[Arutz Sheva] Clinton’s Top Muslim Aide to Wed Jewish Congressman

Gawker also covers this marriage in Anthony Weiner Engaged to Huma Abedin. The Arutz Sheva article from which the passage below is excerpted has comments mentioning that Weiner's mother is non-Jewish and that Weiner himself is therefore non-Jewish in a religious sense.

Abedin is of Pakistani Muslim ancestry and raised partially in Saudia and partially in the USA. Her mother Dr. Saleha Mahmood Abedin is a prominent academic sociologist in Saudia as well as Director of Institute for Muslim Minority Affairs, London.

A previous blog entry entitled Sarkozy, Anti-Semitosis and France contains a brief discussion of the politics of Jewish intermarriage both in the main article and the comments.

Clinton’s Top Muslim Aide to Wed Jewish Congressman

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

(IsraelNN.com)

Brooklyn, New York Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner will marry outside the Jewish religion to Huma Abedin, a Muslim woman who is considered one of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s top aides, the New York Daily News reported.

The intermarriage rate in the United States is estimated to be approximately 50 percent and has been one of the strongest forces that has diluted Jewish identity and support of a strong Israel.

Representative Weiner introduced in Congress in 2007 the Saudi Arabia Accountability Act, designed to “halt Saudi support for institutions that fund, train, incite, encourage, or in any other way aid and abet terrorism, and to secure full Saudi cooperation in the investigation of terrorist incidents...”

In 2006, he tried to ban the PA delegation from entering the United Nations, stating that the reason the PA is not an official representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is to avoid the parent group's label as an outlawed terrorist organization.

Rep. Weiner is considered a “defender of Israel” and is a supporter of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) but has not recently taken a strong stand in favor of a Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria.

He said that U.S. President Barack Obama went “too far" in opposing building for Jewish “natural growth” in Judea and Samaria. Secretary Clinton has adamantly argued against construction for Jews in the communities, including the 300,000 already living in there. The State Department also has referred to the 250,000 in several Jerusalem neighborhoods as living in “settlements” and has included them in the proposed ban on construction.

Video: Rep. Anthony Weiner speaks sharply against US aid to Saudi Arabia in congress [starts at 3:49 minute]

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