Yesterday, I told you that voters had little to go on when they voted in November's municipal races. As a result, they voted for the party instead of the person. This is basically what happens when newspapers die. I myself am remiss as well. I should have provided you with much more information about the candidates and the races than I did. I do, however, try to cover the people and issues involved in Northampton County government. One of these people is incoming Council member Nadeem Qayyum, whose actual name is Muhammad Nadeem Qayyum. Over the past four years, Easton police have been involved in eight separate incidents concerning him. Easton police have provided four of these eight incident reports. The remaining four have been withheld because they relate to possible criminal matters. I have posted the four incident reports that were released below. I also have some information about one of the withheld incidents.
The name "Muhammad," incidentally, means praiseworthy or commendable. But I question whether this is true when it comes to Muhammad Nadeem Qayyum.
On 4/17/24, Easton police responded to a complaint from Qayyum and his wife Taiba Sultana. She was at that time running for the state house. They were upset about political signage calling Sultana "crazy, chaotic, criminal." Officer Shaun Wagner told them "it was freedom of speech, there was nothing illegal about it. Muhammed stated that once I speak to the District Attorney, I will think differently."
Officer Wagner declined to call the DA.
On 8/16/23, Officer Diego Santiago received a walk-in complaint from Nadeem Qayyum concerning his son. Qayyum told Officer Santiago that video games made his son aggressive, so he took them away and cut off Internet. He claimed his son would "set him up" by making "false accusations about him." He also told Officer Santiago that "he did not wish this report to be of public knowledge especially the news media."
On 8/17/23, Easton police responded to a complaint from Qayyum about his two sons, age 19 and 16, who were "fighting" over a criminal case filed against Taiba Sultana. The younger son and Qayyum were allegedly pressuring the older son against pursuing a well-documented criminal case against Taiba Sultana. Qayyum denied he was pressuring the older son. All three denied the fight had become physical. Officer David Costa advised all three that they could file harassment charges against each other and all three agreed to remain separated for the remainder of the evening.
On 9/22/23, Officer Diego Santiago responded to a complaint about two boys who were fighting at school and continued that fight after getting off the bus. The mother of one of the boys did not intervene because she thinks 11 year-old boys do fight from time to time. One of the boys was Taiba Sultana's son. Although she missed the fight, she apparently crossed the street and began cursing at her neighbor. Sultana told police her neighbor put up some sort of barrier so the boys could fight without intervention. The neighbor denied this. The boys admitted to fighting and neither was injured. They were instructed to make every effort to keep the boys from fighting. No charges were filed.
On 4/17/24, Easton police responded to a complaint from Qayyum and his wife Taiba Sultana. She was at that time running for the state house. They were upset about political signage calling Sultana "crazy, chaotic, criminal." Officer Shaun Wagner told them "it was freedom of speech, there was nothing illegal about it. Muhammed stated that once I speak to the District Attorney, I will think differently."
Officer Wagner declined to call the DA.
One of the incident reports, 25-23528, has been withheld. I believe it refers to an incident that took place on Sunday morning. Qayyum hold himself out as a Pakistani lawyer who teaches. This may be true, but he's also a driver for outfits like Uber and Grubhub. On Sunday, he went to Billy's Downtown Diner for a pick-up order but was told by a young man that they were running late. Irate, he began to complain, and some point said something about "lazy white people." This brought the manager out, and he began to argue with her and at one point, spit in her face. Qayyum denied that anything happened.
Incident Reports From Easton Police Concerning Nadeem Qayyum by BernieOHare
32 comments:
You are so focused on Nadeem that you will miss all the other whackos that were elected and currently serving on county council and as Executive. Especially all the drivel that you must endure from Warren as he runs for state representative. Don't worry Nadeem, BO use to go after Zrinski all the time and now he holds her up as the greatest county executive-elect ever.
Why would county Democrats nominate and elect this lawless cretin?
This is just one of many the others cover up their character.
Because dem voters are so filled with hatred, that they blindly vote anyone who has a "D" after their name. Gonna be a LONG 2 years (likely 4).
To mention twice that "his name is actually Muhammed" is race-baiting. All this does is continue to stoke anti-immigrant rhetoric. Nadeem and Sultana are vain, self-serving egoists, but continuing to harp on the name "Muhammed" is no better than Trump screaming about "Barack HUSSEIN Obama". Don't stoop to that level.
Today's Democrat/Socialists are willing to destroy anyone and anything in their way to satisfy their lust for power and to remain in office. If that means screwing-up local community government . . . . Oh, well.
Big nothing burger here, maybe if you had documentation of Muhammad doing something haram like scarfing down pig feet at a tavern while swilling beer we could be alarmed. Truth is Nadeem Qayyum is a pious Muslim man who turns to Mecca 5 times a day and prays while you Bernie are a godless infidel baby booming blogger who earns a living as the TMZ of Lehigh valley.
This family needs a counselor not a policeman. TBH, this stuff seems pretty tame to me. Normal family dysfunction. Kind of like the O’Hares must have been.
A filthy below the belt attack on Brother Nadeem the Dream , you are a muckraking peasant Bernie who cannot drive for Uber because you peddle a bicycle like the peon from Punjab just a disgrace so haram!
Why is it ok to attack this family ? Is it because they’re people of color ? Is it because they are Muslim ? Teenagers do dumb stuff ?
Be proud Northampton County Democrats. Your hatred of Trump got you this man. How does that saying go...Cut off your nose to spite your face.
As I explained on Monday, the real reason Nadeem was elected is because people did not know enough about the candidates and decided to vote Democratic to register their disgust with the direction in which this country is headed under Trump. You can blame Democrats, but Republicans and Trump are culpable as well. As I also explained, there was very little press coverage of these races.
Well Crazy Kelly will be happy, she looks like a rock star compared to this asshole. Also, these people are ALWAYS playing the race card, but look who’s the racists!
First thing that comes to mind is we need to pay our police more, they have to put up with nonsense like this all day.
I point out that his actual name is Muhammad because that is what it actually is. If his name were Nadeem Muhammad Qayyum, and I kept calling him Muhammad or insisted on using all three names, I could correctly be accused of Islamaphobia. It is Qayyum himself who has refused to use his first name in his political runs, but everywhere else, he is known as Muhammad. I believe he has dropped his first name in politics bc he is afraid it might cost him a few votes, something Barack Obama never did. His legal first name is Muhammad, and that is how he is referred to in the police reports. That is how he is referred to when he gets sued. It is important to make that clear in the event someone claims that Nadeem and Muhammad are two different people.
Muhammad will be nothing bur sultana's puppet on council
Look at it this way BO, with muhammad on council you'll have plenty to write about.
Can’t really blame Mr Taiba, he is a domestic abuse survivor
You are such a drama attention seeker. How about you give Nadeem a chance before you start spreading gossip about a man's personal life. Ohhhh, because you need the chump change from this shitty rag that you get. I keep forgetting that!
Imagine being a poor slob that looks like a short little troll having to do this every day of your life so you can get $.10 on a click.
He and his wife have had multiple opportunities to show their community investment…they both were adjunct failures at even being considerate humans. Nope.
He was in the last group of Dems on the ticket, and didn’t earn the position as others, he was lucky to be on the coat-tail ride and was unfortunately swept in with the others.
Dems did try to block him, they just didn’t get enough people of the primary ballot due to messing up the registration process. The rumor is LVH helped remove the 6th candidate who would have beaten Nadeem in the primary. But really it’s on the 6th candidate and the partys fault for messing up their filing.
Because they are horrible, lawless, disrespectful people. It would be the same if they were white. Terrible people are terrible people regardless of skin color or religion
Don’t forget a Lehigh valley News article from a month back where Taiba publicly talked about “white people” during one of her council meeting rants.
Spitting on a diner employee is not a man's personal life; neither is anything filed in police report or court document. Secondly, he is now a public figure; his expectation of privacy is now lessened. Thirdly, unless Roger McDowell or Keith Hernandez were in town that day, it's unlikely there was a second spitter. Qayyum acted alone.
White people are the colonizer class and stole America from BIPOC's therefore should be repudiated forcefully until there is equity in this land
Mind your opinions or it'll be fatwa time.
BO. Why are you writing this article. Yesterday you wrote an article trashing a man and law enforcement for enforcing the laws of the land. And now you saying this person shouldn't be on council???
Maybe easton PD are nazi just going after them??? Man you sound like Hitler saying this person should not be on council...
Boy I guess when it fits your definition of a crime or a behavior that's against your norms its ok to trash and get rid of an elected official.
Your showing your true colors has nothing to do with law and order . Just who the person is. You come to this country illegally and get caught, and you get sent back, your the devil for enforcing the laws.
But in the next breath if some has police contact that person shouldn't be able to hold an office. Lol.
Typical stuff from you. It's ok to kill a babies beating heart in the womb, but don't kill a person that just massacre a school house.
You guys are great!!!!
Typical what ever fits
Bernie deserves to receive a community Jihad on behalf of Nadeem the Dream
What I find more disturbing than these allegations is that their children are growing up believing that behavior such as this is okay, because the parents think they are victims. This duo has painted a picture of them vs. us and there are still many, including the children, who still support them.
Minimal compared to the war crimes the current federal administration is committing.
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