This is a sidelight on the main issue at the Islamic Saudi Academy, which is that it is teaching jihad and Islamic supremacism, and turning out jihadists. Maybe he didn't know he was supposed to file such a report. That is remotely possible, although generally school districts are quite adamant about this sort of thing, and it would be hard to miss.
But there are a few other considerations. First, on the sexual abuse of a five-year-old, this is a Saudi-run school. Just last month we saw Dr. Ahmad Al-Mu'bi, "a Saudi marriage officiant," saying that "there is no minimal age for entering marriage. You can have a marriage contract even with a one-year-old girl, not to mention a girl of nine, seven, or eight....But is the girl ready for sex or not? What is the appropriate age for having sex for the first time? This varies according to environment and traditions." With attitudes like that prevalent in Saudi Arabia, and of course they're reinforced by the fact that Islamic tradition says that Muhammad married Aisha when she was six and consummated the marriage when she was nine, why should anyone be surprised that this Saudi academy would turn a blind eye to the sexual abuse of a five-year-old?
Then again, even if Al-Shabnan deplored what was going on, he may have hesitated to report it to the filthy kuffar, the "vilest of created beings" (Qur'an 98:6). It is considered a good thing to conceal the faults of a fellow Muslim, as Muhammad said: "The servant (who conceals) the faults of others in this world, Allah would conceal his faults on the Day of Resurrection" (Sahih Muslim 32.6267). The ordinary understanding of slander in the West is that it involves making false charges that defame another person. But in Islamic law, the definition of slander doesn't involve falsehood. The Shafi'i manual of Islamic law 'Umdat al-Salik defines "slander" as "to mention anything concerning a person that he would dislike." Nothing is said about whether or not what is said is true -- only that the person would dislike it. And this is based on a statement of Muhammad to the same effect.
Also, how would a five-year-old girl in ordinary circumstances know enough to make sexual abuse allegations just to get attention? Could it be that Al-Shabnan did not want to make known, especially to the unbelievers, what his Muslim brother would dislike? After all, as the Qur'an warns, "Woe unto every slandering traducer" (104:1).
This story yet again raises the question: does the United States really want, and can it really afford, to admit large numbers of people into the country who hold these kinds of assumptions?
"Head of Islamic School Guilty Of Not Reporting Child Abuse," by Tom Jackman for the Washington Post, July 31 (thanks to all who sent this in):
The director general of a controversial private Islamic school in Fairfax County has been found guilty of a misdemeanor charge of failing to report child abuse and fined $500.Abdalla I. Al-Shabnan, head of the Islamic Saudi Academy on Route 1 in the Mount Vernon area, was arrested last month by Fairfax police, who said Al-Shabnan had been informed of the possible sexual abuse of a 5-year-old student at the school. School authorities are required by law to report alleged child abuse within 72 hours.
Al-Shabnan was charged with misdemeanor counts of failing to report child abuse and obstruction of justice. He pleaded no contest July 24 to the failure to report charge, and Fairfax prosecutors agreed to dismiss the obstruction charge, according to court records.
Al-Shabnan did not return a phone call seeking comment yesterday. His attorney, Robert C. Whitestone, said, "We thought it was a fair resolution."
The Islamic Saudi Academy has come under criticism because some of its textbooks contain passages that extol jihad and martyrdom, call for victory over one's enemies and say the killing of adulterers and apostates is justified. The academy has rented the school from Fairfax County since 1984, and the county recently renewed its lease for three years....
Cultural differences might have led to the episode that resulted in Al-Shabnan's arrest. A police affidavit filed last month said that detectives learned in May that the 5-year-old girl attended the academy's West Campus on Popes Head Road, just south of Fairfax City, and her sexual abuse allegations had been reported to the school's administrators. No report was made to any state agency.
Detectives interviewed the girl and then visited Al-Shabnan, who said he "did not believe her complaint and felt she may be attempting to gain attention," according to the affidavit by Detective Doug Comfort.
Al-Shabnan told police that he met with the child's parents and advised them to seek counseling for the girl. Al-Shabnan then reportedly told the detectives that he "was not aware that he was required to make such a report" to child protective agencies, Comfort wrote. Police also found that Al-Shabnan had "ordered the written report deleted from the computer" of the school....
In my on-line interactions with Muslims, I have heard unbelievable justifications for Muhammad's consummation of his marriage to Aisha when she was all of nine years old...
1) "girls mature faster in desert climates"
2) "9 years in the 7th century is around 14 years today"
3) the Hadith documenting this obscenity are "dubious"...(on what basis is never explained)
4) "the practice was common in the Christian world at the time"...(even if this is true, the fact that Muhammad's conduct remains the template for Islamic morality and jurisprudence today perpetuates the tragic sexual exploitation of children in the Islamic world)
5) "it was meant to be so that Aisha would still be alive many years after the Prophet's death in order to bear witness to his life"...(why the necessity of sexualizing the relationship if her role was to be historical witness?)
And so it goes....
He didn't believe her. Yeah right.
Then he claims he didn't know he was supposed to file a report, and even had the internal report deleted from the copmputer.
Can anyone say, Cover Up?
A $500 fine, for not reporting this? And the whole business of the textbooks with their Der- Stuermer-like passage? The proud graduate, valedictorian of his class, now in jail for a few decades? The the State Department, being so very solicitous of the Al-Saud, so very careful not to offend or trouble them one teeny-tiny bit more than need be, and if those pesky demonstrators think the Saudi Academy should be subject to the same rules as everyone else, well then, those government officials world-wearingly tell each other, and their Saudi friends, "what can anyone do"?
Stinks to high heaven, this place, and in a rightly-ordered America, would have been shut down, with a thud, long ago. But our leaders are not leaders; they are merely "taking a leadership role."
Whole lot of Augean Stables need cleaning. This calls not for one, but a whole host, of Hercules.
close the school
This is a disgrace in America. This place must be shut down and that fellow removed from any position of authority over children.
"This story yet again raises the question: does the United States really want, and can it really afford, to admit large numbers of people into the country who hold these kinds of assumptions?"
No, certainly not; and may those who do hold these kinds of assumptions be sent back to the mothership, before these bad apples spoil the lot. Good riddance to bad rubbish, and all that jazz.
I'm sorry, Robert, but that is being much, much too kind. Almost PC. Director General. He was in a position where he was required to know such things, which makes his feigned ignorance that much more reprehensible. What else did he "not know" that he was supposed to know? Did he "not know" that he wasn't supposed to take Federal monies and inculcate Islam?
We desperately need to get back to "ignorance before the law is no excuse", quit humoring this pathetic "hand caught in the cookie jar" whining.
Concerned Citizen:
I get the impression that you didn't read the sentence right after that one.
Cordially
Robert Spencer
Greetings:
Is this individual still employed at the school?
Is this individual credentialed by the state?
What is this "Cultural differences might..." business? Aren't "journalists" supposed to find things like this out instead of floating an innuendo?
Robert,
Sorry, that just hit two really sore spots with me.
1) Children are to be protected. Period. This man had MORE than the routine duty to protect. He has to be held to that higher standard. Anyone not reporting this type of information is a monster. To be in a position of authority and responsibility makes him an extreme monster.
2) The loss of sanity, resolve and moral authority in our system of jurisprudence has got to end. The contradictory facts of this case are something that should have led the judge to throw the book at the defendant, not to have led the prosecutors to accept a plea bargain out of OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE:
"did not believe her complaint and felt she may be attempting to gain attention,"
"met with the child's parents and advised them to seek counseling for the girl"
"was not aware that he was required to make such a report"
"ordered the written report deleted from the computer"
Then the pathetic media PC line: "Cultural differences might have led to the episode"
OMG, what has this world come to when this is not an career-ending, embarrassing statement to make? THIS IS A CHILD!! And we are making excuses for the monster that left her in hell??
"That is remotely possible, although generally school districts are quite adamant about this sort of thing"
Yeah, I did, but I would have preferred something like this to drive the point home:
"That is completely unacceptible, because traditional school districts are quite the champions of law enforcement for this sort of thing."
I hope her family sues "Islamic Saudi Academy" for 9 figures. Thankfully, Al-Shabnan has a head start on going to hell for eternity.
Be that as it may, I'm sorry for jumping on you, Robert.
Well, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
Some good news from beautiful Fairfax County, Virginia, that tool Sgt Weiss Rasool, the cop from the Fairfax County Police Dept, the guy who tipped off his Taliban buddy at the local mosque who was being trailed by the FBI, the one who was on paid administrative leave while the leadership in the police dept. decided whether they would bow down and kiss CAIR's butt or stand up and protect the interests of the people of Fairfax County, quietly resigned last week at the recommendation of his attorney.
How's that for cool beans?
Oh and BTW, the Saudi Academy is in Fairfax County, as is the Wahhabi Corridor.
Al-Shabnan then reportedly told the detectives that he "was not aware that he was required to make such a report" to child protective agencies, Comfort wrote. Police also found that Al-Shabnan had "ordered the written report deleted from the computer" of the school....
For a muslim, child-abuse is business-as-usual. No wonder he "was not aware that he was required to make such a report". Besides, he had written report deleted from the computer. What are you complaining about, you filthy "Islamophobes" (kaffurs)?
And what became of the abuser? What sort of punishment will he be given? I know of a certain underwear company that could use him as a guinea pig testing their new Fruit-of-the-Boom line.
I was with a client today who is a Black Hawk pilot who flew combat missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. He said that Thursday was always a bad day in country. When I asked him why he said all the little boys run and hide on Thursdays because the day before mosque day is the day the little boys get raped. He said he's seen kids that are messed up so badly by their dads and that sometime their older brothers will bring them to the hospital but that when the dads come looking for them they authorities hand them right over. The look on my client's face when he was telling me this was beyond disturbed. He also told me I couldn't imagine what Al Qaeda does to people. But he said the Chechens were the worst. They are not even human.
So all in all, this is simply business as usual. The question is, how much longer are we going to put up with it in our country?
More on what really goes on at the Saudi Academy:
Behind the Veil at the Islamic Saudi Academy
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/23796/sec_id/23796
Yes, this is horrifying. But why should we be surprised--this from a religion that condones the "thighing" of infants?
Isabella
thanks for the link to that article.
I think I know at least one person to whom I will be sending a copy of that article.
To be perfectly frank: I would not be surprised if it were discovered that *all* Islamic Schools currently operating anywhere inside the Kafir lands are teaching more or less what the Islamic Saudi Academy is teaching, and doing the same sorts of things.
Thanks Dumbledoresarmy. Did you get my message the other day about your question for an Australian version of ACT! for America? The name is Australian Coalition for Truth and you can contact them here:
http://auscoalitionfortruth.org/contact
Have a good night!
"Cultural differences might have led to the episode that resulted in Al-Shabnan's arrest."
Now that's a loaded sentence. Cultural differences are also why Charles Manson and society is why he is in prison (and should have been executed).
Isn't that what Europe's lefties say when Muslims spew hate from the mosque? Something about it is not the same as Nazism because it is cultural for them?
http://www.bravenewsworld.com
Everything you outline here that defines Islam is the mark of MENTAL ILLNESS in any other society.
We are up against the most demented and depraved creatures that have ever existed on planet Earth - and there are hordes of them.
Good grief. Are we truly doomed? Can we really defeat this absolute evil and depravity?
The Truth About Islam
dear Isabella
Yes I did get your message - thank you.
Yes I got your message, Isabella.
Nikah is, quite literally, the purchase of a woman's vagina for the exclusive use of a named Muslim male. It has no connection with any conception of "marriage" that Westerners have.
Nikah, according to learned imams, can be applied to a one-year-old infant. "Thighing" or other nonpenetrative sexual use (possibly excluding sodomy, as it does not involve vaginal penetration and thus interfere with virginity) is appropriate until the child can withstand vaginal penetration and possible impregnation without serious injury or death.
Sorry to get detailed here, but what is it about Muslim sexual relationships that we fail to understand? And why are we surprised that a Muslim does not report the sexual abuse of a female child, when his own prophet enjoyed and encouraged such abuse?
First, the defendant, Al-Shabnan, should be charged as an accessory to the crime.
Second, that line about the five year-old girl alleging sexual abuse, to gain attention just won't fly.
Five year-old girls have other ways of gaining attention, and none of them involve sexual abuse.
The last bit from the WaPo article: "Chief Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney Ian M. Rodway said the plea agreement 'was satisfactory to all the people involved in the case.'" Unfortunately, the plea agreement is not satisfactory to this party not directly involved with the case. A friggin' misdemeanor? Does this plea allow Al-Shabnan to remain involved with the school's children, seeing's how it's only a misdemeanor? The plea should have been to a felony, and his name placed on the sex offender list. But what do I know? I'm not an involved party, just offended that, when it comes to child sexual abuse, 'cultural differences' were allowed any play in one of our courtrooms.
I had the same question champ. What happend to the abuser? Was he the girls father, uncle brother, neighbor? Is the girl still exposed to this pig? Has he been arrested? Or is he living in Egypt or Sowdi Arabia?
The parents were advised to get the girl some counseling. Did she get counseling? And was it with an actual counselor or the local imam? Has child protective services followed up to make sure she is being protected? Or is she living in Egypt or Sowdi Arabia with her fugitive "Uncle"?
A big part of the story is missing.
"Al-Shabnan told police that he met with the child's parents and advised them to seek counseling for the girl... then reportedly told the detectives that he "was not aware that he was required to make such a report" to child protective agencies .... Police also found that Al-Shabnan had "ordered the written report deleted from the computer" of the school...."
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"I didn't do it."
"If you can prove I did it, then it was unintentional."
"If you can prove I did it intentionally, then I didn't understand it was wrong."
"If you can prove I knew it was wrong, I didn't realize it was against the law."
"If you can prove I knew it was illegal per your petty "man-made" laws (which my imam says do not apply to a True Muslim), I was following a "higher law" given to us by Allah himself."
"I'll sue you for abridging my freedom of religion, you racist, insensitive bigot."