My column in today's newspaper.
Huma Abedin has been the most prominent name on cable news since last Friday when she became embroiled in a major news story involving Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the FBI, but do you know who she really is?
You probably know her as Clinton’s “traveling chief of staff”, and senior adviser. She was a deputy chief of staff when Clinton was secretary of state. She is now the vice-chair of Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
She is a practicing Muslim. Let’s just get that out of the way first. As recently as last December she proclaimed herself to be a “proud Muslim” when she spoke out against Donald Trump’s statements about banning Muslims. My curiosity led me to research why she doesn’t wear the hijab. Apparently she feels it would be “off- putting” to voters in a highly contested presidential campaign. I also discovered that Sharia law has a term which basically means “flexibility” to us and means that Muslims can change their manner of lifestyle if it benefits them at the time.
She was born in the U.S. but when she was two years old, the family moved to Saudi Arabia where her father founded the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA), with the financial backing of Abdullah Omar Naseef, the president of King Abdulaziz University.
Abedin’s mother, Saleha Mahmood Abedin, is an associate professor of sociology at Dar al-Hekma College in Jeddah. She is a sociologist known for her strong advocacy of Sharia Law. She is a member of the Muslim Sisterhood which is the Muslim Brotherhoods’ division for women, and she is a board member of the International Islamic Council for Dawa and Relief. (This pro-Hamas entity is part of the Union of Good, which the U.S. government has formally designated as an international terrorist organization.)
Huma was an assistant editor between 1996 and 2008 for the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. Her father was the first editor of this Journal which has as its mission statement to “shed light” on minority Muslim communities around the world in the hope of securing the “legitimate rights of those communities”.
Her brother Hassan is a book review editor for the Journal and was a fellow at the Oxford Center for Islamic Studies where Abdullah Naseef serves as chairman of the Board of Trustees. Huma’s sister is an assistant editor at the journal.
Abedin was a member of the Muslim Student Association, which is associated with the Muslim Brotherhood. She has never renounced any of her Muslim connections even though she has been Hillary Clinton’s closest friend and personal aide since the 2008 campaign.
As far back as 2012, there were questions in the Congress about whether Huma had been properly vetted for a security clearance in the U.S.
A quick review of the Muslim Minority Affairs manifesto shows the following language: “The greatest challenge that faces Muslims in the United States and Canada are the Jews who take advantage of their material ability and their media to distort the image of Islam and Muslims there by spreading their lies and distortions in the minds of the people in these countries.”
Abedin’s mother, father, sister and brother are all affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood as well as the IMMA and the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY). All these groups espouse terrorism, anti-American policies and anti-Semitism.
This leads us to the question of why Huma Abedin married Anthony Wiener, a Jew, in 2010, a marriage which was officiated by former President Bill Clinton. Some political observers surmise that he might have secretly converted to Islam, but that would have not been in the best political interests of a Jewish Congressman in New York. Most people think it has been a marriage of convenience - again for Clinton’s political advantage. And again the issue of sharia law flexibility comes up since it is to the benefit of the Muslim community for Abedin to “temporarily” change her lifestyle to accommodate the better good of the Muslim beliefs.
In a Muslim country, Islamic law does not permit a Muslim woman to marry a non-Muslim man and if she did she would probably be stoned or murdered in some other way.
I made reference to Abdullah Omar Naseef earlier. He is Secretary General of the Muslim World League in Saudi Arabia which has been described as “perhaps the most significant Muslim Brotherhood organization in the world.”
The Muslim World League provided funds to Osama bin Laden and “is an observer member of the Organization of Islamic Conferences, an intergovernmental coalition dedicated to liberating Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa from Zionist occupation.” In other words obliterating Israel as they have often threatened to do.
Naseef is an extremely wealthy Saudi and is a top al-Qaeda financier and ran the Rabita Trust, a formally designated terrorist organization under American law. He and Huma Abedin worked together at the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs for at least seven years.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has given between $10 and $25 million to the Clinton Foundation while Friends of Saudi Arabia has contributed between $1 and $5 million.
The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in Egypt in 1928 as a revolutionary fundamentalist movement to restore the caliphate and strict Sharia Law in Muslim lands and ultimately the world. Today it has chapters in 80 countries.
In its own words, it is dedicated to “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within.”
Its founder, Hassan al-Banna, writes: It is in the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.”
The motto of the Muslim Brotherhood is “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the Way of Allah is our highest hope. Allahu Akbar!”
Lastly, the tentacles of this narrative involving Clinton and Abedin and Naseef reach out even farther into the U.S.
Remember Khizr Khan from the Democratic convention? He is much more than just a Gold Star father. He worked at the law firm Hogan Lovells for years. This is a major D.C. law firm that has been on retainer as the law firm representing the government of Saudi Arabia in the U.S. for years. This is the firm which handles Hillary Clinton’s taxes and is connected with the current email scandal. Loretta Lynch was also employed at that law firm at one time.
Khan now has his own personal law firm, KM Khan Law Office,and his website shows that he represents clients in the business of buying visas to enter the U.S. He specializes in immigration services, and works for the industry of Muslim immigration. He has also made generous donations to the Clinton Foundation.
© Joan Rowden Hart
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