France: Report on accused rapist Tariq Ramadan says he used “contempt, lies and manipulation on his victims” May 23, 2020
And here’s some more.
“Tariq Ramadan to launch centre teaching feminism amid ongoing rape charges,” by Nicky Harley, The National, September 2, 2020:
Tariq Ramadan is set to launch a centre to teach ethics and feminism next month despite being suspended from his Oxford University post over rape allegations.
Mr Ramadan, 58, was given a leave of absence from his post at Oxford University after he was charged in France with raping a feminist activist in 2012 and a disabled woman in 2009.
In February this year he was charged with two further rapes.
The Islamic scholar, who is the grandson of the founder of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, has now announced he was launching an educational centre to teach topics including ethics and feminism.
The news has been met with anger from those who have called the case the #MeToo of the Muslim world.
“Do we laugh or cry? The intellectual dishonesty, hypocrisy and cynicism of #TariqRamadan have absolutely no limits,” teacher and researcher Anne-Marie Picard said on Twitter.
The married father-of-four made the announcement about the project on his Facebook page.
He says he will be opening Chifa, an international research and training centre for students based in France, in October.
The topics in the curriculum include religion, spirituality, humanism and law, as well as ethics and feminism.
“Courses will be taught by a team of teachers around the themes of religion, spirituality, humanity, psychology, feminism, ecology, teaching, ethics, colonialism, racism, law, economy, etc. You will be able to sign up for ‘face-to-face’ and ‘distance’ classes, basic classes or more targeted modules,” he wrote.
“The centre is based in France but the teaching platform is international. Teachers are all graduates in their respective fields and are, voluntarily, of different origins with various training courses,” he said.
“Not all are Muslims. The curriculum is led by a steering committee such as the Centre for Research and Training itself. There will be a certificate for those who have completed the three-year training. We haven’t thought about connecting our centre to an official institute yet but there might be some leads to this in the future.”…