[ May 12, 2024 ]
This shouldn’t surprise anyone, even though Linda Sarsour is a revered feminist icon. Remember: Sarsour is an open supporter of sharia. She claims that “Palestinian” women are being oppressed by Israel, but doesn’t have a word to say about the genuine oppression that Muslim women suffer because of sharia, which sanctions wife-beating, allows for polygamy, and opens the door to female genital mutilation and honor killing. That’s oppression. But Sarsour, the leader of the feminist movement, has never said a word about all that.
But this story does once again indict American feminists for their full-hearted and enthusiastic support of Sarsour, despite her pro-sharia misogyny. She only champions women when they’re useful for her propaganda: she used the Islamic honor murder of Shaima Alawadi to spread lies about the prevalence of hate crimes against Muslims in America, and never said a word about Islamic honor killing once the truth came out, that Alawadi had been murdered by her Muslim husband. Also, feminists for years have ignored her outrageous, anti-feminist tweet about Brigitte Gabriel and Ayaan Hirsi Ali:
Now feminists will almost certainly ignore Asmi Fathelbab, whose accusations Sarsour swept aside in accord with Islamic law, which always takes a man’s word over a woman’s. And Sarsour is a feminist? Yes, the feminist movement adores this Islamic supremacist bigot and rabid anti-Semite, who wields her religion like a club. It makes you think — are feminists afraid, stupid or apathetic? I debated this hatemonger here:
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I am a monster for the work I do trying to free and help Muslim girls who are caught in the same kind of environment Asmi Fathelbab describes, and Sarsour holds them down and is lauded. Madness.
“Linda Sarsour Accused Of Enabling Sexual Assault Against Woman Who Worked For Her,” by Benny Johnson, Daily Caller, December 17, 2017 (thanks to Mark):
The inspiration behind the Women’s March on DC, Linda Sarsour, has been accused of enabling the alleged sexual assault and harassment of a woman who worked for the feminist activist, according to the victim and two sources directly familiar with the matter.
Allegations of groping and unwanted touching were allegedly brought to Sarsour during her time as executive director of the Arab American Association. In response, Sarsour, a self-proclaimed champion of women, attacked the woman bringing the allegations, often threatening and body-shaming her, these sources alleged. The most serious allegations were dismissed, Asmi Fathelbab, the alleged victim told The Daily Caller, because the accused was a “good Muslim” who was “always at the Mosque.”
“She oversaw an environment unsafe and abusive to women,” said Fethelbab, a former employee at the Arab American Association. “Women who put [Sarsour] on a pedestal for women’s rights and empowerment deserve to know how she really treats us.”
Fathelbab is a 37-year-old New York native and was raised in a Muslim household. She was excited in 2009 to begin working at the Arab American Association of New York as a contractor. At the time, Sarsour was the executive director of the organization. Fathelbab worked for Sarsour for almost a year, according to employment documents reviewed and authenticated by TheDC.
Fathelbab claims the Arab American Association was an unsafe workplace where she was allegedly sexually assaulted, body-shamed and intimidated.
Oftentimes, Sarsour was directly involved, according to the ex-staffer’s account.
The problems began in early 2009 when a man named Majed Seif, who lived in the same building where the Arab American Association offices are located, allegedly began stalking Fathelbab.
“He would sneak up on me during times when no one was around, he would touch me, you could hear me scream at the top of my lungs,” Asmi Fathelbab tells TheDC. “He would pin me against the wall and rub his crotch on me.”
Asmi claims one of Majed’s alleged favorite past times was sneaking up on her with a full erection.
“It was disgusting,” she tells The Caller. “I ran the youth program in the building and with that comes bending down and talking to small children. You have no idea what it was like to stand up and feel that behind you. I couldn’t scream because I didn’t want to scare the child in front of me. It left me shaking.”
The Daily Caller was provided with a link to Seif’s Facebook page and confirmed his identity, location and employment.
Fathelbab says she went to leadership at the organization to report the sexual assault. She alleges she was dismissed by Sarsour outright. “She called me a liar because ‘Something like this didn’t happen to women who looked like me,’” Asmi says. “How dare I interrupt her TV news interview in the other room with my ‘lies.’”
Asmi Fathelbab says Sarsour regularly body-shamed her and enabled Seif’s sexual assault.
According to Fathelbab, Sarsour threatened legal and professional damage if she went public with the sexual assault claims.
“She told me he had the right to sue me for false claims,” Asmi recalls, adding that the assaulter allegedly “had the right to be anywhere in the building he wanted.”
Desperate after multiple dismissals by Sarsour, the distraught employee says she went to the president of the board of directors, Ahmed Jaber.
“Jaber told me my stalker was a ‘God-fearing man’ who was ‘always at the Mosque,’ so he wouldn’t do something like that,” Fathelbab claims. “He wanted to make it loud and clear this guy was a good Muslim and I was a bad Muslim for “complaining.”
A furious Sarsour allegedly raged against Fathelbab for continuing to report her sexual assault in the building. According to Fathelbab, her allegations would result in her getting written up for disciplinary action. She told TheDC she was once forced to talk to a detective from the community liaison division about the consequences of making false claims to the authorities.
After Fathelbab’s contract was up, Sarsour allegedly threatened to keep her from working again in the city.
“She told me I’d never work in NYC ever again for as long as she lived,” Asmi says. “She’s kept her word. She had me fired from other jobs when she found out where I worked. She has kept me from obtaining any sort of steady employment for almost a decade.”
Two people who knew Fathelbab during her time at the Arab American Association spoke with TheDC on condition of anonymity. Both collaborate her story, recalling that Asmi would return “emotionally distressed and in a panic” from work, often describing it as an “unsafe” work environment.
Another New York political operative, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, claims that Sarsour was “militant against other women” at the Association. This operative, who has worked for over 12 years with the Arab American Association, says they remember Asmi and witnessed her getting harassed in the building.
“They made it about her weight, saying she was not attractive enough to be harassed and then swept it under the rug,” the source said. “It was Linda Sarsour, Ahmad Jaber and Habib Joudeh who took care of it.” Habib Joudeh is the vice president of the Arab American Association of New York.
The source even identified Fathelbab’s alleged assaulter without prompting, “Majed Seif, the man who lived in the building.”
The operative, who is a practicing Muslim in the community, says a toxic culture at the Arab American Association led to the environment of harassment.
“It’s always going to be the woman’s fault over there,” she alleges. “And Sarsour was there to protect the men. She’s not for other women. The only women she’s for is for herself.”
Another New York political insider, who has worked professionally with the Arab American Association for over a decade, says this is not the first time they have heard a complaint like this.
“Sarsour is only a feminist outwardly,” the insider said on the condition of anonymity, due to the source’s current political position. “Her interactions toward women in that building were atrocious. She would protect the patriarchy and in return they would promote her.”
Fathelbab career has never recovered, however, after her nightmare at the the Arab American Association.
“Just wait until more people start to talk,” she says. “Sarsour is no champion of women. She is an abuser of them.”…
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20 Comments
6 years ago
Women’s Right by Muslim ? LOL ! She is sharia scum.
The Left/liberal Loons even allow their women/Girls to be assaulted, molested, gang raped , murdered http://bit.ly/2tTQW4b
..and its all Halal (approved) as per allah !
So police in Left/liberal pro-islam countries/states do not even register case and mock the victims or let him off lightly if charged.
6 years ago
Linda Sarsour has firsthand experience being a woman who is “not attractive enough to be harsssed.”
D
6 years ago
Reply to
NickandLynds
“He wanted to make it loud and clear this guy was a good Muslim and I was a bad Muslim for “complaining.”
Put this on TV. Put it on Fox.
(better yet, try putting it on the liberal media like “The View” expecting that they would reject it; then have a story on Fox – about their hypocrisy rejecting it.
6 years ago
The sheer stupidity and / or self loathing of Sarsour’s “feminist” collaborators in America, has no bounds…
American women in the entertainment & Arts establishments, the main stream media, the Democratic party (a.k.a The party of anti American traitors), Academia and NGO / think tank operatives that support, collaborate with, advocate for, enable and promote primitive / misogynistic people like Sarsour, are abject traitors to any and all liberal feminist causes
Sarsour “feminist” collaborators, are part of the Muslim Patriarchy
6 years ago
Of course the LSM is silent on this.
6 years ago
These allegations should be investigated and if true that LS should be removed from her position, and the assaulter should face the law. This is so shocking, makes me feel sad for the victim. Where is justice?
6 years ago
Reply to
Tm.
I am not shocked at all. This won’t be kept under wraps by every other female who worked under her either. It’s about time.
6 years ago
Reply to
Tm.
“…makes me feel sad for the victim…”
I totally understand your sentiment, but when you consider the victim worked FOR the Cockroach (a.k.a Mrs. Sarsour) and most likely identified with her agenda (overt Anti Americanism, Rabid, foam on mouth Antisemitism, ultra aggressive promotion of Shariah law in America while totally exploiting insane / infantile / stupid elements of the American population) in its totality and helped to promote it, one can legitimately save his / her compassion to other more deserving victims.
I certainly do
6 years ago
The unholy alliance between the so-called leftist “feminists” and the extreme Islamic right is exemplified by their adoption of Linda “the cockroach” Sarsour.
An “Islamic feminist” condones the sexual assault of women by men, provided the men are “good Muslims” – that is pray 5 times a day to Allah, with their faces pointing towards the black stone and their bums pointing away from it.
If the woman happens to be an infidel then the Muslim need not be all that “good”. He just has to say there is no god but Allah and Mo was his prophet. That gives him a pass to rape infidel women and plunder non-believers.
6 years ago
Why all the fuss? Are there still people who are not familiar with sharia and the qur’an? Educate yourselves.
Read this, then get back to your beds where you belong.
Quran (4:11) – (Inheritance) “The male shall have the equal of the portion of two females” (see also verse 4:176). In Islam, sexism is mathematically established.
Quran (2:282) – (Court testimony) “And call to witness, from among your men, two witnesses. And if two men be not found then a man and two women.” Muslim apologists offer creative explanations to explain why Allah felt that a man’s testimony in court should be valued twice as highly as a woman’s, but studies consistently show that women are actually less likely to tell lies than men, meaning that they make more reliable witnesses.
Quran (2:228) – “and the men are a degree above them [women]”
Quran (5:6) – “And if ye are unclean, purify yourselves. And if ye are sick or on a journey, or one of you cometh from the closet, or ye have had contact with women, and ye find not water, then go to clean, high ground and rub your faces and your hands with some of it” Men are to rub dirt on their hands, if there is no water to purify them, following casual contact with a woman (such as shaking hands).
Quran (24:31) – Women are to lower their gaze around men, so they do not look them in the eye. (To be fair, men are told to do the same thing in the prior verse).
Quran (2:223) – “Your wives are as a tilth unto you; so approach your tilth when or how ye will…” A man has dominion over his wives’ bodies as he does his land. This verse is overtly sexual. There is some dispute as to whether it is referring to the practice of anal intercourse. If this is what Muhammad meant, then it would appear to contradict what he said in Muslim (8:3365).
Quran (4:3) – (Wife-to-husband ratio) “Marry women of your choice, Two or three or four” Inequality by numbers.
Quran (53:27) – “Those who believe not in the Hereafter, name the angels with female names.” Angels are sublime beings, and would therefore be male.
Quran (4:24) and Quran (33:50) – A man is permitted to take women as sex slaves outside of marriage. Note that the verse distinguishes wives from captives (those whom they right hand possesses).
Hadith and Sira
Sahih Bukhari (6:301) – “[Muhammad] said, ‘Is not the evidence of two women equal to the witness of one man?’ They replied in the affirmative. He said, ‘This is the deficiency in her intelligence.'”
Sahih Bukhari (6:301) – continued – “[Muhammad said] ‘Isn’t it true that a woman can neither pray nor fast during her menses?’ The women replied in the affirmative. He said, ‘This is the deficiency in her religion.'” Allah has made women deficient in the practice of their religion as well, by giving them menstrual cycles.
Sahih Bukhari (2:28) & Sahih Bukhari (54:464) – Women comprise the majority of Hell’s occupants. This is important because the only women in heaven mentioned explicitly by Muhammad are the virgins who serve the sexual desires of men. (A weak Hadith, Kanz al-`ummal, 22:10, even suggests that 99% of women go to Hell).
Sahih Bukhari (62:81) – “The Prophet said: “‘The stipulations most entitled to be abided by are those with which you are given the right to enjoy the (women’s) private parts (i.e. the stipulations of the marriage contract).'” In other words, the most important thing a woman brings to marriage is between her legs.
Sahih Bukhari (62:58) – A woman presents herself in marriage to Muhammad, but he does not find her attractive, so he “donates” her on the spot to another man.
Sahih Muslim (4:1039) – “A’isha said [to Muhammad]: ‘You have made us equal to the dogs and the asses'” These are the words of Muhammad’s favorite wife, complaining of the role assigned to women under Islam.
Abu Dawud (2:704) – “…the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said: When one of you prays without a sutrah, a dog, an ass, a pig, a Jew, a Magian, and a woman cut off his prayer, but it will suffice if they pass in front of him at a distance of over a stone’s throw.”
Abu Dawud (2155) – Women are compared to slaves and camels with regard to the “evil” in them.
Ishaq 593 – “As for Ali, he said, ‘Women are plentiful, and you can easily change one for another.'” Ali was raised as a son by Muhammad. He was also the 4th caliph. This comment was made in Muhammad’s presence without a word of rebuke from him.
Ishaq 593 – “From the captives of Hunayn, Allah’s Messenger gave [his son-in-law] Ali a slave girl called Baytab and he gave [future Caliph] Uthman a slave girl called Zaynab and [future Caliph] Umar another.” – Even in this world, Muhammad treated women like party favors, handing out enslaved women to his cronies for sex.
Ibn Ishaq (693) – “Then the apostle sent Sa-d b. Zayd al-Ansari, brother of Abdu’l-Ashal with some of the captive women of Banu Qurayza to Najd and he sold them for horses and weapons.” Muhammad traded captured women for horses.
Al-Tirmidhi 3272 – “When Allah’s Messenger was asked which woman was best he replied, ‘The one who pleases (her husband) when he looks at her, obeys him when he gives a command, and does not go against his wishes regarding her person or property by doing anything of which he disapproves’.”
Tabari VIII:117 – The fate of more captured farm wives, whom the Muslims distributed amongst themselves as sex slaves: “Dihyah had asked the Messenger for Safiyah when the Prophet chose her for himself… the Apostle traded for Safiyah by giving Dihyah her two cousins. The women of Khaybar were distributed among the Muslims.”
Tabari IX:137 – “Allah granted Rayhana of the Qurayza to Muhammad as booty.”
Ishaq 969 – “Lay injunctions on women kindly, for they are prisoners with you having no control of their persons.” – This same text also says that wives may be beaten for “unseemliness”.
Tabari Vol 9, Number 1754 – “Treat women well, for they are [like] domestic animals with you and do not possess anything for themselves.” From Muhammad’s ‘Farewell Sermon’
Quran (4:34) – “Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them. Then if they obey you, seek not a way against them.”
Quran (2:228) – “and the men are a degree above them”
Quran (33:59) – “Tell thy wives and thy daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks close round them…” Men determine how women dress.
Quran (33:33) – “And abide quietly in your homes…” Women are confined to their homes except when they have permission to go out.
Quran (2:223) – “Your wives are as a tilth unto you; so approach your tilth when or how ye will.” Wives are to be sexually available to their husbands in all ways at all times. They serve their husbands at his command. This verse is believed to refer to anal sex (see Bukhari 60:51), and was “revealed” when women complained to Muhammad about the practice. The phrase “when and how you will” means that they lost their case.
Quran (66:5) – “Maybe, his Lord, if he divorce you, will give him in your place wives better than you, submissive, faithful, obedient, penitent, adorers, fasters, widows and virgins” A disobedient wife can be replaced.
6 years ago
Linda Sarslut is a spoiled brat. She would never survive in her own “homeland” of Faux-lestine, at least in a state that is capable of being anything other than an orgasmless brood sow, assuming her parents let her live (I am surprised they did).
6 years ago
6 years ago
Save the bullet,… just submerge her head in bacon grease for about 5-minutes,…. DONE !!
6 years ago
Has Sarsour herself ever undergone FGM?
6 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
She should be checked out in public by at least five males. Spread out on the ground. ISIS used drills and drill bits to tear clitorises out of little girls and their mothers. Sarsour need the same, done by a “good” Muslim male if there is such a thing. I suspect she is a lesbian.
6 years ago
watch the honor diaries, about women she would prefer you don’t see. Love to send the video to feminist groups.
6 years ago
Linda Sarsour is hideous, on both the inside and the outside.
6 years ago
This yet again reinforces the facts that a Muslim Will not condem another when women are involved.
Again this ideology is not at all compatible with wester democracies & discriminates against all non believers & women.
D
6 years ago
No big surprise that LInda Sar-sewer is an enabler of sexual harrassers.
Can we get stories like this on Fox (if it hasn’t already).? How about the ladies who were allegedly assaulted… let them tell their story.?
With the country on the Sexual Harrasment train… the Muslim nationalist community should not be exempt.
