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Federal authorities have charged a prominent Islamist online educator in Alabama with conspiracy to produce child pornography.

In a complaint issued on October 29, 2024, the FBI accused Wisam Sharieff, a Qur’an recitation instructor for the Houston-based AlMaghrib Institute, of encouraging a woman and her underage child, whom he had met at a conference in Georgia, to produce sexually explicit videos, which were transmitted via Telegram. According to an FBI affidavit, Sharieff’s wife called law enforcement officials in Alabama after discovering explicit texts and videos on her husband’s phone.

The AlMaghrib Institute, where Sharieff led a dawah campaign called “Quran Revolution,” announced his dismissal soon after the charges became public, stating on X that the victim was not a student at the organization.

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AlMaghrib officials also dec