High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rashad Hussain's comments on Sami Al-Arian, became the subject of national coverage after Rashad Hussain was appointed United States Special Envoy to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference in February 2010. The controversy concerned remarks made by Hussain in 2004, criticizing the U.S. terror prosecution of Sami Al-Arian. He "drew sharp criticism from conservatives for calling the prosecution of some terror suspects 'politically motivated,' a comment both Hussain and The White House initially denied," but which was audible on a tape obtained by Politico. The conservative criticism became more vocal when it was discovered that the comments had been removed from an article in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA). The Council on Foreign Relations stated that, "The controversy led to a larger question of whether the United States should engage the Organization of Islamic Conference diplomatically." Данное издание представляет...