You remember Linda Sarsour, the Palestinian activist and
virulent anti-Semite who has been feted in leftist circles for opposing Israel
and for saying that no woman could be both a Zionist and a feminist.
Sarsour also wants the world to live under Shariah Law,
because after all, it allows wife beating and jails rape victims for having sex outside of marriage. Just what feminists have been fighting
for.
Now, it turns out that Sarsour has taken a soft line against
sexual harassment. Who could have imagined such a thing? Taking a page from the
George Stephanopoulos playbook Sarsour bullied a woman who had been sexually
harassed, the better to silence her.
The New York Post (via Maggie’s Farm) has the story:
Controversial
Muslim activist and Women’s March organizer Linda Sarsour bullied an underling
to cover up sex-abuse allegations in her Brooklyn office, a report said.
Asmi
Fathelbab told
blog The Daily Caller that a man repeatedly rubbed his crotch on her
while she worked for the association under Sarsour in 2009.
But
when Fathelbab reported the abuse, Sarsour — a self-proclaimed feminist and
co-founder of the Women’s March organization — fat-shamed the woman and
threatened blacklist her from political jobs, the woman told the website.
“She
oversaw an environment unsafe and abusive to women,” said Fathelbab. “Women who
put [Sarsour] on a pedestal for women’s rights and empowerment deserve to know
how she really treats us.”
The
Daily Caller reportedly spoke on condition of anonymity with another
association employee and a political operative that worked alongside the
organization, and both corroborated Fathelbab’s account of the abuse and
Sarsour’s intimidation.
And then, Sarsour suggested that the event could not have
happened because Fathelbab was fat. She then made sure that Fathelbab could
never work again:
When
Fathelbab went to the president of the Arab American Association’s board of
directors, Ahmad Jaber, but says he told her Seif was incapable of the
allegations because he is a “God-fearing man” who was “always at the Mosque.”
Furious
that Fathelbab went over her head, Sarsour threatened to have her blacklisted
from New York political and activist circles — and that’s what Fathelbab says
happened.
“She
told me I’d never work in NYC ever again for as long as she lived,” the
37-year-old New York Native Fathelbab said. “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.”
Sarsour has been an ally of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio. I wonder what Comrade Bill has to say about all this.
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I'm sure Comrade Bill is totally down with that.
I don't see how I can say anything any more diplomatically than this:
The rule here seems to be: Calling out rude language is also rude and thus subject to silencing.
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