--- title: Donald Trump Muslims: Hillary Clinton Aide Fires Back description: "You don't have to share my faith to share my disgust" canonical: https://time.com/4140188/donald-trump-muslims-hillary-clinton-huma-abedin/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-08T12:23:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T13:11:19.304Z article:section: Politics og:title: Clinton's Right-hand Woman Takes on Trump: 'I'm a Proud Muslim' og:description: "You don't have to share my faith to share my disgust" og:url: https://time.com/4140188/donald-trump-muslims-hillary-clinton-huma-abedin/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcebd05042a1d9eec/698874482dce0107369e6d62/huma-abedin.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: US-POLITICS-CONGRESS-ABEDIN og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Clinton's Right-hand Woman Takes on Trump: 'I'm a Proud Muslim' twitter:description: "You don't have to share my faith to share my disgust" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcebd05042a1d9eec/698874482dce0107369e6d62/huma-abedin.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton's Right-hand Woman Takes on Donald Trump: 'I'm a Proud Muslim' by [Naja Rayne](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Naja Rayne Dec 8, 2015 12:23 PM UTC  Huma Abedin, longtime aide to former US Secretary of State and Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, returns after a break to speak to the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, October 16, 2015\. Abedin is testifying behind closed doors Friday before a controversial congressional committee probing a deadly 2012 attack on a US mission in Libya, the panel said. AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) Huma Abedin, longtime aide to former US Secretary of State and Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, returns after a break to speak to the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, October 16, 2015\. Abedin is testifying behind closed doors Friday before a controversial congressional committee probing a deadly 2012 attack on a US mission in Libya, the panel said. AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)Saul Loeb—AFP/Getty Images by [Naja Rayne](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Naja Rayne Dec 8, 2015 12:23 PM UTC [Donald Trump](http://www.people.com/people/news/category/0,,personsTax:DonaldTrump,00.html) revealed his plan on Monday to [ban all Muslims](http://www.people.com/article/obama-address-san-bernardino-shooting-terrorism-republican-candidates-react) from entering the U.S., and [Hillary Clinton](http://www.people.com/people/news/category/0,,personsTax:HillaryRodhamClinton,00.html)‘s vice chair, Huma Abedin is taking him head on. “I’m a proud Muslim – but you don’t have to share my faith to share my disgust,” Abedin wrote in an email to supporters. “Trump wants to literally write racism into our law books.” Trump’s recent proposition to impose “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on,” is based on research he claims shows that “there is great hatred towards Americans by large segments of the Muslim population.” While the republican presidential candidate’s release pointed to an online poll from the controversial think tank Center for Security Policy, which claimed 25 percent of Muslims living in America believe violence against Americans “is justified as a part of the global jihad,” Abedin believes that his statement is nothing more than Trump acting out of fear. “His Islamophobia doesn’t reflect our nation’s values – it goes far enough to damage out country’s reputation and could even threaten our national security,” she adds. “Unfortunately, Trump is leaning into the kind of fear of progress that very well could help him win the nomination. We have to be ready to stop him.” The stark differences in Clinton and Trump’s approach to recent terror attacks across the world is nothing new. The democratic presidential candidate stated in light of last month’s Paris attacks that the [fight against terrorism](http://www.people.com/article/clinton-sanders-democratic-debate-isis-terrorism) and ISIS “cannot be an American fight,” and continues to publicly support welcoming refugees into the country. _This_ [_article_](http://www.people.com/article/hillary-clinton-vice-chair-fires-back-at-donald-trump) _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://www.people.com/people/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4140188/donald-trump-muslims-hillary-clinton-huma-abedin/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4140188/donald-trump-muslims-hillary-clinton-huma-abedin/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton's Right-hand Woman Takes on Donald Trump: 'I'm a Proud Muslim'","datePublished":"2015-12-08T12:23:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:11:19.304Z","description":"\"You don't have to share my faith to share my disgust\"","url":"https://time.com/4140188/donald-trump-muslims-hillary-clinton-huma-abedin/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcebd05042a1d9eec/698874482dce0107369e6d62/huma-abedin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Naja Rayne"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcebd05042a1d9eec/698874482dce0107369e6d62/huma-abedin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-POLITICS-CONGRESS-ABEDIN","caption":"US-POLITICS-CONGRESS-ABEDIN","creditText":"Saul Loeb—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4140188/donald-trump-muslims-hillary-clinton-huma-abedin/","name":"Hillary Clinton's Right-hand Woman Takes on Donald Trump: 'I'm a Proud Muslim'"}}]}] ```