Huma Abedin is seated to the left of President Obama in this photo. Click on the image to enlarge.
Salimah Ebrahim
Reuters
8/10/2012
President Barack Obama on Friday called Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, an “American patriot” after a group of Republican lawmakers accused her of having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist political organization.
“She has been nothing less than extraordinary in representing our country and the democratic values that we hold dear,” Obama said at a White House Iftar dinner celebrating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
“The American people owe her a debt of gratitude because Huma is an American patriot and an example of what we need in this country — more public servants with her sense of decency, her grace and her generosity of spirit.”
In June, Representative Michele Bachmann along with four other Republican lawmakers questioned Abedin’s security clearance in a letter to the State Department’s inspector general. They suggested members of her family had connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, which the writers said may be seeking access to high levels of the U.S. government.
“If my family members were associated with Hamas, a terrorist organization, that alone could be sufficient to disqualify me from getting a security clearance,” Bachmann said on conservative host Glenn Beck’s talk show…
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Photo and article H/T Weasel Zippers
Update: Obama highlights Jefferson-owned Koran at WH Ramadan Dinner
Huma Abedin, that Iftar Suckfest & Thomas Jefferson’s Koran
President Taqiyya misrepresents “Jefferson’s Quran” at White House Iftar dinner A history lesson!
Update 2: Obama’s sanitized history for Iftar dinner
President Obama showed off Jefferson’s Koran at a recent White House Iftar Dinner, but ignored the book in its historical context.
