“Since the start of this case in October 2017, Hani Ramadan, who nevertheless advocates stoning for fornicators, has never stopped defending his brother by taking on, virulently, those who criticize Tariq Ramadan.”
This is not hard to understand. Tariq Ramadan is Hani Ramadan’s brother, but also, remember that Tariq Ramadan allegedly told his accuser Henda Ayari as he was raping her: “This is what you are asking for because you don’t wear the hijab.”
And that’s what the Qur’an says: “O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused.” (33:59)
That means that those women who don’t cover themselves may well be abused, and will have had it coming. So what Tariq Ramadan is accused of doing is not the fornication and adultery that Hani Ramadan has in mind here.
“Fornication and adultery created the coronavirus, according to Tariq Ramadan’s brother,” translated from “Fornication et adultère ont créé le coronavirus, selon le frère de Tariq Ramadan,” Le Point, March 22, 2020:
In recent times, the wrath of Hani Ramadan, director of the Islamic Center of Geneva (IGC) and elder brother of Tariq Ramadan, has focused a lot on China. He accuses it of persecuting the Uighurs, a Muslim minority, without the international community lifting a finger. And now the appearance of the new coronavirus appears to him to be divine intervention. According to him, this “tiny creature” called into question “the omnipotence of the Middle Kingdom”, as he explains in an audio sermon of about eight minutes.
For the brother of Tariq Ramadan, there is no doubt that it was the sins of men who provoked the wrath of God. Referring to the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad, he explains that one of the causes of new diseases, and today of the coronavirus, “is the fact that men openly engage in turpitude, such as fornication and adultery, which which triggers new diseases and epidemics ”. For the director of the IGC, who began his preaching by recalling that we must “fear Allah, Allah is with those who fear him”, Muslims must do everything to protect themselves. If it is necessary to “comply with medical directives”, it is also necessary to be “assiduous in invocations”.
“Misunderstood Sharia”
Hani Ramadan, grandson of Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, makes no secret of his membership in the Brotherhood, unlike his brother Tariq. He is above all an old hand at provocations. In September 2002, he published a column in Le Monde entitled “The misunderstood sharia”, in which he explained that stoning is “a form of purification”. Referring to the AIDS virus, he affirmed that “only those who exhibit deviant behavior are exposed to contamination”, adding: “Is the slow death of an AIDS patient less significant than that of a stoned person?” This rostrum led to his being fired from his post as professor of French in a college in Geneva.
More recently, in August 2016, Hani Ramadan, strangely invited to a Geneva school to talk about Islamophobia to young people from 15 to 17 years old, compared veiled women to “pearls protected in shells” and unveiled women to “euros that go from one pocket to another”. A few weeks later, in August 2016, the director of the IGC questioned the actions of the American soldiers who had headed off carnage in a Thalys train. According to him, it was a fabricated incident to “enhance the prestige of the American military, considerably diminished by the actions of an army that has sown death on a large scale for decades wherever it goes”, and, once again, we have sought to “demonize Muslims”.
Forbidden to stay in France
Already prohibited from staying in France from 1997 to 2001, Hani Ramadan in April 2017 was issued an administrative ban order from French territory, issued by the Ministry of the Interior. In addition, he appears on a list of people whose funds and resources are frozen because they are suspected of trying to commit, facilitate or finance acts of terrorism or aid those who incite or participate in terrorism. Hani Ramadan sees in this ban “the influence of very pro-Israeli circles”. “But they won’t muzzle me. I will continue my anti-Zionist struggle, a struggle that has nothing to do with the anti-Semitism of which you accuse me.
This denunciation of men who “openly indulge in turpitude, like fornication and adultery”, does not fail to surprise. His brother Tariq Ramadan, indicted for four rapes in France, is certainly still presumed innocent, but has he not repeatedly admitted before the examining magistrates to have had multiple consented extramarital relations? Since the start of this case in October 2017, Hani Ramadan, who nevertheless advocates stoning for fornicators, has never stopped defending his brother by taking on, virulently, those who criticize Tariq Ramadan.