(Religion News) A Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Tuesday (Oct. 26) considered the nomination of Rashad Hussain to be President Joe Biden’s ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom. Hussain’s confirmation would make him the first Muslim to hold the position.
Hussain held a number of roles in the Obama administration, serving on the National Security Council, as an associate White House counsel and as special envoy for strategic counterterrorism communications and special envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. The OIC is an intergovernmental organization representing 57 member states, most of them with a Muslim majority. The 42-year-old lawyer was one of five nominees who took part in the virtual confirmation hearing on Tuesday.
