By TwoCircles.net news desk,
New Delhi: Association of Indian Muslims in America (AIM) congratulated on January 29 Mr. Rashad Hussain whom the new US President Barrack Obama appointed on January 28 as Deputy Associate Counsel to President.
Washington DC based AIM represents a majority of Indian Muslims who live in US.
Kaleem Khwaja of AIM in his statement thanked Obama’s brave step. AIM appreciated President Obama and said that he is trying to implement his campaign promise of bringing more diversity in the upper echelons of the US administration. It expressed its elite that the first high level Muslim appointed in Obama’s administration is an Indian-Muslim.
Rashad Hussain, 30, is a lawyer born in US in 19789. His parents migrated to US from India and live in Plano, Texas and now they are naturalized citizens. He earned his bachelor’s degree in both philosophy and political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Master’s degree in Public Administration and in Arabic & Islamic Studies from Harward University. He holds a law degree from Yale University. He received highest honors for his philosophy thesis, “Assessing the Theistic Implications of Big Bang Cosmological Theory.”
Rashad Hussain recently served as a Trial Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice. Prior to that, he was as a Law Clerk to Damon J. Keith on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Rashad has worked extensively on Capitol Hill, the seat of the US Congress in Washington DC, both as an intern in the office of former US House of Representatives Democratic Party Leader Richard Gephardt in the summer of 2000, and as a legislative aide on the House Judiciary Committee, where he worked for a year and a half and reviewed legislation such as the USA Patriot Act.
Link: http://www.aimamerica.org/