Sharia trumps women’s rights again for this fake feminist. My latest in
FrontPage:
The facts at hand presumably speak for themselves, but a
trifle more vulgarly, I suspect, than facts even usually do. Asmi
Fathelbab, a former employee of the Arab American Association in New
York when feminist heroine Linda Sarsour was its executive director, has
accused Sarsour
of dismissing her claims of sexual assault and harassment, and
following through on threats to destroy Fathelbab’s attempts to get a
job if she didn’t retract the charges.
Sarsour, says Fathelbab, “oversaw an environment unsafe and abusive
to women. Women who put [Sarsour] on a pedestal for women’s rights and
empowerment deserve to know how she really treats us.” Fathelbab charges
Majed Seif, a Muslim who lived in the building that also housed the
Arab American Association’s offices, “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. He would pin me against the wall and rub his crotch
on me. It was disgusting. 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.”
But Sarsour had no interest in, or patience for, Fathelbab’s
allegations. “She called me a liar because ‘Something like this didn’t
happen to women who looked like me. How dare I interrupt her TV news
interview in the other room with my ‘lies.’…She told me he had the right
to sue me for false claims…. She told me I’d never work in NYC ever
again for as long as she lived. 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.”
Fathelbab got no more sympathetic a hearing from the president of the
Arab American Association’s 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. He wanted to make it
loud and clear this guy was a good Muslim and I was a bad Muslim for
‘complaining.’”
Another individual who was familiar with Sarsour, Fathelbab, Seif and
the entire situation said: “It’s always going to be the woman’s fault
over there. And Sarsour was there to protect the men. She’s not for
other women. The only women she’s for is for herself.” Another added:
“Sarsour is only a feminist outwardly. Her interactions toward women in
that building were atrocious. She would protect the patriarchy and in
return they would promote her.”
Asmi Fathelbab’s accusations at the Arab American Association played
out in full accord with Sharia. In cases of sexual misbehavior (zina),
only men can testify. Women can’t testify at all, even in cases in
which they were involved, and four male witnesses are required (Reliance of the Traveller, o24.9). These witnesses must have seen the act itself. Consequently, it is very difficult to convict men of zina.
As long as they deny the charge and there aren’t four witnesses, they
will get off scot-free, because the woman’s testimony is inadmissible.
Even worse, if a woman accuses a man, she may end up incriminating
herself.
And so it was with Asmi Fathelbab. Now that she has come forward,
expect Sarsour to react yet again in accord with the tried-and-true
Islamic supremacist practice of claiming that Fathelbab is motivated by
“hatred,” and that the whole thing is another “Islamophobic,” “racist”
conspiracy designed to bring down a proud, hijab-wearing “Palestinian”
Muslima.
And feminists will almost certainly fall for it again, hook, line and
sinker. That Linda Sarsour is lionized as a feminist heroine, instead
of identified as the promoter and enabler of Sharia oppression of women
that she is, is an indication of how entranced by fantasy our public
discourse has become.
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