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Sex-abuse allegations against Chicago Muslim leader “playing into hands of Islamophobes”

Feb 15, 2015 5:05 pm By Robert Spencer

Abdullah Saleem“Afeef said that when he started publicly discussing the allegations against Saleem on a popular Listserv, he was criticized by some who told him that he was ‘playing into the hands of Islamophobes.'” This is just as despicable as the Catholics who accused those who spoke about the priest sex abuse scandals of being anti-Catholic. It also shows how the chimera of “Islamophobia” is used to inhibit those who would speak up about problems among Muslims — blaming the Infidels is easy, but cleaning house is harder.

And Afeef agrees that “there are people who have an agenda to malign Muslims.” This is a common charge, but it is utterly baseless. The “Islamophobia”-mongers claim that there is a huge industry dedicated to maligning Muslims, but what would be the point of such a thing? Racism? Then where is the comparable “network” dedicated to maligning Hindus and others? No one would care to “malign Muslims,” or think about them at all, were it not for jihad terror and Islamic supremacism. “Islamophobia” as a concept is designed to intimidate people into not daring to think that truth, which would otherwise be blazingly obvious.

“Sex-abuse allegations against Chicago Muslim religious leader roil community,” by Kevin Sullivan, Washington Post, February 14, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Allegations of sexual abuse by the longtime president of a leading Chicago-area Islamic school have roiled the region’s Muslims and raised questions about the reporting of sexual abuse in a close-knit religious community.

The allegations that Abdullah Saleem of the Institute of Islamic Education in Elgin, a Chicago suburb, sexually abused an adult female school employee surfaced in December, when a leading Muslim scholar referred to them in a blog.

Elgin police confirmed Saturday that they are conducting a criminal investigation into allegations of sexual abuse at the school, but spokesman Cmdr. Ana Lalley said she could provide no further details.

Saleem, who has been a respected Muslim leader in Chicago for decades, has not been charged with any crime….

Junaid Afeef, a lawyer and Muslim leader in Chicago, said religious and community leaders, especially among the older generation, initially had a “circle-the-wagons” response to the allegations. He said at first they largely ignored them, then chose to investigate them themselves rather than go immediately to the police….

Some Muslims also worry that public allegations against a prominent leader could compound anti-Muslim sentiment, which Muslim Americans have struggled with since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and even more so lately with the rise of the Islamic State radical group in Syria and Iraq.

Afeef said that when he started publicly discussing the allegations against Saleem on a popular Listserv, he was criticized by some who told him that he was “playing into the hands of Islamophobes.”

“I’m sure that’s true,” Afeef said. “There are people who have an agenda to malign Muslims. But that’s beside the point. There is a victim here, and her safety and protection trump any bigotry that might result from reporting this.”…

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  1. Charles Martel says

    Feb 15, 2015 at 5:28 pm

    “Some Muslims also worry that public allegations against a prominent leader could compound anti-Muslim sentiment”

    Unlikely.

    The entire world is conscious of the rampant paedophilia among followers of Islam. The great book containing the word of God endorses the behaviour.

    So no surprises re this pervert to get us upset. But for those expecting further outrages don’t worry there will be some ‘random attack, which has NTDWI’ coming to a place near civilisation soon!

    • mortimer says

      Feb 15, 2015 at 10:20 pm

      Muslims will sacrifice their own children to defend the malodorous reputation of a false prophet and pedophile.

  2. jihad3tracker says

    Feb 15, 2015 at 5:34 pm

    Off-topic but extremely interesting : Saturday Night Live’s Victoria Jackson has become quite knowledgeable about Islam — and she is literally risking her life to get the truth out.

    Go to her website — http://www.victoriajackson.com. Also do a web search for her astonishing song “There’s a Muslim living in the White House”.

    AT AROUND 1:40 IN THE VID, SHE MENTIONS ROBERT AND PAM ! ! !

    She also has a Facebook page . . . get in touch and tell her how much you appreciate the courage she shows.

    • jihad3tracker says

      Feb 15, 2015 at 5:59 pm

      This is the link for her “There’s a Muslim living in the White House” song :

    • ECAW says

      Feb 16, 2015 at 4:16 am

      Thanks for the link. Well worth bookmarking.

  3. Angemon says

    Feb 15, 2015 at 5:50 pm

    Some Muslims also worry that public allegations against a prominent leader could compound anti-Muslim sentiment

    “Prominent”, eh? That’s not really the issue, is it? The US scrubbed anti-terrorism manuals from references to islam and “re-educated” agents who were taught about the islamic justifications for terrorism because of an alleged “anti-muslim sentiment”. If it’s known that a mosque is under surveillance there’s a public outcry and muslims claim being victims of an “anti-muslim sentiment”. If an FBI agent captures a muslim red handed trying to commit a terrorist attack the muslim wasn’t really to blame, the FBI agent enticed him to do so because of an “anti-muslim sentiment”. Heck, recently we learned that a muslima complaining about “anti-muslim sentiment” invented the whole story. It seems that every single time anyone tries to investigate a muslim there are complaints of “anti-muslim sentiment”. At the rate muslims moan and whine, I’d expect to see people on the streets insulting and tossing bacon at anyone with a beard or a headscarf. It seems that these alleged “anti-muslim sentiments” muslims complain about are about as real as allah an muhammad.

    “which Muslim Americans have struggled with since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and even more so lately with the rise of the Islamic State radical group in Syria and Iraq.

    Bollocks. How about comparing race and religious motivated hate-crimes from, let’s say, 2000 until nowadays for ALL races and religions? I, for one, would like to know how muslims fare against, for example, Jews.

    Afeef said that when he started publicly discussing the allegations against Saleem on a popular Listserv, he was criticized by some who told him that he was “playing into the hands of Islamophobes.”

    Seems like “”islamophobia” is a godsend to muslims – it’s virtually a “get-out-of-jail” card.

    “I’m sure that’s true,” Afeef said. “There are people who have an agenda to malign Muslims. But that’s beside the point. There is a victim here, and her safety and protection trump any bigotry that might result from reporting this.”…

    Precisely – the core issue should be the well-being of the victim, not the reputation of the victim’s community (let’s face it, if they’re willing to let one of them suffer to safeguard the reputation of the community as a whole then they deserved to be pointed at and vilified).

    • Angemon says

      Feb 15, 2015 at 5:52 pm

      Ups, messed up a tag there. I really should fix my FF add-on rather than keep making tags by hand… 😀

  4. Georg says

    Feb 15, 2015 at 6:32 pm

    Only Muslims could make a sickening story like this about our hands and play…

  5. R Cole says

    Feb 15, 2015 at 6:45 pm

    That is what I say – get Muslims a broom!!

    But when criticism of Islam – is believed equivalent to bigotry and hatred – there will be no cleaning of the House of Islam [or ye’ole Dar al-Islam] – any time soon!!

    ::

    The very varied idea of ‘Islamophobia’ creates a protective barrier against the reality of Islam. It makes use of the whipping boy idea. After any terrorist attack – the press and leaders look like blood hounds – to make public examples out of the ‘Islamophobes’ !!

    Now we can see that even suspected perverts are given cover behind the label.

    • mortimer says

      Feb 15, 2015 at 10:05 pm

      The Islamic leaders are losing their credibility with Muslims! About time for Muslims to examine the pedophilia of Mohammed and condemn pedophilia per se.

  6. mortimer says

    Feb 15, 2015 at 10:01 pm

    Pedophilia? Normative Islam, rather than an aberration.

    Islam’s most famous PEDOPHILE? Mohammed, of course.

    Every Muslim must imitate the depravity of Mohammed and call it ‘good’.

  7. don vito says

    Feb 15, 2015 at 10:28 pm

    I hope to alla Chicago police don’t imitate British police when it comes to investigating moslems, you know the “racist card”, the British police don’t want to be tarred with. It could ruin an officer’s carear(sic).

  8. BC says

    Feb 16, 2015 at 3:12 am

    Islam should be called the ‘keep your mouth shut religion’ and never permit anyone else to say the slightest thing which may bring disrepute on Muslims.

  9. Lia Wissing says

    Feb 16, 2015 at 5:05 am

    God bless you, Afeef, for seeing the victim!!!!!

  10. mach37 says

    Feb 16, 2015 at 7:32 pm

    Along with many others, I have an agenda to malign Muslims. My agenda will change just as soon as a day goes by that I don’t hear of hundreds of infidels being maimed and killed by Muslims, in the name of Islam. It doesn’t matter whether some Christians and Western political leaders claim that those Muslims are not being true to Islam – if the violence is perpetrated in the name of Islam, to me it IS Islam that is fomenting the violence.

  11. matt b says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 5:22 am

    The majority of Muslims proclaim to “love the prophet more than their spouses, children, friends and country”.
    This explains the Muslim mindset not to demonstrate against the horror committed in the name of Allah.
    Islam is indeed an all encompassing lifestyle and if Muslims rejects any aspect of their religion then they are deemed apostates ….. and we all know the penalty for that under Sharia.
    IS is just the latest manifestation of 1400 year old Islamic doctrine,

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