http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32280

Further, I was the author of the International Religious Freedom Act which created the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom as well as the International Religious Freedom Office at the State Department.  Central to the act was the assertion that “Freedom of religious belief and practice is a universal human right and fundamental freedom.”  The legislation and ultimately the offices it created, strengthen United States advocacy on behalf of individuals persecuted in foreign countries on account of religion, which, of course, includes persecuted Muslims.