John McCain defends Huma Abedin against Muslim conspiracy allegations
Arizona Senator John McCain defended a top aide to Hillary Clinton in a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday, decrying unproven allegations that she is part of a Muslim plot against America.
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that a group of McCain's fellow Republicans including Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), Tom Rooney (R-Fla.) and Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga.) have made unproven allegations against Huma Abedin, Clinton's deputy chief of staff and longtime aide. They claim that Abedin, a Muslim American, is part of a Muslim Brotherhood conspiracy to infiltrate the American government and influence US foreign policy on behalf of Islam. The allegations are part of a wider-ranging conspiracy theory that the lawmakers have sent letters to inspectors general at the departments of Homeland Security, Justice and State asking about.
“These sinister accusations rest solely on a few unspecified and unsubstantiated associations of members of Huma’s family, none of which have been shown to harm or threaten the United States in any way,” McCain said Wednesday. “These attacks on Huma have no logic, no basis and no merit. And they need to stop now.
“Ultimately, what is at stake in this matter is larger even than the reputation of one person,” McCain added. “This is about who we are as a nation and who we still aspire to be. What makes America exceptional among the countries of the world is that we are bound together as citizens not by blood or class, not by sect or ethnicity, but by a set of enduring, universal and equal rights that are the foundation of our constitution, our laws, our citizenry, and our identity. When anyone, not least a member of Congress, launches specious and degrading attacks against fellow Americans on the basis of nothing more than fear of who they are and ignorance of what they stand for, it defames the spirit of our nation, and we all grow poorer because of it.”
Abedin attended George Washington University and began working as a White House intern in 1996, where she was assigned to Hillary Clinton. She has worked for Clinton in various capacities ever since. McCain lauded her both personally and professionally, calling her “an intelligent, upstanding, hard-working and loyal servant of our country and our government, who has devoted countless days of her life to advancing the ideals of the nation she loves and looking after its most precious interests.
“Put simply, Huma represents what is best about America: the daughter of immigrants, who has risen to the highest levels of our government on the basis of her substantial personal merit and her abiding commitment to the American ideals that she embodies so fully,” McCain said. “I am proud to know Huma and to call her my friend.”
source: John McCain defends Huma Abedin against Muslim conspiracy allegations - National Social Issues | Examiner.com
source: McCain defends Clinton aide against accusations of Muslim conspiracy - The Washington Post
Arizona Senator John McCain defended a top aide to Hillary Clinton in a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday, decrying unproven allegations that she is part of a Muslim plot against America.
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that a group of McCain's fellow Republicans including Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), Tom Rooney (R-Fla.) and Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga.) have made unproven allegations against Huma Abedin, Clinton's deputy chief of staff and longtime aide. They claim that Abedin, a Muslim American, is part of a Muslim Brotherhood conspiracy to infiltrate the American government and influence US foreign policy on behalf of Islam. The allegations are part of a wider-ranging conspiracy theory that the lawmakers have sent letters to inspectors general at the departments of Homeland Security, Justice and State asking about.
“These sinister accusations rest solely on a few unspecified and unsubstantiated associations of members of Huma’s family, none of which have been shown to harm or threaten the United States in any way,” McCain said Wednesday. “These attacks on Huma have no logic, no basis and no merit. And they need to stop now.
“Ultimately, what is at stake in this matter is larger even than the reputation of one person,” McCain added. “This is about who we are as a nation and who we still aspire to be. What makes America exceptional among the countries of the world is that we are bound together as citizens not by blood or class, not by sect or ethnicity, but by a set of enduring, universal and equal rights that are the foundation of our constitution, our laws, our citizenry, and our identity. When anyone, not least a member of Congress, launches specious and degrading attacks against fellow Americans on the basis of nothing more than fear of who they are and ignorance of what they stand for, it defames the spirit of our nation, and we all grow poorer because of it.”
Abedin attended George Washington University and began working as a White House intern in 1996, where she was assigned to Hillary Clinton. She has worked for Clinton in various capacities ever since. McCain lauded her both personally and professionally, calling her “an intelligent, upstanding, hard-working and loyal servant of our country and our government, who has devoted countless days of her life to advancing the ideals of the nation she loves and looking after its most precious interests.
“Put simply, Huma represents what is best about America: the daughter of immigrants, who has risen to the highest levels of our government on the basis of her substantial personal merit and her abiding commitment to the American ideals that she embodies so fully,” McCain said. “I am proud to know Huma and to call her my friend.”
source: John McCain defends Huma Abedin against Muslim conspiracy allegations - National Social Issues | Examiner.com
source: McCain defends Clinton aide against accusations of Muslim conspiracy - The Washington Post
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