WASHINGTON – The top campaign aide to presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is being scrutinized for her ties to a Saudi-sponsored magazine. 

Huma Abedin, 40, has for years been one of Clinton’s closest confidantes. She began her career as an intern in the White House in 1996, when Hillary Clinton was first lady, and was assigned as back-up to Clinton’s primary aide.

When Clinton later became senator for New York, Abedin worked as her aide and personal adviser – a capacity in which she has remained ever since, participating in Clinton’s presidential campaign of 2008 as well as the current run for the White House.
The New York Post has now reported that from 1996 to 2008, Abedin was listed as assistant editor of the Saudi Arabia-based Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs – “a radical magazine,” where Abedin’s mother, Saleha Mahmood Abedin, is the editor-in-chief.

Many of the articles published in the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs appear to directly contradict Clinton’s pivotal arguments regarding women’s role in the modern family, the of rights sexual minorities, and numerous other issues.
The Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs has consistently rejected Clinton’s feminist platform. 
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.
Despite the distinct differences in attitudes between the journal and Clinton, the New York Post reports that Huma Abedin was formerly listed as a Muslim Minority Affairs’ board member and an assistant editor, including on a 2002 issue which suggested the US was “doomed” to go through the 9/11 attacks as a result of the “sanctions” and “injustices” Washington had applied to the Muslim world.
Following the New York Post report, George Washington University graduate Huma Abedin denied any active role in the Saudi Arabia-sponsored journal.
“My understanding is that her name was simply listed on the masthead in that period,” Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said, hours after the New York Post article was published. He refused to deny or confirm that Clinton’s aide was paid for her collaboration with the Muslim media outlet.
“She did not play a role in editing at the publication,” Merrill said.