Tariq Ramadan: a hardcore headbanger and an intellectual lightweight. The mockery by Charlie Hebdo comes with the territory. It’s well deserved.
Disgraced Islamic Scholar Tariq Ramadan Convicted of Rape by Swiss Appeals Court
A Swiss appeals court on Tuesday found Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan guilty of rape and sexual coercion in a Geneva hotel 15 years ago, overturning last year’s lower court acquittal.
AFP reports the court said it “annuls the judgement of 24 May 2023” and sentenced the former Oxford professor to three years in prison, two of them suspended.
Swiss-born Ramadan, 62, is the grandson of the founder of the Islamist movement the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and wrote his doctoral thesis on his ancestor.
Named by Time Magazine in 2004 among the 100 most influential people in the world for his influence on European Muslims, Ramadan has stirred controversy throughout his intellectual career.
File/Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan (C) leaves Geneva courthouse between his lawyers Theo Badan (L) and Yael Hayat on May 24, 2023, after he was acquitted at the end of his trial for “rape and sexual coercion” in a case dating back 15 years. (FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)
Alongside the now concluded Swiss case, a Paris appeals court ruled in June this year Ramadan should be tried for raping three women between 2009 and 2016, a decision his lawyers have challenged.
The scholar spent more than nine months in pre-trial detention in 2018, but was released in November that year.
Ramadan said he had not carried out “a single act, behaviour or sex act that was not discussed beforehand” with the women despite allegations of slapping, choking, and non-consensual penetration by his many accusers.
Ramadan was a professor of contemporary Islamic studies at Oxford University.
He was banned from entering the United States by the George W. Bush administration in 2004 after it was alleged he donated to the Association de Secours Palestinien (ASP/ Palestinian Relief Organisation) from 1998 to 2002.
The U.S. government considered the ASP a group that funded terrorism by giving some of their donations to the anti-Israel terrorist organisation Hamas which is proscribed in the U.S.
Ramadan’s supporters previously used social media networks to claim the sexual assault allegations were all part of a global “Zionist plot,” as Breitbart News reported.
Charlie Hebdo Gets Fresh Death Threats over Tariq Ramadan Cartoon
Tariq Ramadan’s Context-&-Interpretation Gimmick
Heavy on taqiyya, smoke and mirrors. The substance, as with all “Islamic intellectuals”, is sadly missing.
(Image right: Hassan al-Banna, on the far left, was the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood and Tariq Ramadan’s grandfather. Said Ramadan, Tariq’s father, is next to al-Banna in the image. Tariq’s father was a major figure in the MB as well as the founder of the World Islamic League in Saudi Arabia.)
Introduction
Tariq Ramada is a Swiss born “intellectual, philosopher, theologian, television presenter, academic, poet and writer” (Wiki). He’s also a Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at OxfordÂUniversity. An online poll, carried out by the American Foreign Policy magazine (in 2009), placed Ramadan in 49th pace in a list of the world’s top 100 contemporary intellectuals. (I’m not sure if Ramadan was in front or behind fellow pseud, Slavoj ½i¾ek, who was also well-placed in the same poll.)
More to the point: Tariq Ramadan is the Supreme Master of Islamic Taqiyya (i.e., lying, deceit, dissimulation and doublespeak to protect and advance Islam). That’s no surprise. His grandfather created the Muslim Brotherhood and his father ran it. The MB has been a master of taqiyya as well as of using democracy and non-Islamic systems in order to destroy Western democracy and non-Islamic systems.
Ramadan, of course, denies any direct connection to the MB. (Clearly he can’t deny any indirect connections.) That’s no surprise either, considering what I’ve just said about Islamic taqiyya and the Muslim Brotherhood.