Huma Abedin & Hillary Clinton - Who is Funding Huma Abedin's Lifestyle?

Hillary's Mystery Woman: Who is Huma?
Senator Clinton's closest aide, Ms. Abedin never sweats; Oscar de la Renta wants to dress her
by Spencer Morgan
Published: April 1, 2007
observer.com

"It was like 110 degrees outside," recalled the source, a political aide who asked to remain anonymous. "We were all just pouring down with sweat. But I have this distinct memory of Huma traipsing in in this blue pantsuit—it was like this wool pantsuit—not a bead of sweat on her brow, not a hair out of place, with everything perfectly organized in her Yves Saint Laurent handbag."

...The back story, as it were, begins 32 years ago in Kalamazoo, Mich., where Ms. Abedin, who declined to participate in this article, lived until the age of 2. Her family then relocated to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where she lived until returning to the States for college. She attended George Washington University. Her father, who died when she was 17, was an Islamic and Middle Eastern scholar of Indian decent. He founded his own institute devoted to Western-Eastern and interfaith understanding and reconciliation and published a journal focusing on Muslim minorities living in the diaspora. Her mother, a renowned professor in Saudi Arabia, is Pakistani.

Ms. Abedin recently bought an apartment in the vicinity of 12th and U streets in Washington, D.C. ...

Ms. Abedin began working for Mrs. Clinton as an intern for the then First Lady in 1996. She was hired as a staff assistant to the First Lady's chief of staff, Maggie Williams. For several years, she was the backup to Mrs. Clinton's permanent personal aide, Allison Stein, and she officially took over as Mrs. Clinton's aide and advisor around the time of the 2000 Senate race.

According to a friend, her favorite designers are Mr. de la Renta, Catherine Malandrino, Charles Nolan and Prada. "And she has a weakness for Marc Jacobs bags," said the friend. "She is known for her bags."

Robert Barnett, the Clintons' longtime attorney, said that in 11 years of knowing her, he has never seen her wear the same outfit twice...

Huma Abedin's mother seems to be referred to, variously, as "Saleha Abedin", "Saleha Mahmood Abedin", "Saleha S. Mahmood Abedin", and "Saleha S. Mahmood".

She is believed to be employed as a Sociology Professor at Dar Al-Hekma Women's College, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and it appears that she now holds the position of the Director of the Institute for Muslim Minority Affairs, which was founded by her late husband:

Here are Huma Abedin's known salary figures, as a "Senior Adviser" to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-NY:

Now let's start with that "apartment in the vicinity of 12th and U streets in Washington, D.C".

The most money Huma Abedin ever earned, as a Senate staffer, within a single one year time span, was from April 1, 2005 to March 31, 2006:

Now let's see if we can find that apartment in the vicinity of 12th & U Streets.

Note that that intersection is also known as "1200 U Street NW", zip code 20009:

The District of Columbia classifies property according to "Square", "Suffix", and "Lot":

Just from playing around with some addresses, I guessed that these were roughly the placements of the Squares:

It turns out that Huma Abedin's apartment is on page two of the Square 0273 listings, specifically Square 0273, Lot 2128:

Finally, let's look at some prices for the designer clothes which Huma Abedin wears and the designer handbags which she carries:

Huma M. Abedin, Salary History
Clinton, Sen. Hillary Rodham (D-New York)	10/01/06	03/31/07	Senior Adviser	$9,999.96
Clinton, Sen. Hillary Rodham (D-New York)	04/01/06	09/30/06	Senior Adviser	$9,999.96
Clinton, Sen. Hillary Rodham (D-New York)	10/01/05	03/31/06	Senior Adviser	$9,999.96
Clinton, Sen. Hillary Rodham (D-New York)	04/01/05	09/30/05	Senior Adviser	$17,999.96
Clinton, Sen. Hillary Rodham (D-New York)	10/01/04	03/31/05	Senior Adviser	$9,083.33
Clinton, Sen. Hillary Rodham (D-New York)	04/01/04	09/30/04	Staff Assistant	$12,000.00
Clinton, Sen. Hillary Rodham (D-New York)	10/01/03	03/31/04	Staff Assistant	$9,000.00

Strange Bedfellows
The Daily Oklahoman
September 6, 1995
EDITORIAL

CONSERVATIVES and Christian family values advocates have an unusual ally at the Beijing World Conference on Women: Islam.

While the Muslim viewpoint on issues is seldom extolled in this space, it is not possible to remain silent on this. Muslims want greater emphasis “on family, spiritual and religious values in determining, evaluating and improving the status of women in society” and other changes in the conference platform, according to a letter from the Muslim World League to Gertrude Mongella, secretary-general of the conference.
Like the American conservatives and Christian groups attending the conference, the Muslims believe that bedfellows should be male-female - and married. Saleha S. Mahmood, director of the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs in London, says the 121-page platform draft carries a “hidden agenda” that is anti-male and biased against strengthening traditional families.

The conference, which formally opened this week, is a sham that will cost millions of dollars just so anti-traditionalists can stroke each other and feel good about the progress they are making. But these women, which include Hillary Clinton, do not represent a mainstream viewpoint in either Oklahoma City or Tehran. They only represent themselves.

Feminists will be quick to point out that repression of women is a problem in several of the Islamic societies. That is certainly true.

But if repression is the real problem, why have such a meeting in one of the most oppressive lands on earth? The real feminist criticism of Islam is that even in its most contemporary branches, women fill traditional roles. And, in much of the world, many woman are comfortable with that - a fact which Hillary & Co. refuse to accept.

Millions of women celebrate being wives and mothers and reject the notion that every woman should have a career. Islam upholds the much older notion that the female role in reproduction and in protection and care of children is paramount.

According to a Reuters News Agency dispatch, Egypt’s most influential Islamic institution, Al-Azhar, believes the women’s conference contradicts religion and seeks to destroy the family.

We agree. While women have every right to be more than wives and mothers, those who chose to be solely wives and mothers should be esteemed. The United States should not have sent any delegation to this stupid conference, much less one headed by First Careerist Hillary Clinton.

Her decision to go was the best propaganda stroke Red China has been given in a long time. And China, remember, is the place where women are more repressed than just about anywhere else in the world.

A FIRESTORM OVER WOMEN’S RIGHTS
The Palm Beach Post
August 25, 1995
Author: STEVE GUSHEE
Palm Beach Post Religion Writer

EXCERPT

Many Muslims feel that much of the platform document is contrary to significant parts of the Koran and fundamentally undermines the best interest of women, according to Dr. Saleha Mahmood, director of the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs in London and representative of the Muslim World League, which has observer status at the United Nations.

“The document is flawed. The language it does contain is largely anti-male, anti-religion and anti-family. It omits language honoring women’s nurturing role or promoting the desirability of stable families,” she said.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22saleha+Mahmood%22++%22united+nations%22&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=Cxa&start=10&sa=N2. www.isdb.org
www.isdb.org/english_docs/idb_ - [Cached]

Published on: 6/8/2006 Last Visited: 3/16/2007
Dr. Saleha Mahmood Abedin
...
DR. SALEHA MAHMOOD ABEDIN is the Vice Dean of Academic Affairs at Dar Al-Hekma College, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She holds a PhD in Sociology and an M.A. in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., USA. She served as Associate Professor of Sociology and Supervisor of the Graduate Studies Program at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah for several years and previously taught at colleges in the United States. She was part of the Project Management team for the founding of Dar Al-Hekma College and represented Texas International Education Consortium in the Project. She has been part of the senior management team at the College ever since its launch in 1999. Dr. Abedin has served as consultant to IDB since 1997 and has worked closely with Dr. Ahmed Muhammad Ali during the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing, China, in 1995, when he was serving as the Secretary General of Muslim World League. Dr. Abedin has been involved in women’s issues as chairperson of a women’s NGO for several years and convener of the Muslim women’s caucus at the Beijing conference and beyond. She is the Co-Chair of the Global Peace Initiative of Women Religious and Spiritual Leaders, New York, and organized major international women’s conferences in Geneva, Oslo and Jordan in the past three years. She is a member of the Peace Council based in Madison, Wisconsin, USA; a member of the Vienna Roundtable for Christian-Muslim Dialogue; and serves on the International Advisory Panel for the Parliament of World Religions, Chicago, USA, among others. Dr. Abedin has also served as senior education advisor and consultant to the Education for Employment Foundation based in Washington, D.C., which is committed to promoting education and employment in the Islamic world. Dr. Abedin is the chief editor of the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, a leading scholarly journal published thrice a year by Routledge/Taylor & Francis from Oxford, UK.

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:-9KZkfaf2dEJ:www.sankt-georgen.de/leseraum/troll14.html+Muslim+Minority+Affairs+Syed+Z.+Abedin&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=14&gl=us&client=firefox-a

The voice of the Muslims living as minorities: missionary instead of political Islam

Here we shall draw attention to the voices of two Muslim Indians - Syed Zainul Abedīn (1928-1993) and Maulāna Wahīduddīn Khān (b.1925) - whose thought was first shaped in the Republic of India, the home to the numerically largest Muslim minority in the world, a minority however, which comprises not more than 12 percent of the overall Indian population.

Both, the all too early deceased Dr. Syed Z. Abedin as well as Maulana Wahiduddin Khan grew up in undivided India. In their college and university days they experienced the passionate ideological and political disputes of the fight for independence of India and for, respectively against, the creation of a decidedly Muslim, and later Islamic, state of Pakistan. The development of the thinking of these two scholars was shaped by such far-reaching and decisive questions as e.g. the relationship of Islam to the modern - from the point of view of culture and of religion plurally composed and secularly constituted - national state; how Muslim could thrive as a minority within a democracy that, by definition, is largely ruled by majorities; how Muslims would relate to the caste system (perceived as structurally-cemented and religiously-justified injustice).

After studies at Aligarh Muslim University Zaiunul Abedin was close to the "JamāÃƒÂƒÃ‚ÂƒÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â‚ÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â‚ÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â´at-i Islami-i Hind" and later in the United States, which he took during his student years in Philadelphia as his country of adoption, he became in the early 1980's councilor of the "Rābitat al-'Alam al-Islāmī" (Mecca). He established the "Institute for Muslim Minority Affairs" in Jeddah with a branch in London and founded and directed for many year its important organ, the "Journal of the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs". AbedinÃƒÂƒÃ‚ÂƒÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â‚ÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â‚ÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â´s thought merits to be kept alive, because he emphasized in prophetical foresight the fundamental fact that today at least every fifth citizen of the world is Muslim and a third of the total number of Muslims live in non-Muslim states. Abedin was concerned with bringing the problems of this growing third of the Muslims that by now lives world-wide in minority situations, into the forefront of the consciousness not only of the Muslims but of all those who today and in future reflect about Islam.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3736/is_200201/ai_n9063482/pg_5

Trained in social science and being of Indian origin, Professor Abedin was the founder of the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, an institution that had the quiet but active support of the then General Secretary of the Muslim World League, Dr. Umar Abdallah Nasif.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB108422799531607397.html?mod=politics_primary_hs

U.S. Treasury Ties Bosnian Arm
Of Saudi Charity to Terror Funds
By GLENN R. SIMPSON
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
May 11, 2004

The Treasury Department has designated an Islamic charity that is a subsidiary of the Muslim World League, a Saudi religious organization, as a terrorist entity.

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http://www.nixoncenter.org/publications/Program%20Briefs/PBrief%202003/Islamist%20Networks.htm

“Islamist Networks in the United States”

A Luncheon with Rita Katz, Director of the SITE Institute

November 19, 2003

EXCERPT

Ms. Katz also highlighted the linkages between Saudi Arabia and terrorist groups. A Saudi governmental charity, the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO), widely believed to be used by al-Qaeda, is a subsidiary of the Muslim World League, the Kingdom’s umbrella relief group. The Muslim World League is an organization controlled and funded by the Saudi government and provides employees with Saudi diplomatic passports, making it extremely easy to travel internationally. Several individuals who have been convicted of terrorism around the world worked as employees of the Muslim World League.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58449

ELECTION 2008
Hillary takes cash from terror suspects
Muslim donors targets of federal investigation
Posted: November 4, 2007

Presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., has taken thousands of dollars in cash donations from Islamists under federal investigation for terror-financing, money laundering and tax fraud, WND has learned.

The Democrat senator over the past seven months has received $1,000 from M. Yaqub Mirza and another $500 from M. Omar Ashraf, federal campaign records show. Federal agents raided the Virginia homes and offices of the Muslim donors after 9/11 for ties to terrorism.

Others tied to the still-active probe also have contributed money to Clinton, including one Muslim man who after 9/11 complained the U.S. government should focus on changing its Mideast policies instead of killing Osama bin Laden and other Islamic terrorists.

Mirza, who also has given to other candidates, including Republicans, is said to act on behalf of Saudi millionaire Yassin al-Qadi, who the U.S. Treasury Department in October 2001 blacklisted as an al-Qaida financier.

More recently, Wachovia Bank closed the accounts of a shadowy Muslim charity supported by Mirza after an entity controlled by the Pakistani immigrant donated $150,000 to the charitable front, known as FAITH. The bank in 2005 cited suspicious activity in its accounts related to possible money laundering.

Mirza and Ashraf, who have not been charged with a crime in the ongoing probe, control with several other Islamists some 40 Muslim businesses, charities and think tanks known collectively by law enforcement as the Saudi-backed “Safa group.” Their offices are located primarily at 555 Grove St. in Herndon, Va., a suburb of Washington. The Muslim World League, a Saudi-based charity linked to al-Qaida, originally set up its U.S. branch at that address with the help of Mirza.

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Huma M. Abedin, Salary History
Office	Start date	End date	Position	Amount	Notes
Clinton, Sen. Hillary Rodham (D-New York)	10/01/06	03/31/07	Senior Adviser	$9,999.96
Clinton, Sen. Hillary Rodham (D-New York)	04/01/06	09/30/06	Senior Adviser	$9,999.96
Clinton, Sen. Hillary Rodham (D-New York)	10/01/05	03/31/06	Senior Adviser	$9,999.96
Clinton, Sen. Hillary Rodham (D-New York)	04/01/05	09/30/05	Senior Adviser	$17,999.96
Clinton, Sen. Hillary Rodham (D-New York)	10/01/04	03/31/05	Senior Adviser	$9,083.33
Clinton, Sen. Hillary Rodham (D-New York)	04/01/04	09/30/04	Staff Assistant	$12,000.00
Clinton, Sen. Hillary Rodham (D-New York)	10/01/03	03/31/04	Staff Assistant	$9,000.00