(IPT) Hassan Shibly, who was one of the highest-profile officials at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), has been accused of spouse abuse and repeated harassment in a National Public Radio story published Thursday.
Shibly resigned as director of CAIR’s Florida chapter in January, weeks after his wife went public with spouse abuse allegations. CAIR’s announcement of his departure made no mention of those allegations, and thanked Shibly for leaving “the organization stronger than ever.”
But his wife Imane Sadrati’s appeal for money on the GoFundMe website helped spark a number of other allegations against Shibly. CAIR, in turn, was accused of covering for Shibly.
“I got married at a very young age,” Sadrati wrote in the fundraising appeal, which has raised more than $32,000 as of Friday morning. “However, when I was 9 months pregnant with my first born; my marriage became volatile and abusive.”
