[Note: Here is a link to a screen shot of Taneeza Islam's Facebook that contains a photo of her with a group of women that includes Linda Sarsour. I heard that the photo has been removed from the Taneeza's Facebook. If you find it there, please leave a link in the comments.]
Interesting that today's sex police in America only need allegations to charge sexual abuse. Now a leading Muslim feminist and Democratic activist is on the hot seat. Linda Sarsour has a history of attacking women who are critical of fundamental Islam. This is in regard to the terrorist attack in Manchesther:
Self-styled "homegirls in hijabs" — like New York militant Linda Sarsour — and many of their progressive western backers afraid of being labelled racist or "Islamophobic" are staying silent or downplaying the anti-women Islamist ideology linked to the terror strike in Manchester.
And...
In New York, however, self-described Palestinian-American-Muslim political activist Linda Sarsour — a defender of Sharia law and Saudi Arabia's record on women — kept her social media reactions to a minimum: about a generically "evil" terrorist attack on "kids having a good time" — not young girls and women.
Ms Sarsour, who wears a Salafist-approved veil that conceals all her hair and ties up tightly under her neck, once said she wished she could "take the vagina away" of staunch critic of Islamic theology and women's rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Ms Ali, along with another critic, "didn't deserve to be women", said Ms Sarsour, who is the head of the Arab American Association of New York.
Ms Sarsour co-led the Women's March on Washington after Donald Trump's election, a march that expressly portrayed the veil as a symbol of feminist struggle, despite millions of women around the world being forced or pressured to wear it.
Recall that Taneeza Islam used the hijab to present the moderate view of Islam:
I was about to raise my hand when the primary sponsor decided to ask Taneeza about how feminism intersects with her religion in regard to the issue of women wearing the hijab. Taneeza responded by saying she will piggyback off what was already said. That with any religion, and with Islam, there is a continuum of liberal and conservative. The way we look to finding the answer is through reading the Quran and the teachings of Mohammed and scholars. She then said the decision lies with myself. The hijab means “modesty” and in context of American culture she chooses to dress modesty by not wearing shorts or tank tops. And she was not wearing a hijab, nor was she wearing one in the many pictures and TV news interviews that I witnessed. She went on to say that she knows some women who wear the hijab for political and not religious reasons.
There at the end she could have very well to have been talking about Linda Sarsour who was quoted to say, “When I wasn’t wearing a hijab I was just some ordinary white girl from New York City. Wearing hijab made you know that I was Muslim.” That would be a typical attitude of one who is practicing identity politics.
I found her overall analysis of the liberal Sharia interpretation of the hijab very odd coming from a CAIR-MN Civil Rights Director who in 2011 responded to a sheriff that would not allow a female Muslim to wear a scarf in jail with this:
"A Muslim woman's practice of wearing a headscarf is a sincerely held belief which is a protected exercise of her religion. Asking her to remove her headscarf is asking her to be naked in front of others. A headscarf, unlike a crucifix or other ornament, is not a mere accessory but an essential article of clothing for those Muslim women who practice it."
So in 2011, we see her anti-Christian Islamist supremacy being used to implement Sharia Law by using a religious rights argument, but on November 28th she is saying that the hajib is a personal choice when arguing Islam is exclusively a moderate belief system. Should we now lean toward the November 28th presentation being false propaganda intended to mislead those who don’t know better?
But Sarsour's "Salafist-approved" hijab points to the fundamentalist view of Islam that fuels ISIS and other terrorist organizations. This is from a moderate Muslim:
Al Qaeda, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Boko Haram, the Shabab and others are all violent Sunni Salafi groupings. For five decades, Saudi Arabia has been the official sponsor of Sunni Salafism across the globe.
Most Sunni Muslims around the world, approximately 90 percent of the Muslim population, are not Salafis. Salafism is seen as too rigid, too literalist, too detached from mainstream Islam. While Shiite and other denominations account for 10 percent of the total, Salafi adherents and other fundamentalists represent 3 percent of the world’s Muslims.
Unlike a majority of Sunnis, Salafis are evangelicals who wish to convert Muslims and others to their “purer” form of Islam — unpolluted, as they see it, by modernity. In this effort, they have been lavishly supported by the Saudi government, which has appointed emissaries to its embassies in Muslim countries who proselytize for Salafism. The kingdom also grants compliant imams V.I.P. access for the annual hajj, and bankrolls ultraconservative Islamic organizations like the Muslim World League and World Assembly of Muslim Youth.
The pure Sharia viewpoint does include misogynist treatment of women. So here is the latest allegation directed at Sarsour:
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.”
Here are the details:
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.”
Here are Sarsour's alleged response:
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.”
Then there is the loss of employment that is the very essence of sexual harassment in the workplace:
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.
In today's environment in America, all it takes are allegations of sex abuse for people to lose jobs and position. So shouldn't the table be turned against Sarsour? Will Taneeza Islam denounce Linda Sarsour for her Sharia compliant misogynist treatment of women, and will Cory Heidelberger join her. This is now a second time that I give Taneeza the opportunity to support moderate Muslims. Is she hiding her allegiance to the Muslim Brotherhood's Wahhabi based Salafism? South Dakota needs to hear her explanation regarding the photo I addressed at the top of this post.
It is vital that South Dakota learns about her real agenda, and South Dakota's media is not much help, as they continue to promote her Islamophobia propaganda. And I have already confronted Cory Heidelberger for being a part of that same problem. So far, playing politics is more important to him than is free speech and the truth. Cory has joined with Taneeza as they use the supremacist tactic of denigrating their credits in order to silence them.
$87 million to clean up Lake Mitchell and you're dwelling on effluent that doesn't even affect South Dakota: thoughts and prayers are more effective than your posts here, Steve.
Posted by: larry kurtz | December 19, 2017 at 08:24 AM
The standards Leftists create sure can be costly when they come back to bite them. #MeToo. Don't forget what Hillary said, All women should be believed.
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/12/19/pro-palestinian-activist-denies-accusations-of-enabling-sexual-assault-accuser-isnt-backing-down
Posted by: KM | December 19, 2017 at 05:35 PM