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	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; Huma Abedin</title>
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		<title>Huma Abedin to Secret Service Agents: &#8220;Do You Know Who I Am?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2014 14:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm guessing that by then they knew exactly who she was.]]></description>
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<p>Guess who isn&#8217;t looking forward to 2016?<a href="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2014/08/hillary-told-one-agent-to-f-off-and.html"> The Secret Service</a>. Any agents who haven&#8217;t retired yet are facing <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2713591/Hillary-told-one-agent-f-suit-looked-cheap-Secret-Service-agents-say-guarding-former-First-Lady-wasthe-worst-form-punishment-author-reveals-explosive-new-book.html#ixzz39Ca0DouX">eight more punishing years</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Her nasty treatment, her explosive temper and her imperious attitude toward those assigned to her detail have earned former first lady Hillary Clinton the title of the most detested person under the protection of the Secret Service, according to Ron Kessler in his explosive forthcoming book <em>The First Family Detail,</em> published by Crown Forum.</p>
<p>‘Hillary was so mistrustful and vengeful,’ a former agent told Kessler.</p>
<p>‘Agents say being on Hillary Clinton’s detail is the worst duty assignment in the Secret Service. Being assigned to her detail is a form of punishment.&#8217;</p>
<p>She didn’t like law enforcement officers or the military, former Secret Service agent Lloyd Bulman stated. ‘She was just really rude to almost everybody. She’d act like she didn’t want you around, like you were beneath her.&#8217;</p>
<p>Glad-handing on the road on her Senatorial campaign, when they arrived at a 4-F Club in the land of dairy cows in upstate New York, she saw cows and people in jeans. That enraged her and she asked a staffer, &#8216;What the f*** did we come her for? There&#8217;s no money here&#8217;.</p>
<p>While Chelsea comes off as an angel, very cordial and sweet, Huma Abedin, Hillary’s deputy chief of staff at the State Department and traveling chief of staff during her campaign for the presidency, is considered as vile and rude as Hillary.</p>
<p>‘Huma looked down on the agents and treated them as second-class citizens’, a former agent stated. If she wasn’t recognized, she would say, ‘Do you know who I am’?</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;m guessing that by then they knew exactly who she was.</p>
<blockquote><p>In response to her rudeness, they let her carry her own luggage – and the first lady’s luggage as well. ‘She’d have four bags, and we’d stand there and watch her and say, ‘Oh, can we hold the door for you’?</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Secret Deal Keeps Weiner Away From Hillary Clinton</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2014 14:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clinton aides have insisted Weiner “stay out of public life for two years.” ]]></description>
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<p>The only creepy lecherous politician with no self-control that Hillary Clinton wants to be photographed with is her husband. Huma&#8217;s husband however <a href="http://pagesix.com/2014/06/25/hillary-made-a-secret-deal-with-huma-to-keep-weiner-quiet/?_ga=1.15358961.637512962.1403762413">has to stay home whenever Hillary is out on the town</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Hillary Clinton has a “secret deal” with her top aide Huma Abedin to keep her troublesome husband Anthony Weiner out of the spotlight, sources tell Page Six, as the former secretary of state mulls a run for president.</p>
<p>Clinton aides have insisted Weiner “stay out of public life for two years,” and that he “avoid causing any further embarrassment to Huma or Clinton,” according to our sources.</p></blockquote>
<p>Good luck with that.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not too sure that Weiner could stay out of public life for two minutes.</p>
<blockquote><p>The former sexting pol has been noticeably absent at recent public events attended by Abedin, including the Gordon Parks Foundation Awards Dinner in Manhattan earlier this month. Nor has he appeared at the recent plethora of New York galas and awards dinners attended by the Clintons, such as the Wildlife Conservation Society Gala on June 12 and the Carnegie Hall Medal of Excellence Gala on April 24.</p>
<p>He has been put on notice by Clinton aides to keep a low profile and remain out of sight and out of trouble.”</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s a little strange that Huma Abedin ended up marrying a man with so much in common with Hillary&#8217;s man.</p>
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		<title>More to &#8216;Hard Choices&#8217; than Benghazi</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2014 04:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lloyd Billingsley]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton's delusions on North Korea, Cuba, Islamists and more. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #1a1a1a;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/140617_hillary_clinton_hard_choices_ap_605.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234359" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/140617_hillary_clinton_hard_choices_ap_605.jpg" alt="HiIlary Rodham Clinton" width="259" height="209" /></a>Hillary Rodham Clinton’s new book has been in the spotlight over what she says about Benghazi. That chapter, which starts on page 382, is not the only fascinating passage in Hard Choices. Consider, for example, what Hillary says about Islamists.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">“The term Islamist generally refers to people and parties who support a guiding role for Islam in politics and government. It covers a wide spectrum, from those who think Islamic values should inform public policy decisions to those who think that all laws should be judged or even formulated by Islamic authorities to conform to Islamic law. Not all Islamists are alike. In some cases, Islamist leaders and organizations have been hostile to democracy, including some who have supported radical, extremist, and terrorist ideology and actions. But around the world, there are political parties with religious affiliations – Hindu, Christian, Jewish, Muslim – that respect the rules of democratic politics, and it is in America’s interest to encourage all religiously based political parties and leaders to embrace inclusive democracy and reject violence. Any suggestion that faithful Muslims or people of any faith cannot thrive in a democracy is insulting, dangerous and wrong.”</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Here readers see the straw man at his finest. Nobody is contending that people of any faith “cannot thrive in a democracy.” The issue is whether Islam itself has a problem with democracy, multi-party elections, free speech, women’s rights, gay rights, diversity, co-education and so forth. The evidence suggests that it does.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Islamists want more than a “guiding role” for Islamic law. They want an exclusive, dominating role. In Islamist regimes non-Islamic groups are second- or third-class citizens. In more than 600 pages Hillary includes nothing on the Islamist group Boko Haram, fond of kidnapping hundreds of girls and burning boys alive.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Some readers will be familiar with Huma Abedin, Hillary’s deputy chief of staff and her ties to Islamic supremacism. Consider how Hard Choices handles the matter.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">In one meeting in Cairo, an agitated participant brought up an “especially outrageous canard. He accused my trusted aide <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/jamie-glazov/huma-abedin-islamist-connections-and-willful-blindness/">Huma Abedin</a>, who is Muslim, of being a secret agent of the Muslim Brotherhood. This claim circulated by some unusually irresponsible and demagogic right-wing political and media personalities in the United States, including members of Congress. . .” Hillary includes no background information on Abedin and her main argument is that Sen. John McCain has publicly defended her.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">So has president Obama, who calls Abedin “an American patriot and an example of what we need in this country.” The president issued that praise “at the White House’s annual Iftar dinner to break the Ramadan fast.”</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Readers of Hard Choices are told that in North Korea the political oppression is “nearly” total. Actually, the oppression is total. “Famine is frequent,” she writes, and many of the people “live in abject poverty” but she does not tie that poverty to oppressive Marxist rule and a command economy, or compare the forced famines in China and Ukraine.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Hillary writes that “for fifty years Cuba had been ruled as a Communist dictatorship by Fidel Castro.” Fidel and brother Raul “continue to rule Cuba with absolute power.” As Humberto Fontova notes in The Longest Romance, Castro’s rule is as bad as it gets, comparable to Stalin’s. But Hillary offers no detail about the regime’s political prisoners and persecution of homosexuals. Chile, on the other hand suffered the “brutal military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.” And the coup that brought Pinochet to power, says Hillary, is “a dark chapter in our involvement in the region.”</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">The author provides no details about the coup and fails to note that the brutal Pinochet, unlike the non-brutal Castro, stepped aside to allow free elections. But readers will observe the first response to blame the United States. Hillary Clinton describes none of the episodes on her watch as Secretary of State, including the Benghazi attack, as a dark chapter in American diplomacy.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">It took a village of handlers to produce Hard Choices, dumbed down to the point of explaining that winter in the southern hemisphere occurs at a different time of year. The book is highly autohagiographical, bulked with gossipy filler such as half a page on Benazir Bhutto’s shalwar kameez, “a long flowing tunic over loose pants that was both practical and attractive. . . We wore it for a formal dinner. I wore red silk and Chelsea chose turquoise green.”</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">On page 595 Hillary says she has yet to make the decision to run for President of the United States. If Hard Choices unsettles readers about her suitability for that office, they might also read Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton, the 1999 book by the late Barbara Olson, a victim of the Islamist terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Readers might also consult Peter Collier’s Political Woman: The Big Little Life of Jeane Kirkpatrick. Hillary Clinton nowhere mentions Ambassador Kirkpatrick but deciding which woman is the tougher, more intelligent and more successful diplomat should not be a hard choice.</p>
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		<title>Anthony Weiner Threatens Comeback over Tea Party</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2013 20:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["We progressives come to knife fights carrying library books." ]]></description>
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<p>If there&#8217;s anything that can make people hate the Tea Party, it&#8217;s <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/?p=165637">being held responsible for another </a>Anthony Weiner comeback.</p>
<p>But it&#8217;s not like Anthony has a choice.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not the Tea Party&#8217;s fault that he has to make a comeback. It&#8217;s Huma&#8217;s. She&#8217;s not about to spend the rest of her life as a failed agent without an important politician to manipulate. And if Hillary goes down in flames in 2016, Anthony Weiner is her fallback position.</p>
<p>So she&#8217;s going to take away his computer, feed him all the saltpeter he can stomach and get him out there and running for Congress if it&#8217;s the last thing she does.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;What’s next? I’ll keep you posted on my plans,&#8221; Anthony Weiner writes. &#8220;But I hope we keep the band together. You have been an amazing resource and the network we have all become part of has helped lead the debate on national health care, the need for a smarter and more compassionate approach to the growing pockets of need in our nation, and we all have sought to make the argument that too often we progressives come to knife fights carrying library books.</p>
<p>&#8220;Although my Republican friends have to decide what to do with the tea party wackadoo wing of their party, it does not constitute a strategy to simply sit back and watch them immolate.</p>
<p>Our team has to be a font of ideas and debate. I tried to run my campaign on this theme and the response was amazing. (Who knows, maybe I have a third book of ideas in me!)&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>What were Anthony Weiner&#8217;s first two books you might ask?</p>
<p>The first result <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Anthony-Weiner-Sexting-Scandal-T-Shirt/dp/B00E5V66LM">on Amazon is a Carlos Danger</a> t-shirt. The second result is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Seduced-Anthony-Weiner-Inez-Martinez-ebook/dp/B0058VZHOA">Seduced By Anthony Weiner </a>by Inez Martinez.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I was bored, lonely, new to New York, my body and myself. I went to a bad state school, got mediocre grades, looked totally average, did nothing special. I&#8217;d had boyfriends before, anonymous guys with anonymous names and dim futures, but none of my friends ever tried to date them, not because they liked me but because they weren&#8217;t attractive &#8211; not even to me, and I have low standards.</p>
<p>&#8220;And then Anthony Weiner came into my life.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Yes Virginia, there is an Anthony Weiner romance novel. How does this timeless romance for the ages begin?</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Weiner was different. He wasn&#8217;t afraid to charge in, make enemies and throw dirt across the aisle. I liked that in a man; and to be honest, I liked Weiner too with his delicate face and Mediterranean eyes. The more I read, the more my blue heart throbbed for him.</p>
<p>&#8220;I logged onto Facebook. I sent him a friend request.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s like Romeo and Juliet; except it makes you want to throw up.</p>
<p>Other Amazon results for Anthony Weiner include the movie Red Dragon, featuring Hannibal Lecter, Weiner trading cards, the Ballad of Anthony Weiner and Drug Induced Movement Disorders by Stewart Factor, Anthony Lang and William Weiner.</p>
<p>At this rate, I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re ever going to find out about his ideas.</p>
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		<title>The Threat We Face</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2013 04:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Horowitz]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the nature of the adversary we are up against?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/obama33.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-206868" alt="obama33" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/obama33.jpg" width="360" height="273" /></a><em>Below is a speech given by David Horowitz at the Kohler conference of the Bradley Foundation. It has been revised and edited for publication as an article.</em></p>
<p>I was born at the beginning of the Second World War into a family of high school teachers who were members of the Communist Party, and therefore were actually part of a vast conspiracy dedicated to the destruction of this country, although they would never have looked at it that way, and so-called liberals would be the first to deny it.</p>
<p>In those days, the schools were old fashioned enough that my parents did not use their classrooms to indoctrinate students as tens of thousands of university professors and even more K-12 teachers regularly do today. It is also an unhappy but hugely important fact that the conspiracy to which my parents belonged has steadily migrated into the heart of the Democratic Party until it now occupies the Oval Office in the person of our president, Barack Obama, and his closest advisors.</p>
<p>The president, his chief operative Valerie Jarrett and his chief political strategist David Axelrod all came out of the same Communist left and the same radical new left as I did, and all have remained heart and soul a part of it. As someone who turned his back on that destructive movement, I can say with confidence that they have not. If a person belongs to an organization or is the supporter of an idea that they come to see as destructive or evil, the first thing they will want to do when they leave is to warn others against it, to warn them of the dangers it represents. If a person does not do this – that tells me that he or she hasn’t left the destructive movement or abandoned the pernicious idea but has just put another face on them. Instead of calling themselves communists or socialists they call themselves liberals and progressives. This camouflage is very old. I never once heard my parents and their party friends refer to themselves as Communists. They were <i>progressives</i> – and registered Democrats.</p>
<p>This is why – to take one disturbing example, I know that Hillary Clinton’s right hand, Huma Abedin, the former deputy secretary of state, and chief foreign policy adviser on Muslim Affairs is a Muslim Brotherhood operative. Huma Abedin’s late father was a Muslim Brotherhood leader, and her mother and brother still are. For 12 years until the moment she was hired by Hillary, Huma Abedin worked for Abdullah Omar Naseef, one of the top three funders of Osama Bin Laden who is still wanted by our government for his role in the 9/11 attacks.</p>
<p>Huma Abedin has never to my knowledge uttered a word of disapproval about the Muslim Brotherhood’s desire to rid the world of Christians and Jews or to bring all infidels under the heel of totalitarian Islamic law. Her spiritual adviser Yusef al-Qaradawi is the spiritual leader of the Brotherhood. Qaradawi has publicly said that the Holocaust of the Jews was God’s punishment for their corruption, and that it would come again, and when it did, “Allah willing it will be at the hands of the believers.” Huma Abedin has not broken her relations with this evil man or dissociated herself from his genocidal remarks. Nor has she opposed the policies enacted by Obama and Hillary, which have supported the Muslim Brotherhood at home and in the Middle East.</p>
<p>On the contrary. when the Obama administration supported the Brotherhood’s rise to power in Egypt, Huma Abedin was our government’s key adviser on Muslim affairs. She was at Hillary’s side when security was not provided to our diplomatic complex in Benghazi and when al-Qaeda fanatics murdered our Ambassador. The murder of Ambassador Stevens led to the most shameful presidential act in our history when the President turned his back on the cries for help of three American heroes who served him and who were in a desperate fight for their lives. It is a time honored American code never to abandon our warriors on the field of battle. But America’s commander-in-chief turned his back on these brave fighting men and left them to die; and then lied to the American people to cover up his crime.</p>
<p>Ever since Barack Obama was elected and began his radical course, American conservatives have been in a state of shock, as though they couldn’t quite believe what was happening. Until then there had been a general collusion in the practiced deceptions of the left as commentators on all sides would refer to unrepentant radicals, and dedicated socialists as “liberals,” and turn half blind eyes to their anti-American agendas. What is “liberal” about the mean-spirited intolerant people of the left, except their attitude to hard drugs, sex, and criminal behavior? Oh yes, and spending other people’s money?</p>
<p>Today the Obama juggernaut is systematically bankrupting our country, and undoing our constitutional arrangements. Its contempt for consultative and representative government is relentlessly on display. This week Senate Majority leader Harry Reid defended his refusal to negotiate with Republicans over Obamacare and the debt in these words: “We are here to support the federal government. That’s our job.” End quote. Forget about representing the people whom our Founders made sovereign. Forget what America is about.</p>
<p>The fact that I had a radical past allowed me to see much of this coming. But even I never thought we would be looking so soon at the prospect of a one-party state. Those words may sound hyperbolic, but take a moment to think about it. If you have transformed the taxing agency of the state into a political weapon – and Obama has; if you are setting up a massive government program to gather the financial and health information of every citizen, and control their access to care; and if you have a spy agency that can read the mail and listen to the communications of every individual in the country, you don’t really need a secret police to destroy your political opponents. Once you have silenced them, you can proceed with your plans to remake the world in your image.</p>
<p>The good news is that the bad five years we have just been through have aroused a sleeping giant among Americans who didn’t see it coming and couldn’t imagine that it would. For the first time since the Cold War, people with a public voice are calling socialists by their right name; conservatives are finally organizing at the grassroots to defend their freedom; and at last we have leaders who are willing to stand up to the thuggery of the left and who have the spine not to back down.</p>
<p>As a sometime Jonah freed from the whale let me offer some intelligence about the political forces arrayed against us. Do not make the mistake of thinking that progressives and conservatives are people who merely differ about practical agendas. There are four defining features of the left, which distinguish it as a movement of individuals who approach politics quite differently from pragmatically-minded conservatives.</p>
<p>The first of these features is their alienation from country: If you ask progressives about their patriotic feeling, they will tell you that they don’t think of themselves first as Americans but as “citizens of the world.” That even has a Harvard <i>imprimatur</i>. They are, in fact, so profoundly alienated from their country as to be in some sense foreigners to it. They are hostile to its history and to its core values, which they see as reflections of a society that has been guilty of racism and oppression on an epic scale. And they are fundamentally opposed to its constitutional arrangements which the framers specifically designed to thwart what they deemed “wicked projects” to redistribute income and share individual wealth.</p>
<p>This is perhaps the hardest feature of their progressive adversaries for conservatives to comprehend. It is difficult to imagine that people as privileged by America’s generosity as Barack Obama and his entourage of despoilers should be so alienated from their country as to feel themselves <i>in</i> it but not <i>of</i> it. And there is no more shocking example of this than Benghazi. No matter what your politics, or what solutions you propose to the problems that confront this nation, ask yourself this: Could you have done what Barack Obama did that night? Could you as commander-in-chief abandon three Americans fighting for their lives under your command? These men had served their country for more than a decade. For seven hours they cried out for help from their government, but you refused to give it.</p>
<p>How, as a fellow American, could Obama have just left these men to die? No one with an ounce of patriotic feeling could. But he did. Even Alexei Kosygin, the Soviet premier of a Communist dictatorship, maintained contact with his astronaut as he burned up in space. But not our president. When the attack on our embassy in Benghazi began, he hung up the phone and went to bed, and then on to a fundraiser with Beyonce and Jay-Z in Las Vegas in the morning. This, with four Americans including our ambassador dead.</p>
<p>As a nation we are now confronted by mortal enemies in Iran and Syria, in Hizbollah and Hamas – enemies who have openly declared that we are the devil’s party and should be erased from the face of the earth. How could an American president deliberately set out to appease such enemies? How in the face of such threats could he reduce our country to an international laughing stock, no longer respected by our friends, no longer feared by our foes? How could he be so cavalier about having failed so miserably to have defended his country’s security and uphold its honor? How could an American commander-in-chief then put himself in a position to be snubbed by the Iranian Hitlerites, which is what they are, and which is what Obama did? How could he snub our Israeli allies and at the same time grovel before our Islamic enemies? But he did. How could he create a vacuum in the Middle East allowing Russia to become the new regional power? How could he make himself an ally of the Muslim Brotherhood, which slaughters Christians, and promises the extermination of the Jews and spawns terrorist armies like al-Qaeda and Hamas?</p>
<p>The answer to all these questions is that Obama doesn’t identify with our country. He sees himself as a “citizen of the world,” and a redresser of grievances for the suffering he imagines America has inflicted on our adversaries, including Hitlerite Iran.</p>
<p>The second feature of the progressive left that is key to understanding it is its instinctive, practiced, and indispensable dishonesty. As I previously noted, the Communists in the circles I frequented in my youth never identified themselves as Communists but always as “progressives” and “Jeffersonian democrats” (which is the last thing they were). When I was a young man and Stalin was alive, the goal of the Communist Party U.S.A. was a “dictatorship of the proletariat,” and a “Soviet America.” But under Stalin’s inspiration the official slogan of the Communist Party was “Peace, Jobs, and Democracy.”</p>
<p>The lesson? People on the left may be delusional but they are not stupid. They know what they can say and get away with, and what they can’t. Barack Obama is a born and bred member of the left and not coincidentally is the most brazen and compulsive liar ever to occupy the American White House. What other politician could have successfully explained away the fact that two of his closest political confidantes over a twenty-year period were an anti-American racist, Jeremiah Wright and an anti-American terrorist William Ayers?</p>
<p>There is a marked difference between the radicals of the Sixties and the radical movement Obama is part of. In the Sixties, as radicals we said what we thought and blurted out what we wanted. We wanted a revolution, and we wanted it <i>now</i>. It was actually very decent of us to warn others as to what we intended. But because we blurted out our goal, we didn’t get very far. Americans were onto us. Those who remained on the left when the Sixties were over, learned from their experience. They learned to lie. The strategy of the lie is progressives’ new gospel. It is what the progressive bible &#8212; Saul Alinsky’s <i>Rules for Radicals</i> &#8212; is all about. Alinsky is the acknowledged political mentor to Obama and Hillary, to the service and teacher unions, and to the progressive rank and file. Alinsky understood the mistake Sixties’ radicals had made. His message to this generation is easily summed up: Don’t telegraph your goals; infiltrate their institutions and subvert them; moral principles are disposable fictions; the end justifies the means; and never forget that your political goal is always <i>power</i>.</p>
<p>An SDS radical wrote in the Sixties: “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.” The Alinsky version is this: The issue is never the issue; the issue is always power: How to wring power out of the democratic process, how turn the process into an instrument of progressive control. How to use it to fundamentally transform the United States of America &#8212; which is exactly what Barack Obama warned he would do on the eve of his election.</p>
<p>The chosen legislative instrument to begin this transformation was Obamacare. It was presented as an act of charity, a plan to cover the uninsured. That was the “issue” as they presented it. But the actual goal of Obamacare’s socialist sponsors was a “single payer system” – government healthcare &#8212; which would put the state in control of the lives of every American, man, woman and child. That is the reason that none of the promises made about Obamacare was true, beginning with his campaign lie that Obamacare government health care was not a program he would support. Obamacare will not cover 30 million uninsured Americans, as Obama and the Democrats said it would; Obamacare will not lower costs, as they promised it would; Obamacare will deprive many Americans of their doctors and healthcare plans, as they assured everyone it would not; Obamacare is a new tax, as they swore it wouldn’t be. All these promises Obama and the Democrats made were false because they were only a camouflage for their real goal actual goal, which was universal control.</p>
<p>A third feature of progressives that defines their politics is that they regard the past, which is real, with contempt, and are focused exclusively on a future, which is imaginary.</p>
<p>To understand why this is important, think of progressives as a species of religious fundamentalists planning a redemption. Like fundamentalists they look at the world as fallen – a place corrupted by racism, sexism and class division. But the truly religious understand that we are the source of corruption and that redemption is only possible through the work of a Divinity. In contrast, progressives see <i>themselves</i> as the redeemers, which is why they are so dangerous. Because they regard those who oppose them as the eternally damned. Progressives are on a mission to create the kingdom of heaven on earth by redistributing income and using the state to enforce politically correct attitudes and practices in everyone’s life. They want to control what you do, and who you are, and even what you eat. For your own good, of course.</p>
<p>The fact that they see themselves as saving the world – or “saving the planet” as they would prefer &#8212; results in a fourth key characteristic of their politics, which is that they regard politics as a religious war. This explains why they are so rude and nasty when you disagree with them or resist their panaceas (and of course if they had the power, the punishments would be more severe); that is why the politics of personal destruction is their favorite variety, why they are verbal assassins and go directly for the jugular, and why they think nothing of destroying the reputations of their opponents and burying them permanently. And that is why they can perform their character assassinations without regrets – or did I miss Obama’s  apology to Romney for accusing him of killing a woman with cancer during the campaign? Why apologize when you did it for the good of a world transforming cause?</p>
<p>To sum this up: Progressives see themselves as an army of the saints, and their opponents as the party of Satan; and that will justify almost anything you can get away with.</p>
<p>An appalling episode of their Machiavellian politics has shaped the international conflict in which we find ourselves currently impotent in the Middle East. The root of that impotence lies in the way Democrats turned the issue of the Iraq war against the Republican president George Bush. The Democrats&#8217; case against Bush was that he acted unilaterally, deceptively and in haste.</p>
<p>Nothing could be further from the truth. The policy to remove Iraq’s government by force was put in place by a Democratic president, Bill Clinton, when he signed the Iraqi Liberation Act and fired 450 cruise missiles into that sovereign country. He did it, by the way, not only unilaterally but without consulting anyone.</p>
<p>That was in 1998, which is five years before Bush sent American troops into Iraq. Ten months before Bush did that he warned Iraq’s dictator, Saddam Hussein, to obey the Gulf War truce he had signed in 1991 and then repeatedly violated over the next ten years. Seven months before sending our troops into Iraq Bush went personally to the UN and got a unanimous Security Council ultimatum to Saddam. UN Resolution 1447 said: Obey the terms of the Gulf War truce by December 7, 2002 – or else.</p>
<p>Two months before that deadline Bush went to Congress and requested an authorization to use force in the event that Saddam did not voluntarily observe the terms of the UN Resolution, and the Gulf War truce he had signed and then violated.  Both houses of Congress including a majority of the Democrats in the Senate voted to authorize Bush to use force in Iraq. He also got an authorization from NATO and he also formed a coalition of 40 nations, including America’s oldest allies, the Brits, to enforce the UN Security Council ultimatum.</p>
<p>Not only was the decision not made in haste, and not made without consultation, as the Democrats claimed. The truth was just the opposite. The process of making the decision to go to war took 10 months and every significant authority was consulted. But once U.S. troops entered Iraq on March 19, 2003, it took only three months for the Democrats to betray them and their president, to turn their backs on the war they had authorized and supported, and claim it was – to use the words of former Vice President Al Gore, “unnecessary, immoral and illegal.” Or in the words of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, “the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time.”</p>
<p>Why did the Democrats betray the war they had supported? It was not because of any fact on the ground in Iraq, or any principles Bush had allegedly violated. They betrayed our troops and turned on their commander-in-chief for one reason and one reason alone: to gain political power at home.</p>
<p>At the very moment of their treachery a Democratic primary was in progress. An anti-war Democrat – a Sixties leftist named Howard Dean &#8212; was on the verge of winning their presidential nomination, burying other candidates like John Kerry and John Edwards in the polls. Until then, Kerry and Edwards were full-throated supporters of the war. Kerry made a speech on the floor of the Senate in support of the bill authorizing the use of force. He explained why the forcible removal of Saddam was necessary to defend the country and secure the peace.</p>
<p>But that was before the anti-war candidate Howard Dean had surged ahead in the polls. When that happened, and Kerry saw that he was going to lose the party nomination, he decided to switch sides. He turned his back on everything he had said in defense of the war, and the necessity of using force, and he turned his back on our troops in the field, and attacked their commander-in-chief. He did it for one reason, and one reason only. He did it because he saw it as the only way to win the Democratic nomination and have a chance of winning the presidency in 2004.</p>
<p>Kerry and the Democrats betrayed the war they had authorized; they betrayed the young Americans they sent into harms way; they betrayed the country they had sworn to serve. They did it to win the political power they were going to use to change the world. No conservative in his right mind would behave like this. No conservative would regard a political administration in Washington as a stepping stone on the way to a brave new world, and therefore something to justify opposing a war they had authorized and supported.</p>
<p>What were the <i>issues</i> the Democrats used to make their case against the president and the war in Iraq? It didn’t really matter, because the issues were never the issue. The Democrats opposed Bush and the war because both stood in the way of their quest for power.</p>
<p>The Democrats attacked Bush for acting in haste and acting unilaterally. Both charges were false. Worse, the Democrats claimed that the war was about weapons of mass destruction, ignoring the fact that Saddam had violated the Gulf War truce and had failed to comply with sixteen Security Council resolutions attempting to bring him into line, including the ultimatum of December 7. To make their case they claimed that Bush falsified the intelligence reports about weapons of mass destruction and lied in order to fool them into supporting the war. This was the biggest lie of the entire war. CIA chief George Tenet was a Clinton appointee. John Kerry sat on the intelligence committees with other Democrats like Feinstein and Rockefeller. The Democrats had access to <i>all</i> the intelligence information that Bush did. Bush could not have persuaded them to support the war by lying about the data, even if he had wanted to.</p>
<p>Why did they accuse him of lying? Because they could not admit the actual reason they had betrayed the war and the young men and women they sent to battle. They did it for partisan political gain. Unfortunately neither the White House nor any Republican had the political courage to hold them to account, and we are all paying the price for that.</p>
<p>For five years the Democrats conducted a scorched earth campaign against their country and its commander in the midst of a war. The harm they did is irreparable. Their sabotage of the war crippled our efforts to prosecute it – for example to follow Saddam’s weapons and generals into Syria, where they had fled; to take the war to Iran which supplied the IEDs which killed most of our troops; to close the border with Syria across which <i>jihadists</i> entered Iraq to fight our troops. The Democrats’ sabotage of the war created the power vacuum in the Middle East, which the terrorists and the Russians have now filled. And it most certainly inflicted casualties on our troops, though no one has had the political courage to say so.</p>
<p>The Democrats sabotaged the war in Iraq for the worst of reasons. They claimed it was for principle, but it was really – and only &#8212; to save their political skins.</p>
<p>Once the Democrats recaptured the presidency, it took no time at all for events to expose this destructive farce. Unlike the majority of his Democratic colleagues, Senator Barack Obama had always opposed the war in Iraq. He was against American interventions in sovereign countries, and he was against presidents who acted unilaterally, and in haste. Or so he said.</p>
<p>But when Obama became president and had the power to do so, he invaded Libya: unilaterally, and without authorization, and with no national security interest at stake. And he lied about the cause. There was no prospect of massacres as he claimed, and it was not a human rights intervention. If it were, Libya would not now be in chaos with al-Qaeda resurgent, and in a worse state than before.</p>
<p>Obama’s invasion of Libya was not merely unilateral. It was egomaniacal. Obama consulted no one outside his White House inner circle, not his own party, not the Congress, not the United Nations. Unlike Bush, he acted without constitutional authority and he acted alone. Yet there was not one Democratic leader who stood up for the principles they had all invoked to cripple America’s war against the <i>jihadists</i> in Iraq. Not one Democratic leader opposed the Democratic president, or criticized his aggression. They abandoned the principles of multilaterialism, consultation with Congress, and support from the U.N. because it would have been bad for their leader if they didn’t; it would have jeopardized their <i>power</i>.</p>
<p>The political consequences of the differences between conservatives and progressives is not only not small, it affects the way both sides conduct their political battles. Progressives focus on an impossible future, a utopia of promises, and this justifies for them their unscrupulous means. Issues for them are merely instruments for accumulating political power.  Conservatives look to the past as a guide to what is possible and humanly practical, and what is not. Issues for them are problems that need to be fixed, and they take seriously the policies they devise to address them. This puts conservatives at a huge political disadvantage. It causes them to argue policy as though they were debating a party with whom they shared goals and only differed on the means to get there. But that is far from the case.</p>
<p>Take the present debate about a government shutdown. A statement from Boehner’s office explains, “The entire government is shut down right now because Washington Democrats refuse to even talk about fairness for all Americans under ObamaCare.” This is a proposal for compromise and is designed to portray Republicans as reasonable. We’re all part of the same social contract, and we need to give on both sides to resolve the impasse. We’re all interested in fairness, when all is said and done. If individuals were to be given a year’s extension under Obamacare, as corporations already have been, that would be fair. But since when is Obamacare about fairness? That’s a Democratic façade and talking point, courtesy of the Republican Speaker. By way of contrast, this is how the Democrats make their argument: “Republicans are trying to shut down the government so they can prevent us from providing all Americans with affordable healthcare.” In other words, Democrats are standing up for fairness and ordinary Americans, against the selfish Republicans who want deny them affordable care and shut down their government. This is three lies in one sentence. But who do you think wins that vote?</p>
<p>If you want to fight the left you have to fight fire with fire. That means first and foremost you have to hold them to account for hurting the people they are pretending to help. Whose opportunities are going to be wrecked by Obamacare? Health care taxes will go up for those who pay taxes – the middle class &#8212; while their incomes will go down. Already Obamacare is cutting the workweek to 30 hours. Whose pocket books do you think that is hitting?</p>
<p>They claim conservatives are conducting a war against minorities; we need to throw the truth back in their faces. We need to tell the people that progressives are the principal oppressors and exploiters of minorities and the poor in this country. Progressives control the inner cities, which are teeming with the nation’s minorities and poor; and they run the broken public school systems that have become dumping grounds for those who cannot afford a private education.</p>
<p>The city of Milwaukee has been run by liberals and progressives without interruption for more than 100 years. What is the consequence of this progressive rule? Milwaukee’s median household income is forty percent below the rest of the country. The black unemployment rate is 27%, three times the national average for everyone. Milwaukee’s population is majority black and Hispanic, and 30% of it lives below the poverty line. A third of Milwaukee’s public school children drop out before they graduate; those who do are barely literate. <i>That’s </i>what progressive policies achieve. Don’t let them forget it.</p>
<p>Conservatives need to put the human disasters of progressive policies in front of people every chance they get. We need to confront progressives with the misery they have created in America’s bankrupt cities, Detroit and Chicago, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, St. Louis, and the nation’s capital, and every city they have controlled for 25, 50 and 100 years, without interruption.</p>
<p>Conservatives need to talk less to the voters’ heads and more to their hearts. Government debt is not just an accountant’s nightmare. Debt is a form of economic slavery. If you add up all the taxes Americans pay &#8212; federal, state, local, income, sales &#8212; Americans already work half the year for government rather than for themselves. Like Obamacare and the political use of the I.R.S., debt is a threat to individual freedom.<i> </i></p>
<p><i>Freedom</i> is what our cause is about not just fiscal responsibility. Fiscal responsibility has no emotional appeal except to people who already understand what it means. Fiscal responsibility is a means to an end. The end is freedom, and that is what inspires commitment and sacrifice and the passion necessary to win. Because it speaks to the heart.</p>
<p>Conservatives need to speak up as champions of the little guys, the underdogs, whose lives are being steadily constricted – made less free &#8212; by the ongoing destruction of a system that once afforded more opportunity for more people than any other in the history of the world. Conservatives need to speak up for the young whose future horizons are being rapidly diminished as the trillion dollar Obama deficits pile higher and higher. Conservatives need to speak for all Americans whose security under Obama has been degraded to the most dangerous levels since the end of the Cold War.</p>
<p>This is the threat we face, and the sooner we grapple with it the greater our chances to survive it. The most important battle in the world today is not being waged in the Middle East but here at home in the United States. If we lose this battle, everything is lost. But if we will take the measure of the enemies of freedom and prepare ourselves to fight them, we have a better than even chance to win.</p>
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<p>It&#8217;s not exactly much of a choice. One is a failed politician with nothing to offer and the other aspires to be the nation&#8217;s top leader and is plugged into pipelines of cash.</p>
<p>But still the forms have to be preserved. And part of that<a href="http://nypost.com/2013/09/22/hillary-to-huma-dump-weiner-or-youre-out/"> is pretending that this is a</a> hard choice.</p>
<blockquote><p>Top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin has been given an ultimatum: dump serial-sexting hubby Anthony Weiner, or get out of Clintontown.</p>
<p>“Huma has a choice to make,” a close associate tells New York magazine. “Does she go with Anthony, or does she go with Hillary?”<br />
Abedin’s decision over whether to leave the “Clinton bubble,” where she’s seen as Hillary’s most trusted aide, has emerged as “the biggest question among Hillary’s circle” as the former Secretary of State mulls a 2016 run for the White House, the magazine reports.</p></blockquote>
<p>The <a href="http://nymag.com/news/features/hillary-clinton-2013-9/index5.html">New York Mag piece is the expected Clinton puff </a>piece written in the same detached analytical tone perfected by top papers and magazines to hide that they&#8217;re doing a puff piece.</p>
<blockquote><p>The biggest question among Hillary’s circle concerns Huma Abedin, currently chief of Hillary’s “transition office” and formerly her deputy chief of staff in the State Department. Abedin began as an intern for the First Lady in 1996, when she was 20 years old, and is, of course, married to former congressman and mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, of sexting infamy.</p>
<p>In the midst of her husband’s scandal, Abedin stepped down from her full-time job for a consulting contract and moved back to New York to take work with Teneo Holdings, a consulting firm and investment bank run by Bill Clinton’s longtime consigliere, Doug Band. This gave Hillary cover while also keeping Abedin plugged in. “It’s business as usual,” says a Clinton insider. “Keep your circle of advisers small, and then you structure things in a way that makes it economically possible for your close advisers to sustain themselves.”</p>
<p>But business as usual can be a giant target for enemies: Abedin has since become the subject of an inquiry, by a Republican congressman, into her dual consulting roles, looking for potential conflicts of interest while she served in a sensitive role in the administration. Then came a second episode of Weiner’s sexting this summer, blindsiding the Clintons, obliterating Weiner’s mayoral ambitions, and greatly complicating Abedin’s future with the Clintons. With Weiner’s ignominious loss and parting bird-flip, “Huma has a choice to make,” says a close associate of hers. “Does she go with Anthony, or does she go with Hillary?”</p>
<p>Leaving the Clinton bubble is almost unimaginable for those who’ve grown up in it. According to a person familiar with the conversations, Abedin has struggled to reconcile her marriage to Weiner with her role as Clinton’s top aide, traumatized by the prospect of leaving her boss’s inner circle.</p></blockquote>
<p>She&#8217;s also useless and likely unemployable outside it. Huma was supposed to upgrade Hillary&#8217;s image, but now she&#8217;s downgrading it and whoever is on that now appears to be doing a better job than Huma had.</p>
<p>So the real question is why does Hillary even need Huma? The unspoken rule for those types of functions is that you aren&#8217;t supposed to draw too much attention to yourself. Hillary Inc. put up with it as long as they were stories about how classy Huma is.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure anyone in Clinton Inc. wants to be part of the Huma drama. To give them credit, the Clintons are somewhat better at cultivating loyalists than Obama. Obama simply disposes of people left and right. The Clintons are better at the old political game of moving them up the ladder. But there&#8217;s nothing of blind loyalty in that.</p>
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<p>When Huma hooked up with Weiner, he was a promising politician who was at the front of the line to become the next mayor of New York? And from there, who knows.</p>
<p>Now that clearly isn&#8217;t happening.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not inconceivable that Weiner will manage yet another comeback, but his neurotic persona that kicks in when a scandal does makes that unlikely. If you&#8217;re going to live the dissolute life, you should have the teflon skills of a Bill Clinton. You wouldn&#8217;t catch Clinton getting into a shouting match with Larry O&#8217;Donnell. Not even John Edwards, the closest thing to Bill in national politics since, sank that low.</p>
<p>Huma skipped the public vote with Weiner. Weiner claimed she had an important phone call. And she skipped his quote, unquote victory party. Maybe she just lacks his knack for riding a nuke down to the ground. But more likely, she&#8217;s moving on.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s her next move?</p>
<p>An immediate divorce announcement is unlikely. Huma built her whole rep on being classy. This whole mess has wrecked a lot of that classy image, but there are plenty of those still waiting for her to reemerge.</p>
<p>The trouble here is the exit strategy. Huma Abedin will want a graceful disengagement, a quiet reemergence into public life, and then an engagement to another promising politician.</p>
<p>The sandbag here is Weiner who is not dealing with things gracefully. And the last thing Huma Abedin wants is Weiner dragging her down again with loud divorce proceedings. That means that the Clintons will have to bite their lip, assuming Huma is worth it to them, and buy him off with more consulting gigs.</p>
<p>Meanwhile Huma&#8217;s friends will quietly leak a trial separation to some classier source, like New York Magazine. Then there will be a nearly off the record divorce in the hopes of not ending up on the cover of People or one of its trashier clones like Us or OK or Ugh.</p>
<p>And then there will be another spread, this time on Huma balancing her career and role as a single mom, while helping Hillary go for the 2016 gold. There will be lots of photos of her with the kids. Of Weiner, she&#8217;ll say. &#8220;I want their father involved in their lives.&#8221; She won&#8217;t use his name.</p>
<p>And then there will be rumors of her dating another promising politician. A politician with gay rumors or questions about his lifestyle that her presence will help silence.</p>
<p>Cory Booker would be a very good choice. Especially if he makes it to the Senate.</p>
<p>At least that&#8217;s the likely plan. But as Huma found out with Weiner, the best laid plans don&#8217;t always work out according to plan.</p>
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		<title>Our Lost Howard Beale Moments</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2013 04:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Thornton]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When will Americans say enough is enough?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/mad-as-hell.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-198974" alt="mad-as-hell" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/mad-as-hell.jpg" width="274" height="211" /></a><strong></strong>Remember Howard Beale, the deranged anchorman from <i>Network</i>? During one broadcast he tells the viewers to turn off their televisions, go to the window, and yell, “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!” In one of the iconic scenes from American movies, thousands of New Yorkers stick their heads out into the rain and scream their frustration over a corrupt political culture of lies, incompetence, and hypocrisy.</p>
<p>We need that moment today in America, but we’ve let too many opportunities pass by. On every front our political leaders demonstrate a shameless disregard for principle, truth, and the greater good that would have made an Athenian demagogue blush.</p>
<p>The preposterous Anthony Weiner, for example, a creepy, out-of-control exhibitionist, continues to run for mayor of New York, trusting in his phony apologies and mawkish meae culpae to deflect attention away from his pathetic neurosis, no doubt thinking that if it worked for Bill Clinton’s much worse sexual offenses, it should work for him. But the real outrage worthy of Howard Beale is his wife, Huma Abedin, a Muslim Brotherhood <a href="http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2012/07/24/huma-abedin-and-the-muslim-brotherhood-closely-connected/">princess</a> who as a close aid to Hillary Clinton enjoyed national security clearance. When five House conservatives sought to vet Abedin last year, Senator John McCain and House Speaker John Boehner rode to the <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/310198/questions-about-huma-abedin-andrew-c-mccarthy/page/0/1">rescue</a>, squawking about “McCarthyism” and “smears.” Did we learn nothing from the Cold War, when communist spies and fellow travelers infiltrated the highest levels of the government, helping the Soviet Union acquire nuclear weapons? Wouldn’t that experience suggest some prudence in allowing people access to the nation’s secrets?</p>
<p>So we have a high-level State Department functionary with demonstrated ties to the Muslim Brotherhood &#8212; an anti-American, anti-Semitic, genocidal, terrorist-nurturing organization preaching eliminationist violence against the enemies of Islam &#8212; and Republican congressmen attack their colleagues just for seeking clarification of this relationship. There’s a Howard Beale moment.</p>
<p>But of course, indifference to Abedin’s unsavory connections is small beer compared to the indifference to Obama’s courtship of the Brotherhood, just one dimension of his criminally incompetent foreign policy. Let’s recap his Egyptian disaster: we collude in the overthrow of the vicious but reliable Hosni Mubarak, replace him with the Muslim Brotherhood, give them international legitimacy and taxpayer cash, then when their overreaching and bungling rouse up the people against them, we stand by dazed and confused as another military strongman takes over. Meanwhile, as Syria burns, Russia flexes its geopolitical muscles, the Libya we “liberated” provides weapons to jihadists, Iran keeps the centrifuges spinning, Lebanon and Jordan descend into chaos, Iraq explodes into sectarian violence as its leadership snuggles ever deeper into Iran’s embrace &#8212; while all this is going on, our Inspector Clouseau of a Secretary of State wastes time and American prestige getting the Palestinians to <i>talk</i> about holding “peace talks,” and bullying our closest ally in the region, Israel, into releasing the murderers of women and children. There’s another Howard Beale moment.</p>
<p>Back home, the president continues the endless campaign, touring the country to preach old ideas and political smears to preselected choirs. His only solution for an anemic economy limping along because of his failed policies is to demand more failed policies – pork-barrel spending disguised as “stimulus” and “investment,” all to be funded by soak-the-rich tax hikes that for a <a href="http://www.laffercenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/2008-01-25-TheOnslaughtfromtheLeftPartIIPresidentialPolitics-Laffer.pdf">century</a> have been shown to strangle economic growth. More shameless still, he dismisses the IRS’s hounding of political enemies, the DOJ’s harassment of journalists, and worst of all, the questions over the murder of 4 Americans in Benghazi as “phony scandals,” even as his administration obstructs, misdirects, and stonewalls the Congressmen trying to get at the truth.</p>
<p>There’s nothing “phony” about dead Americans, about the administration’s nakedly political spin of the attacks as a “spontaneous” reaction to an obscure video, about the continuing stonewalling of those seeking the truth, about the perpetrators, whose names we know, walking around Libya with impunity. This fecklessness and indifference to our nation’s prestige is a genuine scandal and a stain on this country’s honor. We should have had to dig the bodies of those American heroes out of a vast mound of enemy dead. Right now we should have Navy Seals rounding up the terrorists in Libya and sending them to Allah on the Paradise Express. And don’t tell me the most powerful and lethal military in the history of the planet somehow “can’t.” They can, it’s our politicians who sacrifice this country’s honor to political expediency and comfort. There’s a great big Howard Beale moment.</p>
<p>And how about those Republicans? In the Senate, they’re wasting time over a “comprehensive” immigration bill, which is nothing more than amnesty for law-breakers and a cheap-worker employment agency. Apparently the unfolding disaster of “comprehensive” health-care “reform,” aka Obamacare, has taught them nothing. If they’re serious about fixing immigration, they should start by showing they have a credible plan for securing the border. But no, addled by fantasies of legions of “Hispanic” voters flocking to the Republican standard out of gratitude, they help the President craft a 2014 campaign-narrative of Republican intransigence and racist xenophobia, just because some House Republicans quaintly consider prudence and principle before signing off on bloated legislation that promises to reprise the failures of the 1986 “immigration reform.”</p>
<p>And now these same Republicans are tut-tutting over House Republicans who are trying to exercise their constitutional authority over the budget and defund Obamacare. Listen for a moment to James Madison, in <i>Federalist</i> 58: “The power over the purse, may in fact be regarded as the most complete and effectual weapon with which any constitution can arm the immediate representatives of the people, for obtaining a redress of every grievance, and for carrying into effect every just and salutary measure.” The low level of support for Obamacare, rammed into law without a single Republican vote and lubricated with outrageous pork and payoffs, is pretty much a “grievance” of the sort the Founders intended the House to address and correct. The failure of many Republican congressmen to legislate according to the principles they profess is another Howard Beale moment.</p>
<p>Most infuriating of all is the Republican political establishment’s abandonment of the principles and philosophy of the Constitution and its core doctrine of limited government. Too many have bought into the Progressive myth that our founding document is a relic from the past unsuited to our brave new world of high technology and mass communication. Too many act as though human nature, contrary to the beliefs of the Founders, has somehow stopped being motivated by colliding “passions and interests,” as Madison called them, and can be perfected if only the right government policies managed by technocrats can be forced upon the citizenry. For too many the fear of concentrated power and its inevitable corruption that undergirds every page of the Constitution has dissipated, and even so-called “conservatives” speak of the need for the federal government to “solve problems” &#8212; see No Child Left Behind &#8212; when it’s the responsibility of people to solve problems, not unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats and functionaries hired by perpetual incumbents greased by lupine lobbyists. In short, rather than shrinking the federal Leviathan, they just want to manage it better, so we go broke and erode our remaining freedoms in 100 years instead of 50.</p>
<p>That’s the biggest Howard Beale moment that should have us all screaming out our windows. Instead all we hear are crickets.</p>
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		<title>The Never-Ending Clinton Sex Scandals</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2013 04:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why a salacious controversy of her own may be Hillary's only hope for the presidency.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/bill-and-hillary-clinton-bill-clinton-17640678-470-361.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-194996" alt="Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton and her husband former U.S. President Bill Clinton attend church service at Mt. Carmel Missionary Baptist Church in Waterloo, Iowa" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/bill-and-hillary-clinton-bill-clinton-17640678-470-361-450x345.jpg" width="270" height="207" /></a>In 1992, an obscure Arkansas governor came out of nowhere to defeat blander and more mainstream candidates using a combination of dirty tricks and bravado. Campaign books like Joe Klein’s Primary Colors put it down to brilliant and ruthless tactics, but the key ingredient in the rise of Bill Clinton is the same one putting Anthony Weiner, another member of the Clinton Mafia, ahead of the pack in the New York City mayoral campaign. </span></b></p>
<p>Scandal. Notoriety. Publicity.</p>
<p>In a field of charisma-less establishment figures like Jerry Brown, Tom Harkin and Bob Kerry, men who seemed to have been born in politics and died in politics and kept on running undead for office out of sheer habit, he stood out. And what really made Bill Clinton stand out was the name recognition that his scandals gave him.</p>
<p>Gennifer Flowers should have buried the prospects of any presidential candidate. Instead she gave an unknown politician a national forum to ply his brand of fake sincerity and self-righteous promises of having finally learned the error of his ways. He hadn’t of course, but like Weiner’s scandal, the fame it gave him propelled him to victory.</p>
<p>The next eight years treated the country to a series of Clinton sex scandals culminating in impeachment proceedings. And the party may only be getting started.</p>
<p>While Huma Abedin, Hillary’s Brotherhood aide, uses Clinton contacts to propel her husband into Gracie Mansion, more sex scandals are gathering around Hillary Clinton.</p>
<p>A State Department whistleblower has claimed that Hillary’s people covered up multiple scandals, including the sexual abuse of minors by an ambassador who donated money to Hillary and Obama, as well as sexual assault and sexual harassment cases worldwide. And then there are the reports that Hillary’s security detail routinely hired prostitutes on international diplomatic visits.</p>
<p>Even as Hillary prepares to run for the White House by using her time as Secretary of State to remake her image as that of an international diplomat, rather than the woman who stood by Bill and lied for Bill because it kept her close to the center of power, the scandals suggest that she filled the same role at the State Department that she did in the White House—covering up the peccadilloes of powerful men.</p>
<p>But it’s no longer just Bill Clinton she’s covering up for. Hillary has gone from covering up the sexual offenses of her husband to covering up the sexual abuses of her underlings and her campaign donors. Hillary Clinton has not achieved anything on the diplomatic front, but she has shown that she is willing to cover up even worse things than Bill did for anyone who can offer her money or whose actions would reflect badly on her political ambitions.</p>
<p>Back in New York City, Huma Abedin, her closest adviser and aide, has taken on the same task, with a Weiner standing in for a Clinton. Huma made the same bargain that Hillary did, marrying a politician who can do the campaigning that she can’t and letting him carry her onward to higher office while she assures voters that he really is a family man.</p>
<p>But the scandals haven’t entirely left Hillary alone. In the merry month of May, the National Enquirer claimed that Hillary’s upcoming book would reveal her lesbian affairs. June’s National Enquirer reports on the State Department sex scandals and features Hillary and Huma Abedin on the cover, reviving the old rumors that their relationship is more personal than professional.</p>
<p>The revelation that Bill and Hillary and Anthony and Huma are in a four-way fake marriage would be a spectacular piece of Scandal Theater, even by Clinton standards, but the expectation that it would take down the respective candidacies of Weiner and Hillary might be wishful thinking. Indeed the revelation of such an affair might be the only thing that could save the Hillary 2016 campaign.</p>
<p>Hillary’s great challenge is her blandness. Like the apparatchiks of his own party whom Bill Clinton swatted in the primaries on the way to the White House, no amount of fake trendiness can disguise her standing as a perpetual government employee.</p>
<p>Hillary Clinton began her political career while in college and has never stopped crawling up the ladder of big government. Her political connections are vast but her political appeal doesn’t exist. Playing the scorned wife got her into the United States Senate, but couldn’t get her past a younger version of Bill with an even more exotic leftist bait resume than Oxford or Vietnam War draft dodging.</p>
<p>Gennifer Flowers got Bill Clinton through the Democratic primaries and into the White House and Huma Abedin may be the only thing that can get another Clinton into the White House. Hillary’s advisers have been urging her to cut ties with Bill. They argue that letting her be defined as Mrs. Clinton, the woman who played the obligatory supportive wife role for a philandering politician, makes her unelectable. And they’re probably right and wrong at the same time.</p>
<p>Bill Clinton is Hillary’s best asset, but he’s also the glass ceiling that limits how high up she can go. Reinventing herself as Huma’s girlfriend would make for months of headlines and months of sympathy. The entire mess would be ghastly and tawdry, and just like the Jodi Arias trial millions would tune in, watch and take sides. And a Post-Bill Hillary would emerge out of the ashes with a new pantsuit and a new identity.</p>
<p>There’s no way to know whether Hillary will take that route. It would be a big gamble and she isn’t a big gambler. Bill Clinton may cheerfully roll the dice, but Hillary is more of a five-year-plan kind of politician, preparing for the campaign she thinks that she will have to run, while getting blindsided by the actual campaign that she encounters.</p>
<p>Bill Clinton introduced himself to American voters with a sex scandal. Will Hillary Clinton follow that venerable Clinton political tradition and reintroduce herself to American voters with her own sex scandal?</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Jihad Denial &#8212; on The Murrell Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 04:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How an American administration does the bidding of our Islamist enemy. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/obama_jitters.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-192262" alt="Barack Obama" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/obama_jitters.jpg" width="290" height="217" /></a>In this special edition of the Glazov Gang, Superstar PolitiChick <strong>Ann-Marie Murrell</strong> filled in as host for Jamie and made it one of the best episodes yet. Her guests were<b> Nick Searcy, </b>Peabody Award-Winning Int&#8217;l Film &amp; Television Star, <b>Bill Whittle, </b>Virtual President &amp; Political Pundit and <b>Morgan Brittany, </b>Movie &amp; Television Star.</p>
<p>The Gang members gathered to discuss <em>Obama&#8217;s Jihad Denial. </em>The discussion occurred in <strong>Part I </strong>and shed light on how an American administration is doing  the bidding of our Islamist enemy. The segment also dealt with: <em>Who&#8217;s</em> <em>Arming Al-Qaeda</em>?, focusing on the frightening evidence suggesting that the administration is placing U.S. weapons into jihadist hands. The segment also highlighted <em>John McCain&#8217;s Syria Odyssey.</em><strong><em> </em></strong></p>
<p><strong>Part II</strong> featured an analysis of: <em>The Secrets of Benghazi, </em>zeroing in what more disturbing tales will be revealed by the emerging new whistle-blowers. The discussion was followed by a spotlight on:<strong> </strong><em>Huma Abedin: The Scariest Person in America</em>?, which exposed the danger posed by the wife of a prospective NYC mayor being a Muslim Brotherhood operative.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t miss this BLOCKBUSTER episode of the Murrell Gang, filled with intellectual discussion, dramatic fireworks and lot&#8217;s of sharp wit and laughter..</p>
<p>Watch both parts of the two part-series below:</p>
<p><strong>Part I:</strong></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 04:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem when the wife of a prospective NYC mayor is a Muslim Brotherhood operative. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/weiner23n-5-web.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-191240" alt="weiner23n-5-web" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/weiner23n-5-web-450x337.jpg" width="270" height="202" /></a>Anthony Weiner recently announced his intention to run for mayor of New York City. As a resident living in Manhattan, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was right on the money when he said &#8220;shame on us&#8221; if New York City voters elect Weiner as their mayor. Governor Cuomo now says he was just kidding. But even the possibility of a Weiner victory is no joke.</span></p>
<p>Weiner&#8217;s foolish sexting, which brought an abrupt and disgraceful end to his congressional term, displays a serious lack of judgment that alone should disqualify him. But that is only a side show to the main problem that a Mayor Weiner would pose to the welfare of New Yorkers.  His Muslim wife, Huma Abedin, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#8217;s deputy chief of staff and close confidante, is said to be the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/24/nyregion/huma-abedin-is-an-unexpected-driving-force-in-weiners-comeback.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0">driving force behind her husband&#8217;s decision</a> to run for the most important office of America&#8217;s largest city. She even reportedly pushed someone she had previously worked with to serve as Weiner&#8217;s campaign manager. If Weiner becomes mayor, Abedin will be in a position to shape her husband&#8217;s policies from behind the scenes on such sensitive matters as law enforcement and city counterterrorism.</p>
<p>Huma Abedin has been an integral part of the Abedin family Islamist enterprise, which has links to jihadist groups. Although born in the United States, she grew up in Saudi Arabia, where her parents were recruited by Abdullah Omar Naseef (an extremist affiliated with al-Qaeda and the Muslim World League) to establish an organization known as the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA). The purpose of IMMA was to counter Muslim assimilation in non-Muslim societies and promote the idea of ummah, the Muslim &#8220;nation,&#8221; with sharia law as its core. Huma&#8217;s father founded IMMA&#8217;s Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, now run by Abedin&#8217;s mother, Saleha Mahmood Abedin, who is a pro-sharia sociologist with ties to numerous Islamist organizations, including the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>IMMA&#8217;s &#8220;Muslim Minority Affairs&#8221; agenda was, and remains to this day, an important component of the foreign policy of the Saudi Ministry of Religious Affairs, designed, as <a href="http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2012/08/17/huma-abedins-muslim-minority-affairs-its-not-just-a-journal/?singlepage=true">Andrew C. McCarthy explains</a>, &#8220;to grow an unassimilated, aggressive population of Islamic supremacists who will gradually but dramatically alter the character of the West.&#8221;</p>
<p>To those who claim that Huma&#8217;s marriage to Anthony Weiner, a Jew, proves that she is fully assimilated and does not guide her life by the dictates of sharia law, former Muslim Brotherhood member <a href="http://www.shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Abedin_Affairs_with_Al_Saud_0813122.pdf">Walid Shoebat</a> responds:</p>
<blockquote><p>While the media argues that Huma marrying a Jew is evidence of her assimilation, in actuality it is more the reason for suspicion, especially since her mother is a Muslim Brotherhood leader who never denounced the marriage. That with Huma’s years of service as part of a Wahhabi scheme provides more concerns.</p></blockquote>
<p>Huma&#8217;s formative years were spent in Saudi Arabia absorbing her parents&#8217; &#8220;Muslim Minority Affairs&#8221; agenda. She returned to the United States from Saudi Arabia to attend George Washington University, where <a href="http://shoebat.com/2012/08/15/well-whaddya-know-huma-abedin-was-a-muslim-students-association-board-member/">she was an executive board member of George Washington University&#8217;s Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Muslim Students Association</a>. The creation of the Muslim Students Association had resulted from Saudi-backed efforts to establish Islamic organizations internationally in the 1960s, for the purpose of spreading Wahhabist ideology across the globe. It is not surprising that Huma gravitated towards this organization when she left Saudi Arabia to attend college in the United States.</p>
<p>Huma also carried out her parents&#8217; work. She served as an assistant editor for the IMMA&#8217;s Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs for twelve years, leaving shortly before she joined Hillary Clinton&#8217;s State Department in 2009.  Her brother Hassan Abedin and sister Heba Abedin still serve in that capacity. The first seven of the years in which Huma was an assistant editor overlapped with the al-Qaeda-affiliated Naseef&#8217;s active presence at IMMA, including one year in which Huma and Naseef served together on the editorial board of the journal.</p>
<p>While Huma was at the State Department, in Hillary Clinton&#8217;s inner circle, the Obama administration purged government materials of any references to Islamic jihad or Islamism as the underlying ideology fueling the jihadist attacks around the world. Hillary Clinton, who considered Huma to be both a trusted adviser and like a daughter to her, worked closely with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to fight &#8220;Islamophobia&#8221; in the United States.</p>
<p>Also during her stay at the State Department, the Obama administration adopted the strong recommendation of Islamist advocacy groups to purge all federal government training materials of any references they considered to be Islamophobic and to implement a mandatory re-training program. Terms like Islam, Muslim, Koran, jihad, Muslim Brotherhood, caliphate, and shariah law were considered out of bounds when used in the context of explaining the ideology motivating the jihadist attacks around the world. In short, the truth about sharia law and the Koranic verses used by jihadists to justify their rampages must not have any place in law enforcement training.</p>
<p>As Andrew McCarthy put it, &#8220;to perceive no correlation between the Islamists&#8217; fervid anti-assimilation program and the United States government&#8217;s stunning accommodation of the Brotherhood and its agenda is to be willfully blind.&#8221;</p>
<p>A Weiner-Abedin mayoralty partnership would no doubt bring this accommodative thinking to New York City and eliminate the highly successful, multi-faceted counter-terrorism strategy put into place by the New York Police Department since 9/11 under the able leadership of Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. The program has been working so effectively, in fact, that the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Council on American-Islamic Relations has called for Kelly&#8217;s resignation.</p>
<p>At present, the odds of Anthony Weiner becoming mayor of New York City are slim, given the intense competition he will be facing in the Democratic Party primary and the doubts many voters will continue to harbor about his judgment and maturity. However, if Weiner does prevail, Huma Abedin&#8217;s Islamist associates will be the winners. New Yorkers will be the losers.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 04:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Muslim Brotherhood-linked Clinton aide has more than one "conflict of interest" in her closet.]]></description>
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<p>Huma Abedin, former Secretary of State Hillary&#8217;s Clinton&#8217;s long time aide with extensive ties to Muslim Brotherhood groups, was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/nyregion/weiners-wife-huma-abedin-failed-to-disclose-consulting-work-done-while-a-state-dept-aide.html?_r=1&amp;">granted</a> an arrangement by the State Department to do outside consulting work, even as she remained a top advisor in the Department. Abedin did not disclose either the arrangement, or how much she earned from it, on her financial report, despite a requirement that public officials must disclose significant sources of income. Clinton advisor Philippe Reines contended she was under no obligation to do so.</p>
<p>Abedin, who has served Clinton for 15 years, became a “special government employee” when she returned from maternity leave in June 2012, according to an unidentified source familiar with the arrangement. According to several sources who <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/huma-abedin-consultant-state-91503.html">spoke</a> to <i>Politico</i>, Abedin did work for outside clients, and one of her friends confirmed they totaled four entities in all: the State Department, Hillary Clinton, the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation and Teneo, a firm co-founded by Doug Band, a former counselor for Bill Clinton.</p>
<p>Teneo, which <a href="http://teneoholdings.com/pages/businesses">promotes</a> itself as a company that &#8220;brings together the disciplines of government and public affairs, investor and public relations and investment banking advisory in an integrated approach that allows us to provide clients with unparalleled strategic counsel and operational support,&#8221; has advised clients such as Coca Cola and MF Global, the brokerage firm that went bankrupt while it was being run by Jon Corzine, former Governor of New Jersey, and big-donor <a href="http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-roff/2012/04/26/biased-media-ignores-shady-obama-jon-corzine-connection">&#8220;bundler&#8221; </a>for Barack Obama&#8217;s re-election campaign.</p>
<p>The disclosure was revealed as Abedin&#8217;s husband, disgraced former Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner, has begun preparations for a New York City mayoral run next year in an attempt to resuscitate his career. The city’s Conflict of Interest Board requires mayoral candidates to disclose personal financial information, including spousal sources of income, but that part of a candidate&#8217;s filing is not made public. Furthermore, because Abedin relinquished her job as deputy chief of staff last June, that change abrogated her requirement to disclose private earnings for the rest of the year on her own disclosure forms. The change of Abedin&#8217;s employment status was done so quietly, she continued to be identified in news reports as employed in her former job. On March 1, Abedin was tapped to run Clinton&#8217;s post-State Department transition team, <a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/05/huma-abedin-had-incredibly-sweet-deal-state-department/65336/">comprised</a> of a six-person &#8220;transition office&#8221; located in Washington.</p>
<p>Good government groups have questioned the potential conflict of interest that representing the public, while maintaining private clients, suggests. “If she was being held out as a deputy chief of staff, it would be highly unusual for her to be a part-time employee or a consultant,” said Melanie Sloane, executive director of CREW, an ethics watchdog group. “Being a deputy chief of staff at the State Department is generally considered more than a full-time job.”</p>
<p>It is not clear what role, if any, Hillary Clinton played in approving Abedin&#8217;s transition to her new job. State Department officials, as well as people who work with the Clintons, refused to talk on the record about the arrangement. And while Weiner released a copy of the couple’s 2012 tax return revealing income of more than $490,000, he also declined to discuss what portion of that income was earned by Abedin apart from her job at State, which paid her around $135,000 for the year. The remaining amount of approximately $365,000 combines consulting fees for both husband and wife, sources said.</p>
<p>The change in Abedin&#8217;s status permitted her to work from home in New York, rather than at the State Department&#8217;s headquarters in Washington, D.C., allowing her to spend more time with her husband and child. While Abedin was pregnant, Weiner was forced to resign from his congressional seat when it was discovered that he had Tweeted sexually charged messages, as well as nude photos of himself, to several women. Weiner vehemently denied the allegations at first, saying his account had been hacked. But mounting political pressure forced him to admit the truth and abruptly resign.</p>
<p>Abedin&#8217;s arrangement is similar to those of other Clinton loyalists who received compensation for their work on Clinton&#8217;s government staff, and her political action committee, while she was a U.S. Senator from New York. Furthermore, while there is no exact number of State Department officials who have a similar arrangement, a Department source told <i>Politico</i> it was &#8220;not uncommon.&#8221;</p>
<p>Perhaps not. But Abedin is anything but a common government employee. While the mainstream media remains temporarily focused on Abedin&#8217;s role with regard to her husband&#8217;s political campaign, it remains calculatingly incurious about her work with the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation, and the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/18/clinton.donations/">tens of millions</a> of dollars in donations it has received from such entities as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the governments of Kuwait and Qatar, Saudi businessman Nasser Al-Rashid, who has close ties to the Saudi royal family, Sheikh Mohammed H. Al-Amoudi, reputed to be one of the richest men in the world, and a group called Friends of Saudi Arabia and the Dubai Foundation.</p>
<p>Abedin&#8217;s earlier career also remains below the radar as well. She began working with Hillary Clinton in 1996, as the then-First Lady&#8217;s intern. She remained a loyal staffer as Clinton transitioned to the Senate, and the State Department.</p>
<p>During part of that time, Abedin had another job as well. From 1996-2008, she also <a href="http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2012/07/27/huma-abedins-brotherhood-ties-are-not-just-a-family-affair/">worked</a> as assistant editor of the <i>Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs </i>(JMMA), a publication founded by Abdullah Omar Naseef.</p>
<p>Naseef was also secretary general of the Muslim World League in Saudi Arabia, a highly significant Muslim Brotherhood organization Osama Bin Laden once <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/110.pdf">characterized</a> as one of his terrorist group&#8217;s chief funding sources.</p>
<p>Using that connection, Naseef founded the Rabita Trust, a designated terrorist organization. In the late seventies, he hired Abedin’s parents to run his newly formed Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA). Editing its journal has remained a family enterprise to this day, and Naseef&#8217;s tenure as a member of the journal&#8217;s advisory editorial board, seven years of which coincided with Huma&#8217;s Abedin&#8217;s tenure there, lasted until 2003&#8211;the same year he was named as a defendant in a civil case brought by victims of 9/11. Naseef was dropped from the suit in 2010, when a court decided it lacked jurisdiction over him.</p>
<p>Dr. Saleha Abedin, Huma&#8217;s mother, still edits the JMMA. She took over when Huma&#8217;s father, Syed Zainul Abedin, passed away. Both of Abedin&#8217;s parents, as well as her brother, Hassan Abedin, have deep, <a href="http://www.shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Bachmann-Final_072312.pdf">documented</a> ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Furthermore, her mother runs the International Islamic Committee for Woman and Child, which is part of yet another terror-designated organization known as the Union of Good.</p>
<p>It remains impossible to understand how Abedin received security clearance to work at the State Department, which allows her access to top-secret documents. Even if one makes the case that she should not be tainted by the dubious relationships maintained by her family members, it is impossible to disassociate her from her own relationship with Abdullah Omar Naseef and his organization.</p>
<p>Yet in a testament to the power of PC-inspired denial, when these and other sordid relationships were documented in a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120619160835/http://bachmann.house.gov/uploadedfiles/ig_letter_dept_of_state.pdf">letter</a> sent by Reps. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Trent Franks (R-AZ), Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA), and Tom Rooney (R-FL) to the State Department’s Deputy Inspector General, politicians in both parties, as well as the mainstream media, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/guest-voices/post/bachmann-affair-against-clinton-aide-huma-abedin-is-a-wake-up-call/2012/07/26/gJQAFHP4BX_blog.html">accused</a> Bachmann of engaging in a McCarthy-esque smear campaign.</p>
<p>The letter to the Inspector General was <a href="http://patriotaction.net/forum/topics/did-huma-abedin-s-ties-to-muslim-brotherhood-cause-her-to-quietly">sent</a> in June, the same month Abedin relinquished her position as deputy chief of staff. Whether one assumes this to be a mere coincidence or not, there is no denying that Abedin&#8217;s change in status was kept secret for nearly a year. The Obama administration could quickly put an end to this controversy by revealing the contents of Abedin&#8217;s responses contained in <a href="http://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf86.pdf">Standard Form 86</a>, a &#8220;Questionnaire for National Security Positions.&#8221; That questionnaire should have been completed prior to Abedin serving in her capacity at State beginning in 2009.</p>
<p>No doubt a State Department up to its neck in the Benghazi scandal is too busy to respond.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 16:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>If anything should disqualify Hillary Clinton from ever holding office,<a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/clinton-foundation-proves-american-liberal-sell-out-to-foreign-interests"> it would be the donor list </a>for her husband&#8217;s foundation. The Saudis kicked in between 10 and 25 million dollars. Kuwait pitched in somewhere from 5 to 10 million dollars.</p>
<p>Qatar, Oman, Friends of Saudi Arabia, the Dubai Foundation, run by the UAE royals, Sheikh Mohammed H. Al-Amoudi, the second richest Saudi, Nasser Al-Rashid, a billionaire advisor to the Saudi royal family, Walid Juffali, another Saudi billionaire, kicked in millions more.</p>
<p>Bill Clinton was hired on by Teneo Capital, created by Clinton advisors and fundraisers. Teneo has an office in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.</p>
<p>Clinton had to change his relationship to Teneo, but<a href="http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2013/05/17/humas-moonlighting-no-problem-just-dont-mention-her-crescent-lighting/?singlepage=true"> Huma Abedin &#8220;consulted&#8221; with the Clinton Foundation</a> and Teneo, despite her position with Hillary Clinton.</p>
<blockquote><p>It seems Ms. Abedin, accurately described by the New York Times as Hillary Rodham Clinton’s  ”longtime aide and confidante,” spent her last months at the State Department not really at the State Department. Despite maintaining her title as Secretary of State Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, she was permitted, upon returning to government service from maternity leave in mid-2012, to remain at home&#8230;</p>
<p>While the State Department was paying her $135,000 as a “special government employee,” Abedin was also permitted to moonlight as a “strategic consultant” for Teneo&#8230;</p>
<p>In addition, Abedin found time in her busy “special government employee”  schedule to do consultant work for the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation.</p>
<p>With that familiar Clinton flare, Abedin did not disclose her consultant income on government financial disclosure forms. According to the State Department, you see, her new “part-time” position as “special government employee” meant the usual disclosure requirements did not apply to her … notwithstanding that, the Atlantic Wire reports, Abedin continued to be referred to in official documents as deputy chief of staff to the United States secretary of state.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is the usual way the Clinton Gang does business, but it&#8217;s also more than just corruption. Huma Abedin has deep Saudi ties and working with the Clinton Foundation, she was getting Saudi money funneled through a former President of the United States, while serving as the closest aide to his wife, who is seeking to be the next President of the United States.</p>
<p>The questions don&#8217;t end here. Abedin reportedly consulted for four clients. Who were the other two? And what topics did Huma Abedin cover for them?</p>
<p>The irony is that this information is coming out as Weiner begins his bid for Mayor of New York. Suddenly Huma Abedin&#8217;s finances and conflicts of interest are becoming the scandal, instead of his photos.</p>
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<p>So what was Mr. Huma Abedin doing after his retirement from politics and before his return to public life? The early profiles suggested that he sat around all day moping on the couch and learning how to speak entirely in cliches from self-help books. The reality is that he made more money than his wife did by cashing in on two liberal boondoggles.</p>
<p>ObamaCare and Green Energy.</p>
<p>Anthony Weiner&#8217;s post-scandal career is <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/nyregion/jobless-after-scandal-weiner-triumphs-in-corporate-world.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss">an education in crony capitalism and progressive payoffs</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Anthony D. Weiner has demystified the details of the 906-page Affordable Care Act for an electronic medical records company.</p>
<p>He has counseled a biofuel firm about expansion into the emerging markets of Latin America and Africa. And he has plunged into the world of start-ups with his own green energy business&#8230;</p>
<p>During an interview, he proudly declared that “I am a good capitalist.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Weiner has the same career as every second politician, exploiting his insider status and political experience to help companies find ways to cash in on government subsidies and programs.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s not good capitalism. That&#8217;s crony capitalism.</p>
<blockquote><p>As he weighs whether to leap into the race for mayor this year, Mr. Weiner’s lucrative stint in business could serve as a compelling campaign credential, blunting efforts to portray him as a career politician, even as it raises uncomfortable questions about the speed with which he cashed in on his government connections.</p></blockquote>
<p>Best credential ever. Vote for me and afterward I&#8217;ll find ways to cash in on all the policies that I claimed were needed for your own good.</p>
<blockquote><p>He and his wife, Huma Abedin, a longtime aide to Hillary Rodham Clinton, disclosed last week that they had a combined income of $496,000 in 2012, most of it from Mr. Weiner’s work. The money provided a lifestyle-changing infusion for the couple, who moved from a modest home in Forest Hills, Queens, to a large apartment on Park Avenue South in Manhattan.</p></blockquote>
<p>So hilariously, being forced to resign made Weiner and Abedin rich.</p>
<blockquote><p>On six different occasions during the interview, he marveled at his own aptitude for business. “I found I am pretty good at it,” he said at one point, adding that he “didn’t have to do very much or work very hard to drum up business.”</p>
<p>“Things kind of came over the transom,” he explained.</p></blockquote>
<p>Call me a horrible cynic, but what are the odds that the transom was part of Weiner&#8217;s retirement package? Stop protesting and apologizing and resign&#8230; and we&#8217;ll send you a whole lot of lucrative consulting gigs.</p>
<blockquote><p>Mr. Weiner has advised Covington &amp; Burling as it seeks to persuade the Federal Communications Commission to relax its long-standing objections to major foreign investment in the broadcast industry.</p></blockquote>
<p>Covington &amp; Burling, <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/11/18/culture-of-corruption-holder-terrorists-covington-burling/">Holder&#8217;s old law firm,</a> represented quite a few of the Gitmo terrorists. It has an extensive presence in the Middle East, with an entire branch specializing in, among other things, Islamic law, and has worked with the Saudi, Qatari and Pakistani governments. It has offices in Saudi Arabia where the Abedins hang out.</p>
<p>Nothing to see here. Not a thing.</p>
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		<title>Secretary of State Huma Abedin?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 04:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inseparable from Hillary Clinton, how high will the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrator go?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/full_1308239855humahillary.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-187686" alt="full_1308239855humahillary" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/full_1308239855humahillary.jpg" width="273" height="211" /></a>In 2017, Huma Abedin may be the wife of the mayor of New York City or the National Security Adviser to the President of the United States. It’s even possible that she might be both.</p>
<p>Huma Abedin’s husband, Anthony Weiner, was once the front-runner for the top job. Weiner’s career was temporarily torpedoed by a sex scandal, but a weak campaign field has tempted him back into the race and already positioned him at the number two spot.</p>
<p>Weiner’s competition is a lesbian City Council speaker, who is seen as a Bloomberg toady, a Comptroller who may soon be headed to jail for campaign finance fraud and a radical leftist Public Advocate who quotes Che and whose wife once claimed to be a lesbian.</p>
<p>In that company, Weiner no longer looks as freakish as he once did and with a $4.3 million war chest, he could win by drowning his Democratic opponents in cash and then fundraising all over again during the general election when he becomes the only alternative to a Republican mayor.</p>
<p>Bloomberg proved that even an unpopular candidate despised by most voters could win elections by flooding community and interest groups with cash and Weiner’s biggest asset isn’t even his war chest; it’s his connection to the Clintons. Weiner’s connection to a Clinton White House means more money for the city and that is something that his party and most community groups are eager to get a taste of.</p>
<p>The woman at the heart of that connection is his wife. Media reports say that Huma Abedin is the one to decide whether Weiner runs and the existence of the New York Times Magazine image rehab profile makes it clear that she has already decided. But no one really believed that Huma Abedin would have stayed married to a formerly promising politician who would never again run for public office.</p>
<p>The only thing standing between Huma Abedin and Gracie Mansion is Joe Lhota, a balding Giuliani official and Weiner’s likely Republican opponent, whose biggest asset is the Giuliani brand.  Lhota is pitching himself as a libertarian alternative to the Bloombergian nanny state, but the chances are still good that the Clinton machine will roll over him on Election Day.</p>
<p>For most politicians, Gracie Mansion is the last stop of their political careers. Ed Koch, the last mayor to try and move to higher office, couldn’t make it. Lindsay took a shot at the White House in 1972 and Weiner likely has dreams of following in his footsteps. It’s an unlikely project, but if Weiner climbs into the top spot in the city, it will only be as a stepping stone to higher office.</p>
<p>By then Huma Abedin is likely to have an even bigger place in the political sun. Bill Clinton traded his support in the last election for the coronation of his wife. Hillary Clinton does have a likability problem, despite the media’s best efforts to pretend otherwise, and she lost the last time she was the inevitable candidate for the Democratic Party nomination. But 2016 could be her year.</p>
<p>The prospective Democratic presidential candidates for 2016 include such charismatic figures as Joe Biden, Maryland Governor Martin “Rain Tax” O’Malley and New York’s Machiavellian governor Andrew Cuomo. It’s the kind of race that even Hillary might be able to win. And then it’s up to the Republican Party to put up a candidate who can communicate better than any of its candidates have in the last generation.</p>
<p>President Hillary Clinton is almost certain to take along Huma Abedin. The two women were virtually inseparable and politicians like to keep their close confidants and aides by their side. Huma Abedin served as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Hillary Clinton during her Secretary of State days. Jake Sullivan, the last man to hold it before the Kerry era, moved on to become the State Department’s director of policy planning and then became the national security advisor to Joe Biden.</p>
<p>Moving Huma Abedin over into a job like the director of policy planning would allow her to reshape the State Department’s foreign policy worldview. And from there it would not be impossible to move her up to National Security Advisor or even Secretary of State.</p>
<p>Both of those positions might be a little too high profile for Abedin who works best in the shade. A 2007 Observer profile of her struggled to dig up any information on her official role, and whether with Clinton or Weiner, she has stuck to the background part.</p>
<p>The controversy that flared up over her background shows why she avoids the spotlight. With close family members, including her parents, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/jamie-glazov/the-dark-muslim-brotherhood-world-of-huma-abedin-2/">involved in the Muslim Brotherhood</a> and her own work at their <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1615">Institute for Muslim Minority Affairs</a>, which was set up by the Saudis and Muslim Brotherhood to build a fifth column of Islamization within the United States; Huma Abedin has every reason to be the woman behind the man or the woman behind the woman.</p>
<p>The Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs, founded by Abdullah Omar Naseef, a Muslim Brotherhood player who has been accused of funding Al Qaeda front groups, is not an ideal mention on any resume. And yet few Republicans have been willing to challenge Huma Abedin when she was serving as the Deputy Chief of Staff for the Secretary of State. Would they be willing to challenge an emboldened Secretary of State Huma Abedin?</p>
<p>Obama has set a precedent that background checks are passé. So who’s going to do one on Huma Abedin?</p>
<p>By 2014, Huma Abedin may be married to the mayor of the biggest city in the country. By 2018, she may be the National Security Advisor.</p>
<p>It would be a rapid ascension, but the process of moving agents of influence up the ladder has shredded the normal seasoning process that would usually required for the top spots. The Center for American Progress’ Denis McDonough went from being an aide to an advisor to the Deputy National Security Advisor to the Chief of Staff in a handful of years. It would not be too hard to imagine Abedin making the same rush up the ladder while the media gushes at her ambition and her posh designer handbags.</p>
<p>In an age of terror and appeasement, Huma Abedin’s Muslim background is her best credential. The close collaboration between the Obama and Clinton foreign policy infrastructure and the Muslim Brotherhood makes her own Muslim Brotherhood background another plus.</p>
<p>What seems like treason to most ordinary Americans is ideologically convenient to a political and diplomatic clique that believes empowering “moderate” Islamists is our best defense against Al Qaeda. Placing Huma Abedin in a position where she can shape American foreign policy would be their show of sincerity to the Brotherhood.</p>
<p>None of this is inevitable. Another Twitter scandal could sink Weiner’s comeback and a more likable Democrat could pull together enough support and media adoration to challenge Hillary Clinton. And the work of researchers and investigators could still sink Huma Abedin the way it sank Susan Rice.</p>
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		<title>Anthony &#8220;Huma&#8221; Weiner Preparing to Run for Mayor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Once upon a time, Weiner was a shoe-in to be the next mayor of New York City. But then he took a bit of a fall. And now the creepy couple of Huma and Anthony are plotting a comeback in celebrity profile style.</p>
<p>The New York Times Mag cover story is titled Huma and Anthony. The emphasis is Huma to act as the beard, even if some have speculated that Weiner is her beard. They&#8217;re just ordinary people. Weiner protects Huma against the Muslim Brotherhood links and lesbian rumors and Huma Abedin protects him against the whole out-of-control Twitter problem.</p>
<p>If Weiner pushes ahead, he will be going into a primary against the front-running lesbian, Christine Quinn,  <a href="http://empirestatetribune.com/?p=9625">Bill de Blasio</a>, who is <a href="http://observer.com/2010/06/the-battle-for-bill-de-blasios-soul/">slightly to the left of Joseph Stalin</a>, and John Liu, who may be an agent of Communist China and may be headed to jail over campaign finance fraud&#8211; the investigation is still running.</p>
<p>This entire mess gives you some idea of why Weiner may have a shot. Sure he messed around on Twitter, but the alternative is a woman who claims to be a 100 percent lesbian&#8230; and is accepted by most people because she seems reasonably competent.</p>
<p>Most of the bloggers writing angry pieces about Bloomberg don&#8217;t understand that he won 3 terms because the alternatives were so much worse. The Bloomberg effect is why Weiner may have a shot. Sure he&#8217;s bad, but it keeps Bill be Blasio from declaring the People&#8217;s Republic of Manhattazlan and prevents John Liu from putting the entire treasury into a briefcase and flying off to Dubai.</p>
<p>So Weiner is reinventing himself as a family man. As another Bill Clinton who screwed up but now his marriage is fixed. And you can&#8217;t count him out.</p>
<p>His advantages include being the best known candidate in the race and the one who has been piling up cash for a while. And his connections to the Clinton Mafia certainly don&#8217;t hurt. The Clintons have built up a power base in New York City and they reward loyalty and accept transgression. And after all that, the Democratic Party may believe that Weiner is the best choice to ward off a possible Ray Kelly run on the Republican line that is almost certain to squash a De Blasio or a Liu. And even Joe Lhota, with Giuliani campaigning for him non-stop, might be able to mount a formidable challenge.</p>
<p>So what do we learn from the Times profile. Huma Abedin doesn&#8217;t drink and initially had no interest whatsoever in Weiner. Some people choose not to drink. Others don&#8217;t do it for religious reasons. Maybe Huma just didn&#8217;t find Weiner interesting, or maybe there were obvious reasons why she wasn&#8217;t going to date him&#8230; until Hillary Clinton kept pushing them together.</p>
<p>Weiner says of Abedin “She is the most competent, graceful person I’ve met in all my years in politics. . . . And she’s the hatchet woman! The person at the side of the principal is usually the bad guy.”</p>
<p>Funny that.</p>
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		<title>Video: Jamie Glazov Defends Michele Bachmann</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 04:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frontpage editor exposes the unholy alliance fueling the vicious witch-hunt against a heroic truth-teller.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/frontpagemag-com/video-jamie-glazov-defends-michele-bachmann/here-12/" rel="attachment wp-att-173926"><img class=" wp-image-173926 alignleft" title="here" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/here.jpg" alt="" width="280" height="166" /></a><strong>To sign the Freedom Center&#8217;s  petition to stop the witch-hunt against Rep. Michele Bachmann,  <a href="http://frontpagemag.net/witch-hunt">click here</a>. And  please spread the word about this petition far and wide!</strong></p>
<p>Frontpage&#8217;s editor Jamie Glazov recently joined Robert Spencer on his show on <a href="http://www.abnsat.com/">ABNSat.com</a> to discuss the attacks against Rep. Michele Bachmann and the Unholy Alliance behind them. Dr. Glazov sheds light on the dark forces that engender this kind of vicious attack on a heroic truth-teller. Watch the whole interview below:</p>
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<p><strong>To read and order Frank Gaffney’s pamphlet, <em>The Muslim Brotherhood in the Obama Administration</em>, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/frank-gaffney/the-muslim-brotherhood-in-the-obama-administration/">click here</a>.</strong></p>
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		<title>&#8216;People For the American Way&#8217; Smears Michele Bachmann</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 04:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Perazzo]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another radical leftist organization blinds itself to Muslim Brotherhood penetration of the U.S. government -- and attacks a heroic truth-teller.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/john-perazzo/people-for-the-american-way-smears-michele-bachmann/pfaw/" rel="attachment wp-att-173661"><img class="size-full wp-image-173661 alignleft" title="pfaw" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/pfaw.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="178" /></a><strong>To read and order Frank Gaffney&#8217;s pamphlet, <em>The Muslim Brotherhood in the Obama Administration</em>, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/frank-gaffney/the-muslim-brotherhood-in-the-obama-administration/">click here</a>.</strong></p>
<p>Last June, Rep. Michele Bachmann and four Republican colleagues sent <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/2chambers/post/john-boehner-accusations-against-huma-abedin-pretty-dangerous/2012/07/19/gJQAeDT6vW_blog.html">letters</a> to the Inspectors General at the Departments of Homeland Security, Justice, and State, asking them to investigate whether the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6386">Muslim Brotherhood</a>—the ideological wellspring from which such terrorist outfits as al Qaeda and Hamas first emerged—might be gaining undue influence over high-level U.S. government officials. One letter, for instance, noted that <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=18">Hillary Clinton</a>&#8216;s closest aide, her deputy chief of staff <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2556">Huma Abedin</a>, “has three family members … connected to Muslim Brotherhood operatives and/or organizations.”</p>
<p>A few days ago, when Bachmann was reassigned to the House Select Committee on Intelligence, the left-wing activist group, People For the American Way (PFAW)—which had originally launched an unsuccessful petition drive to have the congresswoman removed from that Committee last year—decided to revive that effort. By PFAW&#8217;s telling, some <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/14/michele-bachmann-petition_n_2472682.html">178,000</a> people have signed the petition thus far.</p>
<p>According to PFAW president Michael Keegan, Rep. Bachmann&#8217;s warnings amount to nothing more than a “<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/michele-bachmann-back-intelligence-committee-still-spouting-conspiracy-theories">smear campaign</a>” of “<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/14/michele-bachmann-petition_n_2472682.html">baseless conspiracy theories</a>” designed to ruin “the reputations of honorable public servants.” PFAW spokesman Drew Courtney accuses Bachmann of engaging in “<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/01/08/bachmann-intelligence-committee-congress/1818361/">reckless extremism</a>” aimed chiefly at “making headlines and pandering to the Tea Party.” And PFAW&#8217;s online strategy manager, Ben Betz, <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/01/08/bachmann-intelligence-committee-congress/1818361/">derides</a> Bachmann&#8217;s “Islamaphobic fear mongering” and her “disregard for honesty.” These accusations are entirely consistent with PFAW&#8217;s <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/the-right-wing-playbook-anti-muslim-extremism#intro">previous claims</a> that “right-wing anti-Muslim activists,” filled with “anti-Muslim paranoia,” routinely “demoniz[e]” and “vilif[y]” members of the Islamic faith in an effort to stoke Americans&#8217; “irrational fears.” Such conservative activists, says PFAW, “sanction and encourage [the] persecution” of Muslims while aiming to “prevent” them from “freely worshiping and practicing their religion.”</p>
<p>These very serious allegations about a sitting Member of Congress raise a single, obvious question: Are Bachmann&#8217;s stated concerns about Huma Abedin and others associated with radical Islamic organizations unfounded or illogical in any way? The evidence suggests otherwise:</p>
<p>From 1996-2008, Ms. Abedin was employed as an <a href="http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2012/08/09/our-government-and-the-muslim-brotherhood-my-speech-in-washington/?singlepage=true">assistant editor</a> of a publication produced by the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7747">Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs</a> (IMMA), a group founded and developed by her parents. As the intrepid journalist <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/jamie-glazov/huma-abedin-and-the-saudi-king’s-manifesto-1/print/">Walid Shoebat</a> has made <a href="http://www.shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Abedin_Affairs_with_Al_Saud_081312.pdf">plain</a>, “Muslim Minority Affairs” refers unequivocally to a calculated foreign policy of the Saudi Ministry of Religious Affairs, designed to: (a) persuade Muslims who reside in non-Muslim lands to consciously refrain from assimilating into the cultures of their host countries; (b) advance an agenda based on fundamentalist Wahhabi teachings and Sharia Law; (c) gradually shift the demographic scales by means of Muslim population growth in the host countries; and (d) eventually reach a critical mass that tilts those societies toward majority-Muslim status and membership in the Muslim commonwealth. Key to this process is the influence of Muslim Brotherhood affiliates and support groups like the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6178">Islamic Society of North America</a>, the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6175">Muslim Students Association</a>, and the IMMA.</p>
<p>But, according to PFAW, there&#8217;s nothing to see here, so don&#8217;t trouble yourself with any of this information; it&#8217;s really just an old-fashioned “smear campaign.” And, presumably, we are likewise expected to believe that only a delusional “right-wing” bigot could possibly feel even the barest shred of concern regarding <em>other</em> Muslim Brotherhood affiliates with similarly close ties to the Obama administration.</p>
<p>Consider Arif Alikhan, who <a href="http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=104597">joined</a> President Obama&#8217;s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2009.  Previously, Alikhan had helped <a href="http://counterjihadreport.com/tag/stealth-jihadists-2/">derail</a> the Los Angeles Police Department&#8217;s <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/04/26/want-to-know-just-how-close-the-muslim-brotherhood-is-to-the-obama-admin/">efforts</a> to monitor the activities of that city&#8217;s well-known radical mosques and madrassas (where some of the 9/11 hijackers, in fact, had received support from local residents).  Shortly prior to his DHS appointment, Alikhan <a href="http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=104597">participated</a> in a fundraiser for the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6177">Muslim Public Affairs Council</a>, an organization founded by <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/313257/history-mpac-andrew-c-mccarthy">followers</a> of the Muslim Brotherhood and admirers of <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6256">Hezbollah</a>. On another occasion, Alikhan <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/06/obama-appointment-arif-ali-khan-asst-secretary-dhs.html">spoke</a> at a California banquet/fundraiser alongside <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1136">Agha Saeed</a>, a Cal State professor who defended <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6448">Palestinian Islamic Jihad</a> leader <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=671">Sami Al-Arian</a> during the latter&#8217;s prosecution on terrorism charges. But alas, PFAW wouldn&#8217;t want any of us to wade, unwittingly, into the murky waters of “<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/14/michele-bachmann-petition_n_2472682.html">baseless conspiracy theories</a>.”</p>
<p>Then there is Mohamed Elibiary, a Texas-based Islamic <a href="http://www.statesman.com/life/faith/many-muslims-quietly-working-to-head-off-radicalism-216850.html?cxtype=ynews_rss">cleric</a> who <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/2011/11/01/great-moderate-muslim-hope-mohamed-elibiary-leaks-intel-documents/">joined</a>  President Obama&#8217;s Department of Homeland Security in October 2010, even though he had previously <a href="http://pjmedia.com/blog/mccarthyism-and-mohamed-elibiary/">spoken</a> at a Dallas conference titled “A Tribute to the Great Islamic Visionary,” held in honor of none other than the late <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=670">Ayatollah Khomeini</a>. But before you jump to any conclusions about Mr. Elibiary&#8217;s ideological makeup, take a moment to unburden your mind of those pesky “irrational fears” that PFAW has painstakingly traced to the doorstep of “right-wing anti-Muslim activists.”</p>
<p>Along the same lines, who, other than an “Islamophobic fear monger,” would have any misgivings about Rashad Hussain, who has served the Obama administration as a deputy associate counsel and a special envoy to the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7453">Organization of the Islamic Conference</a>, a 57-country coalition that seeks to outlaw any and all criticism of Islamic people, practices, legal codes, and governments? Sure, Hussain once <a href="http://globalmbreport.org/?p=2173">spoke</a> at a <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=4&amp;ved=0CE0QFjAD&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amss.org%2Fpdfs%2F29%2FConference_Program_2000.pdf&amp;ei=tQJ3S8eFFaLJ_gbE19nZCg&amp;usg=AFQjCNHMz_VQcYBUVJBQ5go-DCNk7NnW8Q&amp;sig2=QR-kpP6CsmN7vtg7TvLkXg">conference</a> sponsored by a Muslim Brotherhood <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7418">front group</a> and headlined by numerous leaders of the global Brotherhood movement. And yes, he <a href="http://globalmbreport.org/?p=2173">participated</a> in a panel at an annual convention of the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6146">American Muslim Council</a>, which was then headed by the Muslim Brotherhood leader <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1311">Abdurahman Alamoudi</a>—later convicted and incarcerated on terrorism charges.  And true, in September 2004 Hussain <a href="http://globalmbreport.org/?p=2173">took part</a> in a Muslim Students Association event where he denounced the “politically motivated persecution”  of the terrorist <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=671">Sami Al-Arian</a>. And yes, in 2008 he <a href="http://globalmbreport.org/?p=2173">published</a> a <a href="http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2008/08_counterterrorism_hussain/08_counterterrorism_hussain.pdf">paper</a> that contained a number of recommendations consistent with the agendas and worldviews of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood. But hey, nobody&#8217;s perfect.</p>
<p>And what are we to make of Mohamed Magid, the Virginia-based Imam who was <a href="http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/hsac_cve_working_group_recommendations.pdf">appointed</a> to Obama&#8217;s Department of Homeland Security in 2011? <a href="http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/1291">Claiming</a> that media references to <em>jihad</em> as “holy war” constitute an egregious “misuse” of that term, Magid currently serves as president of America&#8217;s largest Muslim organization, the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6178">Islamic Society of North America</a> (ISNA), which was <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/275.pdf">founded</a> by U.S.-based members of … yes, you guessed it, the Muslim Brotherhood. Moreover, ISNA was <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/275.pdf">named</a> as an unindicted co-conspirator in the prosecution of five officials of the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6181">Holy Land Foundation</a>, the largest terror-financing trial in American history. Ah, but surely PFAW would wisely counsel us not to let “anti-Muslim paranoia” about such trivia spoil our day.</p>
<p>Another character of note is Ingrid Mattson, a Connecticut-based professor of Islam who <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=33960">delivered</a> a prayer at the National Prayer Service, one of the events associated with President Obama&#8217;s 2008 inauguration. In <a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0709/emerson070909.php3">June 2009</a> she was invited by Obama advisor <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2418">Valerie Jarrett</a> to <a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0709/emerson070909.php3">work</a> on the White House Council on Women and Girls.  Mattson, whose resumé features a stint as president of the Islamic Society of North America, has characterized Wahhabism—an extremist, intolerant form of Islam with close <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Spreading%20Saudi%20Fundamentalism.html">ties</a> to Saudi Arabia and terrorism—as “a <a href="http://archives.cnn.com/2001/COMMUNITY/10/18/mattson.cnna/">reform</a> movement &#8230; analogous to the European Protestant Reformation.” If by any chance you were to find this troubling, PFAW would surely remind you to hold your tongue, lest you “sanction and encourage” the “persecution” of Muslims.</p>
<p>In April 2009, Dalia Mogahed, a senior analyst and executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, was <a href="http://islam.about.com/od/currentissues/p/mogahed.htm">appointed</a> by President Obama to serve on his Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, making Mogahed the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/6274387/Obama-adviser-says-Sharia-Law-is-misunderstood.html">first</a> veiled Muslim woman to serve in the White House. She was also assigned to the <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2011/04/287613/">advisory council</a> of Obama&#8217;s Department of Homeland Security. Prior to these appointments, Mogahed had <a href="http://www.gallup.com/consulting/worldpoll/26554/dalia-mogahed.aspx">co-authored</a> a book with Professor <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2197">John Esposito</a>, an apologist for radical Islam and an <a href="http://www.imma.org.uk/editorialboard.htm">editorial board</a> member of the same Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs journal that employed Huma Abedin for a dozen years. In addition, Mogahed&#8217;s research <a href="http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=287613">provided</a> key data for a project by <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2462">Feisal Abdul Rauf</a>, the New York City Imam who was associated with the proposed contruction of the “Ground Zero Mosque.” <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/1904/dalia-mogahed-a-muslim-george-gallup-or-islamist">According</a> to the Investigative Project on Terrorism, Mogahed has <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/1904/dalia-mogahed-a-muslim-george-gallup-or-islamist">stated</a> that most Muslims view Sharia Law as a framework for achieving “a more just society” and the “protection of human rights.” Moreover, she has consistently <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/1904/dalia-mogahed-a-muslim-george-gallup-or-islamist">defended</a> and reached out to Islamist organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America, the Islamic Circle of North America, the Muslim American Society, and the Muslim Public Affairs Council. In September 2008, she <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/1904/dalia-mogahed-a-muslim-george-gallup-or-islamist">stated</a> that it would be unfair for such groups to be “disenfranchised” by a “witch hunt” designed to “malign” them. If you find any of this problematic, you just might be one of those “reckless,” irresponsible “demonizers” whom PFAW deplores.</p>
<p>In February 2009, Eboo Patel was appointed to President Obama&#8217;s Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships.  This same Mr. Patel has <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2011/05/298017/">asserted</a> that “Muslim totalitarians” are hardly distinguishable from “the Christian totalitarians in America,” “the Jewish totalitarians in Israel,” or “the Hindu totalitarians in India.”  At the main <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2011/05/298017/">event</a> of a three-day convention held by the Muslim Students Association in 2011, Patel participated in a panel alongside <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1884">Tariq Ramadan</a> (grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1368">Hasan al-Banna</a>) and <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=716">Siraj Wahhaj</a> (a former Islamic Society of North America vice president who was named as a possible co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing).  And, for good measure, Patel has depicted <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2406">Van Jones</a>, the revolutionary communist who served several months as President Obama&#8217;s “green jobs” czar, as an “<a href="http://www.wnd.com/2011/05/294821/">American patriot</a>,” a “faith hero,” and one of “the true giants of history.” But bite your tongue if you feel an impulse to “demonize” or “vilify” this esteemed presidential adviser.</p>
<p>In the final analysis, we must indeed be grateful for the existence of groups like People For the American Way—ever prepared to alert us to the menacing presence of “right-wing anti-Muslim activists” who would rather “make headlines” with their own brazen rhetoric, than show proper respect for devoted public servants whose only transgression is that they just happen to be supportive of an organization that gave rise to Hamas, al Qaeda, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad; an organization that seeks unequivocally to establish an Islamic caliphate spanning the entire globe; an organization that aims to dismantle all non-Islamic governments wherever they currently exist; an organization that advocates Islamic Law as the sole basis of jurisprudence everywhere on earth; and an organization that unapologetically embraces the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Muslim%20Brotherhood.pdf">credo</a>: “God is our objective, the Koran is our Constitution, the Prophet is our leader, [jihad] is our way, and death for the sake of God is the highest of our aspirations.” Now, what reasonable person could possibly have a problem with any of that?</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Freedom Center pamphlet by Frank Gaffney exposes just how deeply Islamists have infiltrated the White House. ]]></description>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jamie Glazov]]></dc:creator>
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<p><strong>FP: </strong>Walid Shoebat, welcome back to Frontpage. The interview we did last year, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/jamie-glazov/the-dark-muslim-brotherhood-world-of-huma-abedin-2/">The Dark Muslim Brotherhood World of Huma Abedin</a>, has become extremely relevant and I would like to discuss your new highly disturbing findings with you.</p>
<p><strong>Shoebat</strong>: Thanks for having me again Jamie.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Last Friday, President <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/obama-praises-huma-abedin-muslim-american-aide-to-hillary-rodham-clinton/2012/08/10/6fa11532-e354-11e1-98e7-89d659f9c106_blog.html">Obama voiced strong support for Huma</a> Abedin during the Iftar dinner, saying the top aide to Secretary of State Hillary has been “nothing less than extraordinary in representing our country and the democratic values that we hold dear.”</p>
<p>Yet you have presented a 37-page <a href="http://www.shoebat.com/documents/Huma_Brotherhood_Connections_072412.pdf">dossier</a> and WTC 1993 prosecutor Andrew McCarthy has linked the Abedins [<a href="http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2012/07/24/huma-abedin-and-the-muslim-brotherhood-closely-connected/2/">here</a>] and [<a href="http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2012/08/09/our-government-and-the-muslim-brotherhood-my-speech-in-washington/?singlepage=true">here</a>] to two terror supporting supervisors: al-Qaeda financier Abdullah Naseef and the spiritual head of the Muslim Brotherhood Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradwi. Moreover, you have now made a discovery that links the Abedins’ <em>Institute for Muslim Minority Affairs</em> enterprise to a sinister Wahhabist Saudi agenda called <em>Muslim Minority Affairs</em>.  Kindly share your new discovery with us.</p>
<p><strong>Shoebat</strong>: President Obama needs to refute the facts and provide answers that are void of rhetoric. He can’t and he won’t. My findings all started as I was researching Huma’s father “Sayed Zaynul Abedin” in Arabic looking for further clues and suddenly there it was, an unbelievable document commissioned by the late King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz which can be downloaded [<a href="http://d1.islamhouse.com/data/ar/ih_books/single/ar_ghod_king_fahd.pdf">here</a>] and [<a href="http://www.ipc.org.kw/library/download.php?x=2&amp;id=470">here</a>]. I couldn’t believe my eyes. It had a long grandiose and fanciful title:<em> The Efforts of the Servant of the Two Holy Places to Support The Muslim Minorities. </em>It included Huma’s father and his work <em>Muslim Minorities in the West</em> published in 1998 as part of 29 works to construct this conspiratorial manifesto. <a href="http://www.kl28.net/knol7/?p=view&amp;post=1096052&amp;page=30">(#11. P. 134</a>) It explained the <em>Muslim Minority Affairs</em> (hereafter MMA) not simply as a title or as a religious or social entity but as a Saudi foreign policy of the Ministry of Religious Affairs.</p>
<p>It is an entire management system using MMA as the vehicle to catapult MMA to gain specific goals:</p>
<p>1—Recruit individual Muslims that live in non-Muslim lands and transform them as a collective unit by establishing centers, educational programs, mosques and organizations like ISNA and MSA in order to stop Muslim assimilation in non-Muslim host nations.</p>
<p>2—These then can influence the non-Muslim host nations by shifting the demographic scale due to their population growth in favor of the Saudi agenda.</p>
<p>3—A gradual implementation of Sharia will ensue by becoming a major revolutionary powerhouse.</p>
<p>4—This will tilt the host nation in favor of Muslims due to their increase as a population.</p>
<p>5—By this, a transformation then ensues in the host nation to gradually begin to implement a Wahhabi style Sharia.</p>
<p>6—The host state then will join the Muslim commonwealth.</p>
<p>Amazed, I began to research the Abedins’ <em>Institute for Muslim Minority Affairs</em> (hereafter IMMA) from historical accounts and testimonies. The two connected perfectly and what emerged was extremely troubling from a national security perspective: the Abedins for decades were actually serving a foreign entity, the government of Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Islamic Affairs and not American Democracy as President Obama stated. The Abedins’ IMMA is a Saudi-based branch implemented, commissioned and stationed through the same entity that produced this policy to serve Saudi Arabia’s and not American interests.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Ok, but how exactly can you connect the Abedins’ IMMA to the Saudi MMA?</p>
<p><strong>Shoebat:</strong> Easily, we have:</p>
<p>[1] Testimonies.</p>
<p>[2] The hierarchical construct of the Abedins’ IMMA fits the Saudi manifesto MMA chain of command.</p>
<p>and</p>
<p>[3] We have historical references showing IMMA was officially under these authorized organizations that were set up by Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>These make an ironclad case. Here is an example; the manifesto states that:</p>
<blockquote><p>“It [MMA] will work under the umbrella of the Muslim World League (MWL) and International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO) and World Association of Muslim Youth (WAMY) and others” (P. 6, also see P. 23)</p></blockquote>
<p>The <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=fMMf8wd1VeYC&amp;pg=PT217&amp;lpg=PT217&amp;dq=">Arabic Dictionary on Media Icons</a> by Zarkali confirms the above plan fits IMMA:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Sayed Z. Abedin is a specialist on Muslim Minority Affairs issues… In the early 1970&#8242;s, Sayed Z. Abedin went to Saudi Arabia for one year as a visiting professor. He was welcomed by King Abdulaziz University, which provided him the means to create a scholarly program regarding Muslim Minorities. Dr. Abdullah Omar Naseef, the Dean of King Abdulaziz University then envisioned the creation of an academic entity called the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA), under the management of Ahmad Bahafzallah, who was the General Trustee for the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY). Professor Sayed Z. Abedin was encouraged to supervise the Muslim Minority Affairs and served as IMMA&#8217;s chief editor.” (Al-I’lam by Zarkali, is an encyclopedia on major figures in the Arabic-Muslim Media, P.p. 218)</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://aligarhmovement.com/aligarians/abidullah_ghazi/a_ghazi_interview_iv">Abdullah Ghazi</a>, a graduate of Harvard University in Comparative Religion, provides additional testimony as he reminisces about how he met the Abedins:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Later we shifted to Gary in Indiana State, 40 kms from Chicago. In 1976, I met Rabita (MWL) chief Dr. Abdullah Omar Naseef and Dr. Zainul Abedin of Institute for Muslim Minority Affairs. They encouraged me to take up this venture. The first book to come out was Our Prophet, an assignment from King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah at Dr. Naseef’s behest&#8230;”</p></blockquote>
<p>The history of the Abedins’ <em>IMMA</em> and of the Saudi manifesto’s hierarchy for <em>MMA</em> perfectly match. As we see, it was the Muslim World League (MWL) with Abdullah Omar Naseef, a Wahhabist who created IMMA under Ahmad Bahafzallah of World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) to supervise the Abedins.</p>
<p><strong>FP</strong>: What proof can you provide from the manifesto itself regarding the goals you mentioned?</p>
<p><strong>Shoebat:</strong> We provided several snapshots from the manifesto itself:</p>
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<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/two.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-140273" title="two" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/two.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="189" /></a></p>
<p>This snapshot in English says:</p>
<blockquote><p>“The Muslim societies in all continents of the world exist as either ‘Muslim Nation’ or ‘Muslim Minorities’. The assessment to determine what constitutes ‘state’ from a ‘minority state’ is done based on a number of measures. First the numbers scale, which is, if a nation has Muslims exceed half the population and its Constitution states that Islam is its official religion or that Islamic Sharia is its source of law, <em>this state is then considered an Islamic state</em>.” (p.29) “Since the number of Muslims has risen greatly in the last years where they became 1.3 billion Muslims. From these we have (900) million already in Muslim nations. The 400 million live as communities and as Muslim Minority” (p. 31) “… In Africa resides (250) million Muslims and in Europe resides (60) million Muslims and in North America and South America resides (10) million Muslims. So, according to these statistics it is expected that the number of Muslims will reach 2.6 billion six hundred thousand within a short span of time. The Muslims then will become a mighty and effective power in the world, of course, due to the increase in their numbers—then these will shift the demographic balance in their favor.” (p. 32).</p></blockquote>
<p>It actually maps out with statistics and demographic analysis every nation where Muslim minorities exist. Remember, Huma’s mother is an expert on demography and world populations and contributed greatly to that effect in the JMMA journal. Regardless how small the numbers, these are expected to advance Wahhabist ideology.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Ok, what about this “Wahhabist” link? Can you provide proof?</p>
<p><strong>Shoebat</strong>: The document pulls no punches. It mentions “puritan Islam” as directed by “Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab,” the father of Wahhabism:</p>
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<blockquote><p>“Allah destined this region [Saudi Arabia] for a historic role. So He commissioned the two Imams—Muhammad bin Saud and Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab, may Allah have mercy upon them. But the times have passed on Imam Muhammad bin Saud by the emergence of the reformer—Muhammad bin AbdulWahhab. So the two Imams cooperated together to judge by what Allah brought forth, to fight against heresy and to bring Muslims back to puritan Islam.” (p. 8 )</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Is the United States mentioned in the plan?</p>
<p><strong>Shoebat:</strong> Indeed, all over it, it discusses accomplishments in ISNA, MSA, banking, centers and even names the mosques designated to fulfill the plan in the United States, except there are obstacles. The United States is the home of the main obstacle that hinders their agenda—the Jews. There the manifesto shifts, sounding more like an Arab version of Mein Kampf. Here I include the original snapshot from the document itself and translated it to English:</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/four_edited-1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-140275" title="four_edited-1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/four_edited-1.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="352" /></a></p>
<blockquote><p>“The greatest challenge that faces Muslims in the United States and Canada <em>are the Jews</em> who take advantage of their material ability and their media to distort the image of Islam and Muslims there by spreading their lies and distortions in the minds of the people in these countries. The Jews employ their efforts and direct their material wealth and their high positions to serve Zionist interests in the Arab region. They [the Jews] take advantage of situations to distort the image of Arabs and Muslims. The Zionist organizations spend enormous efforts to obstruct the spread of Islam in these areas.” (P. 79-80)</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>FP</strong>: This is scary stuff, and our media and government are completely silent and blind.</p>
<p>Let’s continue: how can we know that the MMA is not some isolated issue or something simply on paper?</p>
<p><strong>Shoebat</strong>: McCarthy’s <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=I-uNUM-wdUcC&amp;pg=PA70&amp;lpg=PA70&amp;dq=Saudi+Arabia+billions+%22The+Grand+Jihad%22&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=DoWvPu4ey2&amp;sig=RMQFt6pgv58iD2um80RJ-4iYYo0&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=A6omUIXUHoOm2gXt7YCABg&amp;ved=0CEIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q=Saudi%20Arabia%20billions%20%22The%20Grand%20Jihad%22&amp;f=false">The Grand Jihad</a> perhaps can provide a better analysis as to the billions spent by Saudi Arabia in the U.S. to advance their agendas. I am here to provide missing links, the proclamations from the Arabic texts that westerners don’t review, things considered taboos to discuss and translate, an insight from a defector who switched sides. That’s what I do.</p>
<p>As to the MMA concept, it is not isolated to the Abedins or even the Saudis. Salafists and the Muslim Brotherhood support the same concept, they even link to each other with the same title: “the Jurisprudence of Muslim Minority Affairs.”</p>
<p>In other words, the IMMA is not simply a name of an outfit; it represents a definition, a jurisprudence rooted in a sinister doctrine with short and long-term goals. Qaradawi has a <a href="http://www.4shared.com/office/R9BP9HpB/__-____.html">similar</a> manifesto for the Brotherhood. MMA scholars across the board have an obsession using this jurisprudence steering Muslims into this theocratic collective revolution.</p>
<p><strong>FP</strong>: Give us some examples.</p>
<p><strong>Shoebat</strong>: No problem. Take Europe’s Abdul-Majid al-Najjar, Assistant Secretary-General of the European Council for Fatwa and Research. While working on supposed building relations with the West, he adheres, in Arabic, to the same collectivist concept. In his “<a href="http://www.feqhweb.com/vb/t43.html">Creating a Fundamentalist Jurisprudence of the Muslim Minorities in the West</a>,” he states:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Islamic Sharia ruling is for every circumstance, time and place and in all circumstances&#8230; It was ordained that Islam was assigned the mission to inherit the globe. It is a mission possible through only the collective religious performance and mission impossible through individual religiosity.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Let’s take Taha Jaber al-Alwani who is an <a href="http://mobile.wnd.com/2011/07/320161/">ardent anti-Semite</a> who, by the way, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2011/07/320161/">runs the United States Department of Defense program</a> (out of all places) for training Muslim military chaplains in the U.S. military. This is the <em>first</em> time we translated this:</p>
<blockquote><p>“… it [MMA] is a Jurisprudence for a group confined to its special circumstances which is allowed what others are not. Its exercise needs an understanding of social sciences, especially sociology, economics, political science and international relations… for the fundamentals of success for the Muslim Minority Jurisprudence it must adhere to the collective earth concept.” [<a href="http://taghrib.org/pages/content.php?tid=6">here</a>]</p></blockquote>
<p>Alwani, a man commissioned by our government, even calls for a soon-to-be military conquest and provides an official <a href="http://www.kantakji.com/fiqh/Files/Fatawa/207.txt">fatwa</a> permitting and preparing for the use of force:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Commitment to the Quranic concept of Geography: The land belongs to Allah, his religion is Islam, and every country is already in the House of Islam—now in the present time—since they will be in the House of Islam by force in the near future. The whole of humanity is a Muslim Nation: it is either &#8216;the religion of the nation&#8217; which has embraced this religion [Islam], or a &#8216;proselyte nation&#8217; we are obliged to conquer.” (<a href="http://majlisulilm.weebly.com/other-religions-festivlas.html">Alwani, The Jurisprudence of Muslim Minority Affairs. No. 7</a>)</p></blockquote>
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