On September 16, another shoe dropped. A Swiss woman (and a Muslim), not one of his former students, had accused Ramadan in April of rape and assault. After five months of investigation, a Geneva prosecutor considered the complaint to be sufficiently serious to open another, criminal, investigation against Ramadan in early September, the Tribune de […]
Tariq Ramadan: The Foul Fiend’s Foul Past (Part Two)
A second Muslim woman in Paris also accused Ramadan of raping her in a hotel room in 2009. The unnamed 42-year-old, who is reported to have disability in her legs, said that the professor had subjected her to a terrifying and violent sexual assault. The French edition of Vanity Fair magazine, whose staff met the […]
Tariq Ramadan: The Foul Fiend’s Foul Past (Part One)
Yesterday I discussed the new report on Tariq Ramadan, the “towering intellect” and “leading Islamic scholar,” that has just been released by the Swiss authorities. It details his life as a high school teacher in Geneva and serial seducer of his underage Swiss students, among whom four came forward months ago to accuse him of […]
Latest Report on Tariq Ramadan: “Sexual Relationships with Three Students Aged Between 15 and 18”
Here is the latest from The National, a paper that appears in the Emirates, where the Muslim Brotherhood is despised and so, too, is Tariq Ramadan, as the loyal grandson of the Brotherhood’s founder, Hasan Al-Banna. “Confidential report unearths Tariq Ramadan’s foul past,” The National, November 29, 2018: A devastating new report summarising Swiss investigations […]
Maajid Nawaz’s fairy-tale version of Islam
On Maajid Nawaz’s LBC radio call-in show, he is forever taking fellow Muslims to task. He berates them if they believe homosexuals or adulterers should be stoned. He berates them for believing in sharia. He likens Muslims who believe that stoning adulterers and gays is okay so long as the conditions are met to the […]
Indonesia: Rally to promote moderate Islam canceled after threats of violence from Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar”
“Further incidents of provocation were planned. Our members would find it difficult to control their anger in the face of such flagrant exploitation of our religious symbols.” The “flagrant exploitation of our religious symbols” in question was the burning of a Hizb ut-Tahrir flag, because it contained the shahada, the Islamic profession of faith. You […]
Tariq Ramadan claims consensual sex with women accusing him of rape, after previously denying any physical contact
Tariq Ramadan’s changing of his story at this point both reveals the dishonesty of this much-lauded Islamic “reformer,” and shows that he realizes how strong the case is against him. The accusations are extremely serious, and the case is being investigated in an atmosphere of Muslim Brotherhood thuggery: one of his accusers has already been […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: For Tariq Ramadan, Another Shoe Drops
Tariq Ramadan, the “towering intellect” and “leading Islamic scholar,” has just had another shoe drop. But before getting to the latest installment of our seriocomic tale, let’s begin at the beginning. To refresh memories, Ramadan is currently being held in a French prison, and has been there since February 2, while awaiting trial on charges […]
Maajid Nawaz vs Tommy Robinson – a tale of two political prisoners
Maajid Nawaz, as we all know, served time for his work with the designated terrorist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is so extreme that it is banned in many countries. Maajid, apparently, was a political prisoner in Egypt for promoting the establishment of a global caliphate. His lawyer, the darling of a lot of terrorist lawyers, […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: The Calendrical Confusions of Henda Ayari Not Enough to Set Tariq Ramadan Free
Henda Ayari, the former Salafist who was the first of many women in France, Switzerland, Belgium, and the United States to accuse Tariq Ramadan of violent sexual assault and rape, has never wavered in her vivid account of what he did to her. But from the very beginning, she has had a hard time, as she has […]