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Huma Abedin’s father: “The state has to take over…overseeing that human relationships are carried on on the basis of Islam”

Sep 28, 2016 9:52 am By Robert Spencer

Does Huma Abedin also believe that the state should enforce Sharia? Now that these statements by her father have come to light, will she repudiate them? Will any mainstream media reporter ask her to do so? Almost certainly not.

syed-abedin

“Daddy’s Issues,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, September 28, 2016:

Syed Abedin, the father of top Hillary Clinton aide Huma, outlined his view of Sharia law and how the Western world has turned Muslims “hostile” during a wide-ranging video interview that shines newfound light on the reclusive thinker’s world views, according to footage exclusively obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Abedin, a Muslim scholar who was tied to the Saudi Arabian government until his death in 1993, has remained somewhat of a mystery as the media turns its eye to his daughter Huma, a top Clinton campaign aide who recently announced her separation from husband Anthony Weiner following his multiple sex scandals.

Syed Abedin explained his views on the Muslim world and spread of Islam during a 1971 interview titled The World of Islam, which was first broadcast on Western Michigan University television.

Abedin said that Arab states must police the upholding of Sharia, or Islamic law, and explained why the majority of Muslims view Israel and the Western world in primarily “hostile” terms.

The video provides a window into the Abedin family’s ideology, which has been marred by accusations it is connected to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Abedin, who was then a professor in the university’s college of general studies, said that Western intervention in the Arab world has sparked a backlash among many faithful Muslims.

“The response to the West has been of two kinds,” Abedin said. “By and large the response has taken more of a hostile form.”

“The first impulse of the average Muslim in the Islamic world is that this kind of borrowing [culturally] would be somehow an alien factor into our social fabric and thereby destroying the integrity of our ethos … the integrity of our culture,” he added.

In a separate discussion on the state’s role in a person’s life, Abedin said it is necessary to police the application of Sharia law.

“The state has to take over” as Muslim countries evolve, he argued. “The state is stepping in in many countries … where the state is now overseeing that human relationships are carried on on the basis of Islam. The state also under Islam has a right to interfere in some of these rights given to the individual by the Sharia.”

“Suspicion” runs rampant in the Muslim world, Abedin said, citing it as a reason why Western governing values have not been quickly adopted in the region.

“In the contemporary Islamic world, religious leadership is of very crucial significance because any change that will be abiding, that will make any positive contribution to the development of Muslim life, must come from that source, and that is one reason why ideologies like socialism or communism that have been introduced into the Muslim world have never really taken root,” Abedin said. “They have always been considered as foreign importations. … It’s a kind of suspicion.”

Abedin also discussed the clash between modernity and the Islamic world.

“When you talk of an Islamic state … does it have to have a caliph?” he asked. “What does it mean? What is the Islamic concept of good in the present day world?”

Any cultural change, Abedin concluded, will have to be validated by the tenets of Islam.

“The main dynamics of life in the Islamic world are still supplied by Islam,” he said. “Any institution, as I said before, any concept, any idea, in order to be accepted and become a viable thing in the Islamic world has to come through … Islam.”…

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  1. berserker says

    Sep 28, 2016 at 10:10 am

    Mark Steyn, if I recall correctly, asked the question who will be in charge during Hillary’s regular bouts of sickness, should she become president. Huma, of course.

    • R Cole says

      Sep 28, 2016 at 2:40 pm

      That was made clear in one of Huma’s emails that was released – where she wrote that Hillary was ‘often confused.’

      And we have learned that Bill Clinton often had to go through Huma Abedin to get to Hillary.

      If elected the brain injury and seizure issues may become front and center – which could potentially put Huma in the driver’s seat.

      • Raptor says

        Sep 29, 2016 at 12:27 am

        Driver’s seat……excellent point. Just like now in the current Regime – Valarie Jarrett is right in there directing traffic at every turn…..funny how Iran now gets back $150 Billion and too boot – we tipped them another $1.7 Billion. But we have an ‘agreement’ with them now that they are going to ‘cooperate’ and play by the rules……Seriously – how damn much more insanely ignorant can we become ?

        • quota raven says

          Sep 29, 2016 at 12:52 am

          To Raptor, who asks “Seriously – how damn much more insanely ignorant can we become ?”

          Yeah, well, I don’t know whether I’d call it “ignorant”, although “insane(ly)” seems certainly to apply. But I believe that we, all of us in the West, are being played, in the most treacherous ways by the most destructive, malevolent globalists and Islamists.I appreciate a very, very bad situation with Valerie and Uma and many, many others in high positions in our government, law enforcement, justice system and bureaucracies. You know: stealth jihad is not so stealthy these days. It’s pretty much “out there” for anyone with eyes to see.

          Raven to Raptor: put in a good word for Trump whenever and wherever you might enlighten or make a difference to a voter. He’s not perfect, but if he is how he says he is, i.e. patriotic and desirous of saving the sovereignty and restoring the greatness of this, my beloved nation, he’s the best of the lot.

          I’ve reason to like him for the splendid job he did in the early 1980s of fixing up the Wohlman’s Skating Rink in NYC, by taking on the job and finishing it within a couple of months, after the corrupt City unions futzed about with it for YEARS.

          That’s all I got!

          Cheers!

          quota raven

        • al says

          Sep 29, 2016 at 11:09 am

          When we elected the fool for POTUS, we should have understood that we were opening the door to all things Islamic and Islam is not compatible with our form of government… Islam is a cradle to grave theology – and once in the game you can never walk away… And so we now have the Muslim Brotherhood advising the FBI on how to treat Islamic terror…. Hmmm, how do you think this is going to turn out?”
          BTW – Huma Abedin’s mother was the founder of the Muslim Sisterhood and her father was a professor in Michigan U…teaching empty headed kids all about Islam…. Can you see any good things happening with these stealth Muslims….WAKE UP!!

  2. Jaladhi says

    Sep 28, 2016 at 10:34 am

    A Muslim is a Muslim is a Muslim first and that explains it all. He or she will always follow what is lawful according to sharia. Huma Abedin will be no exception to this rule!

    • Jay Boo says

      Sep 28, 2016 at 11:36 am

      There are only two kinds of people in the Koran.
      1 Those who are Muslim.
      2 Those on their subjugate and kill list — also known as, (Everyone else)

  3. Mike says

    Sep 28, 2016 at 11:06 am

    He was actually quite candid and honest in explaining how things are with islam. If taken at face value, his words explain past & current actions of people who view he world through the prism of islam, and could be used to accurately predict all the current day events where islam projects its hostilities into the rest of the world.

    The same can be said of Mr. Spencer, but just from the other side of he fence. That is why jihadwatch and Mr. Spencer’s efforts are so valuable. They give reasoning, based in truth, as to all the why’s, how’s, & when’s regarding the behavior of islam. They explain and have been predictive, to an incredibly high degree of accuracy, of how islam & it’s followers will interact with the world around them.

    The powers of the west have been ignoring these truths for decades, and it has long ago been obvious the current ideology of denial of these problems, and forcing a wishful narrative down the throats of the world was going to end in tears.

    Thank you Mr. Spencer & Jihadwatch team for providing this site. The understanding gained here gives me the ability to explain current events, know the foundations of the conflict, and plan my life accordingly to the implications of that.

    Now I can get back to being a better and more informed islamophobe, as I heartily agree with the truths about islam spoken by S.Hubedin, countless other islamic scholars, & Mr. Spencer so often point out.

  4. Vm says

    Sep 28, 2016 at 11:21 am

    Hillary would be more acceptable if she had a more pro American Christian stance and a strong anti muslim attitude especially toward sharia and the extremists. It’s hard to believe she is not a muslim sympathizer with all people she surrounds herself with. What somebody wrote is true a mosle is a muslim is a muslim etc there is no moderate muslim if the call for jihad is sounded.l

  5. duh Swami says

    Sep 28, 2016 at 11:21 am

    Hilary has blood on her hands,,,how much of that is shared by Huma?
    It seems like treason on a daily basis has been a functional assignment…
    Hopefully, President Trump will clean out the nest of vipers in high places…

  6. John A. Marre says

    Sep 28, 2016 at 11:26 am

    That would mean that gays would be killed. How would that go over with Hillary’s democratic party followers?

    • Jay Boo says

      Sep 28, 2016 at 11:29 am

      Democrats can rationalize almost anything.

    • Carolyne says

      Sep 29, 2016 at 9:18 am

      How would that go over with Ms. Clinton and her “Close” friend, Huma Abedin?

  7. Jay Boo says

    Sep 28, 2016 at 11:28 am

    Huma’s daddy is an ancestral off-shoot of murder and rape.
    90 % of Muslims on earth today are the end result of:
    (Daddys’ being murdered)
    (Mommas’ being raped)

    Muslims are not — ‘Multi-cultural’

  8. JIMJFOX says

    Sep 28, 2016 at 11:31 am

    O/T: Hilary has blood on her hands–
    https://youtu.be/p8V5p4sL2K0

    So, according to the guys who were on the ground,
    the 8 Congressional inquiries were a whitewash…

    • Jay Boo says

      Sep 28, 2016 at 11:49 am

      Huma — gave the order to “Stand Down”
      Hillary obeyed the ENEMY Huma.

      Traitor Hillary abandoned fellow Americans in battle to appease enemy Muslims.
      Treason.

    • duh Swami says

      Sep 28, 2016 at 11:53 am

      The shape shifting lizards at the top protect each other…I hope President Trump uses a lot of lizard repellent…If he doesn’t have any, I can lend him mine…

  9. Michael Copeland says

    Sep 28, 2016 at 11:31 am

    “the state is now overseeing that human relationships are carried on on the basis of Islam”,
    Syed Abedin.

    “In such a state no one can regard any field of his affairs as personal and private. Considered from this aspect the Islamic state bears a kind of resemblance to the Fascist and Communist states.”
    Maulana Maudidi

  10. Jack Diamond says

    Sep 28, 2016 at 11:36 am

    Sayed Abedin was invited to Saudi Arabia as a visiting professor at King Abdulaziz University. The dean of King Abdulaziz University was Abdullah Omar Naseef, who created the Institute for Muslim Minority Affairs and its journal, of which the Abdeins’ were such a part. Huma, for a dozen years. Naseef was their family patron. Omar Naseef was up to his neck in al Qaeda (like the rest of the Saudi government). He should be arrested (at the least), not living la dolce vita Saudi style today. Huma (and Hillary) has a lot of ‘splainin to do but somehow she never is made to.

  11. Angemon says

    Sep 28, 2016 at 11:42 am

    The man is spouting standard islamic orthodoxy.

    • miriamrove says

      Sep 28, 2016 at 11:52 am

      Which is a bunch of BS. M

  12. quota raven says

    Sep 28, 2016 at 12:01 pm

    I wonder what role Huma will play in the US government, should Hillary, god forfend, be elected president.

    Trump! He’s our best hope right now.

    Cheers!

    quota raven

  13. Tony46 says

    Sep 28, 2016 at 12:05 pm

    Any comment or plan to subvert the fabric of a nation, should be considered subversion, and treated consequently.
    They do it.
    Why not us?

  14. mortimer says

    Sep 28, 2016 at 1:08 pm

    The ‘mainstream media’ are controlling the ‘narrative’ (i.e. SPIN) about Islam and concealing the stealth jihad from the public. Presumably, the mega rich, Super Elites who pay Hillary are controlling the journalists and instructing how they must spin the news.

    As a result, the falsified news we are getting from sources like NYT is not pure news but a mixture of real news and 15% to 20% propaganda.

    This is why most people I know do not trust the news coming from the mainstream. The Super Elites are betraying the poor middle class that earns about 1,000 times less money than the Super Elites.

  15. Jay Boo says

    Sep 28, 2016 at 1:22 pm

    Huma
    Islam

    • aDhimmiSaysWhat? says

      Sep 28, 2016 at 7:18 pm

      So huma’s response was basically “oh, I just worked there”. And thus ends the conversation. Problem solved. Nothing more to see here folks. Move along…

  16. Tom says

    Sep 28, 2016 at 1:46 pm

    I predict Huma will abandon Hillary when Trump becomes president.

  17. JawsV says

    Sep 28, 2016 at 2:13 pm

    Huma’s daddy looks like an ape. And is just as intelligent.

    • Cthulhu says

      Sep 28, 2016 at 2:24 pm

      He looks like Aladeen’s father:

      http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1645170/mediaviewer/rm1386266112

      Perhaps it’s Huma’s brother…

  18. Paul Clark says

    Sep 28, 2016 at 2:22 pm

    Why not? The Leninist-Marxist Hillary Clinton will try to make this a state controlled nation. The ignorant will vote for her as they have done in the past and as they have done for Obama and Bernie. They will probably win. It is coming soon. She will close down most dissent. Her media will help her. She will take your gun. Her media will help her. She will take your money. She will take control of your children. She will try to shut down Christian churches. Her media will help her, as was done in the debate. She will be the cause of more poverty and hopelessness for the inner city of blacks. She now controls them. They accept it and their black, racist political friends want more of her. Most of all she will try to take your hope and your allegiance to your country, like she has done with the blacks and Hispanics.

    “Pick up your cross” and “follow Him” and you will never lose your faith

    • Carolyne says

      Sep 29, 2016 at 8:33 pm

      The media won’t even have to help her because she will pack the Supreme Court with leftists. They will abrogate the First and Second Amendments. We will no longer be allowed to criticize Islam nor will we be allowed town guns.

      But the media will help her anyway. Don’t they understand that once she is in control they will not be free to print the news? They are cutting their own throat.

      Hillary Clinton must not become President. If she does, it is the end of the US as we know it.

  19. Sheykh Yer Weeni says

    Sep 28, 2016 at 2:34 pm

    Sheykh Yer Weeni, the Infidel Imam, wants to spank some sense into people! Is spanking hudud punishment? It is stupid for Amrikans to think that Hillary Clinton is anything but a globalist, just like all the leaders of Western Europe. Is it not strange that our Western leaders, including Theresa May (UK), Angela Merkel (DE), Malcolm Turnbull (AU), and of course Barack bin-Obama (US), all are globalists?

    People in Western nations, with so much access to information, are stupid to believe lies such as “Islam is a peaceful religion” and “ISIS is not Islamic”. ISIS bears the shahada on their flag, and quotes al-Qur’an or the Hadith for everything they do. We can all read ISIS’ own words in their excellent online magazine, Dabiq. It makes Sheykh Yer Weeni sick to his halal stomach to see how ignorant so many kafirs can be!

    Now this top aide to Clinton, Huma Abedin, whose mother is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, is a clear enemy of Dar al-Hurria, the House of Liberty. If (may Allah the moon god forbid) Clinton is elected, it will say something very bad about the Amrikan people. Not only will it show that too many Amrikans deny reality about Clinton, globalism, and Islam, but also that Patriots do not go to vote. If they do not vote, how then are they Patriots?

    • Carolyne says

      Sep 29, 2016 at 8:35 pm

      Sheyk, you are not related to Carlos Danger, are you?

  20. BARBARA BROOKS says

    Sep 28, 2016 at 2:38 pm

    This material is so old! How about investigating her mother who is still alive?

  21. Wellington says

    Sep 28, 2016 at 3:19 pm

    He was “a Muslim scholar?” There is something oxymoronic about this term since scholarship should be associated with the search for truth, and truth and Islam are as diametrically opposed to each other as are Islam and liberty.

    • quota raven says

      Sep 28, 2016 at 10:08 pm

      You go, Wellington, darling!)))) Pithy as always. Want to tell us how you really feel?

      And thanks for your kind comment the other day.

      Cheers!

      quota raven

    • epistemology says

      Sep 29, 2016 at 7:23 pm

      So right as always, dear Wellington. Islam is the incarnation of lie and anything that’s evil.

      I think what’s really important is how Huma feels about it and I think she’s got the same ideas as her father. October 3rd starts our new year and I wish a world without sharia for the next year. G’d bless you, I love your insightful comments and all the best to you and yours my friend, take care and enjoy your life in America which is a lot better than Europe.

  22. Caliph says

    Sep 28, 2016 at 4:18 pm

    “In the contemporary Islamic world, religious leadership is of very crucial significance because any change that will be abiding, that will make any positive contribution to the development of Muslim life, must come from….”

    In other words, Muslims are incapable of discerning right from wrong on their own. The average Muslim has no moral compass. ( there is no Golden-Rule idea in Islam )

    In the Judeo-Christian world it is taken for granted that the average person can discern right from wrong based on Internal feelings. Most non-muslim people in the west have some sense of an inner morality – if you believe the bible you would quote
    Romans 2 14-15
    “14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
    15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;

    This article points out the extreme danger to the western world from the Islamic world.
    If you are registered to vote, make sure you vote.

    • J-pal says

      Sep 28, 2016 at 10:07 pm

      …a very good point! The “individual” still counts in the Western Society…I hope. The article also mentioned “interventions” agains the muslim countries…backlash…which means to me that they don’t like being taxed. How about their own special tax on Christians and other people outside islam for 1400 years? And the constant robbery of people through history…etc. Another interesting point is the photo. The man is smoking pipe, very unhealthy to the body or not? But the tobacco smoking, if he was smoking (no smoke from the pipe!) is an American, and later European culture…so, what “culture” or “politics” really matters to islam – anything goes. “The state…” is very much a communistic statement… the guy (that is, islam) “…didn’t come up with anything new…” (George Bataille).

  23. Gloria Negro says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 11:26 am

    Good God! What a caricature of evil! This khanzeer looks like a bad guy from JOHNNY QUEST or SCOOBY DOO!

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