In a recent column titled \u201cSleeping with the Enemy,\u201d I wrote briefly about the improbable marriage of former Congressman Anthony Weiner, a Jew, and Huma Mahmood Abedin, daughter of a prominent Muslim family.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, as I wrote I was haunted by a number of intriguing questions, all of which deserve further investigation.\u00a0 First, I could not come to grips with the notion of how a young college student, newly arrived from Saudi Arabia and with no apparent political connections, could in a very short time find her way into an internship at the Clinton White House.\u00a0 As one who has been through the White House personnel wringer on three occasions, I\u2019m sure I will be excused for wondering how she could have managed such a feat\u2026 or who arranged it for her.<\/p>\n
To review, Huma Abedin was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1976 but was raised in Saudi Arabia from age two until she returned to attend George Washington University in about 1993 or 1994.\u00a0 Her deceased father was an Islamic scholar and her mother, Saleha Mahmood Abedin, PhD, a native of Pakistan and a prominent member of the female wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, currently serves as an associate professor of sociology and a vice dean at Dar Al-Hekma College<\/a> in Jeddah<\/a>, Saudi Arabia<\/a>.<\/p>\n Upon arriving at the White House, Ms. Abedin was assigned to the Office of the First Lady and has been a trusted aide to Hillary Clinton ever since.\u00a0 According to a report in Forbes <\/em>magazine, Abedin has advanced from traveling chief of staff, to deputy chief of staff, to her current senior aide position in the Clinton State Department.\u00a0 Abedin is never far from the Secretary of State and is often referred to as Hillary\u2019s \u201cshadow\u201d and her \u201csecret weapon.\u201d \u00a0In Washington circles she is seen as a powerful figure, not only within the Clinton entourage, but among movers and shakers in the Democratic Party\u2026 quite an accomplishment for a young woman who arrived from Saudi Arabia with no apparent political connections.<\/p>\n Secondly, Abedin\u2019s marriage to Anthony Weiner raises an even more interesting question.\u00a0 Since it is considered sacrilege in Islam for a Muslim family to condone the marriage of a daughter to a Jew, why was her marriage to Weiner not denounced by her family, especially when such a marriage would likely be considered null and void under Sharia law?\u00a0 It is a marriage that, in the absence of \u201cmitigating\u201d circumstances, might have caused her to be the subject of an \u201chonor killing\u201d to restore the family name.\u00a0 In Saudi Arabia, and in other Muslim countries, she might have been stoned to death for committing the worst crime a Muslim woman could possibly commit\u2026 marrying a Jew.\u00a0<\/p>\n So if there are mitigating circumstances, what are they?\u00a0 Was Huma Abedin granted a legal dispensation under the Sharia practice of Taqiyya<\/em> so that she could marry Weiner?\u00a0 Under the concept of Taqiyya <\/em>a practicing Muslim is allowed to deny his\/her faith, or commit otherwise illegal or blasphemous acts, so long as that denial or those acts inure to the ultimate benefit of Islam.\u00a0 If that is the underlying justification for the Weiner-Abedin union, then we must ask what was the ultimate payoff for radical Islam?<\/p>\n According to a report in Pajamas Media<\/em>, information confirmed by Arab sources, Abedin\u2019s brother, Hassan, is listed as a fellow<\/a> and partner with a number of Muslim Brotherhood members<\/a> who serve on the board of the Oxford Center for Islamic Studies (OCIS) in England.\u00a0 Pajamas Media <\/em>reports that Hassan Abedin has been a key figure in furthering the Islamic agenda and has worked with Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal on a program of \u201cspreading Islam to the West.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n HRH Prince Alwaleed first came to our attention in October 2001, following the attack on the New York World Trade Center, when the prince offered a $10 million contribution to a disaster relief fund, suggesting that the United States \u201cmust address some of the issues that led to such a criminal attack,\u201d and must \u201cre-examine its policies in the Middle East.\u201d\u00a0 The donation was rejected by then-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.<\/p>\n But what is even more interesting is a New York cable channel interview with former Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton\u2026 http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CD068xXkCZc<\/a>.\u00a0 In that interview, Sutton recalled a 1988 request from a friend and former business associate, Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour, described as \u201can orthodox Muslim, a black nationalist, an outspoken enemy of Israel, and mentor to Black Panther Party leaders Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.\u201d<\/p>\n In the interview, Sutton recalled that al-Mansour was raising money for Barack Obama\u2019s Harvard Law School education and asked that he use his influence to have Obama accepted at Harvard.\u00a0 Some Obama supporters have suggested that Sutton was mistaken in suggesting a tie between al-Mansour and Obama, but an outright denial from Sutton has not been forthcoming.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to a report by discoverthenetworks.org<\/em>, \u201cAl-Mansour is an outspoken hater of the United States, Israel, and white people generally.\u00a0 In recent years he has accused the U.S. of plotting a \u2018genocide\u2019 designed \u2018to remove 15 million black people, considered disposable, of no relevance, value, or benefit to the American society.\u2019\u00a0 He has told fellow blacks<\/a> that \u2018whatever you do to (white people), they deserve it; God wants you to do it and that\u2019s when you cut out the nose, cut out the ears, take flesh out of their body, don\u2019t worry because God wants you to do it.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n So, aside from being a major white-hater and mentor to domestic terrorists\u2026 and assuming that Percy Sutton was correct in asserting that al-Mansour raised money for Obama\u2019s law school education\u2026 exactly who is Khalid al-Mansour?\u00a0 He is the principal financial advisor to one of the world\u2019s wealthiest men\u2026 yes, there\u2019s that name again\u2026 Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.<\/p>\n It is widely reported that, in 2002, Prince Alwaleed donated $27 million to a Palestinian relief fund following an Israeli attack on a West Bank refugee camp.\u00a0 The Israeli attack was in reprisal for a Palestinian suicide bombing in which 29 Israelis were killed.\u00a0 The telethon was ordered by Saudi King Fahd to help relatives of Palestinian \u201cmartyrs.\u201d\u00a0 And although King Fahd insisted that none of the money would benefit families of suicide bombers, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council is quoted as saying that some money did go to the families of suicide bombers.<\/p>\n So are we to believe that a man who would give billions of dollars to his charities, including $10 million for disaster relief in New York and $27 million to support Palestinian terrorism, could not afford $100,000, or less, to further the educational ambitions of a young black American with a Muslim name and Muslim background who shared his animus toward Israel?<\/p>\n As we contemplate this strange, even frightening, group of people, maybe Obama was just lucky enough to have a benefactor that many of us would have envied\u2026 a rich guy who spills more than $100,000 before breakfast each day and who just wanted to see him get a college education.\u00a0<\/p>\n And maybe the White House Personnel Office just happened to stumble across an eager young Muslim university student and, in the interest of greater international understanding, decided to give her an inside look at how our government operates.\u00a0<\/p>\n And maybe this young woman proved to be such an asset that the First Lady of the United States decided to keep her on through her White House years and into her years as Secretary of State, where she is privy to some of our most closely-guarded national secrets.<\/p>\n All of these things are possible\u2026 but not likely.\u00a0 More than likely, Barack Obama, the Abedins, Anthony Weiner, the Clintons, Khalid al-Mansour, and Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a mixture of Christians, Jews, and Muslims, are all in one way or another joined at the hip.\u00a0 Like Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, Bill Ayers, and Bernadine Dorhn, they are all members of Barack Obama\u2019s extended political \u201cfamily,\u201d all willing to see Israel \u201ctossed under the bus.\u201d<\/p>\n Who knows what terrible mischief Islamic plotters had in mind when they sent a daughter of Islam\u2026 one whose mother and brother are members of the Muslim Brotherhood\u2026 to share her bed with a politically powerful Jew?\u00a0 Is Anthony Weiner a JINO\u2026 a Jew in name only\u2026 who is grudgingly accepted as a \u201cuseful idiot\u201d by the jihadists of the Islamic world because they saw that his love of leftist ideology and political power was far greater than his love for Israel?\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n In his February 8, 2011 Jihad Watch<\/em> article for Human Events<\/em>, Robert Spencer asks why Obama isn\u2019t working to limit the scope and influence of the Islamic Brotherhood.\u00a0 He suggests that it may be \u201cbecause he doesn\u2019t really have a problem with the Brotherhood, despite its hostility to America\u2026 \u00a0Starting in the earliest days of his administration, he showed an intense desire to establish friendly ties with Brotherhood-linked organizations \u2013 despite the Brotherhood\u2019s stated goal of \u2018eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n Given that Obama\u2019s every political and economic move has been designed to destroy our American economy and our unique Western culture, it is clear that he and the Brotherhood share the same goal.\u00a0 Could it be that radical Islam sees Abedin\u2019s closeness to Hillary Clinton, and hence, her access to our most closely-guarded secrets, as being far more important than her marriage to a politically powerful Jew?\u00a0 I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 I\u2019m just asking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a recent column titled \u201cSleeping with the Enemy,\u201d I wrote briefly about the improbable marriage of former Congressman Anthony Weiner, a Jew, and Huma Mahmood Abedin, daughter of a prominent Muslim family.\u00a0 However, as I wrote I was haunted … Continue reading