Despite countless scandals, Huma Abedin remains a mystery

NYP: For nearly 20 years, one question has been asked, over and over, about Hillary Clinton’s closest, most enigmatic aide: Who is Huma Abedin?

As the election hurtles to its inglorious end, that question has taken on new weight.

With the FBI looking into Clinton emails contained on a laptop shared by Abedin and estranged husband Anthony Weiner— himself now the subject of an FBI investigation for sexting with a 15-year-old girl and sending a crotch shot with his toddler son sleeping next to him — Abedin has gone from loyalist to liability.

Though she hasn’t been seen with Clinton since the story broke on Oct. 29, the campaign insists she is not going anywhere.

“Huma continues to play an invaluable role,” campaign chair John Podesta told The Post on Friday. “No one is more loyal to Secretary Clinton, and she remains one of her closest advisers. We all admire her grace and fortitude.”

Still: Just who is she?

Not much is known about Abedin’s life before Clinton Inc. She was born in 1976 in Kalamazoo, Mich., to an Indian father, Syed, and a Pakistani mother, Saleha. Both were academics and devout Muslims. When Huma was 2, the family moved to Saudi Arabia, but almost nothing is known of Huma’s childhood and teen years. She returned to the United States to attend George Washington University, majoring in journalism with a minor in political science.

Her father co-founded the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, and after his death in 1993, her mother, whose writings subscribe to Sharia law, took over as editor-in-chief, a post she holds to this day. The journal has published articles in favor of female genital mutilation, the sexual subjugation of women and murder of apostates. Earlier this year, The Post reported that Abedin was listed as assistant editor on the masthead from 1996 to 2008; the Clinton camp said she was only a figurehead.

In 1996, still an undergrad, Abedin began interning for Hillary at the White House. It’s the only job she has ever really known, and her loyalty to Hillary was forged in the ­crucible of the Lewinsky scandal and Bill Clinton’s impeachment.

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