Hillary Clinton's campaign aide a radical Muslim?

'She did not play a role in editing at the publication.'

Hillary Clinton is a favored presidential nominee by women everywhere - but are her supporters aware their beloved nominee's campaign aide worked for a radical Muslim journal for twelve years?

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Huma Abedin, a longtime aide to Clinton was discovered to have worked for over a decade for radical Muslim publication "Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs."

Abedin's mother remains the journal's editor-in-chief, where articles concerning women's rights have been deeply skewed since the 90s.

According to the New York Post, one article from 1996 was titled "Women's Rights Are Islamic Rights" and argued single mothers, working mothers and gay couples with children should not be legally recognized as families.

It added any woman wearing revealing dresses are at fault for "asking for it" from men.

The shocking article included the following excerpt:

"A conjugal family established through a marriage contract between a man and a woman, and extended through procreation is the only definition of a family a Muslim can accept...Pushing [mothers] out into the open labor market is a clear demonstration of a lack of respect of womanhood and motherhood."

Another article claims women belong in the "care and protection" of men, who should be supported as the family's head of the household and any punishment by the husband or father's hand is just a result of "the stress and frustrations that men encounter in their daily lives."

In an interview with Vogue, Abedin claims her mother traveled the world to speak about empowering women and claimed her views were "normal."

Abedin was listed as the journal's assistant editor of the magazine's 2002 issue, in which her mother claimed the United States had doomed itself to the 9/11 attack because of its "sanctions," which is one of many "injustices" the country placed on the Muslim world:

"The spiral of violence having continued unabated worldwide, and widely seen to be allowed to continue, was building up intense anger and hostility within the pressure cooker that was kept on a vigorous flame while the lid was weighted down with various kinds of injustices and sanctions...It was a time bomb that had to explode and explode it did on September 11, changing in its wake the life and times of the very community and the people it aimed to serve."

With women's rights a huge part of Clinton's campaign, all eyes are turning to Abedin, who later denied playing any kind of active role in the radical Muslim journal.

Even Clinton stepped in, with her spokesman Nick Merrill stating: "My understanding is that her name was simply listed on the masthead in that period. She did not play a role in editing at the publication."

He claimed Abedin was only a figurehead and never actually worked on the journal, but other members of her family work for it and her mother remains its editor-in-chief.

Interestingly, the controversial articles on women's roles and rights were published around the same time when Abedin was a White House intern for the then-first lady.

Whether Clinton had any knowledge of Abedin's role with her family's journal has yet to be confirmed but the link does pull Clinton into the controversy.

Why she would choose Abedin to help lead the presidential campaign remains to be seen.

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