{"id":608036,"date":"2021-08-01T15:51:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T19:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=608036"},"modified":"2021-08-01T15:51:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T19:51:26","slug":"biden-names-first-muslim-religious-freedom-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-names-first-muslim-religious-freedom-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden names first Muslim Religious Freedom Ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-names-first-muslim-religious-freedom-ambassador%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=608036&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2477842\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2477842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rashad Hussain, file photo. (AMER HILABI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 12:46 PM PT \u2013 Sunday, August 1, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Joe Biden has nominated Rashad Hussain as the Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. This makes Hussain the first Muslim to be nominated to the position.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/07\/30\/president-biden-announces-intent-to-nominate-and-appoint-leaders-to-serve-in-key-religious-affairs-roles\/\">statement on Friday<\/a>, Biden announced his intent to nominate and appoint leaders to serve in key religious affairs roles, which include Hussain. The 41-year-old reportedly served under the Obama administration from 2010 to 2015 and is currently the director for Partnerships and Global Engagement at the National Security Council.<\/p>\n<p>Hussain will replace Sam Brownback, who held the position from 2018 to 2021.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations Rashad Hussain on your nomination as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IRF_Ambassador?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IRF_Ambassador<\/a>! If confirmed, we look forward to supporting you! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RrDyoIFCip\">https:\/\/t.co\/RrDyoIFCip<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Office of International Religious Freedom (@StateIRF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateIRF\/status\/1421187397107265539?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/rep-mccarthy-give-me-speakers-gavel-and-well-investigate-powerful-democrats\/\">Rep. McCarthy: Give Me Speaker\u2019s Gavel And We\u2019ll Investigate Powerful Democrats<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rashad Hussain, file photo. (AMER HILABI\/AFP via Getty Images) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 12:46 PM PT \u2013 Sunday, August 1, 2021 Joe Biden has nominated Rashad Hussain as the Ambassador-at-Large for International &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}