Trump Religious Liberty Commission adviser resigns in protest of Carrie Prejean Boller's removal

By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter Tuesday, March 17, 2026

A Muslim adviser to President Donald Trump's Religious Liberty Commission has stepped down in opposition to the war in Iran as well as the removal of one of its commissioners for her views on Israel, asking for God’s forgiveness if she had legitimized “the evil of this administration in any way.”

In a message posted to Substack Thursday, Sameerah Munshi announced her resignation from the Religious Liberty Commission, citing “two deeply troubling developments,” including “the official removal of Carrie Prejean Boller for her deeply held beliefs about Palestine and the federal government’s illegal war against Iran.”

Last month, Religious Liberty Commission Chairman Dan Patrick announced the removal of Prejean Boller, a social media influencer and former Miss California, after she wore a U.S. and Palestinian flag during a commission meeting two days earlier and defended conservative commentator Candace Owens, who has faced allegations of antisemitism due to her comments against Israel. Patrick accused Boller of trying to "hijack" the hearing, which was focused on the topic of antisemitism. 

While Prejean Boller repeatedly insisted that only Trump had the authority to remove her from the commission housed under the U.S. Department of Justice, she later received a letter from the White House informing her that she was “terminated effective immediately.”

In a message posted on X Saturday, Prejean Boller thanked Munshi for her support and shared a photo of the two of them. In her Substack post, Munshi, an activist who advocates for Muslims in America, said her reservations about the commission dated back to her appointment as an adviser last year.

“While members of this Religious Liberty Commission have mocked my faith and treated my community with hostility, I hesitantly accepted my appointment last year with the intention of remaining a voice of reason and standing for the religious freedom of ordinary Americans whose voices are not often heard at the highest levels of government," she wrote. 

“My family, both Christian and Muslim, came to America fleeing religious discrimination and persecution,” she added. “Generations later, their stories shaped my strong commitment to religious liberty and my belief in America as a safe haven for people of all religions. Muslims and other people of faith are freer in America to practice their religion than almost any other place in the world. I sought to safeguard this ideal in my work, but sadly found the Commission driven by ulterior motives.”

Munshi asserts that “people of faith are having their free expression stripped away” over views about the Middle East, blaming what she called a "Zionist political agenda.” She described the “removal of a Catholic commissioner for expressing dissenting views grounded in her faith” as an “affront to free expression and religious liberty.”

Despite claims by Boller that her beliefs about Israel are aligned with her Catholic faith, Catholics hold varying views on Israel. Simone Rizkallah, director of the Coalition of Catholics Against Antisemitism, wrote in a recent op-ed for The Christian Post that "The Catholic Church teaches unequivocally that antisemitism is a grave sin; that crude forms of replacement theology are incompatible with Catholic faith; that the Jewish people remain beloved of God; and that the covenant God made with Israel has not been revoked."

In her post, Munshi criticized the "government’s unlawful killing of children and civilians in Iran at the urging of a genocidal state,” referring to Israel's military offensive in Gaza that began in 2023 after the Palestinian terror group Hamas killed over 1,200 people in southern Israel in October 2023. 

“Not only is the American public against this aggression," referring to the U.S.-Israel military strikes that took out Iran's supreme leader and several other key leaders and the regional conflict it sparked, "but our tax dollars are funding the very violence that we oppose, both against innocent Palestinians and now Iranians. It is painfully obvious through their actions that this administration has no regard for the Constitution’s protection of free expression and religious liberty, nor its detailing of war powers.”

After criticizing “the injustice perpetrated by members of this commission” and “this corrupt, dangerous administration’s disregard for American citizens and the lives of innocents,” Munshi concluded, “I will have to stand before God and answer to Him for my role in this commission.”

She asked for God’s forgiveness if she had “legitimized their evil or the evil of this administration in any way” and prayed that God would keep her “intentions pure” and guide her toward “paths that bring true benefit” to her community.

The Religious Liberty Commission was established by Trump in a May 1 executive order to produce a “comprehensive report on the foundations of religious liberty in America,” including threats to religious liberty and strategies to strengthen protections for future generations.

The commission is also tasked with recommending “steps to secure domestic religious liberty by executive or legislative actions” and identifying opportunities for the White House Faith Office to work with the Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom to advance religious liberty worldwide. The commission has held multiple meetings over the past year.