Zuhdi Jasser must be doing something right.
Via CNS News:
A new report on global “Islamophobia” by the bloc of Islamic nations cites examples of negative trends in the United States, including the presence of an anti-Islamic Muslim activist on a statutory religious freedom body.
The annual report by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s Islamophobia Observatory said the U.S. had chosen “an Islamophobe” to be a member of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, even while “championing itself as a nation committed to religious freedom.”
Zuhdi Jasser, an observant Muslim who is president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD), was appointed to the USCIRF by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in 2012.
Created under the 1999 International Religious Freedom Act, the USCIRF is mandated to make recommendations to the executive and legislative branches about promoting religious freedom abroad. Its unpaid commissioners are appointed by the administration and congressional leaders.
The OIC report noted that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) this year challenged Jasser’s suitability to be a commissioner, on the grounds that his democracy forum receives funding from an independent foundation that also supports other organizations which CAIR accuses of being Islamophobic, such as the Center for Security Policy think tank and Daniel Pipes’ Middle East Forum.