The case of Rashad Hussain - '...Already serving as a high officer of the administration, Hussain is now Obama's chosen envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference. He is also a fan of Sami al-Arian, the convicted head of Palestinian Islamic Jihad in North America. According to Hussain in 2004, al-Arian was the victim of "politically motivated persecutions." Hussain also reportedly asserted that al-Arian was being "used politically to squash dissent." According to the Fox report, the White House says the controversial remarks defending al-Arian two years earlier were made by his daughter rather than by Hussain, who both appeared on a Muslim Student Association conference panel. As Fox also notes, however, the reporter covering the event stands by the quotes she attributed to Hussain, who was a Yale Law student and an editor of the Yale Law Journal at the time...'