US Ambassador Sam Brownback: No nation on earth pushes religious freedom more than US

"There is no nation on the earth that pushes human rights of religious freedom any more than the United States or than the Trump administration does."
Sam Brownback, the former US senator and Kansas governor who has been the US ambassador at large for international religious freedom since February 2018, says religious freedom is universal. "It's a fundamental right for everybody. It exists all times, all places, for everybody. And it doesn't impinge on other rights."
"This is a human right. It's in section 18 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights. It is a fundamental human right," the Republican politician said.
"Do you think China is better on religious freedom?" Brownback asked.
How does the ambassador explain the Trump administration’s early efforts to ban the entry of Muslims into the United States?
"What you're putting forward here [is] an immigration issue," Brownback said. "And by the way, we're not a perfect country and we don't claim to be,"
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