Hillary Clinton’s History: Muslim Connections Stem Back To 1990s

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As Hillary Clinton struggles to maintain frontrunner status in the Democratic primaries, she’s facing even more important issues. Islamic terrorism is sweeping the globe, yet mainstream media outlets seem reluctant to vet her foreign policy credentials.

In particular, the former Secretary of State isn’t being asked the tough questions about her closest colleague, Huma Abedin, who has links to people and groups the U.S. government says were involved in the funding of terrorism.

This is not a right-wing conspiracy theory.

In speeches during the Clinton administration, Hillary Clinton admitted that she and her husband President Bill Clinton learned nearly everything they knew at the time about Islam from their 14-year-old daughter. This seldom publicized admission came when First Lady Hillary Clinton hosted the first dinner at the White House celebrating the Muslim holiday of Ramadan on February, 20th, 1996.

According to the official transcript of her remarks from that that event as posted by the Clinton Presidential Library , she would tell the audience:

Like many Americans, I have only recently gained a full appreciation of Islam. When I was growing up, there were no courses in Islamic history or religion in my schools and the Koran was not on too many bookshelves in American households. Fortunately, that has changed, as I know from my own family experience.

I have to admit that a good deal of what my husband and I have learned has come from my daughter, who some of you who are our friends know took a course last year in Islamic history. When she and I traveled to South Asia, she provided me with a running commentary on everything we saw and visited.

Mrs. Clinton’s “full appreciation of Islam” would come after a number of impossible-to-miss historic events involving Islamists that had shaped the United States. Most Americans in the modern era first became aware of the Islamist threat during the Iranian hostage crisis that began in the Carter administration.

More significantly, two major events involving Islam happened during the early years of the Clinton administration itself, both with long-term consequences: the Bosnian war and the first attack on the World Trade Center. Understanding the threat of Islamist ideology should have been a prerequisite for leadership in the face of those events, but three years into the Clinton administration Hillary Clinton had no problem admitting that both she and the leader of the free world had learned “a good deal” of what they knew about Islam from Chelsea Clinton.

Chelsea Clinton was 14-years-old when she was tutoring the President and First Lady on Islam, having gained her expertise on Islamic ideology in her high school sophomore history class at the elite Sidwell Friends school.

Meanwhile, between 1992 and 1995 the Bosnian war raged on. Muslims in what was formally Yugoslavia managed to build a bridge to Europe that is being used by terrorist groups like ISIS to this very day. Just this week, International Business Times reported that ISIS is buying land in Bosnia to use as a staging area for terrorist incursions in the West:

The groups bought land in the northern region of Bosnia, a few miles from the border with Croatia. While Croatia is not part of the Schengen area – a 26 country zone of the European Union in which people can travel without visa or border checks – it is an easy crossing point into other Schengen countries, such as Hungary and Slovakia. The Salafi community in this region has denied it has connections to Islamic terror groups in Syria.

Bosnia has become an important point of recruitment for terrorist organizations such as the Islamic State group, which is based out of Iraq and Syria. Nearly 40 percent of the nation is Muslim, and Bosnian national Husein Bosnic has become a top recruiter for the group in Europe, helping send more than 300 foreign fighters to Syria, according to a report in France 24.

The Origins & Connections of the First White House Ramadan Dinner

That first dinner at the White House celebrating the end of the Ramadan fast known as Eid was put together by the American Muslim Council, or AMC, founded and headed by Abdulrahman Alamoudi.

In 2004, Alamoudi would be described by the Washington Post as “one of America’s best-known Muslim activists” who met “with senior Clinton and Bush administration officials in his efforts to bolster Muslim political prominence.” It wrote that Alamoudi “also helped found the Pentagon’s Muslim chaplain program and was involved in a variety of other Islamic political and charitable organizations.”

That 1996 event was put together by Alamoudi’s assistant director, Khaled Saffouri. In 1998, Saffouri would explain to the Los Angeles Times how the that first White House Eid dinner developed:

The White House celebration of the Eid comes after years of efforts to educate the public about Islam and a specific effort to encourage recognition of Ramadan, said Khaled Saffouri of the American Muslim Council, a Washington-based educational organization.

“The Bush administration was not receptive,” Saffouri said. “They would not return phone calls or answer letters.”

After Saffouri organized an observance in the U.S. Senate in 1996 and personally invited the first lady, her aides asked him to organize a similar event at the White House.

Although hastily planned, that first observance left a deep impression on the Muslim community in the United States and abroad, Saffouri said. The event was widely discussed within Muslim communities nationwide and covered in the foreign press.

“This was the first time the Muslim community was acknowledged by any administration,” Saffouri said. “Muslims felt someone invited them, included them and appreciated them for the first time. It was a historic event for Muslims worldwide.

Although Saffouri and Alamoudi would have an impact in the Clinton White House, they also wanted to have influence with Republicans.