Abedin/ Weiner marriage and dumb “Muslim plots”

by Sheila Musaji

The Muslim demographics plot to take over America and the west by having lots of children and growing their current 1% of the population of the U.S. to a majority, so that they can then “revert to Sharia Law” may have been the “dumbest Muslim plot” ever, but the Muslim marriage plot comes a close second. 

For those who might not remember the Muslim demographics “plot”, here’s a little background

There are currently about 5 million Muslims in the U.S. and about 300 million total population - 1%.  I am not a mathematician, but looking at geography.com’s information on current growth rates for the U.S., it seems that the U.S. population should double in about 77 years (i.e. by 2086).  If the Muslim population doubles at the same rate, then there will be 10 million Muslims out of a population of 600 million - 1.6%.  If the Muslim population increases at twice the norm, then it is possible that there could be 20 million Muslims out of a population of 600 million - 3.3%. 

No matter how I look at the numbers, whoever these Muslims are who are planning a population takeover of the U.S., they will have a long wait, as it will take hundreds, or perhaps thousands of years to reach their goal.  This is the stupidist racist crap I have ever seen.

A few days ago I wrote an article Eliana Benador and the Washington Times Go Beyond Islamophobia to Raving, Paranoid, Lunacy! regarding an article she had written about the Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin marriage.  Benador titled her article “Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin: Married to a Muslim agenda?”.  The title got my attention.  What possible “Muslim agenda” could there be in a tawdry sex scandal that will probably destroy an interfaith marriage?  The article was noticed by a lot of other people, and subsequently pulled from the Washington Times site.

In the course of her rant, Benador managed to work in a lot of nasty speculation — Weiner may have converted to Islam, or Abedin may have left Islam, otherwise why would a Muslim Imam have given her advice to be understanding,  — had Abedin “been groomed to access leading political movers and shakers to advance the cause of Islam in America, including a politically positioned marriage to Congressman Anthony Weiner?” — “When looking broadly at the Anthony Weiner-Huma Abedin union, we have to wonder if the coupling of a Jewish American man and a Muslim woman of her pedigree was fostered by love or by a socialist political agenda.” —“It is also important, when looking at this situation, to remember that observant Muslims practice Taqiyya , an element of sharia that states there is a legal right and duty to distort the truth to promote the cause of Islam. ...”

In Benador’s article an Imam from a NY mosque becomes “The Imam of New York” and “a leading Muslim Imam”, and his simple advice takes on a sinister hue.  The Imam may hold a minority opinion, but to the Islamophobes, Muslims are not allowed to hold differing opinions.  To them, Muslims are like the Borg of Star Trek and share a hive-mind.  Benador suggests a devious Muslim plot to groom attractive Muslim women to marry important men or politicians - an Islamic/socialist/left wing plot to advance a pro-Muslim Agenda and take over America. 

This was such crazy nonsense that I thought it might be limited to the real lunatic fringe of the Islamophobia industry.  However, I seem to have been incorrect in that assumption. 

Daniel Pipes updated his 2005 article attacking Grover Norquist as a pro-Islamist.  In the original article Pipes spent a lot of time discussing Norquist’s Muslim wife, and the possible meaning of that mixed-marriage.  Pipes closed the original article with “But if Grover Norquist is indeed a convert to Islam, it could be that he is not just enabling the Islamist causes but is himself an Islamist.”

In Pipes mind, anyone who marries a Muslim must be suspect, as in his June 9, 2011 update Pipes said: “Speaking of non-Muslim men prominent in American politics who marry Muslim women, did Anthony Weiner, born Jewish, convert to Islam to marry Huma Abedin, a Muslim of South Asian origins? According to one account, he has accommodated his pious wife by “giving up drinking and even occasionally fasting in Ramadan.” Ben Barrack marshalls evidence to suggest that he did at “Did Weiner Secretly Convert to Islam to Marry a Muslim?”

The article that Pipes is recommending as an explanation of the Weiner/Abedin marriage is as crazy as Benador’s article. 

Barrack questions why this Imam would advise Abedin to stand by her husband when “Dr. Anwar Shoeb of the faculty of Islamic law in Kuwait declared that the marriage between Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin is null and void, considering it adultery as confirmed in the Sharia position, prohibiting the marriage of a Muslim woman to a non-Muslim, regardless of whether he is a Jew or a Christian.”  Barrack then asks “Abu-Namous is in direct opposition to his Islamic superiors? Why?”

How does some Islamic scholar in Kuwait become an American Imam’s “Islamic superior”?  I can only assume that the Kuwaiti scholar gained this authority in the same way as Imam Abu-Namous became “the Imam of New York”.

This same Ben Barrack co-authored another article with Walid Shoebat claiming that Huma Abedin’s mother is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood secret women’s wing.  And to further “prove” this Muslim Brotherhood connection,  Barrack and Shoebat come out with the most damning evidence of all that her brother also has MB connections “Neither Huma nor any major western media outlet even mention what is common knowledge in the Arab world. Yet, confirmed by Arab sources – is that Huma Abedin has a brother named Hassan Abedin who works at Oxford University.”

Cue scary music, her brother works at Oxford University.  Obviously that proves something.

They then explain that Oxford University is a known hotbed of Islamist activity which has been infiltrated by Islamists.  Even worse, Abedin’s brother has worked with Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. 

Cue more scary music.  Her brother works at Oxford and has worked with Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.  Now we know that her brother is truly a Muslim extremist bent on taking over the west and subverting everything we hold dear.

This is the same Alwaleed bin Talal who is the second-largest shareholder in News Corp., the parent company of the Fox News Channel.  And, I for one, don’t seee that his money has influenced the Fox News Channel, who appear to be as anti-Muslim as ever.  He is also a large shareholder in many other well-known companies, even Euro Disney.  Perhaps there is some sort of Muslim plot to convert Mickey Mouse.

Pipes likes to consider himself a serious scholar, but to recommend such an article, which even includes reference to Walid Shoebat as some sort of an expert, and which is written by a Texas radio talk show host with no academic credentials undermines Pipes’ claim to serious scholarship.  More on Shoebat here.

UPDATE 6/20/2011

The paranoid conspiracy theories about the Weiner/Abedin marriage continue to morph ....

Eileen Toplansky on The American Thinker repeats all of the nonsense originally published by Benador and Barrack and then adds even more twists to the conspiracy

— Huma Abedin’s position with Clinton in the State Department, as well as her marriage to Representative Weiner, has given her enormous exposure “to state secrets and access to the inner workings of Congress.”
— This would be unsettling enough if it were not also for Obama’s latest appointee.  The 44th president has just appointed Azizah al-Hibri to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.
— Last year, Obama appointed two devout Muslims to Homeland Security. 
— Congressman Keith Ellison aka Keith Hakim, who converted to Islam, is already in place in Congress.
— Dalia Mogahed was appointed as the first White House Muslim advisor.
— Is the Weiner scandal really covering up a far more disturbing scenario whereby jihadists continue to infiltrate and influence American universities, military installations, homeland security, even local police forces, all while the press ignores the steady encroachment of these radicals who seek to overturn and destroy America?
— The disgraceful indifference by the general press to Weiner’s in-laws and their connections to the Muslim Brotherhood keeps eroding America’s ability to rout those who wish to see her destroyed.

True enough, Muslims have been elected and/or appointed to government positions, there are Muslims in the U.S. military, there are Muslims who have died serving their country, there are Muslim police officers and Muslim firemen, Muslim professors and teachers, etc.  Is this screed really inferring that these people are all jihadists infiltrating where they don’t belong simply because they are Muslims?  Is any Muslim a possible Muslim spy?  Do all Muslims want to see America destroyed?

Right Wing Watch reports that Rich Swier, an activist for Tea Party Nation and ACT! for America, claims that Weiner and President Obama “have partnered with the Muslim Brotherhood”, and quotes Swier as saying in an article that It is now clear that President Obama and his administration have partnered with the Muslim Brotherhood. This is dangerous for our national security and akin to FDR partnering with the Soviet Union during WWII. But wait FDR did and look what happened afterword - the Cold War.

Robert Spencer has also jumped on this latest conspiracy bandwagon.  Not surprising since Spencer also thought that Pres. Obama might be a secret Muslim.  Spencer adds one new dimension to this non-story, and as the title of an article by Justin Elliott notes, he spreads the meme.  The new dimension added by Spencer is However, it is also possible, given the recent scandal involving Weiner’s apparently frequent and sexually charged contact with other women, that the rumors that the Abedin/Weiner union is a political marriage of convenience are true. After all, in 2008, Hillary Clinton was running for president. There were widespread insinuations that she was involved in a romantic and/or sexual relationship with Abedin, her ever-present personal assistant. Those whisperings persisted into Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State. Abedin’s 2010 marriage to Weiner, at which Bill Clinton presided, put those rumors to rest.  And, this is the man that Andrew McCarthy thinks is a credible “expert” on Islam.

Spencer’s partner Pamela Geller adds her own sick twist suggesting that the marriage of Abedin and Weiner is a sham to cover a “relationship” between Hillary Clinton and Abedin, and further that Abedin is some kind of Muslim Brotherhood plant.  Geller said I am not reporting it because it is a lesbian thang, I am concerned and distressed that a Muslim raised in Saudi Arabia whose father was an ‘Islamic scholar’ in Saudi Arabia would have such intimate access to a would be President.