Alright, so it’s well-known (and almost excusable with today’s short-attention-span public) that sex sells. That explains why the at-first reluctant former mainstream media went wall-to-wall with coverage of soon-to-be (but not soon enough) former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner’s naughtiness. (Of course, their initial reluctance is no question due to the “D” he wears on the right side of his title.) That Weiner was one of the nastiest, most partisan, and rhetorically ugly members of the once-vaunted assembly was of no interest to the press. That his support for policies that have been an albatross around America’s neck also rose no brows. What they wanted were those pics (once Andrew Breitbart forced their hands with undeniable photographic evidence that they were never going to seek out themselves) and a salacious headline (one preferably that included a grade-school-era pun, if possible, please).
The next thing the press darlings love is a human-interest story. Forget the details of a crime. Forget any sort of ongoing work of the authorities to capture a criminal. Certainly forget any sort of racial description of an alleged perpetrator. But if something’s gone down in the big city, you can count on the locals (and if it’s dramatic enough, the Big Three) to cover the angle of the family that’s been affected or the children left orphaned.
So we were introduced over and over to the dutiful wife, Huma Abedin—currently with child. Naturally the angle of her working for the oft-humiliated wife of the former president and current Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, was played, often with a sly wink. Much was made about the likelihood of the two conferring over how to best deal with the situation, both in public and in private. In fact, it wasn’t until Mrs. Weiner returned from her overseas trip with the Secretary (on which she’d been when the whole escapade broke) that the Congressman finally decided to fold up his tent and go home. There was even the irony of Bill Clinton having officiated at their wedding. (Is he a rabbi now? Talk about a comeback!)
In all that, though; in all the delving into this couple’s details and discussing ad nauseam about what’s next for them… no interest from those stalwarts for the Public’s Right To Know about this little tidbit:
It turns out that Huma Abedin may have very close links to a little terrorist organization known as the Muslim Brotherhood.
Al-Liwa Al-Arabi (translated here) claims to have leaked an extensive list of members of the Brotherhood’s secret women’s division, which is known alternately as the Muslim Sisterhood or the International Women’s Organization (IWO). This detailed list was partially published by Al Jazeera and several other major Arab newspapers. And it included Huma’s mother, Saleha Abedin.
Apparently her brother is also closely tied with the Brotherhood.
A quick Google search for “Huma Weiner Muslim Brotherhood” brings up just a few hits related to this possible connection, most notably over at American Thinker and The Examiner. But funny that there’s no NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, or even FOX.
Now, it’s possible that none of this is actually legit. Perhaps over there ‘Abedin’ is like ‘Smith’. Perhaps she’s been cast away from the family herself and therefore there’s no real link here. Perhaps it’s all just a big misunderstanding. But of course we’d never get to the bottom of any of that if we relied only on the old-school press. Perhaps all these allegations are nothing, but they’re definitely interesting, don’t you think? Then again, perhaps Rep. Weiner was just being hacked by a prankster after all. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, folks.
With all their attention paid to Huma recently, why has nobody asked a few obvious questions?
Are these alleged links accurate?
Is there a woman with close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood working hip-to-hip with our Secretary of State?
Does this explain the Obama Administration’s hands-off policy toward Syria and its lackluster performance in the post-Mubarak Egypt which is being slowly but surely handed over to the Brotherhood?
I know, I know, those are boring policy questions. Who cares that someone so high up in our own State Department is (or may be) also so tightly entwined in a terrorist organization such as the Muslim Brotherhood? Snoozer, I realize.
But maybe it’d be more pop-culture-ready if Katie Couric or the gals from The View sat little Huma down and asked her how the members of her family who are affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood reacted when she told them she’d met a nice Jewish fella who just happens to be a member of the US Congress and was interested in marrying him. I’d imagine they were just as excited as when she told them that she’d be going to work for the then-First Lady. What a treat to have one of their own working in such highly-placed positions in the belly of the beast. Inshallah!
-Nick (ColoradoPatriot) from HQ
Not to nitpick, but I am. Jesus rose from the dead. Why? Because there’s no object. Jesus did not rose Lazarus from the dead. He raised him. The same holds with eyebrows.
Cheers.
Ha ha…you’re totally right, pestlover. As a grammarian myself, I appreciate the correction. While it may have been my British upbringing and introduction to the language (where “rose”, alas, is used in such an instance), I agree that it appears I fell into the reflexive trap! And for my penance, I’m not even going to correct it, and therefore wear that Scarlet G eternally!
The libs will find the Romeo and Juliet theme in this romance between members of warring tribes.
However, Huma should be very familiar with roving men always on the look out for a little tryst or three.
The Department of State has long been chock-a-block full of academics to the left of the dream teaching the world to sing in perfect harmony. Huma would be welcome there as an “authentic” voice from the world that shes repression as a liberating force.
Hillary, Albright, Christopher, Richardson, and the other Democrat “diplomats” have all been essentially useless extensions of the Jimmuh Cahter effort to shame the world into sitting up straight and eating its vegetables.
The Muslim Brotherhood took the measure of Barack Obama on his Michael Jackson tour and acted accordingly. If Huma is supplying the Brotherhood with reassuring assessments, it is no more secret than watching CNN and the academics who show up to wave white flags and cheer on the Muslim street.
The Muslim Brotherhood is working on our soft underbelly and our sloth. We are without principled response and no resolve. Jonathan Swift wrote about who we have become and nailed it.
Sooooooooooo I’m assuming that anyone any where is merely a sum total of their family and history, incapable of independent thought? Have we rooted out all the homosexuals from the State department yet because everyone knows they are unacceptable security risks! Next We’ll compile of a list of people who read banned books, and than we’ll cross reference that with people that have made google searches of Russia. Than from that we’ll assume that anyone anywhere that questions your ideas is a traitor and we’ll round them up and shoot them.
Or we can assume that an accomplished world traveler like Clinton, might need an assistant that had connections with notable figures in the middle east. OR we might also remember the lesson of Iran and South America and realize that while not all governments might agree with us, installing dictators tends to make the people they rule over less inclined to like us.
Sooooooooooo I’m assuming that anyone any where is merely a sum total of their family and history, incapable of independent thought?
Sorry, Timmeh; you and your fellow Barack Obama supporters have stated that that is most certainly the case.
Crime sort of runs in the family with the Palins. You’ll remember that Levi Johnston’s mother was arrested on drug charges. Well, now Todd Palin’s sister has been arrested on charges of burglary.
Yes, I know Levi Johnston never did marry Bristol Palin, but still … technically, since he’s the father of Tripp, he’s still part of the family.
And then:
Or we can assume that an accomplished world traveler like Clinton, might need an assistant that had connections with notable figures in the middle east.
And again, Middle East connections equal supporting and protecting terrorists, remember?
Add to the bonus how that article CLEARLY states that someone is “merely a sum total of their family and history, incapable of independent thought”, and we see just how hypocritical you and your Obamabot friends are, Timmeh.
Come on, Timmeh. Equal means equal. You want to play these games with Bush and Palin, you can apply them to your Obama Party.
But you don’t want “equality”, as we shall soon see with your bleating and spinning about how unfair it is to require you to live up to your own rules.
This is dirty. If you can show that Huma is a member, that is one thing. But this is slimy. Does Huma have control over what her family does? No. This is no better than the leftist crazies who imply that GWB must have had prior knowledge of the 9/11 attacks because he pal’d around with some of Osama Bin Laden’s brothers. This is simply wrong.
Does Huma have control over what her family does? No. This is no better than the leftist crazies who imply that GWB must have had prior knowledge of the 9/11 attacks because he pal’d around with some of Osama Bin Laden’s brothers. This is simply wrong.
See my post #5 above, Sonic.
The leftist filth like Huma, her Weiner, and Barack Obama created these rules.
Let them also be bound by them.
No more asymmetric warfare. If Sarah Palin is responsible for and tainted by every single action of anyone even remotely close to her, then the same can and will be applied to Barack Obama, the Barack Obama Party, and their leftist confreres.
You don’t like it, take it up with them. State that the gays like Timmeh who smeared Palin based on such tenuous connections were filth. State that the Obama Party which made such comparisons were dead wrong.
When one is dealing with adults, then one can treat them like adults. But Weiner, Huma, and their Obamabot ilk are not adults. They are pathetic, disgusting little childish brats, and they deserve the appropriate treatment for it.
They created these rules?????
Really??????
Joseph McCarthy ring a bell?
Ever read how Alex Hamilton was slimed because his Mom was a “whore”????
No, this type of politics has been around since… well… the beginning of politics. I could give a rats ass what they do. They’re perfectly free to look childish and immature if they want. It’s up to you and you alone to either stay clear of it or roll in the same bacterial infested mud, making you as guilty and dirty as the people you deride for doing the exact same thing. .
I could give a rats ass what they do.
Then why would you care when conservatives do it?
This is what I don’t get, Sonic. All this weeping and wailing about “childish and immature” and “bacterial infested mud” never seems to bother the Obama Party, or cause them any problems. Only conservatives ever get attacked for these things.
Why is that? Why are conservatives held to a standard, and Obamabots never held to a standard? If Obamabots are childish and immature and covered in bacterial laden mud, why do the vast and overwhelming majority of gays and lesbians vote for and support them?
Huma, her Weiner, Hillary Clinton, and the Obama Party can be held to exactly the same standards as they screamed and cried and insisted be held against Sarah Palin and George Bush.
Why is that wrong, Sonic?
Guys,
I think the point is that this *does* raise questions. Not her marrying Weiner (though in hindsight, yeah that’s questionable) but is she compromised in her current job? This isn’t a cashier at Wal-Mart.
When background checks are ran, they’re *supposed* to catch these things. I’ve friends who are on terrorist watchlists because they’ve given to the IRA. If I was applying for a positon like hers in state, I’d fully expect that to come up, or at least trip a flag. In this case, it’s family.
Even if the State Department released a statement to the effect of “We are aware of these, Huma is not affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, it’s all good.” it would be an improvement.
(Of course, given Hillary’s husband’s pardoning of the FALN terrorists, and the President’s friendship with domestic terrorists, her being in the Muslim Brotherhood might have been seen as a positive thing…)
Because, even though I don’t consider myself a Conservative – always have been more Libertarian leaning – I would none-the-less like to see Conservatives take the high road. Give us some evidence to show that they are BETTER than the liberals who traffic in this kind of behavior.