Abedin Family Journal Promoted Muslim Brotherhood Views
Reflecting an apparent systemic failure, steadily burgeoning evidence (see here, here, here, and here) indicates that one of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s closest aides, Huma Abedin, despite Ms. Clinton’s protestation, was inadequately vetted for either family or personal ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Diligent, open source investigation has already uncovered and documented numerous alarming connections. One can reasonably infer that a serious, formal congressional investigation of the overall extent of Muslim Brotherhood influence operations –as requested by Representatives Bachmann, Gohmert, Franks, Westmoreland, and Rooney — might yield even more disturbing findings.
Pending these sorely needed Congressional inquiries — replete with their probing investigative tools (i.e., subpoena power, access to classified materials) — much can still be gleaned from the public record. For example, over the past 33 years, Huma Abedin’s family has been responsible for the editorial production of the academic journal of the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA), known as Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs Journal from 1979-1995, and Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs from 1996 until now. The production started with the founding involvement of family patriarch Syed Z. Abedin and Huma’s mother Saleha Abedin since 1979, and subsequently joined by Huma’s brother Hassan Abedin (1996 to present), Huma herself (1996 to 2008), and Huma’s sister Heba (married name Khalid or Khaled; 2002 to present).
The following analysis of this IMMA journal’s foundational origins, guiding editorial board membership, and Weltanschauung — most appositely, at present — confirms that the Abedin family “academic” journal is a thinly veiled mouthpiece for the Muslim Brotherhood’s Sharia-supremacist agenda.
The Institute for Muslim Minority Affairs: Origins and Guiding Relationships
Syed Abedin, in the inaugural edition of the IMMA journal, gives effusive tributes to his IMMA co-founders — Chairman of the IMMA Dr. Abdullah Omar Nasseef, and IMMA Executive Director Dr. Ahmad Bahafzallah:
Finally, we would like to express our deep appreciation to appreciation to His Eminence, Dr. Abdullah O. Nasseef, President, King Abdulaziz University, for his continued guidance, support and encouragement. Dr. Ahmad Bahafzallah. Director of the Institute, and Secretary-General World Assembly of Muslim Youth, has been, as always, most unstinting in his help and cooperation.
During his tenure as secretary-general of the Muslim World League, in July 1988 Naseef also created the Rabita Trust and became its chairman. On October 12, 2001, then-President George W. Bush’s executive order named Rabita Trust as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist Entity, and the U.S. Treasury Department froze its assets while Naseef was still serving as the Trust’s chairman.
Shortly after the May 2010 25th anniversary celebration of the International Islamic Charitable Organization (IICO) founded by Muslim Brotherhood “spiritual guide” Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, the Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report published a summary chronology of then IICO Deputy Chairman Abdullah Omar Nasseef’s other important positions and their association with jihadist activities:
… serving as Vice President of the [Saudi Arabian] Kingdom’s Shura Council, President of King Abdul Aziz University, and most importantly as Secretary-General of the Muslim World League (MWL) from 1983-1993. Dr. Naseef is also the President of the Muslim World Congress and the Secretary-General of the International Islamic Council for Daa’wa and Relief (IICDR) which includes a large number of affiliated organizations, many of which are associated with the global Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas fundraising, or support for al-Qaeda.
Two of Syed Abedin’s IMMA co-founders — Drs. Nasseef and Bahafzallah — have served as secretary generals of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) and Muslim World League (MWL), respectively. Moreover, when Syed Abedin died in 1993, the IMMA journal published a tribute to him written by then Secretary-General of WAMY M.H. al-Juhani. Thus it is worth evaluating, in brief, the nature of these organizations.
An analysis by the Pew Forum revealed that the MWL, identified as a purveyor of “ultraconservative, Wahhabi” Islam, often collaborated with the Muslim Brotherhood when partnering, in turn, with European Islamic organizations. These MWL efforts — funding the construction of mosques and the operations of Islamic centers — created local (i.e., European, and now North American as well) infrastructure for dissemination of this traditionalist Islamic worldview. Ten years after the MWL was established, the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) was founded in Saudi Arabia during 1972. The primary goal of WAMY was to provide Muslim youth access to the traditionalist, conservative interpretation of Islam promulgated by the Saudi religious establishment. WAMY focused on Muslim youth to ensure that the organization played an essential role in shaping the religious views of subsequent generations of Muslims. WAMY, just like its predecessor the MWL, also partnered with European Muslim organizations (in this instance, youth organizations), notably those with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Inexorably, by the 1990s the European activities of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Muslim World League, and the World Assembly of Muslim Youth became so enmeshed, Pew reports, “that it was often difficult to tell them apart.” Ultimately, Pew adds:
A number of senior Muslim Brotherhood figures — including Kemal el-Helbawy, the Egyptian-born, London-based founder of the Muslim Association of Britain — have served in leadership positions in the League and the Assembly.
Very recently, in an address to the “secular” Egyptian Wafd party (posted on the internet 7/26/12), el-Helbawy demanded the release of the jihadist theologian Omar Abd Al-Rahman (the “Blind Sheik”; see pp. 8, 307), who is serving a life sentence at a U.S. federal penitentiary in North Carolina for his role in planning the 1993 World Trade Center bombing (which caused six deaths, 1042 injuries, and nearly $600 million in property damage), and other acts of jihad terrorism within the New York City Metropolitan area. El-Helbawy’s speech included these threatening, virulently anti-American remarks:
These criminals, with the administration, their system, and their institutions — the Pentagon, the White House, the CIA, Homeland Security, the FBI, and others … They are all criminals, planning the killing of people, young and old, planning to kill the revolutions in their cradle. They deceive all parties. They have defended that criminal and plundering state of Israel. We should not fear America or whoever is behind America. We fear none but Allah. If we use the capabilities at our disposal properly, America will be brought to its knees, and will be defeated like the Soviets in Afghanistan. This is no difficult task for Allah.
But don’t anyone hold their breath waiting for John McCain and Marco Rubio to apologize to Michele Bachmann.
Andrew, (and others) please go to my blog – http://www.adinakutnicki.com , it is brimming with supportive evidence to your thesis.
My first commentary re the above, ‘Six Degrees of Separation’ can be found as you scroll down the HOME tab. It is especially important, as it started me on my ‘Huma’ journey.
My most recent commentary ‘Hillary Clinton’s Tap Dance Around Huma Abedin’s Brotherhood/Sisterhood Connection…& Media Matters Request – Show Us Her Security Clearance’ has various attached links of equal import.
The sad part is that Congress is now considering a bill that will LESSEN their responsibility in the vetting process. Sometimes I just don’t think they care.
considering my butt….they passed it
I believe John Boehner should now be investigated for his ties to Muslim Brotherhood. His outrageous attack on Michelle Bachman for asking the obvious sensible national security questions suggests Boehner is determined to thwart any public scrutiny of this important topic. Why would Boehner attack a Congressman, on the Intelligence Committee, who simply asks if normal background checking was done to insure our national security is maintained? Boehner is working against our national security in attacking those who take their jobs seriously. He must be replaced.
John McCain, and also Marco Rubio.
Even at his best, Esposito’s academic presentations suffer from these inappropriate biases, as lucidly described by the scholar Bat Ye’or: 1) historical negationism, consisting of suppressing or sketching in a page or a paragraph, one thousand years of jihad which is presented as a peaceful conquest generally “welcomed” by the vanquished populations; 2) the omission of Christian and in particular Muslim sources describing the actual methods of these conquests and the rule of the conquered peoples as sanctioned by the classical jihad ideology written by numerous Muslim jurists since the 7th Century: pillage, enslavement, deportation, massacres, and the imposition of dhimmitude; 3) the mythical historical conversion of “centuries” of “peaceful coexistence”, masking the processes which transformed majorities (i.e., vast Christian populations, in particular) into minorities constantly at risk of extinction.
Mass delusion as to the reality of Islam, over the centuries and in real time.
For people like al Qaradawi, al Zawahiri, Ayotallah Khamenei, the physiological strain of sustaining such lies must take an enormous toll on their aging bodies.
To neglect prayer is also a criminal act, and to eat in public during Ramadan is a criminal act and so is the refraining from giving alms, taking interest, drinking, selling or transporting wine…
Isn’t one of the major attractions of Paradise to lie down on bejeweled couches beside rivers of wine ?
Living under such a totalitarian system (with so many tiny, niggling and contradictory rules covering every single act & thought) has apparently driven many of these people perfectly nuts.
Only under circumstances of loss of rational thought and Submission to the Insane could a human mind accept and rationalize acts like suicide bombing.
Keep the full court press on Wiener’s Wench….get her out of our government and back to her homeland to pound sand.
Clinton Irrumator’s “Silly Hilly” outta there also.
Thank you for your dedication. I am so discouraged to see conservative bloggers continue to mock Bachmann et. al. for calling for further investigation. I get so tired of the ironic hipster schtick.
I wonder if her family is delighted by weiner – after all they kind of have him by the short hairs now.
Imagine making your daughter marry such a jerk just to get info and put her where she is.
Some of Bachmann’s critics sincerely believe an investigation in a presidential year will do more harm than good. I don’t subscribe to that school of thought, but consider this – President Romney could clean the frickin’ house without all the money spent and media crapstorm.
go ahead Romney – pick another RINO for VP if you dare – and signal to us that you are no different from the enemy within. you want excitement, find a Ted Cruz type. otherwise risk many who voted only because Palin was on the ticket last time, not being fooled again.
someone to be seriously considered.
Huma Abedin and Hillary are a lesbian couple. Weiner was a social climbing “troll” that was OK with marrying Huma to give Hillary cover and him access to the Clinton “inner circle.” There is no other reason for Hillary to have someone with Huma’s radical background being her closest advisor at the State Department. This also explains why Hillary let’s Bill run around like a dog in heat. Hillary goes nowhere without Huma at her side. WHY?
How did Huma Abedin get past the MB to marry a weiner which is prohibited in Islam?
The only reasonable explanation seeing that she is still alive is that he converted.
Moslems waging jee-had are allowed to do pretty much anything….that’s their excuse anyway. They may break all the moslem rules and ‘principles’ to advance their agenda, hey, sounds like democrats, huh? It is ok for moslems to lie, cheat, break any and every moslem rule, whatever, as long as its in the name of jee-had it is permitted. No wonder they all want to wage jee-had, to have a little fun…
For jee-had’s sake it’s OK to be sodomized until there’s room to shove a clyster bomb up there.
that’s a good one! ha ha!
’cause chubby li’l Hilly’s gotta have what to live for being forced to kiss the boss’s butt once Barry sizzled her ass so good she’ll never be no president now. She kissed sweet Suha, she’s chewin’ on Huma, she got it all.
Madam Secretary of State of the United States, Sisterhood Stooge, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Depressing. Welcome to Vichy America.
Quoting Dr. Bostom: “Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi was a founding member of the Muslim World League, a member of the Organization of Islamic Conference (now Cooperation), a member of the World Supreme Council of Mosques, and a member of the Fiqh Council of Rabita.”. . .”In his final chapter Nadwi calls on the Arab world to assume its traditional leadership of Islam.”
Focus on that second quote, and note how Islam is but a vehicle for ARAB supremacism.
It’s mind boggling how many non-Arab cultures have been sucked into this belief system, abused & discarded as collateral carnage for benefit of Arab supremacist goals veiled in mono-theism.
Not withstanding the probability that hill and Huma are bull and cow the hard left has always thought they could use the muzzies as useful idiots.They will co-opt anyone to promote their commie agenda.Problem is ultimately they get bit in the butt.For hillary this may be in more ways than one.
Looks like Huma vetted her husband as throuroughly as Diplomatic Security vetted her.
We really must have the backs of Michele Bachmann and her followers on this. She was spot on, and it is past time to stop with the incessant political correctness, and allow our government and our country to be further infiltrated by Muslim Brotherhood! I followed a link here from http://fundamentalrefounding.ning.com/forum/topics/so-just-how-infiltrated-are-we?commentId=6483638%3AComment%3A34048&xg_source=activity so I could read the entire story. God bless, JG
All this talk about vetting makes me wonder about Mitt Romney. The incredible number of unforced errors – taxes, foreign policy views (Jerusalem is the capitol of Israel?), Bain, MA governor tenure, etc. etc. makes we seriously doubt the vetting which occurred for Romney. We are now stuck with a horribly flawed candidate with no discernible position on anything. Vetting…oi!
It took me a whole afternoon to get through that article. They apparently make no secret of their totalitarian worldwide supremacist objective, though some try to disguise it. It is thick reading.
My quest is to see if I (anyone/everyone) can ignore Islam and Muslims. Will they leave me alone?
and both secularists and a-tea-ists like me who favor individual liberty are special targets:
Defense here sounds more like general license to engage in perpetual violent offense.
I’ll have to try to remember “fiqh al-aqalliyyat” and “Ijtihad”. It would be within a US citizen’s First Amendment rights to argue for the repeal of the First Amendment, even if the private motivation is to pave the way for the implementation of Hillary Clinton’s/Huma Adedin’s Istanbul Process (and more).
A question still unanswered is whether the punishment of death for apostasy is more accurately described as the act of a state to punish treason and that such code alone can transform being Muslim from a purely religious notion to that of renouncing US citizenship in favor of citizenship in a borderless Islamic Ummah nation?
You guys leave Hillary alone. She has plenty of company:
1) Grover Norquist
2) Rick Perry
3) Chris Christie
4) Bill Clinton (took $150 million from the Saudis for a speech)
5) Rory McIlroy (Juremiah)
6) Major Nidal Hassan’s commanders
I could go on. There’s a question I’d like to axe: is there a pattern here?
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama are not that stupid. Huma Abedin is on Hillary’s staff because of, not despite, her contacts in the Ikwhan, the Muslim Brotherhood. Hillary and B. Hussein have looked into the eyes of the Ikwhan’s leaders and have decided they can negotiate with them in good faith. Anyway, Hillary and B. Hussein hate Western civilization almost as much as the Ikwhan does, so they have much in common.