Linda Sarsour, Islamist Bully

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.