The scandal plaguing a Donald Trump-established religious watchdog has deepened after a second member quit in protest and a top Republican demanded an investigation into the ousting of a former Miss California.
Sameerah Munshi quit the Justice Department’s Religious Liberty Commission on Friday after Carrie Prejean Boller, a longtime Trump associate, was fired over her views on Israel.
Munshi, the advisory board’s only Muslim woman, said Prejean Boller’s firing was an ‘affront to free expression and religious liberty’ which the commission had been created to protect. ‘If we are not free in America to abide by our religious beliefs … then in what country are we free to do so?’ Munshi asked in her resignation letter. See More/Details