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Tariq Ramadan, a Muslim intellectual who has been one of the foremost exponents, at least to non-Muslims in Europe and North America, of Islamic reform, has been convicted of rape.
It is impossible to overstate how shocking this is for those who have praised Ramadan to the skies for so very long. For many years, Tariq Ramadan was the darling of the Western intelligentsia. In 2002, Salon hailed him as “the Muslim Martin Luther.” In 2004, Time Magazine listed him as one of the 100 most influential people in the world today. In 2012, Foreign Policy included him on its list of the top 100 global thinkers “for telling us that Islam and democracy can go together — just when it matters.”
Now those accolades, and the many others that Ramadan received, stand as mute witness to the left’s tendency to shower with honors those who tell it what it wants to hear. Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported Tuesday that Ramadan has been “convicted on appeal of rape and sexual coercion by a Geneva court.” This has been a long time coming, as Ramadan has faced numerous accusations in recent years of “masking violence and radicalism behind a mild facade.”
For years, Ramadan dismissed such allegations as “racism” and “Islamophobia.” In a Dec. 2019 video, he claimed that the accusations against him were all an attempt to discredit him and thereby “neutralize the Muslims.” He added: “We have to be clear that there is discrimination, stigmatization, racism that is at stake in the whole issue. And I was a symbol. To destroy me meant, let the people understand: If you want to be vocal you have to face the reality. It happened to Tariq Ramadan now, it could happen to anyone in the future.”
Even worse, RFI reported in 2020, after two more women accused him of rape, that “supporters of Ramadan, who is a professor of contemporary Islamic studies at Oxford’s St. Anthony’s College, have called the accusations against him part of a ‘international Zionist plot’ to blacken his name.” Of course!
It couldn’t have been that a cosseted Muslim academic, hailed and feted all over Europe and the United States despite the abject vacuity and sinister disingenuousness of his thought, began to indulge his worst impulses, now, could it? He couldn’t have been tempted to do so when it became clear that, in light of his value to Western authorities as a “moderate Muslim” who seemed to prop up their fantasies about the jihad threat, he would be allowed to get away with virtually anything – could he?
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Luchtpint says
Tariq Rape-a-dame, con artist extraordinaire.
Captain Quirk says
Well, let’s face it: to be called the ‘Muslim Martin Luther’ isn’t exactly a compliment. Any comparison to this rabid antisemite rubs off rather negatively. So, OK: full score!
Captain Quirk says
Ooops!
Sue says
The Religion of Peace my eye. These people will continue to hate anyone and everyone who is not like them. They use the Religion Card whenever they get caught doing what they always do, lie to the infidels, and seek to destroy Jews & Christianity. They have another saying…
“,First comes Saturday then comes Sunday,”
meaning
First we kill the Saturday worshipers (Jews)
Then we kill the Sunday worshipers (Christians)
Just ask any Christian Palestinian, if you can find one anymore. They just about eliminated all middle eastern Christians. Still Jordan has Christian encampment and these people have no voice.
Waldorf says
@Sue:
You write: ‘They just about eliminated all middle eastern Christians.’ That’s only half true. Recent research concluded that approximately 80% of the ‘Turkish’ population is genetically not Turkish, or perhaps better: ‘Turkic’, but Greek. But in essence this proves you are right, because it means that the bullying has resulted in massive conversion to the barbarism called ‘mohamedanism’. Remember: during the Eastern Roman Empire a large part of present day Turkey was 100% Christian. Some sources say that in the beginning of the 20th century approximately 10% still was Christian. Nowadays only about 1% is Christian, due, largely, to the Greek genocide inflicted by the mohamedans around 1915-1917, at the same time as the so-called Armenian genocide (both groups were Christian) and the subsequent exodus of Greek Christian ‘Turks’ to Greece.
I have a Greek cuisine cook book in which it is stated that this exodus is at the origin of the ‘Greek cuisine’ such as we know it today. It literally states that the mainland Greek kitchen up to that point in time had nothing to show for. Now, the Turks originally were a nomadic nation and thus unfamiliar with the concept of kitchens such as we know them. I would not be surprised at all, either, if the conquered Greeks didn’t have as good a kitchen as we now know (although ancient sources do say the ancient Greeks ate well). So where does this ‘Turkish’ kitchen come from? It is my contention that it derived from the Imperial cuisine of the court of the Emperor of the Roman Empire at Constantinople. The mohamedans took this food and made it their own, having no respect whatsoever for worldly(non-mohamedan) authorities whatsoever. Therefore, I contend that the Turkish cuisine originally is a Greek cuisine.
Statler says
@Sue:
I’m familiar with the saying ‘after Saturday comes Sunday’ and the meaning thereof. But remember: after Sunday comes Friday. This is no threat. It’s an observation. Look at the riots in the UK, the unrest in Germany and France. Mind my words: there’s a civil war arising.
Goofy says
Please don’t mention this devout Muslim rapist in the same sentence as;the reformer Dr Martin Luther!
Dr Martin Luther never raped anyone.
Apart from that Tariq Ramadan’s rape of unbelieving women is evidence enough that he is devoted to continue the old Islamic religious trafition of raping the unbelieving women, primarily to humiliate them. The resulting sexual satisfaction is not really the motivation for the rape, but an Allah given recognition for doing his work!
Alahu Akbar!
somehistory says
I agree.
And, furthermore, rape by any male is not for sexual satisfaction. it is all for the violence, the power, humiliating and demonstrating the **hatred** the rapist has for all women, not just the victims of the rape.
Many victims never reveal to anyone what has been done to them, and this is another victory for the rapist. He may relive it in his mind again and again to make himself feel the power all over again.
Bull Herman says
So what’s his long face for? He hates women so being away from them should excite him. But then, he’s going to be facing his own church behind bars. They don’t have any Christians or atheists or anything else to attack and rape so they must look at each other…and think…and wonder…and be tempted…let the games begin.
May he die right there where he deserves to be.
Now that would be the first time a Muslim could really say he’s contributed to society.
Tony Rice says
Question is when is rape rape? When it is not of young girls ( or boys ) but more mature persons . A la prophet in other words.
OLD GUY says
Just another day in the life of a Islamic leader.