July 7th, 2010 by Jennifer

In a new piece at Commentary, Jennifer Rubin praises Menachem Rosensaft’s op-ed on recent controversy in Congress over the expulsion of foreign and American citizens from Morocco on grounds of alleged proselytizing. Rubin states that Rosensaft “provides some much-needed perspective on the incident,” and agrees with his assessment that Morocco “is the least of our concerns when it comes to suppression of religious freedom in the Middle East.” Rubin also mentions a letter sent by the World Jewish Congress last week to House Foreign Affairs Committee members and co-chairman of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission– which held a hearing on the issue in June — urging caution toward any condemnation of Morocco, and calling the country “a paradigm of religious freedom and tolerance” in the region. Rubin concludes with a criticism of the Obama administration’s policy on these issues, arguing that “the best use of the time and focus of Congress — which is at least making a good effort to pick up the slack from an administration utterly indifferent to the issue of religious freedom — would be to focus on the worst actors in the Muslim World, not the best.”

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