Ms. Abedin worked for many
years at a journal that promotes Islamic-supremacist ideology that was founded
by a top al-Qaeda financier, Abdullah Omar Naseef. Naseef ran the Rabita Trust,
a formally designated foreign terrorist organization under American law. The Huma Abedin Muslim Brotherhood connection allowed the Clinton and Obama Crime Families to reach across the world. Abedin, Clinton and Obama belong in jail and the secrets were held on the Hillary Clinton underground computer email servers.
Ms.
Abedin and Naseef overlapped at the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs (JMMA)
for at least seven years. Throughout that time (1996–2003), Ms. Abdein worked
for Hillary Clinton in various capacities. Ms. Abedin’s late father, Dr. Zyed
Abedin, was recruited by Naseef to run the JMMA in Saudi Arabia. The journal
was operated under the management of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth, a
virulently anti-Semitic and sharia-supremacist organization.
When Dr. Abedin
died, editorial control of the journal passed to his wife, Dr. Saleha Mahmood
Abedin — Huma’s mother. Saleha Abedin is closely tied to the Muslim Brotherhood
and to supporters of violent jihad. Among other things, she directs an
organization – the International Islamic Committee for Woman and Child.
The IICWC, through its parent entity (the International Islamic Council for
Dawa and Relief), is a component of the Union for Good (also known as the
Union of Good), another formally designated terrorist organization.
The
Union for Good is led by Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the notorious Muslim
Brotherhood jurist who has issued fatwas calling for the killing of American
military and support personnel in Iraq as well as suicide bombings in Israel.
(As detailed here, the Obama White House recently hosted Qaradawi’s
principal deputy, Sheikh Abdulla bin Bayyah, who also endorsed the fatwa
calling for the killing of U.S. troops and personnel in Iraq.) Like Sheikh
Qaradawi, who helped write the charter for the IICWC, Saleha Abedin is an
influential sharia activist who has, for example, published a book called
Women in Islam that claims man-made laws enslave women.
It reportedly provides
sharia justifications for such practices as female-genital mutilation, the
death penalty for apostates from Islam, the legal subordination of women, and
the participation of women in violent jihad.
Dr. Abedin has nevertheless been
hailed in the progressive press as a “leading voice on women’s rights in the
Muslim world” (to quote Foreign Policy). What they never quite get around to telling
you is that this means “women’s rights” in the repressive sharia context. Back
to daughter Huma.
In the late mid to late Nineties, while she was an
intern at the Clinton White House and an assistant editor at JMMA, Ms. Abedin
was a member of the executive board of the Muslim Students Association (MSA) at
George Washington University, heading its “Social Committee.” The MSA, which
has a vast network of chapters at universities across North America, is the
foundation of the Muslim Brotherhood’s infrastructure in the United States.
Obviously, not every Muslim student who joins the MSA graduates to the
Brotherhood — many join for the same social and networking reasons that cause
college students in general to join campus organizations. But the MSA does
have an indoctrination program, which Sam Tadros describes as a
lengthy process of study and service that leads to Brotherhood membership
— a process “designed to ensure with absolute certainty that there is
conformity to the movement’s ideology and a clear adherence to its leadership’s
authority.”
The MSA gave birth to the Islamic Society of North America
(ISNA), the largest Islamist organization in the U.S. Indeed the MSA and ISNA
consider themselves the same organization. Because of its support for Hamas (a
designated terrorist organization that is the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestinian
branch), ISNA was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land
Foundation case, in which several Hamas operatives were convicted of providing
the terrorist organization with lavish financing. As I’ve recounted before, the
MSA chapter to which Ms. Abedin belonged at George Washington University has an
intriguing history.
In 2001 [to be clear, that is after Ms. Abedin had
graduated from GWU], its spiritual guide was . . . Anwar al-Awlaki, the
al-Qaeda operative who was then ministering to some of the eventual 9/11
suicide-hijackers. Awlaki himself had led the MSA chapter at Colorado State
University in the early nineties.
As Patrick Poole has demonstrated, Awlaki is
far from the only jihadist to hone his supremacist ideology in the MSA’s
friendly confines. In the eighties, Wael Jalaidan ran the MSA at the University
of Arizona.
He would soon go on to help Osama bin Laden found al-Qaeda; he also
partnered with the Abedin family’s patron, Abdullah Omar Naseef, to establish
the [aforementioned] Rabita Trust — formally designated as a terrorist
organization under U.S. law due to its funding of al-Qaeda.
Ms. Abedin served
as one of Secretary of State Clinton’s top staffers and advisers at the State
Department.
As I’ve previously detailed, during that time, the State Department
strongly supported abandoning the federal government’s prior policy against
official dealings with the Muslim Brotherhood.
State, furthermore, embraced a number
of Muslim Brotherhood positions that undermine both American constitutional
rights and our alliance with Israel. To name just a few manifestations of this
policy sea change:
The State Department had an emissary in Egypt who
trained operatives of the Brotherhood and other Islamist organizations in
democracy procedures.
The State Department announced that the Obama
administration would be “satisfied” with the election of a Muslim
Brotherhood–dominated government in Egypt.
Secretary Clinton personally intervened to
reverse a Bush-administration ruling that barred Tariq Ramadan, grandson of the
Brotherhood’s founder and son of one of its most influential early leaders,
from entering the United States.
The State Department collaborated with the
Organization of Islamic Cooperation, a bloc of governments heavily influenced
by the Brotherhood, in seeking to restrict American free-speech rights in
deference to sharia proscriptions against negative criticism of Islam. The
State Department excluded Israel, the world’s leading target of terrorism, from
its “Global Counterterrorism Forum,” a group that brings the United States
together with several Islamist governments, prominently including its co-chair,
Turkey — which now finances Hamas and avidly supports the flotillas that
seek to break Israel’s blockade of Hamas.
At the forum’s kickoff, Secretary
Clinton decried various terrorist attacks and groups; but she did not mention
Hamas or attacks against Israel — in transparent deference to the Islamist
governments, which echo the Brotherhood’s position that Hamas is not a
terrorist organization and that attacks against Israel are not terrorism.
The
State Department and the Obama administration waived congressional
restrictions in order to transfer $1.5 billion dollars in aid to Egypt after
the Muslim Brotherhood’s victory in the parliamentary elections.
The State
Department and the Obama administration waived congressional restrictions
in order to transfer millions of dollars in aid to the Palestinian territories
notwithstanding that Gaza is ruled by the terrorist organization Hamas, the
Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestinian branch. The State Department and the
administration hosted a contingent from Egypt’s newly elected parliament that
included not only Muslim Brotherhood members but a member of the Islamic
Group (Gamaa al-Islamiyya), which is formally designated as a foreign
terrorist organization.
The State Department refused to provide Americans
with information about the process by which it issued a visa to a member of a designated
terrorist organization, about how the members of the Egyptian delegation were
selected, or about what security procedures were followed before the delegation
was allowed to enter our country. On a trip to Egypt, Secretary Clinton
pressured General Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, head of the military junta then
governing the country, to surrender power to the parliament dominated by the
Muslim Brotherhood, and the then–newly elected president, Mohamed Morsi, a top
Brotherhood official.
She also visited with Morsi; immediately after his
victory, Morsi had proclaimed that his top priorities included pressuring the
United States to release the Blind Sheikh. Quite apart from the Brotherhood’s
self-proclaimed “grand jihad” to destroy the United States . . . the group’s
supreme guide, Mohammed Badie, publicly called for jihad against
the United States in an October 2010 speech. After it became clear the
Brotherhood would win the parliamentary election, Badie said the
victory was a stepping stone to “the establishment of a just Islamic
caliphate.”
As more recent events remind us, this is not an exhaustive
account of Obama-administration coziness with the Muslim Brotherhood. It is
just some of the lowlights. When a handful of House conservatives tried to draw
the attention of the State Department’s inspector general to some of these
matters – wondering how on earth someone with Ms. Abdein’s background
could have qualified for a top-secret security clearance – they were
castigated by the Obama White House and the Beltway Republican establishment.
As reaffirmed in the last 24 hours,
Ms. Abedin’s connections to prominent
Islamic-supremacist figures and groups are deemed unsuitable for public
discussion – Egyptians may be able to eject the Muslim Brotherhood, but
in today’s Washington it is raising questions about the Muslim Brotherhood that
gets you run out of town. Naturally, what did get Washington chattering was a
scandal far more typical in Clinton circles —
the lucrative arrangement Ms.
Abedin struck with Mrs. Clinton’s State Department that allowed her, after
returning from maternity leave, to draw a $135,000 State Department salary
while remaining in New York, not actually working at Foggy Bottom, and
moonlighting as a “strategic consultant” for an outfit called Teneo
– founded by Bill Clinton’s chum Doug Band. What a racket.
The
marriage to Huma Abedin, a Clinton insider, enables Anthony Weiner to resurrect
a debased career and deflect attention from his psychotic antics even as he
continues them.
The marriage to Anthony Weiner, a prominent Jewish progressive,
enables Huma Abedin to deflect attention from her associations with
various Islamic supremacists even as, during her tenure as a top State
Department official, American policy embraces Islamic supremacists.
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