Posted on 06/12/2011 12:21:23 AM PDT by Nachum
Omar Abu-Namous is the imam of the Islamic Cultural Center in New York and he is encouraging Huma Abedin – a practicing Muslim – to stand by her husband, New York congressman Anthony Weiner. Why would this imam support Anthony Weiner, who was raised Jewish, in a marriage with a practicing Muslim woman?
Every Islamic scholar agrees that it is forbidden for a Muslim woman to marry a non-Muslim. Former Muslim Walid Shoebat has translated the Arabic declarations relative to the validity of the marriage between Weiner and Abedin last year. One such publication Shoebat translated was the Al-Marsid newspaper, which reported on the Weiner/Abedin marriage specifically:
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. In this case, he assured the invalidity of the marriage certificate between them.
Abu-Namous is in direct opposition to his Islamic superiors? Why?
Abedin was raised in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. In 2007, the New York Observer wrote (in an article no longer available but cross-posted at FreeRepublic.com) that her mother is a professor in Saudi Arabia and that her father was an Islamic scholar before his death.
Weiner was raised Jewish but admitted to growing up in a non-religious household. If Abedin remains a practicing Muslim and her religion forbids her from marrying a non-Muslim, isn’t she failing to practice Islam? Wouldn’t that be the case unless Weiner converted to Islam? The New York Times reported that Weiner “sometimes fasts with her (Abedin) during Ramadan.” This would indicate that the congressman is more amenable to practicing Islam than Abedin is to practicing Judaism.
Before people should start believing that Abu-Namous is of the more moderate persuasion, consider what he was quoted as saying in 2001:
A unified Muslim state would be the ideal instrument to convince the world that Islam is the last version of God’s word. God meant his word to be obeyed.
Moreover, Abu-Namous spoke alongside the director of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) at the First National Summit of Imams and Rabbis. ISNA is a Muslim Brotherhood group. Abu-Namous is on record as having said there was no conclusive evidence that Muslim were responsible for the September 11th attacks. Ironically, former ground zero mosque imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is a permanent trustee with with the ICC. Abu-Namous’s predecessor at the ICC blamed the Jews for 9/11.
Presiding over the wedding of Weiner and Abedin was none other than Bill Clinton. It took place at the Oheka Castle in Huntington, NY on Long Island – barely more than thirty miles from the ICC where Abu-Namous served as the imam.
The Al-Marsid newspaper reported what Bill Clinton said. Shoebat translated:
Clinton spoke, presiding at the wedding about how the two met and how Abedin rejected Weiner in the beginning but the persistence of the latter did not make him give up….
Did Abedin reject Weiner because he was not Muslim? Why is a New York imam with ties to the ISNA and Feisal Abdul Rauf defending a non-Muslim male with a Muslim female?
Perhaps there is a more important question that needs to be answered. Did a secular Jewish man convert to Islam or did his (still) practicing Muslim wife abandon her religion by marrying him?
Ben Barrack is a talk show host on KTEM 1400 in Texas and maintains a website at www.benbarrack.com.
I am pretty sure Bill Clinton, who married the couple, had standards of his own in this....and it looks like theWeiner is a chip off the old block, Bill himself. Doesn’t seem to be any religion that would allow Bill to marry them was involved, so I am assuming neither of them practices any religion in reality.
And yet women here in the ‘west’ support/defend it.
Any woman that does sure isn’t one I’d want to be married to, nor raising, or even near my children. Likewise would any woman with an ounce of sense want to marry a Muslim man.
But they are all about love and peace and unicorns and rainbows, so it’s ‘us’ with a racism problem. It’s their ‘Culture!’
Yea and stool sitting in a petri dish has ‘culture’ too.
NOT want to marry a Muslim man....ARGH! OK, really time for bed after that one.
In my view the whole business of religion is irrelevant to the issue.
All involved are liberals. Liberals shun, loathe, reject religion. That is what liberalism is about.
Neither Weiner nor Huma are religious and reject both Judaism and Islam. They agreed to a civil sham ceremony to satisfy state law and establish rules for financial dealings between the two.
Both are American rejects and that fact should be placed at the top of the list from which judgements must be made.
He converted for the 72 virgins he heard about.
The author had a page to fill up with a short paragraph of information and speculation.
Exactly, its money and power. Liberalism uber alles.
This was a wedding of convenience, in the same way royal families would arrange marriages to strengthen their kingdoms.
The Clintons strengthened their hold on the DNC through this wedding. The is a union of socialists and muslims, just like what we see in the middle east.
Also, just like royal families, these elites are allowed to cheat on their spouses unconditionally.
Getting caught requires the other spouse to make a public play for sympathy, yet still support their elected partner to ensure the kingdom’s hold on power.
Anyone who falls for this is a blind fool.
I believe in a less-expansive definition of “race”, limited to physical characteristics. Islam is an ideology, a political ideology that uses religion as a cloak and as a means of controlling the masses. I support a Constitutional Amendment removing it from the religious protections of the First Amendment and other legislation, since it is in reality a political system that seeks to supplant the Constitution and our system of government. The Constitution is not a suicide pact, and just because they hide behind the fascade of “religion” doesn’t mean we have to be foolish about it.
Beyond that, see tagline.
Do muslims allow pedophile, perverts to become muslims?
He converted for the 72 virgins he heard about.
I’ll bet he sent photos to all 72 for approval!
Your tag line drew this first thought from me, “Those b@st@rds!”
Halal weiner?
Does Huma attend a local mosque in DC or NYC. Does she carry a prayer rug..does she pray 5 times daily?
Stop right there! I need to know right now...
You are being too specific.
Flush all the Demorats, they are anti-American traitorous scum.
Flush all the Muslims from Western Society. They are barbbarians who are not compatible with Civilization. If you don't believe that, wait until the Muslim thugs start their gang rapes of Western Women. Don't believe it? Look at Australia and Europe.
Boys, the fox is in the hen-house....
PLEASE. The most radical Muslim is in the White House. Have you figured out WHY the Muslim playing President spent $Billions on putting the Muslim Brotherhood in power in Egypt?
And why the Muslim in the White House is illegally using the US Military to put Al Qaeda in power in Libya?
Do the headlines make more sense now?
The fox is not only in the hen house, she is sleeping in the nest with the hen.
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