Video: Tariq Ramadan declares himself victim of a “media lynching”

A lot has happened to Ramadan since that video. Seven more accusers have come forward. There are “Yasmine” and “Marie” in France. There is a woman who claims he attacked her in the United States. All three of these women are Muslims. in addition, there are four women who have accused Ramadan of having sexually assaulted them when he was their high school teacher in Geneva.

Even those who do not know French will be able to appreciate his  suave appearance and air of injured innocence. In light of it, it is worth revisiting what his accusers say.

First there was Henda Ayari, who accused Ramadan of rape, sexual violence, humiliation, and making threats to destroy her and to harm her children if she told anyone about what he had done. She described his acts in her book “J’ai choisi d’être libre” (I Chose To Be Free), calling him “Zoubeyr”:“This man, Zoubeyr, transformed before my very eyes into a vile, vulgar, aggressive being – physically and verbally,” she wrote. “For modesty, I will not give the precise details here of the acts he made me submit to. But it is enough that he took great advantage of my weakness and the admiration I felt for him. ”“He allowed himself gestures, attitudes and words that I could never have imagined.”

“And when I resisted,” she wrote, “when I cried to him to stop, he insulted and humiliated me. He slapped me and attacked me. I saw in his crazy eyes that he was no longer master of himself. I was afraid he would kill me. I was completely lost. I started crying uncontrollably. He mocked me.”

Later Ayari added: “He choked me so hard that I thought I was going to die.” She also described him as threatening that her children might be harmed if she were tell anyone.

Then a second accuser appeared. Like Henda Ayari, “Christelle” is a Muslim. She understandably uses a pseudonym, given that Henda Ayari, who bravely used her real name when she first stepped forward, received thousands of death threats from Ramadan’s loyal followers — he has two million Facebook friends — and now Ayari requires round-the-clock security, possibly for years to come. “Christelle” accused Ramadan of “blows to the face and body, forced sodomy, rape with an object and various humiliations, including being dragged by the hair to the bathtub and urinated on.” 

Now, on March 7, a third accuser has appeared. Like the first two, she is a Muslim. And she has accused Ramadan of behavior quite similar to what those two previous accusers described: rape, and his trademark “violent and sexually degrading acts.”

“Europe’s foremost Muslim intellectual,”  “the great Muslim thinker,” “this prominent theologian,” “this eminent Oxford professor,” “one of the world’s leading Islamic thinkers,” this “profound scholar,” this “great reformer of Islam” — none of that idiotic praise will help him now.