Outside View: Perhaps it's not her man Huma stands by
Upi.com
By JAMES ZUMWALT,
Published: Aug. 6, 2013 at 6:54 AM
HERNDON, Va., Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Huma Abedin -- wife of candidate for New York
City mayor and disgraced former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y. -- is
confounding political analysts.
Why, after her husband recently admitted on the campaign trail he had
continued his sexting exploits subsequent to resigning from office in 2011,
would she continue to stand by her man. There may be something much more
valued to Abedin than a psychotic husband causing her to do so.
If one drew lines from opposite ends of a graph to illustrate U.S. foreign
policy in the Middle East under U.S. President Barack Obama and Abedin's
increasing influence with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, convergence
occurs with a major change in such policy. An earlier effort to explore
Abedin's influence was curbed by supporters waving the flag of political
correctness, suggesting her ties to Islam and certain questionable
organizations remained off limits for discussion.
It is important to understand Abedin's "bloodline." While it shouldn't be
taken as an indictment of her beliefs, it does reflect possible influences at
an early age molding her core belief system. It is the direction she chose to
go once emancipated, however, that is telling about the impact family
influences may have had in honing her core beliefs.
A July 24 National Review article addresses this bloodline.
To understand it, we begin with Abdullah Omar Naseef, a Saudi supporter of the
late Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida.
A staunch Islamic extremist, Naseef founded a think tank, the Institute of
Muslim Minority Affairs, in 1978. He recruited Abedin's father, Zyed Abedin,
an educator born in India and living in the United States, to assist in the
effort in Saudi Arabia.
As reported by investigative journalist Andrew McCarthy, even today IMMA's
focus remains on promoting the Saudi Ministry of Religious Affairs' foreign
policy "to grow an unassimilated, aggressive population of Islamic
supremacists who will gradually but dramatically alter the character of the
West."
Naseef also co-founded the Rabita Trust, established in 1988, allegedly for
charitable purposes but later found to be funding terrorist groups. The United
States designated Rabita a foreign terrorist organization, freezing its assets
in 2001.
IMMA later published a journal, for which Zyed Abedin was editor. Although
Zyed Abedin ran JMMA, Naseef influenced it via his relationship with the World
Assembly of Muslim Youth, "a virulently anti-Semitic and Shariah-supremacist
organization" that managed the publication. When Zyed Abedin died in 1993, his
Pakistani wife, Huma's mother, Saleha Mahmood Abedin, took control.
Saleha Abedin is a promoter of the Muslim Brotherhood and violent jihad. She
directs an organization -- the International Islamic Committee for Woman and
Child linked to the Union for Good -- also an FTO. (NOTE: FTO = Foreign Terrorist Organization) The union is headed by
Muslim Brotherhood's Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi who, during the U.S. occupation
of Iraq, ordered fatwas against U.S. troops. Allegedly a women's rights
activist, Saleha Abedin promotes those "rights" as defined by Shariah law,
thus justifying the abuse of wives, female genital mutilation and other
repressive horrors.
Born in the United States, Huma Abedin was raised Muslim in Saudi Arabia. She
returned to the United States to attend college at George Washington
University in 1994. There she became an executive board member of the Muslim
Student Association, a national organization and foundation of Muslim
Brotherhood's U.S. network. The MSA has an indoctrination program "designed to
ensure with absolute certainty that there is conformity to the movement's
ideology and a clear adherence to its leadership's authority."
Of note too is that in early 2001, the late American-born terrorist Anwar
al-Awlaki became GWU's MSA spiritual guide, while simultaneously counseling
some of the 9/11 terrorists.
McCarthy notes, "MSA gave birth to the Islamic Society of North America, the
largest Islamist organization in the U.S. Indeed the MSA and ISNA consider
themselves the same organization. Because of its support for Hamas (a
designated terrorist organization that is the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestinian
branch), ISNA was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land
Foundation case, in which several Hamas operatives were convicted of providing
the terrorist organization with lavish financing."
In 1996, Huma Abedin became a White House intern working for first lady
Hillary Clinton. They formed a close bond resulting in Abedin becoming
Clinton's chief of staff during her 2008 presidential campaign run and her top
staffer and adviser when Clinton became secretary of State in 2009.
Having ties to Islamic extremist influences, Abedin should have been
thoroughly investigated for a position requiring a high-level security
clearance. But, again, inexplicably, she was cleared with minimal vetting.
Abedin married Weiner, who is a Jew, in July 2010. Interestingly, while Islam
permits Muslim men to take non-Muslim spouses, it prohibits Muslim women from
doing so. Thus, such a union should have generated outrage from a Muslim world
prone to lash out over anything. But strangely, nothing was heard -- not even
from Abedin's Islamist mother.
Two years after the Clinton-Abedin team took office, the United States made a
major change in its foreign policy toward the Muslim Brotherhood. In June
2011, it threw its ally, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, under the bus,
embracing the Muslim Brotherhood -- with whom all communication had previously
been suspended due to its suspected terrorist activities -- and several of its
positions contrary to U.S. interests.
With Clinton's departure from State, Abedin may only temporarily be out of the
classified information loop. Standing by her man may well be driven by her
desire to get back into it, hitching a ride either on Clinton's 2016
presidential bid train or the constantly derailing Weiner train she still
hopes may lead to higher office.
But that desire may well be Muslim Brotherhood-driven.
--
(A retired U.S. Marine, Lt. Col. James Zumwalt served in the Vietnam War, the
U.S. invasion of Panama and the first Gulf War. He has written "Bare Feet,
Iron Will -- Stories from the Other Side of Vietnam's Battlefields," "Living
the Juche Lie: North Korea's Kim Dynasty" and "Doomsday: Iran -- The Clock is
Ticking.")
--
(United Press International's "Outside View" commentaries are written by
outside contributors who specialize in a variety of important issues. The
views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of United Press
International. In the interests of creating an open forum, original
submissions are invited.)
Upi.com
By JAMES ZUMWALT,
Published: Aug. 6, 2013 at 6:54 AM
HERNDON, Va., Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Huma Abedin -- wife of candidate for New York
City mayor and disgraced former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y. -- is
confounding political analysts.
Why, after her husband recently admitted on the campaign trail he had
continued his sexting exploits subsequent to resigning from office in 2011,
would she continue to stand by her man. There may be something much more
valued to Abedin than a psychotic husband causing her to do so.
If one drew lines from opposite ends of a graph to illustrate U.S. foreign
policy in the Middle East under U.S. President Barack Obama and Abedin's
increasing influence with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, convergence
occurs with a major change in such policy. An earlier effort to explore
Abedin's influence was curbed by supporters waving the flag of political
correctness, suggesting her ties to Islam and certain questionable
organizations remained off limits for discussion.
It is important to understand Abedin's "bloodline." While it shouldn't be
taken as an indictment of her beliefs, it does reflect possible influences at
an early age molding her core belief system. It is the direction she chose to
go once emancipated, however, that is telling about the impact family
influences may have had in honing her core beliefs.
A July 24 National Review article addresses this bloodline.
To understand it, we begin with Abdullah Omar Naseef, a Saudi supporter of the
late Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida.
A staunch Islamic extremist, Naseef founded a think tank, the Institute of
Muslim Minority Affairs, in 1978. He recruited Abedin's father, Zyed Abedin,
an educator born in India and living in the United States, to assist in the
effort in Saudi Arabia.
As reported by investigative journalist Andrew McCarthy, even today IMMA's
focus remains on promoting the Saudi Ministry of Religious Affairs' foreign
policy "to grow an unassimilated, aggressive population of Islamic
supremacists who will gradually but dramatically alter the character of the
West."
Naseef also co-founded the Rabita Trust, established in 1988, allegedly for
charitable purposes but later found to be funding terrorist groups. The United
States designated Rabita a foreign terrorist organization, freezing its assets
in 2001.
IMMA later published a journal, for which Zyed Abedin was editor. Although
Zyed Abedin ran JMMA, Naseef influenced it via his relationship with the World
Assembly of Muslim Youth, "a virulently anti-Semitic and Shariah-supremacist
organization" that managed the publication. When Zyed Abedin died in 1993, his
Pakistani wife, Huma's mother, Saleha Mahmood Abedin, took control.
Saleha Abedin is a promoter of the Muslim Brotherhood and violent jihad. She
directs an organization -- the International Islamic Committee for Woman and
Child linked to the Union for Good -- also an FTO. (NOTE: FTO = Foreign Terrorist Organization) The union is headed by
Muslim Brotherhood's Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi who, during the U.S. occupation
of Iraq, ordered fatwas against U.S. troops. Allegedly a women's rights
activist, Saleha Abedin promotes those "rights" as defined by Shariah law,
thus justifying the abuse of wives, female genital mutilation and other
repressive horrors.
Born in the United States, Huma Abedin was raised Muslim in Saudi Arabia. She
returned to the United States to attend college at George Washington
University in 1994. There she became an executive board member of the Muslim
Student Association, a national organization and foundation of Muslim
Brotherhood's U.S. network. The MSA has an indoctrination program "designed to
ensure with absolute certainty that there is conformity to the movement's
ideology and a clear adherence to its leadership's authority."
Of note too is that in early 2001, the late American-born terrorist Anwar
al-Awlaki became GWU's MSA spiritual guide, while simultaneously counseling
some of the 9/11 terrorists.
McCarthy notes, "MSA gave birth to the Islamic Society of North America, the
largest Islamist organization in the U.S. Indeed the MSA and ISNA consider
themselves the same organization. Because of its support for Hamas (a
designated terrorist organization that is the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestinian
branch), ISNA was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land
Foundation case, in which several Hamas operatives were convicted of providing
the terrorist organization with lavish financing."
In 1996, Huma Abedin became a White House intern working for first lady
Hillary Clinton. They formed a close bond resulting in Abedin becoming
Clinton's chief of staff during her 2008 presidential campaign run and her top
staffer and adviser when Clinton became secretary of State in 2009.
Having ties to Islamic extremist influences, Abedin should have been
thoroughly investigated for a position requiring a high-level security
clearance. But, again, inexplicably, she was cleared with minimal vetting.
Abedin married Weiner, who is a Jew, in July 2010. Interestingly, while Islam
permits Muslim men to take non-Muslim spouses, it prohibits Muslim women from
doing so. Thus, such a union should have generated outrage from a Muslim world
prone to lash out over anything. But strangely, nothing was heard -- not even
from Abedin's Islamist mother.
Two years after the Clinton-Abedin team took office, the United States made a
major change in its foreign policy toward the Muslim Brotherhood. In June
2011, it threw its ally, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, under the bus,
embracing the Muslim Brotherhood -- with whom all communication had previously
been suspended due to its suspected terrorist activities -- and several of its
positions contrary to U.S. interests.
With Clinton's departure from State, Abedin may only temporarily be out of the
classified information loop. Standing by her man may well be driven by her
desire to get back into it, hitching a ride either on Clinton's 2016
presidential bid train or the constantly derailing Weiner train she still
hopes may lead to higher office.
But that desire may well be Muslim Brotherhood-driven.
--
(A retired U.S. Marine, Lt. Col. James Zumwalt served in the Vietnam War, the
U.S. invasion of Panama and the first Gulf War. He has written "Bare Feet,
Iron Will -- Stories from the Other Side of Vietnam's Battlefields," "Living
the Juche Lie: North Korea's Kim Dynasty" and "Doomsday: Iran -- The Clock is
Ticking.")
--
(United Press International's "Outside View" commentaries are written by
outside contributors who specialize in a variety of important issues. The
views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of United Press
International. In the interests of creating an open forum, original
submissions are invited.)
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Interesting. He is different.
I can see the infiltration, but I don't get the marriage. it makes no sense to me. this new marriage is clearly not made in heaven.
To say she does not have an agenda would be sheer nonsense..... of course she does! ...gives me the willies just to fathom what it's gonna take to expunge the damage, IF we ever get there.