Huma Abedin - Discover the Networks
Huma's mother,
Saleha Mahmood Abedin, is a sociologist known for her strong advocacy of
Sharia Law. A member of the Muslim Sisterhood (i.e., the
Muslim Brotherhood's division for women), Saleha is also 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 led by the Muslim Brotherhood luminary
Yusuf al-Qaradawi.
When Huma was two, the Abedin family relocated from Michigan to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. This move took place when Abdullah Omar Naseef, a
major Muslim Brotherhood figure who served as vice president of Abdulaziz University (AU),
recruited his former AU colleague, Syed Abedin, to work for the
Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA), a Saudi-based Islamic think tank that Naseef was preparing to launch. A number of years later, Naseef would
develop close
ties to
Osama bin Laden and the terrorist group
al Qaeda. Naseef also spent time (beginning in the
early 1980s) as secretary-general of the
Muslim World League, which, as journalist
Andrew C. McCarthy points out, "has long been the Muslim Brotherhood’s principal vehicle for the international propagation of Islamic supremacist ideology."
It is vital to note that IMMA's "
Muslim Minority Affairs" agenda was, and remains to this day, a calculated foreign policy of the Saudi Ministry of Religious Affairs, designed, as Andrew C. McCarthy
explains, "to grow an unassimilated, aggressive population of Islamic supremacists who will gradually but dramatically alter the character of the West." For details about this agenda,
click here.
At age 18, Huma Abedin returned to the U.S. to attend George Washington University. In 1996 she began working as an intern in the
Bill Clinton White House, where she was assigned to then-First Lady
Hillary Rodham Clinton. Abedin was
eventually hired as an aide to Mrs. Clinton and has worked for her ever since, through Clinton's successful Senate runs (in 2000 and 2006) and her failed presidential bid in 2008.
From 1997 until sometime before early 1999, Abedin, while still interning at the White House,
was an
executive board member of
George Washington University's (GWU)
Muslim Students Association (MSA), heading the organization's “Social Committee.”
It is noteworthy that in 2001-02, soon after Abedin left that executive board, the chaplain and "spritual guide" of GWU's MSA was Anwar al-Awlaki, the
al Qaeda operative who
ministeredto some of the men who were among the 9/11 hijackers.
Another chaplain at GWU's MSA (
from at least October 1999 through April 2002) was Mohamed Omeish, who headed the
International Islamic Relief Organization, which has been tied to the funding of
al Qaeda. Omeish’s
brother, Esam, headed the
Muslim American Society, the Muslim Brotherhood’s quasi-official branch in the United States. Both Omeish brothers were closely
associated with
Abdurahman Alamoudi, who would later be convicted and incarcerated on terrorism charges.
From 1996-2008, Abedin was employed by the
Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA) as the
assistant editor of its in-house publication, the
Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs (
JMMA).
At least the first seven of those years
overlapped with the al Qaeda-affiliated Abdullah Omar Naseef's active presence at IMMA. Abedin's last six years at the Institute (2002-2008) were spent as a
JMMA editorial board
member; for one of those years, 2003, Naseef and Abedin
served together on that board.
Throughout her years with IMMA, Abedin remained a close aide to Hillary Clinton. During Mrs. Clinton's 2008 presidential primary campaign, a
New York Observerprofile of Abedin described her as "a trusted advisor to Mrs. Clinton, especially on issues pertaining to the Middle East, according to a number of Clinton associates." "At meetings on the region," continued the profile, "... Ms. Abedin’s perspective is always sought out."
When Mrs. Clinton was appointed as President
Barack Obama's Secretary of State in 2009, Abedin became her deputy chief of staff. At approximately that same point in time, Abedin's name was
removed from the
Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs' masthead.
