Good old Granny Sara .. she sure gets around these days.
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US President Barack Obama’s paternal grandmother, Sara Obama, will perform haj this year along with her son Syed Obama, a private TV channel reported on Saturday.
According to the channel, Sara and Syed will also visit Dubai before going to Saudi Arabia for performing haj. Sara (85) is an active participant in welfare and charity programmes.
The channel said performing haj is one of the most desired wishes of the US president’s grandmother.
Did you wonder who was footing the bill, too? Wonder no more, my possums.
Property tycoon Dr Sulaiman Al Fahim is to accompany Barack Obama’s grandmother Mama Sarah to Makkah this year for the Hajj, Arabian Business can reveal.
Hydra Properties CEO Al Fahim – now also working as a UN Ambassador – met Obama’s grandmother during a trip to Kenya last week. Al Fahim was in the country to help combat the spread of malnutrition, as part of his UN role.
... “I found out that she had not been to the Haj, and that she very much wants to go. As my own mother is no longer with us, our family has a spare place, so I invited her and she has accepted. I’m very much looking forward to it,” he said.
He's also the point man of mega-rich Abu Dhabi United Group and is known as the Donald Trump of Abu Dhabi.
(Remember how just last week the Kenyan Muslims were mad at Grandma Sarah for getting too palsy-walsy with the Christians? Time for a Muslim PR stunt - hey, I know let's take her to the HAJJ! Maybe she can play kissy face with Keith Ellison and King Abdullah. Talk about a photo op!)
