Obama's Islamic Envoy Quoted Defending Man Charged With Aiding Terrorists (Palestinian, middle east)

[bentlebee]

President Obama's new envoy to the Organization of Islamic Conference, Rashad Hussain, is at the center of a controversy over remarks attributed to him defending a man who later pleaded guilty to conspiring to aid a terrorist group

President Obama's new envoy to the Organization of Islamic Conference, Rashad Hussain, is at the center of a controversy over remarks attributed to him defending a man who later pleaded guilty to conspiring to aid a terrorist group.

The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs quoted Hussain in 2004 as calling Sami al-Arian the victim of "politically motivated persecutions" after al-Arian, a university professor, was charged in 2003 with heading U.S. operations of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

FOXNews.com - Obama's Islamic Envoy Quoted Defending Man Charged With Aiding Terrorists

[zingzang]

zingzang notes that Obama continues to try to appoint radicals to his administration. zingzang wonders whatever happened to the post-partisan president or the concept of governing to the majority of people rather than one's cronies. zingzang doesn't have much respect for Obama anymore. zingzang is sad.

[citizenkane2]

Obama said to judge him by the people he surrounds himself with.