(Morocco World News) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim civil rights and advocacy group based in Washington, raised alarms last week over a grant program run by the US State Department, arguing that it would use taxpayer funds “to promote atheism in Muslim-majority regions of Asia and the Middle East.”
According to the “Notice of Funding Opportunity” (NOFO) by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL), the program targets organizations with projects that support “religious freedom globally” in order to combat discrimination against atheists.
The program also aims “to ensure that everyone enjoys religious freedom, including the freedom to dissent from religious belief and to not practice or adhere to a religion.”
