Imman Malik must be following the bad example set by her mother. Last summer, Easton City Council member Taiba Sultana was arrested and charged with the domestic assault of her own adult son. She was eventually placed on ARD, a special program for first offenders, but insisted on blaming everyone but herself for her legal woes. Now, It's her daughter's turn.
When Sultana ran for State Rep. against Bob Freeman earlier this year, she was very upset to see that immigration attorney Ray Lahoud bought and posted campaign signs that were highly critical of her. Lahoud, as an American citizen, has every under our Constitution right to criticize her. That's how American democracy works.
Sultana of course complained on social media that someone had dared criticize her, and as she did that, the signs began to disappear. Most were gone within a matter of hours.
What happened is that two of her children (both minors) were nabbed by Pennsylvania State Police as they spray-painted the anti-Sultana signs. Waiting for them in a nearby car was 19-year-old Imman Malik, who is also Sultana's daughter. In a Morning Call account, Sultana amazingly contended that her children had the right to deface political signs and that she was being targeted as a progressive and a minority. Her children actually released a statement claiming the signs were defamatory and that Easton police should have removed them.
Of course, Malik was charged with two counts of corrupting the morals of minors. After a preliminary hearing yesterday, the matter was bound over for court. Her formal arraignment is scheduled for September 5, 1 pm, in Courtroom 1.
