Here is an article by a certain Hatem Bazian on the victimization of Professor Tariq Ramadan, a “towering intellect” and “foremost Islamic scholar” who, Dr. Bazian claims, is being treated with monumental unfairness by the French justice system just because he is a Muslim. But before getting to that article, it helps to know a […]
Tariq Ramadan rape accuser says he told her he was raping her “because you don’t wear a hijab”
There are new items of interest to those following the tale of Tariq Ramadan, here and here. The first item is about Tariq Ramadan’s health. It’s partly old news: the claim that he has been suffering from multiple sclerosis — apparently, according to his lawyers, “since 2006,” though it was only revealed after he was […]
Tariq Ramadan: One More Accusation with “Aggravating Circumstances”
The latest news about Tariq Ramadan, one of the world’s “foremost intellects,” “one of the most renowned of Islamic scholars,” named by TIME in 2004 as “one of the 100 most influential people in the world today,” comes from Switzerland. It’s not about the four underage pupils he taught in a Geneva high school in […]
Accuser of Tariq Ramadan Beaten and Threatened: “Next Time It Will Be Gasoline”
The latest explosive charge involving Tariq Ramadan comes from “Marie,” the third woman to accuse the “world’s foremost Muslim scholar” and “towering intellect” of rape. She has said she was beaten at her home shortly after filing her complaint against Ramadan. Two men forced their way into the lobby of her building on March 25. “Tariq […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Tariq Ramadan and Hush Money
A few months ago, Tariq Ramadan was the golden boy of Islamic apologists, offering his suave taqiyya to audiences throughout Western Europe. He held a prestigious post as a professor at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, with a chair funded especially for him by the Emir of Qatar. And at the same time, he held a […]
Pressured by Public Opinion, Geneva Opens An Investigation of Tariq Ramadan
“Geneva launches Ramadan school probe,” SwissInfo, March 21, 2018: Canton Geneva authorities have called in two experts to conduct an external investigation into accusations of sexual misconduct alleged to have been perpetrated by Swiss academic Tariq Ramadan against pupils he taught in local schools. The role of the canton’s education department in the affair will […]
Video: Tariq Ramadan declares himself victim of a “media lynching”
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJub_-X2eT4] In mid-November, Tariq Ramadan made a video declaring himself to be the victim of a “media lynching.” That video has just surfaced. It’s quite a performance. Again and again, in his softest, gentlest voice, the voice of someone who knows he is innocent, Ramadan looks deeply, truly, sincerely into the camera to repeatedly declare his […]
“Professor” Tariq Ramadan: A “Towering Intellect” Who Faked His Credentials
The latest outrage about Tariq Ramadan has nothing to do with sex: “Did Tariq Ramadan Lie About His University Credentials?, by Sarah Mills, Conatus News, March 10, 2018: Currently awaiting trial for his sexual misconduct, the French-Swiss Muslim intellectual is alleged to have ‘usurped’ [i.e., made up] his University of Fribourg credentials. According to French news […]
Tariq Ramadan: Now We Are Three
A third woman in France — known only as “Marie” — has just come forward to accuse Tariq Ramadan of doing what apparently comes naturally to him: that is, to have raped her repeatedly, and to have subjected her to “violent and sexually degrading acts” during a “dozen meetings” between February 2013 and June 2014. […]
“Famed Professor” Tariq Ramadan: A Just-Surfaced Video Now Gives Us the Ocular Proof
Just a brief note: on March 1 it was reported that a video had just surfaced, showing Tariq Ramadan at a lecture he gave at the “Youth Festival” (a broad translation of “Agora Juvenil”) held in Jerez de la Frontera, in Spain, on October 8, 2009. His lawyers have always claimed that he could not […]