, was a Catholic, and in the days he was running that was a huge deal and people wanted to know ‘Are you going to listen to the Pope? Are you going to listen to the people?’" Goldberg said.CONTROVERSY OVER ABDUL EL-SAYED'S FAMILY TIES TO MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IGNORED, DOWNPLAYED BY LIBERAL MEDIA"The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg praised Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed's comparison of questions about his family's alleged Muslim Brotherhood ties to scrutiny John F.
Kennedy faced over his Catholic faith.(Cindy Ord/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival)"Yeah, because he was the first Catholic president," co-host Sunny Hostin agreed.
"And I loved that comparison because, when John F.Kennedy was asked, he said, ‘I am not running to be a Catholic president, I'm running to be president who happens to be Catholic.’ And candidate El-Sayed said the same thing.
‘I am running to a senator who happens be Muslim.’""I think he does politics extremely well," she continued."And there has been these constant Islamophobic — these Islamophobic comments around his candidacy.
Trump called him a jihadist.I mean, this is j...