Religious Official Arrested

Don’t worry Catholics, its not you (well at least this time). Prior to becoming an Atheist, I use to attend my local mosque often. I used to enjoy the community aspect of being a Muslim. But even then as a Muslim, I found myself at odds with many of the religious officials. I distinctly remember the officials constantly asking for donations, ranting for hours on end about poor funding (while the funding was higher there than most local churches).  Now, one of those ranting religious officials has been arrested on a count of sexual abuse of a 13 year old boy. Many know of the Catholic priest’s sexual abuse scandals throughout the world, but how many know of the same scandals within the Islamic faith? Most major media organizations don’t really report on the cases involving Muslims (probably out of fear), but you can usually find a local station to cover it when it happens within ones community.

Suffolk County police have arrested a 53-year-old man in connection with the sexual abuse of a teenage boy in Long Island.

Niamatullah Ibrahim, of Selden, was charged with sexual abuse in the first degree and aggravated sexual abuse in the third-degree after a month-long police investigation led to his arrest on Tuesday.Ibrahim works in the Selden Mosque of the Islamic Association of Long Island as a religious official. The 13-year-old boy he is accused of assaulting was attending some type of religious instruction at the mosque over a period of time, police said.

Source: WNBC

This is of course just one recent case of such blatant child abuse, and it wouldn’t be much of a stretch to suspect that similar activity goes on at this mosque, and other Mosques, Churches, and Synagogues around the world.

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