Linda Sarsour – the outspoken co-founder of the Women’s March – allegedly enabled the sexual assault and harassment of an employee.
According to reports, Asmi Fathelbab, a female employee at the Arab American Association, went to her boss, Sarsour, in 2009 to complain about being sexually assaulted in the workplace.
But Sarsour, who at the time was the executive director of the organization, refused to believe her.
Worse, Fathelbab claims that Sarsour, the self-proclaimed “champion of women,” instead attacked her for bringing up the allegations. Sarsour allegedly used threatening language and “body-shamed” Fathelbab.
“She called me a liar because ‘Something like this didn’t happen to women who looked like me,'” said Fathelbab, in an interview with The Daily Caller. “How dare I interrupt her TV news interview in the other room with my ‘lies.'” Sarsour also threatened legal and professional damage if Fathelbab went public with her story.
Fathelbab then went to the president of the Arab American Association’s board of directors, Ahmed Jaber, where she also found herself under attack.
“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 said. “He wanted to make it loud and clear this guy was a good Muslim, and I was a bad Muslim for ‘complaining.'”
Fathelbab claimed that Sarsour was so livid that she went to the board of directors that she threatened to ruin Fathelbab. Fathelbab was forced out of the Arab American Association when her contract was up, and she claims that Sarsour had her fired from multiple other jobs. Two people who worked alongside both Fathelbab and Sarsour at the Arab American Association have corroborated critical parts of Fathelbab’s story.
“[Sarsour] oversaw an environment unsafe and abusive to women,” Fathelbab said. “Women who put her on a pedestal for women’s rights and empowerment deserve to know how she really treats us.”
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