In December 2020, Imane Sadrati, then-wife of Muslim leader Hassan Shibly, created a GoFundMe page claiming Shibly had emotionally and physically abused her. The accusations were taken seriously, so much so that Shibly was forced to resign from his long-held position as Executive Director of the Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Recently, Shibly declared that, in the midst of their divorce mediation, Sadrati apologized to him, but he did not elaborate. After all that has been said by Sadrati and others, could Sadrati have possibly relinquished her victim status, or is this just a ploy from Shibly to clear his bad name?
The accusations made by Sadrati were severe. As stated by Sadrati on her then-GoFundMe page, “[W]hen I was 9 months pregnant with my first born, my marriage became volatile and abusive. What I assumed was ‘just a disagreement’ turned into screams. What would have been annoying remarks suddenly became violent blows… My husband hurt me mentally, emotionally and physically behind closed doors and openly in front of my children… I need your support to put an end to domestic violence in my home!”
Apart from the alleged abuse, Shibly has a significant history of Muslim extremism. As mentioned, he was a part of CAIR, a group with foundational and financial ties to Hamas. Shibly has described Hezbollah as “basically a resistance movement” and “absolutely not a terrorist organization.” Only recently, in May 2021, Shibly posted a viciously anti-Semitic video on Instagram, telling Israeli Jews to “go back to Europe.” And in October 2021, he spoke at a rally calling for female al-Qaeda operative Aafia Siddiqui to be freed from prison.
At the time of his resignation, Shibly was arguably the most prominent representative of CAIR. His efforts to regain the American citizenship of ISIS bride Hoda Muthana and his work in trying to convince the courts about what he considered to be the unconstitutionality of the federal ‘terrorism watch list’ – a list that he, himself, spent years on – brought Shibly much exposure in the media and made him a key draw at CAIR fundraisers around the US. And not only did he lose his job, but Shibly claims that, for a while, he had also lost his house, car and kids.
This past August, Shibly, along with popular Muslim lecturer Yasir Qadhi, appeared on ‘Sultans & Sneakers,’ a Chicago-based podcast hosted by Mahin Islam. On the show, Shibly brought up his and Sadrati’s divorce, said he was the wronged party, and mentioned a supposed apology made by Sadrati. He stated, “I went through a very difficult situation, in terms of my divorce… People who know what happened and the injustice that was done to me, they would know that amicable terms was impossible, unless Allah opens her heart and allows me to forgive as well.”
He continued, “I wasn’t expecting this, but yesterday, we were in the mediation, and her lawyers and my lawyers were all in a separate room, and the mediator is like, ‘This isn’t getting anywhere with the lawyers, it’s going to be an impasse,’ so she says, ‘Why don’t you two just talk to each other…’ so we talked to each other for the first time in two years and, Subhanallah, she even got to the point of apologizing for what happened…”
Shibly never said what specifically Sadrati apologized for. No details. Zero explanation. Without further information someone could wind up with the impression that she had apologized for having lied about the abuse, what Shibly had accused her of doing (“false claims,” “false allegations”), following the release of her GoFundMe page.
However, it was not just the GoFundMe page that was driving the abuse narrative. If it were, Shibly’s words would seem more plausible. Indeed, on a 911 call to police, which occurred days prior to the publishing of the GoFundMe page, Sadrati accused Shibly of threatening to kill her and confided that he had been “beating” her “for 12 years.” According to court documents, during one purported incident, Shibly “twisted Sadrati’s arm, slapped her and shoved her against a wall.”
And it was not only Sadrati making abuse allegations against Shibly. Laila Abdelaziz, CAIR-Florida’s former Legislative & Government Affairs Director, told NPR, in a scathing April 2021 piece against Shibly, that she resigned, in part, due to Shibly’s sexual harassment of her. She had served under him for nearly two years.
According to NPR, Shibly’s CAIR departure “emboldened a slew of women to come forward with their own accusations of emotional abuse and sexual misconduct by him…” The news group said it had “interviewed a half-dozen Shibly accusers and reviewed internal CAIR documents, social media posts and email exchanges” that “portray Shibly as a man who used his position to seduce women and bully critics with impunity.” One woman, who said she engaged in a “secret marriage” with Shibly behind his wife’s back, claimed Shibly cut her hair off for posting a photo of herself online without a headscarf and told her she was forbidden to refuse sex from him.
Another former CAIR colleague of Shibly’s, Samantha Bowden, who held the position of CAIR-Florida Communications Director, ‘loudly’ posted the following on her Facebook page: “HASSAN SHIBLY IS A PERVERT, ABUSER, AND MANIPULATOR, AND I STAND AS A WITNESS TO ALL OF THIS BEHAVIOR… HE’S A MONSTER & NEEDS TO BE ISOLATED FROM PUBLIC ACCESS TO PEOPLE.”
In January 2021, Facing Abuse in Community Environments (FACE), a Muslim advocacy organization for abused women, launched a “formal investigation” of Shibly. The group, which was founded and is headed by a former CAIR official, itself – Alia Salem – said it had “received multiple allegations against” Shibly.
All of this would suggest that Imane Sadrati’s claims about Hassan Shibly were credible and Shibly’s declaration that she apologized to him, without providing necessary context for such a statement, was a deceptive stunt, on Shibly’s part, to clear his sullied reputation. This is further the case, when considering the radical Islamic background of the group he built his name on, CAIR, and his own fanatical behavior within and outside CAIR.
An attempt by this author to contact Imane Sadrati for this report was unsuccessful.
Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.
CAIR is a terror organization. Its officers, supporter, and members are terrorists. My understanding is that they worship a made-up moon-god (allahahaha) that was invented (along with (p)islam by a pedophile warlord they call mohammed the pig-faced dog.
I wouldn’t trust any of them………period!
Wife beaters belong in prison doing 30 years
“Apologized” as a choice over having head cut off?
Hassan Shibly did nothing wrong according to the Shariah Islamiyya. Shibly’s wife became less attentive and argumentative. Hassan Shibly followed Muhammad’s example by hitting her on the body, not the head or feet. Muhammad instructed in Sahih Hadiths the wife will rehabilitate her unIslamic ways, or face consequences.
Hassan had no success with his first wife despite all of his efforts following the example of Muhammed.
Hassan’s wife, however, was seduced by her Kaffar friends to go public as non-Muslims do in such matters.
CONCLUSION
In the eyes of the followers of Islam, both men and women, Hassan Shibly did nothing wrong. He is seen in the Islamic community as an Imam, lawyer, pilot, and activist held in high esteem.
Hassan Shibly, the wife beater is Islam, and Islam is Hassan Shibly. So it goes.
She is “lucky” to be alive
She is “lucky: to be alive.
Hassan has all the traits needed to be a star in the NFL.
If she would just STOP forcing him to hurt her …
The Pinhead who called Islam the Religion of Peace must have been smoking their Hookah and taking long deep puffs
Not surprising to see such comments on a Zionist site. However, I will respond because maybe there are some ‘thinking’ individuals here. Whether Shibly abused his wife or not, has no bearing on his religion. Every 60 seconds a woman is killed in America by her domestic partner, the vast majority of which are not Muslim as America’s population is only 1% Muslim. Domestic violence organizations have confirmed time and time again that domestic violence knows no religion or race and is found evenly across demographics. Islam does not permit the hitting of even an animal, let alone a woman. I am a Muslim woman who has studied Islam in theology and law extensively. I have lived in different communities and countries and vast majority of the women I’ve met have been strong, educated women who were happily married. The Prophet Muhammad is reported to have said, ‘The best of you are those best to their families.’ When the Prophet Muhammad saw a donkey had been branded, he wept and said the one who had done it was cursed. He forbade causing fear to an animal before it’s slaughter, such as by showing it the knife, and made a man put out his campfire when he saw it was going to burn an ants nest. In a society where it was masculine to show no emotion, he could put his granddaughter on his shoulders to play. He put a stop to decades old traditions of burying babies alive if they were girls, of marrying countless wives, of women having no rights. His wife was an intellectual powerhouse who is still the greatest scholar Islam has seen, and who was famous for being outspoken and who once led an army of men. On his deathbed his last words were, ‘treat your women well.’ This all might seem strange to those who follow a religion that involves a morning prayer of thanking G_d for not being born a female, nonetheless, you shouldn’t project the discrimination in your faith onto Islam. Can you show me a single teaching from any other religion that states that the best person in the society is based on how good he is to his family? Can you show me a teaching that gives women rights in marriage? Rights to inheritance? Education? You will only find it in Islam .
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