British Muslim cleric jailed for molesting his 15-year-old student

Story from the UK Daily Mail. (H/T Answering Muslims)

Excerpt:

A Muslim cleric has been jailed for a year after sexually assaulting a young girl while he was meant to be teaching her the Qur’an.

Hafiz Rahman, 67, was paid by families to teach their children after stepping down as a respected Imam.

He went to the 15-year-old victim’s home and molested her when they were left alone.

A judge described the attack as the ‘worst breach of trust imaginable’ and said he believed it would have continued if the girl’s father had not unexpectedly returned home.

A jury of eight men and six women at Portsmouth Crown Court took less than two hours to find Rahman guilty of sexual activity with a child.

Rahman, a former Imam at Jami Mosque in Portsmouth, Hampshire, is a Hafiz – someone who has memorised the entire Qur’an.

Judge Roger Hetherington said: ‘The parents of the child came to retain your services because they understood that you were a respected and indeed revered member of the community, who had, until recently, been an Imam to the mosque.

‘On the jury’s verdict and on abundant evidence, for whatever reason, you took advantage of that situation for your own sexual gratification.

‘It must have been a very frightening experience for that girl.

‘Given your position in the Muslim community and the respect with which you were accorded as a result by the family that you were visiting, this was as bad a case of breach of trust as it is possible to imagine.

That sentence seems to me to be far too lenient for the crime.

Here are some videos about the Islam and “child brides” from Answering Muslims.

The status of women in Islam is very different than in Christianity.

6 thoughts on “British Muslim cleric jailed for molesting his 15-year-old student”

      1. Anyone using religion to abuse anyone is PURE EVIL.

        I couldn’t believe the phone caller on the first video using the fact that some kids are having sex between ages 9 and 18 that is a good enough reason to marry off a 9 year old to a grown man.
        Girls committing fornication is soooooo much worse than men committing pedophilia. Men must stop all girls from sex outside marriage by marrying them off so young.
        And they use their religion and holy book and the chance that children will start having sex at age nine (everyday, I think he kept saying) to justify their pedophilia.

        Wintery.
        I really, really hate this in whatever form it comes. Muslim, FLDS, Neo-Patriarchy, and all the Jim Jones’s and David Koreshes that fly just under the radar.

        People can be very evil. Using religion to promote the evil is taking God’s name in vain.

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  1. I think that when we compare religions it is important to evaluate the behaviour of the person starting the religion. Look at the behaviour towards women and girls displayed by the “perfect” prophet of Islam, who acquired multiple women, and who decided it was ok for him to have sex with a 9 year old, so long as he married her and could decree that it was God’s will. Then look at the purity and respect that Jesus displayed when interacting with women and girls. Not even His most cynical detractors could accuse Him of anything in this area.

    No contest.

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