Islamic super scholar arrested on child pornography charges

Wisam Sharieff

Wisam Sharieff, a former AlMaghrib Institute teacher of the Quran, has been arrested and charged with a felony involving a minor girl. 

For this he was dismissed earlier this week and is currently being held in a Texas jail pending trial. The judge considers him to be a flight risk and due to the disgusting nature of his alleged offense, he is thought to be a potential danger to the community.

According to Alabama court documents, the fallen imam was busted by the FBI for conspiracy to produce child pornography.

An affidavit by the FBI agent testifies that Sharieff’s wife saw the disgusting videos of a minor female child watching adult pornography on Sharieff's phone. The wife also state that the young girl's mother was explaining the sexual acts the child was viewing to her. The mother is an Alabama resident who was Sharieff's student of Islam.

The affidavit further states that the imam Sharieff told the child’s mother that “achieving an orgasm would help her spiritually and allow her to communicate with Allah better.” 

Sharieff was divorced once and remarried an older woman who obviously was upset with what he allegedly did and is now being charged with.

It gets more disgusting.

The mother then proceeded to buy a sex toy and showed her child how to use it on herself, before streaming adult pornography which she shared with Sharieff.

Sharieff, a big mucky muck in Islamic scripture, was a specialist in teaching Quran recitation and retention, and led the AlMaghrib Institute’s Quran Revolution program. He taught over 25,000 students worldwide and it's not known what else he may have taught them.

Earlier this week AlMaghrib fired Sharieff for violating its code of conduct.

Do they really need to put it in writing to know that sexual abuse is wrong and is even more wrong with it's done to a minor? 

“AlMaghrib Institute is horrified at the news of the criminal allegation against Wisam Sharieff. The safety and protection of AlMaghrib Institute’s students and community continues to be our top priority. This criminal allegation against Wisam Shariff is a jarring and sickening experience for his students as well as AlMaghrib Institute’s staff and instructors who worked with him…

“The criminal allegations, as laid out by law enforcement investigators against Wisam Sharieff, were conducted outside AlMaghrib Institute’s educational platform via private communication between the accused adult parties. The alleged minor-aged victim was not a student of AlMaghrib Institute. As such, no law enforcement authorities ever communicated with AlMaghrib Institute prior to filing their criminal complaint against Wisam Sharieff."

Well, they're off the hook.

“AlMaghrib Institute continues to enforce its longstanding policy of zero tolerance for instructors having any romantic relationships with their students. Instructors are expected to abide by AlMaghrib Institute’s strict code of conduct in both their public and private lives. As soon as AlMaghrib Institute was notified of a possible violation of its code of conduct by an instructor in his personal life, AlMaghrib Institute conducted its own investigation but did not have access to law enforcement’s investigation. However, AlMaghrib Institute’s own investigation concluded there was sufficient evidence violating AlMaghrib Institute’s code of conduct to terminate the instructor’s employment and immediately publicly disclosed it."

So it was a double-whammy. The FBI and the institute had the goods on the guy.

Wisam Sharieff has yet to issue a statement on the matter but he might be advised to keep it on the down-low.

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