The American Islamist campaigner Linda Sarsour has been a darling of the US Left. She was the figurehead for the anti-Trump ‘Women’s March’ and has been lauded by the Left even when she has appeared alongside or has supported some pretty gross causes. When it comes to large scale public scandal the left wing press seem to have left Ms Sarsour alone to a much greater extent than someone from the right who was troublesome would have been.

However, now Ms Sarsour is involved in a scandal in which the mud may well start to stick on what previously has been a ‘Teflon’ Islamic activist. This is because this latest scandal involving Ms Sarsour doesn’t involve stirring left wingers up against the President or hanging round at conferences with alleged anti-Semites but involves sexual misconduct. Ms Sarsour is alleged by US news outlets that she enabled the sexual assault of one of her female staff when she and the staffer was working at the Arab American Association. With so much attention being paid by the media to sexual misconduct in places like Hollywood or in politics it’s unlikely to my mind that she will easily escape this scandal as has escaped others.

Here’s the Fox News article, which draws heavily on a Daily Caller piece about how Linda Sarsour has been brought into the American sexual misconduct scandal.

Linda Sarsour, the Pro-Palestinian activist who helped spearhead the Women’s March in Washington earlier this year, allegedly enabled the sexual assault and harassment of a woman who worked for her, according to a report Sunday night.

Allegations of groping and unwanted touching were brought to the attention of Sarsour during her time as executive director of the Arab American Association, The Daily Caller reported.

Asmi Fathelbab told the website Sarsour attacked her for bringing the allegations, often threatening and body-shaming her, because the accused was a “good Muslim” who was “always at the mosque,” The Daily Caller reported.

“She oversaw an environment unsafe and abusive to women,” Fathelbab, a former employee at the Arab American Association, told The Daily Caller. “Women who put [Sarsour] on a pedestal for women’s rights and empowerment deserve to know how she really treats us.”

Reps for Sarsour did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.

Fathelbab told The Daily Caller that Sarsour threatened legal and professional damage if she went public with the sexual assault claims.

“She told me he had the right to sue me for false claims,” Fathelbab said, adding that the assaulter allegedly “had the right to be anywhere in the building he wanted.”

Fathelbab claimed her attacker would sneak up behind her during work and rub his crotch on her.

“It was disgusting,” Fathelbab told The Daily Caller. “I ran the youth program in the building and with that comes bending down and talking to small children. You have no idea what it was like to stand up and feel that behind you. I couldn’t scream because I didn’t want to scare the child in front of me. It left me shaking.”

Fathelbab said her allegations would result in her get written up for disciplinary action. She told The Daily Caller she was once forced to talk to a detective from the community liaison division about the consequences of making false claims to the authorities.

After her contract was finished at the Arab American Association, Fathelbab said she had trouble getting new jobs.

“She told me I’d never work in NYC ever again for as long as she lived,” 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.”

Sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity to The Daily Caller corroborated Fathelbab’s story.

“They made it about her weight, saying she was not attractive enough to be harassed and then swept it under the rug,” one source said. 

This looks bad for Linda Sarsour. Linda Sarsour presided over what looks like an environment where women could be routinely abused or insulted or harassed provided that the harasser was ‘a good Muslim’. It is to be hoped that with this revelation, which seems quite credible as the Daily Caller has found corroboration, will be the one that finally sinks Linda Sarsour. With allegations like this hanging over her she really is not fit to appear in public with women’s groups who are heavily focussed on sexual assault and sexual misconduct. To have Linda Sarsour appear at events talking about women’s rights when is alleged that she turned a blind eye to sexual assault in a workplace she was managing is not going to go down well with the fainting couch feminists who see a rapist or a sex attacker around every corner. We can but hope and pray that this scandal marks the decline in popularity and influence of this loud and troubling Islamist lunatic.