Michelle Boorstein reports that an EEOC complaint has been filed against the US Commission on International Religious Freedom by a former policy analyst.
Safiya Ghori-Ahmad…alleges that her contract was canceled because of her Muslim faith and her affiliation with a Muslim advocacy group.
The commission's six researchers signed a letter unsuccessfully urging their bosses to keep Ghori-Ahmad because of what they described as her strong résumé and the need for an analyst to cover the key region of South Asia. One researcher, Bridget Kustin, quit in protest, saying in her resignation letter that she would not "remain part of an organization that would be willing to engage in such discrimination."
Even more broadly in recent years, Boorstein writes, the group asked to monitor religious freedom issues around the world has been subject to criticism from inside and outside the Commission that bias and pet issues – including an over-emphasis on Christian persecution – have dominated their work improperly. Stay tuned…
