Linda Sarsour Accused Of Enabling Sexual Assault Against Woman Who She Employed

Our favorite female radical Islamist is back in the news. Linda Sarsour, who inspired the Women’s March in DC, is now being accused of enabling sexual assault and harassment against a woman who worked for her. The alleged victim and two sources directly familiar with the matter are claiming this. The employee brought allegations of groping and unwanted touching to Sarsour while she served as executive director of the Arab American Association. How did she respond? She attacked the woman who was the alleged victim. Linda Sarsour threatened and body-shamed the woman according to the sources. According to the victim, the most serious allegations were dismissed because the accused was a “good Muslim” who was “always at the Mosque.”

“She oversaw an environment unsafe and abusive to women,” said Fathelbab, 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 Yorker, who was raised in a Muslim household. She worked with the Arab American Association of New York as a contractor in 2009. She is calling it an unsafe workplace because of the abuse. According to the ex-staffer, Sarsour was often directly involved in the abuse.

This whole mess started back in early 2009. A guy 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 said. “He would pin me against the wall and rub his crotch on me.” She says he delighted in sneaking up on her with a full erection.

“It was disgusting,” she stated. “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.” She went to management at the organization and reported the sexual assault. Sarsour dismissed her complaint. “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.’” That’s just cold.

Fathelbab says she was threatened with legal and professional damage by Sarsour if she went public. “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.” After failing with Linda Sarsour, Fathelbab 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.”

When Sarsour found out, she flew into a rage with Fathelbab. She said she would write her up for disciplinary action. Fathelbab said she was once forced to talk to a detective from the community liaison division about the consequences of making false claims to the authorities. When Fathelbab’s contract ended, Sarsour actually threatened to see to it that she would not work in the city again. “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.”

Fathelbab’s story is corroborated by two other people who worked at the Arab American Association when she did. Yet another person claims that Sarsour was “militant against other women” at the Association. “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. They identified Majed Seif as her assaulter. This same person 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.”

This isn’t the first time this has come up about Sarsour. “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.” It is widely said that Sarsour is no champion of women… she is an abuser and an enabler.

H/T: The Daily Caller, Fox News