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Abedin’s mom made sure Clinton’s Saudi speech omitted “freedom” and “driving for women”

Sep 17, 2017 1:48 pm By Robert Spencer

It is well established that there is a hierarchy of Leftist values, and Islam trumps feminism. Hillary Clinton, not surprisingly, is on board with this.

“Abedin’s mom made sure Clinton’s Saudi speech omitted ‘freedom’ and ‘driving for women,’ emails show,” by Brooke Singman, Fox News, September 14, 2017:

Huma Abedin’s mother helped to water down a speech then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave at a Saudi women’s college, warning not to mention “political” terms like “freedom” and “driving for women,” new emails show.

Abedin’s mother, Saleha Abedin, is a sociology lecturer at Dar Al Hekma, a women’s college in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where Clinton spoke to students on Feb. 16, 2010.

And according to new emails obtained by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch as part of their Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, a Clinton speechwriter for the event sought advice and guidance from Abedin’s mother in advance.

“Talk to my mom for sure,” Abedin, a top Clinton aide, wrote to speechwriter Case Button on Feb. 12, 2010. “She will have good points for you…”

Abedin’s mother responded with a list of “IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER.”

“Do not use the political terms such as ‘democracy/ elections/ freedom.’ Do not use the term ‘empowerment of women’ instead say ‘enabling women’ and use other terms such as ‘partnership/participation,’” Saleha Abedin wrote. “Do not even mention driving for women! The last visitor received a torrent of rejoinders from the students who said they have more important challenges to contend with.”

She added: “Don’t sound sympathetic to ‘women’s plight’ or be ‘patronizing’ as other visitors have done and made the students extremely annoyed. They rightly consider these as in-house issues that they would like to address themselves and not for outsiders, no matter how well intentioned, to come in and tell them.”

Clinton’s speechwriter seemingly took that advice. The 2010 speech, reviewed by Fox News, omitted the words “freedom” and “democracy,” and mentioned “elections” only in reference to those in Iraq.

“We need more partnerships like those that are underway here in Saudi Arabia that strengthen civil society, as well as local indigenous efforts to expand opportunities, so that more girls and women everywhere can participate fully in the spheres of society, if they so choose to do so,” Clinton said, using two key buzzwords recommended, during the town hall.

Clinton did not mention “driving for women” in the speech, as requested….

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  1. Georg says

    Sep 17, 2017 at 2:08 pm

    Example 1.6 billion of Islam’s frontal assault on sense and logic. What else would you expect from “Abedin” Abd = slave/servant and din = religion. *puke*

    • Cthulhu says

      Sep 17, 2017 at 2:27 pm

      Orcs have orcish names 😉

  2. John A. Marre says

    Sep 17, 2017 at 2:09 pm

    I understood immediately why Hillary had Huma at her side. To provide constant liaison with Muslims, to make sure that she always conformed to Muslims’ demands, and to show Muslims that she was willing to sacrifice American values to favor Muslims.

    • Georg says

      Sep 17, 2017 at 10:10 pm

      “I understood immediately why Hillary had Huma at her side.”

      Needed that token brown-girl/Muslim (ethnic or observant) cred. Never underestimate the bigotry of the left.

  3. More Ham Ed says

    Sep 17, 2017 at 2:19 pm

    It’s a money-driven leftist hierarchy of hypocrisy.

  4. Richie says

    Sep 17, 2017 at 2:19 pm

    What was the outcry from Western feminists who never stop talking about misogyny?

    • Georg says

      Sep 17, 2017 at 10:13 pm

      Islam>feminism>homophobia>pedophilia>human rights>ALL. Islam is at the top of the totem. As it is the world’s most repugnant mainstream ideology it makes sense as leftism is backwardville.

      But more seriously, what unites them is their shared pathological hatred of the West. And here’s a tip *whispers* they don’t much care for white people… shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 18, 2017 at 8:29 pm

        Georg–with all respect–I do not believe that human rights are anti-West. The West is the only place where you find full human rights.

        • Georg says

          Sep 18, 2017 at 11:43 pm

          I meant to say leftists place Islam above human rights. Probably isn’t articulated logically, but that was what I was trying to convey. Hey, there are human rights in Japan and South Korea! Oh, yea… The West basically set those up. Case closed.

  5. mortimer says

    Sep 17, 2017 at 2:54 pm

    LEFTARDISM = Feminists, SHUT UP!

    LEFTARDISM = ISLAM, WHAT DID YOU SAY, SIR?

    How is this different from OLD TIME PATRIARCHY?

    Oh… I get it… this the SAME as old time patriarchy, MUCH WORSE and MORE SEVERE!

    At least, Old Time Patriarchy did not have FGM, POLYGAMY or FORCED CHILD MARRIAGE … and diddling children was considered one of the most degraded forms of CRIMINALITY!

    ISLAMIC PATRIARCHY IS MUCH MORE CRIMINAL.

    • Georg says

      Sep 17, 2017 at 10:26 pm

      You’re approximately 100% correct. And lol @ “LEFTARDISM”.

  6. Jack Diamond says

    Sep 17, 2017 at 2:54 pm

    Saleha Abedin is a founder of that college, along with various Saudi bankers, members of the bin Laden family, and Yaseen Abdullah Kadi.

    “On October 12, 2001, Mr. Kadi was added to the list of designated terrorists by the U.S.Treasury. As of that date, the FBI had reported that Mr. Kadi had been the owner of a large block of the shares of Ptech, a Texas software company whose employees had further ties to terror organizations. Ptech was also linked to the SAAR Foundation, a network of Islamic organizations located in Northern Virginia that was raided by the Federal government in March 2002 in connection with the financing of terrorism.

    The leadership of the SAAR foundation, in turn, was largely the same as that of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), an important part of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood. One of the faculty at Dar El-Hekma has been Huda Totonji, likely the daughter of Ahmed Totonji, a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood leader and one of the founders of IIIT and the SAAR Foundation.”——
    —–https://www.globalmbwatch.com/2010/02/17/exclusive-hillary-clinton-speaks-at-saudi-college-founded-by-u-s-designated-terrorist/

    But this is in keeping with Saleha and Huma’s long association with the Abedin family patron, Abdullah Omar Naseef, the al Qaeda godfather, founder of the Muslim World League and Rabita Trust, another designated terrorist entity.

    Why wouldn’t Hillary Clinton have her speeches vetted by such an illustrious Muslima? How very fortunate she was not our next President.

  7. mortimer says

    Sep 17, 2017 at 2:57 pm

    Right! Don’t tell Saudi women you want them to drive, because Saudi women WANT TO DRIVE!

    This is a matter between the KINGDOM’S PATRIARCHY and the RELIGIOUS SHARIA POLICE who enforces their unopposed decrees.

    The more we learn about the Abedin family, the more it seems they are spies.

    • Georg says

      Sep 17, 2017 at 10:35 pm

      I’ve always considered Reza Azlan (ahhh… he’s become so irrelevant it took me a minute to remember his name… that was awesome) to be an agent, intentionally or otherwise, for Iran/Ayatollah. There isn’t really any other way to explain one individual representing himself as some ultra-liberal borderline homosexual so as to gain currency and sympathy in the West while advocating on behalf of one of the most retrograde individuals and movements (“Islamic Revolution”) on Earth, apart from mental illness or horrific stupidity.

      After mulling it over for some time I then heard Sam Harris mention it and it seemed all the more likely.

      • Peter says

        Sep 18, 2017 at 4:52 am

        I’ve absolutely wondered if Reza Azlan is a homosexual.

  8. Leith Wood says

    Sep 17, 2017 at 3:31 pm

    I believe Huma Abedin’s mother, Saleha Abedin, wrote a book explaining how sharia law could be instilled in western countries.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 18, 2017 at 8:49 pm

      Here’s another book she wrote:

      “Huma Abedin’s mom linked to shocking anti-women book”

      http://nypost.com/2016/08/28/huma-abedins-mom-linked-to-shocking-anti-women-book/

      Among other things, it supports FGM, marital rape, and the stoning of women.

      The one issue where she is a “feminist”? She believes it is fine for women to wage violent Jihad against the Infidels.

  9. D Austin says

    Sep 17, 2017 at 5:22 pm

    No wonder they bag their women. She looks like a camel with glasses!

    • Westman says

      Sep 17, 2017 at 5:43 pm

      I wouldn’t go that far… but, have you noticed how similar, in the picture above, she looks to an aged Obama? There are questionable claims that Frank Marshall Davis was his real father but the similarities here seem stronger. Frankly the father thing is likely just a silly urban myth. Just an observation…

      • D Austin says

        Sep 17, 2017 at 6:42 pm

        Malcolm X is another possible candidate. After seeing the nude pictures of Obama’s mamma on the Internet, she was lose as pocket change.Those pictures went on the Internet when leftists attacked Trump’s wife during the election.

    • David M says

      Sep 17, 2017 at 9:09 pm

      I agree, I thought it was a man in drag when I saw the pic.

    • Georg says

      Sep 17, 2017 at 10:41 pm

      “She looks like a camel with glasses!”

      Usually try not to ridicule someone for their biology… but… BHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!!!!!!!

    • RichardL says

      Sep 19, 2017 at 8:36 am

      I mean, seriously? A photo says more than a thousand words. I hope aliens land in her garden because they will surely flee from Earth as fast as they can.

      I really, really do not want to see a picture of the father.

  10. davej says

    Sep 17, 2017 at 10:00 pm

    That Hillary was willing to be edited by her Muslim friends tells you all you need to know about her commitment to American values and the freedom of speech.

    The silence from “feminists” about Islamic misogyny and the oppression and exploitation of women and female children in Muslim countries is shameful and appalling.

    There is a psychological theory that “feminists”, having already put down Western men as weak and cowardly are now subconsciously enamored with the “noble savagery” of Islamic Jihad.

    There might be something to that. Many of the SJWs who revile the dastardly White males fit the bill.

  11. Peter says

    Sep 18, 2017 at 4:42 am

    Good gosh that woman is fugly!

  12. Mark says

    Sep 18, 2017 at 9:44 am

    This documentary needs to be shared as fast and widely as possible. Please give it a thumbs up and subscribe to his email before it is removed from Face book and YouTube. https://youtu.be/t_Qpy0mXg8Y

  13. KRJ says

    Sep 18, 2017 at 9:59 am

    I’ve always believed that Huma was sent over to be an “intern” but was actually a spy sent by the Saudis: They knew Bill’s “weaknesses” (from longtime continual spying on him BEFORE he was caught with Monica Lewinski). After the lid blew on that one they shifted her over to Hillary and one of the most jolting things I ever read was that Huma, whose setup “marriage” to Weiner was all part of the same ruse – yes even having a kid – was slated to be SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE UNITED STATES i.e. Kerry’s job!! Horrific.

    • Carolyne says

      Sep 18, 2017 at 3:56 pm

      I suspected that Human Abedin would be the de facto President should Hillary Clinton have won, but Secretary of State wouldn’t have surprised me either.

  14. Carolyne says

    Sep 18, 2017 at 4:02 pm

    On the subject of the “In house issues” the students “Would like to address themselves,” I don’t see that the students are doing a good job of addressing them. In fact they are doing nothing which is exactly what this horrendously unattractive woman wishes.

  15. Carolyne says

    Sep 18, 2017 at 4:10 pm

    Human Abedin looks sorta like George Clooney’s wife but Huma’s nose is far bigger. Clooney’s wife is from Lebanon. I wonder if she is a Muslim too. Huma could do with a nose job.

    • Jack Diamond says

      Sep 18, 2017 at 7:08 pm

      Amal Clooney’s father is a very prominent Lebanese Druze, her mother is Sunni Muslim. She seems to be her father’s daughter. She was very vocal in opposing Trump’s “Muslim ban” and defending the world’s Muslims who are not “extremist or violent in any way.” While doing commendable work on behalf of Yazidi victims of ISIS, she has also taken on some curious clients–becoming advisor to the repressive King of Bahrain, representing Gaddafi’s mass murdering spy chief Abdullah al Senussi.

      Not to mention George almost certainly thinks he should be President.

  16. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Sep 18, 2017 at 6:38 pm

    Re: “It is well established that there is a hierarchy of Leftist values, and Islam trumps feminism.”

    That’s because the craven criminal gangster left has only one real value: “Group-might-makes-right!”

    Their parasite “activist” extortionists always go for the weak and leaderless soft targets, like “white males” because such a large group has no real leaders (save, say, Donald Trump) or way to defend itself.

  17. gravenimage says

    Sep 18, 2017 at 8:00 pm

    Abedin’s mom made sure Clinton’s Saudi speech omitted “freedom” and “driving for women”
    ……………………

    Making sure the “filthy Infidels” don’t offend the pious Saudis…

    …and Hillary is down with that, even where it regards oppressing women.

  18. D3F1ANT says

    Sep 21, 2017 at 9:41 am

    These Dems are SUCH scum that its staggering. Hypocritical scum.

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