Obama’s OIC Envoy Didn’t Just Defend Al-Arian

by Justin Elizabeth Tabler, FrontPage:

He condemned the United States for prosecuting just about everyone who was under indictment on terror charges at the time.

Obama’s newly-named Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Rashad Hussain, came under fire last week for statements he made in defense of Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s leader in the US, Sami al-Arian, as well as for having initially lied about making them. Hussain had said that al-Arian, who pled guilty to providing material support to a designated terrorist organization, was a victim of “politically motivated persecutions,” then claimed that Laila, Sami’s daughter had made the statements, not him.

The cover-up itself is interesting for a couple of reasons.

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