The top campaign aide to presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was listed as an editor for a Saudi-sponsored magazine that advocates radical Islam ideas, many of which contradict the campaign pledges made by the Democratic nominee, it has been reported.
Huma Abedin, 40, has for years been one of Clinton’s closest confidantes. She began her career as an intern in the White House in 1996, when Hillary Clinton was first lady, and was assigned as back-up to Clinton’s primary aide.
When Clinton later became senator for New York, Abedin worked as her aide and personal adviser – a capacity in which she has remained ever since, participating in Clinton’s presidential campaign of 2008 as well as the current run for the White House.
The New York Post has now reported that from 1996 to 2008, Abedin was listed as assistant editor of the Saudi Arabia-based Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs – a radical magazine where Abedin’s mother, Saleha Mahmood Abedin, is the editor-in-chief.
The magazine, issued by the former head of the Muslim World League, promotes traditional Muslim family values that run contrary to the basic principles of Clinton’s agenda as the Democratic presidential candidate.
Many of the articles published in the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs appear to directly contradict Clinton’s pivotal arguments regarding women’s role in the modern family, the of rights sexual minorities, and numerous other issues.
In 1995, Clinton delivered her famous ‘Women’s rights are human rights’ speech at a UN women’s conference in Beijing – which has been actively used in her current presidential campaign.
In 1996, however, an article was published in the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs entitled ‘Women’s Rights are Islamic Rights’, evidently opposing the US first lady’s speech in Beijing, where Saleha Mahmood Abedin had been in attendance as a Muslim World League representative. The article accused Clinton and other speakers of distributing a “very aggressive and radically feminist” agenda.
Despite the distinct differences in attitudes between the journal and Clinton, the New York Post reports that Huma Abedin was formerly listed as a Muslim Minority Affairs’ board member and an assistant editor, including on a 2002 issue which suggested the US was “doomed” to go through the 9/11 attacks as a result of the “sanctions” and “injustices” Washington had applied to the Muslim world. ...
