A lobbying group has cut ties with an ex-adviser to former President Barack Obama after videos surfaced that show the man making Islamophobic comments and threats to a food cart employee in New York City.
The videos, posted on X (formerly Twitter) by a Columbia University student, shows Stuart Seldowitz asking someone off camera, “Did you rape your daughter like Muhammad did?” and saying that killing 4,000 Palestinian children “wasn’t enough.”
Seldowitz was acting director for the National Security Council South Asia Directorate under Obama and was deputy director/senior political officer in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs from 1999 to 2003. More recently, he served as foreign affairs chair for Gotham Government Relations, which announced his new role in a press release in November 2022.
On Tuesday afternoon, Gotham announced on Twitter that it had cut ties with Seldowitz.
What I understood from debates on internet - the debate is only about the girl’s age with numbers given between 6 and 10. In what sense you are saying it is not true?
The range is between 9 and 16
Ok, did not find the argument for 16. However it looks like having such young girls as wives was common at the time, and I do not believe profit ever objected against that. Am I wrong?
Yes it was common at the time and no he did not say anything specifically in support or against the practice at least to my knowledge