It was bound to happen. Right wing nut jobs have latched on to a new crazy theory. I go often to some right wing Pittsburgh sports based blog where the blogger seems more interested in spreading right wing talking points than talking about sports.
It's about Huma Abedin. He linked us to an article from the American Thinker(I love how the right is pompous with their titles). Their main point is Huma's brother and mother are part of fanatical islamic organizations. So, Huma could possibly be infiltrating American politics by marrying a Jewish Congressman, and pretending to be moderate to gain Hillary's confidence, blah blah.
I need factual help debunking these talking points. Trust me, we already made our points to this blogger that even if her brother and mother are part of some organization, it means nothing about her. We made comparisons to how they didn't seem to have a problem with Bushs being friendly to the Bin Laden family. They just keep responding that it is just a big patient act from Huma.
So it got me wondering " they have been wrong on the facts before. So why am i even arguing in vain. Maybe if I can just point out the obvious errors, I can shut this guy up.". OK, maybe I can shut him up if he is not 100% delusional.
So can the readers of this vast community look at this article and have fun debunking the points made in it? Here are some excerpts:
Far more disturbing than the salacious details of Weiner's dalliances is the fact that apparently his mother-in-law is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Furthermore, Huma Abedin's brother, Hassan, "is listed as a fellow and partner with a number of Muslim Brotherhood members." Hassan works at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS) at Oxford University. The Egyptian Al-Azhar University, well-known for a curriculum that encourages extremism and terrorism, is active in establishing links with OCIS.
Huma's brother has "worked with Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal on a program of "spreading Islam to the west." More intriguing is the fact that the Abedin family left Michigan for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, around 1977, which is the same year that the Muslim Sisterhood was formed.
Walid Shoebat, formerly with the PLO, explains that Saleha Mahmoud Abedin, a professor in Saudi Arabia "belongs to the Sunni movement's women's division known as the Muslim Sisterhood." During the recent uprising in Egypt, which resulted in Mubarak's removal, "a special women's unit within the Muslim Brotherhood served as 'mules' to deliver messages and acted as messengers for the terrorist group."
The Muslim Sisterhood is also known as the International Women's Organization (IWO) and members are located "across 16 different countries." Its goal is to "work at all levels in accordance with the message of the Brotherhood." The Muslim Brotherhood's goal is Islamic world domination and "[i]t is now public knowledge that nearly every major Muslim organization in the United States is actually controlled by the [Muslim Brotherhood] or a derivative organization. Consequently, most of the Muslim-American groups of any prominence in America are now known to be, as a matter of fact, hostile to the United States and its Constitution."
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. Al-Hibri believes that sharia law is superior to American law. Yet, al-Hibri is only one of the pro-sharia adherents that Obama has placed in influential positions since he became president. Dalia Mogahed was one of the earliest appointees
And watch how they try to explain the Weiner - Huma marriage:
Why are so many at the highest levels of American government ignoring the methodology of Islamists like Gulen, who has declared that the best way to seize power is to lie in wait "with the patience of a spider" in order to "wait for people to get caught in the web"? Is Clinton so naïve?
Thus, 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."
I understand the sentiment that it is useless to argue logic with right wing nuts. But if some one in the middle(yes there are reasonable people inthe middle who also get swayed by this crap becuase it is just repeated so often with such conviction by the crazies) gets to google this diary, I would like him or her to see the facts. I want us to have a counter diary for every right wing crackpot theory and if it can sway even a few voters, who knows, we may avoid another close race ala 2000.