Prior to Hillary Clintons visit to Saudi Arabia in 2010, the then-secretary of states aide, Huma Abedin, contacted her mother about reviewing a draft of a speech that was to be given during a town hall meeting at a womens university in Jeddah.
Abedins mother, Saleha Abedin, an Islamist activist who teaches at Dar Al Hekma, responded that the speech needed major edits and corrections, including the removal of references to freedom, democracy, and the empowerment of women.
The speechwriter for Clinton, who has built her brand on those very pillars, appears to have taken the advice. Clintons remarks contain none of the terms flagged by Saleha.
The revelations come in emails obtained by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group that has sued the State Department for the emails of Clinton, Abedin and other Clinton aides.
The email thread begins on Feb. 12, 2010 when Clintons speechwriter, Case Button, contacted Abedin to review a speech that Clinton was to give at Dar al Hakma several days later.
This document needs major edits and corrections, Saleha Abedin wrote in response to her daughters request for help.
She then provided Huma with a list of five corrections for the speech, all of them pushing back against the ideals of democracy and freedom.
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