A journalism major at George Washington University, Abedin, 40, was listed as “assistant editor” of the journal from 1996 to 2008, when her name was removed from the staff box and she went to work for Clinton at the State Department.
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When she was hired as an intern for Hillary Clinton in 1996, Huma was the assistant editor of a pro-sharia Saudi rag called the “Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs,” where she worked under her mom, Saleha Abedin, the NY Post reported.
Speaking about her mother, Abedin recently told Vogue that Saleha Mahmood Abedin “was traveling around the world to these global women’s conferences, talking about women’s empowerment, and it was normal.” .
The piece from 1999 also alleges that there are deep ties between the upper echelons of US politics and pro-Israeli, Jewish-Americans, suggesting that Jewish people have been able to “work the system” and are “greatly aided by the American memory of the Holocaust” and Israel serving as America’s ally in the Middle East.
Huma Abedin is Clintons longest-serving and, by all accounts, most loyal aide. Abedin has played a key role in Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
It has spoken out against women’s liberation and the right for single moms and gay couples to be called normal families, instead advocating conservative Islamic values and “traditional” families.
“Pushing [mothers] out into the open labor market is a clear demonstration of a lack of respect for womanhood and motherhood”, the article declared.
In a separate January 1996 article, Abedin’s mother – who was the Muslim World League’s delegate to the United Nations conference – wrote that Clinton and other speakers were advancing a “very aggressive and radically feminist” agenda that was un-Islamic and wrong because it focused on empowering women.
The journal is published by the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs, which was also started by Abedin’s parents. Huma is now vice chair of Hillary’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Merrill repeatedly refused to say if Abedin was paid during her tenure at the publication.
“The contradictions are hard to reconcile”, Sperry wrote.
Sperry reported “the campaign is not talking, despite repeated requests for interviews”. Why she would choose Abedin to help lead the presidential campaign remains to be seen.
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If fighting for womens rights is one of Clintons greatest achievements, why has she retained as her closest adviser a woman who gave voice to harsh Islamist critiques of her Beijing platform?
