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.
