An adviser to the Trump administration’s Religious Liberty Commission announced her resignation on Friday, accusing the administration of committing crimes and suppressing the free expression of Muslims on behalf of a “Zionist political agenda.”
Sameera Munshi, who is Muslim, wrote in a pair of social media posts that “the injustice and atrocities of this administration at home and abroad” and the removal of a commissioner who used a hearing on antisemitism to express her opposition to Zionism compelled her to resign.
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Rabbi Yaakov Menken, executive vice president of the Coalition for Jewish Values and a member of the commission’s advisory board of religious leaders, applauded Munshi’s resignation and Boller’s removal on Friday.
“Goodbye and good riddance,” Menken wrote. “Munshi and Carrie Prejean Boller are not united by a common background or common beliefs but by a common hate.”
“The Religious Freedom Commission will be able to do its productive and important work more effectively because she has left,” he added. “Let the door not hit her on the way out.”
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