Of course, non-Muslim academics have been known to engage in similar abuses of power, as regards their female students.  But cases of sexual misconduct by Muslim men resident in the West, toward vulnerable non-Muslim women - for example, the rape of intoxicated young women by Muslim cabbies - do seem to be very, very common. 

Two reports from the ABC news online.

First: 'Student hotline set up after sex pest leaves'.

www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/03/3001399.htm

'Students at Curtin University [in Perth, Western Australia] say they are satisfied with the institution's handling of misconduct complains against a former academic.

'A WA Corruption and Crime Commission report has found Nasrul Ali attempted to pressure overseas students into sex in return for higher marks, while he was working at Curtin's Business School last year.

'None of the students submitted to the demands' [Good on them - CM].

'The CCC report revealed that Dr Ali targeted young, vulnerable female students who were being financially supported by their families, needed to pass their units, and were at risk of losing their student visas.'  (In a report from a Perth newspaper, I discovered that two of the girls were from mainland China, and one was from Malaysia - so it seems likely they were non-Muslims; many non-Muslims from Malaysia, of Chinese and indian ethnicity, come to Australia to study because they are denied access to universities in Muslim-dominated Malaysia - CM).

'The University has since ended Dr Ali's contract, apologised to the students, and partially refunded their fees.  It has also established a committee to improve professional standards and a support hotline for students..."

"Dr Ali's new employer, Murdoch University [also in Perth, Western Australia] says it only became aware of the allegations yesterday.  The academic is now on leave while the university considers the findings."

Second instalment in the saga: Murdoch U. drops Dr Ali like a hot potato.

www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/03/3001932.htm

'Academic sacked over pressuring students for sex'.

'Murdoch University in Western Australia has sacked an academic accused of trying to pressure female students into sex for higher marks while working at WA's Curtin University.

'A Corruption and Crime Commission Report found Nasrul Ali asked four international students for sexual favours in return for better grades while working at Curtin's Business School last year.

"Dr Ali was sacked after Curtin received the students' complains in mid-2009, and he was then hired by Murdoch.

'The university has issued a statement saying it only became aware of the CCC investigation yesterday and has now moved to terminate Dr Ali's contract.  Murdoch says it is disappointed it was not told of the allegations sooner..."....

More details may be found here, in the 'West Australia Today' report:

www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/sexformarks-scandal-lecturer-fired-20100903-14tp0.html

including the piquant information that Dr Nasrul Ali is 'the son of high-profile academic and Islamic spokesman Ameer Ali' (how *embarrassing*) and that two of the students whom he attempted to inveigle and threaten into his bed were Chinese...and that as a result *China* had taken an interest in the case.  

I quote: 'Professor Martin [the Murdoch U Senior Deputy Vice Chancellor] said news of the misconduct had spread across the world yesterday and some of the University's Chinese partners had expressed concerns".  I'll bet they did.  

What an *interesting* pickle for Murdoch U to be in: they hire a Muslim lecturer, son of a prominent and plausible Muslim spin-doctor, and said lecturer is promptly discovered to have been, at his previous place of academic employment, pressuring female *Chinese* overseas students for sex...poor Murdoch U, caught between a rock (the Ummah, which we are not supposed to offend) and a hard place (the 'concerns' of the Chinese, who are much bigger, and richer, and more powerful, than the Ummah).