Speaking of the war against women, Paul Sperry reports on the extent to which Hillary Clinton, through the
influence of her top aide Huma Abedin, has been in bed with the Muslim
Brotherhood. And the extent to which this connection has caused Hillary herself
to promote and to help propagate ideas that are not merely opposed to the
feminism she espouses but completely contradict the norms of civilized morality
and common decency.
Not only did Hillary visit a girls' school that Huma’s mother runs
in Saudi Arabia, but she invited the same mother to participate in a State
Department event for “leading thinkers” on women’s issues. Why would anyone
grant legitimacy to such a woman? Why would anyone honor a woman who holds such
blatantly misogynistic beliefs?
While we are here, remember what happened in 2002 when a
fire broke out at another Saudi girls school in Mecca. The Telegraph reported:
SAUDI
Arabia's religious police are reported to have forced schoolgirls back into a
blazing building because they were not wearing Islamic headscarves and black
robes.
Saudi
newspapers said scuffles broke out between firemen and members of the
Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice who tried to keep
the girls inside a burning school in Mecca.
Fifteen
girls were killed as they stampeded to escape from the blazing building in the
Muslim holy city. Saudi media and families of the victims have been angry over
the deaths of the girls in the fire that gutted the school.
The
resulting public criticism of the religious police, or mutaween, is highly
unusual.
The
English-language Saudi Gazette, in a front-page report yesterday quoted
witnesses as saying that members of the religious police stopped men who tried
to help the girls escape from the building, saying: "It is sinful to
approach them."
Girls schools in Saudi Arabia do not promote women’s freedom
or rights. And, for those who missed the point, Muslim dress is not a fashion statement.
Regarding Mrs. Abedin, Sperry reports:
As
secretary of state, women’s-rights champ Hillary Clinton not only spoke at a
Saudi girls school run by her top aide Huma Abedin’s anti-feminist mother, but
Clinton invited the elder Abedin to participate in a State Department event for
“leading thinkers” on women’s issues.
This
happened despite evidence at the time that Saleha M. Abedin had explored the
religious merits of sexual submissiveness, child marriage, lashings and
stonings for adulterous women, and even the circumcision of girls.
The
elder Abedin, whose daughter helps run Clinton’s presidential campaign, did
take a pro-gender-equality stance on at least one issue: Muslim women’s right
to participate in violent jihad alongside men.
As for the beliefs that Saleha Abedin espoused, they are
contained in a book that she translated, edited and promoted. They are about as
bad as you would think:
In
1999, Saleha translated and edited a book titled “Women
in Islam: A Discourse in Rights and Obligations,” published by the
Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs. Written by her Saudi colleague Fatima
Naseef, the book explains that the stoning and lashing of adulterers, the
killing of apostates, sexual submissiveness and even female genital mutilation
are all permissible practices under Sharia law.
“The
wife should satisfy her husband’s desire for sexual intercourse,” the book
states on Page 202, even if she is not in the mood. “She has no right to
abstain except for a reasonable cause or legal prohibition.”
But
getting in the mood may be difficult. The book says female genital mutilation
is permissible: “Circumcision for women is allowed.”
The elder Abedin fully supports these horrors:
On the
back cover, Saleha says she is “pleased to launch” the book as part of a series
on the study of women’s rights in Islam sponsored by the International Islamic
Committee for Woman and Child (IICWC), for which she is listed as chairperson.
Founded
by Huma’s mom, the Cairo-based IICWC has advocated for the repeal of Egypt’s
Mubarak-era laws in favor of implementing Sharia law, which could allow female
genital mutilation, child marriage and marital rape.
As mentioned yesterday, the Muslim Brotherhood promoted
female genital mutilation in Egypt and strongly opposed the Mubarak regime for
trying to put an end to it.
Despite
all this, Huma Abedin in 2010 arranged for Clinton, then the secretary of
state, to travel to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to meet with her mother and speak
at a girls school she founded and helps run as dean. Speaking to a
roomful of girls, Clinton said Americans have to stop stereotyping Saudi women
as oppressed, before assuring the audience that not all American women go
“around in a bikini bathing suit.”
While
there, Clinton formed a partnership with Saleha’s Dar al-Hekma college called
the US-Saudi Women’s Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, and promised to reverse
post-9/11 curbs on Saudi student visas to America.
The
next year, Clinton invited Saleha and the president of the Saudi school to
Washington to participate in a State Department colloquium on women, as
revealed by internal
emails released in response to a lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch.
Clinton
campaign spokesman Nick Merrill told
the Post that while Huma Abedin was in fact listed as an editorial
staffer of her mother’s radical journal from 1996 to 2008, she didn’t really do
anything for the publication in her long tenure there.
Asked
if Clinton regrets honoring the Islamist mother and bestowing legitimacy on
her extreme views, Merrill had no comment.
Do I even need to mention the hue and cry that would have greeted this association if the candidate had been a Republican. The double standard practiced by the American media is so blatant that no one even notices any more.
We NOTICE it. Every day. That's one reason why so many like Trump for firing back at the media.
ReplyDelete"Do I even need to mention the hue and cry that would have greeted this association if the candidate had been a Republican. The double standard practiced by the American media is so blatant that no one even notices any more. "
ReplyDeleteWhat, you don't expect a Hillarious version of Bill's Sister Soulja speech?