Switzerland: Tariq Ramadan's brother wins two years' pay after being fired for advocating stoning

Unconscionable cultural suicide. Hani Ramadan Update: "Controversial teacher wins damages," from the Tribune de Genève (thanks to doppler):

The canton grants the equivalent of two years’ pay to a Meyrin junior high school instructor fired for writing an article in support of stoning.
A Geneva teacher fired for controversial comments he made in an article for a French newspaper will receive SFr255,000 in damages from the canton of Geneva. The canton announced yesterday it is paying the amount to Hani Ramadan, a French teacher from a junior high school (cycle d’orientation) in Meyrin. The sum is the equivalent of two years’ salary for the teacher who was sacked in November 2004 after defending the stoning of men and women guilty of adultery.

His opinion piece was published in the fall of 2002 by Le Monde, the Paris-based newspaper, causing a storm of controversy. The canton ruled that Ramadan had violated his professional principles in making public such views. Ramadan, who has since worked as director of Geneva’s Islamic center, subsequently contested the decision to fire him. An appeal commission of the education department sided with Ramadan, annulling the termination to the embarrassment of cantonal decision-makers.

The canton opted to pay the maximum indemnity to guarantee "peace" over the issue, Laurent Moutinot, cantonal president, told a press conference. The government has also agreed to pay Ramadan’s legal fees, which have amounted to SFr90,000 in the affair. In all, the canton has paid more than SFr1 million to deal with the conflict.

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exsgtbrown | January 18, 2008 7:50 AM

...new muslim get rich quick scheme...

get hired, express typical violent Muslim views, get fired, sue....

...note to school board: "do not hire Muslims"...

Hugh | January 18, 2008 8:10 AM

Meanwhile, his more famous, and far more dangerous brother, Tariq, appears in the "Islam" issue of The New York Times Book Review, where he identifies himself as at present a "professor at Oxford." He is no such thing. He has been a temporary lecturer, at St. Antony's College, in the Middle Eastern wing (the other wing is Russian and East European Studies), which ever since its inception was the fiefdom of the late Albert Hourani, described by J. B. Kelly as "a plump abbot dispensing his favors," who allowed the place to be a diploma mill for all kinds of doubtful people. The D. Phil. does not require courses, but only a thesis, and every Rashid, Hamid, and Yusuf could get a D. Phil. at St. Antony's, as long as Hourani was ruling the roost. Now he's gone, and possibly things are changing there. But not completely, for Tariq Ramadan was given his temporary post.

Now the Arabs have got together, and the most "respectable" of them -- the government of Oman -- has simply given a large sum of money, not only for a chair, but with a specific non-negotiable candidate, the Arab Muslim candidate, to fill it, at the otherwise respectable University of Leiden. That's right, the same University of Leiden that has a distinguished history in Islamic studies, where Joseph Schacht, having left Germany in disgust in 1933 (Schacht was not Jewish), ended up for a while, and where C. Snouck Hurgronje has a center named after him), to give Tariq Ramadan a grand title ("professor" I presume, or possibly "director" of some "institute" created just for him by fellow Arab Muslims). And that will be convenient, that will allow him to lecture, and to write articles, billed as "Tariq Ramadan, professor at the University of Leiden."

But don't believe a word of it. His chair is entirely bought and paid for. It's to make his propaganda, his presentation, more impressive, more effective, more convincing.

Now, if I hadn't set all this out, you might have been fooled. You might have thought "ummmh, so Tariq Ramadan is a full professor at the University of Leiden. And the University of Leiden has been such a center of Islamic studies. Well, well, well."

Now you won't. But others, who will not have read about Tariq Ramadan and How He Got His Chair At Leiden, may still be. And that may include people who give valuable space, at book reviews, for articles on Islam, to people just exactly like...Tariq Ramadan.

Celsius | January 18, 2008 10:25 AM

Why do no muslim prisoners in Europe demand to be punished according to Sharia law?

exsgtbrown | January 18, 2008 10:49 AM

"Why do no muslim prisoners in Europe demand to be punished according to Sharia law?

Posted by: Celsius"

...they know the law....

CTYankee | January 18, 2008 1:08 PM

Breaking News:
_Swiss suspend CIA abduction probe_

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080118/ap_on_re_eu/switzerland_cia_flights_1

"The investigation concerned the alleged kidnapping of Osama Hassan Mustafa Nasr, known as Abu Omar, from a street in Milan. The CIA allegedly flew Nasr from Aviano air base in Italy across Switzerland to Ramstein air base, Germany, and then on to Cairo, Egypt, on Feb. 17, 2003."
...
"Under Swiss law, a sentence of up to three years in prison can be imposed on anyone who undertakes actions for a foreign government on Swiss territory without permission."

Would the new Swiss law apply to persons who undertake actions for Saudi Arabia, such as teaching from Wahabbi textbooks? I am afraid that Muslims are exempt from this new law.

Armoured Passionfruit | January 18, 2008 1:50 PM

Good decision.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH Must be defended AT ANY COST.

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

- Voltaire

freedomschool | January 18, 2008 7:11 PM

FREEDOM OF SPEECH means that a government can't throw someone into jail (or worse)for stating their beliefs.

It doesn't mean the right to advocate barbarity and be guaranteed a job at a school. He was free to try for a job at another school, or another job doing something else.

Fred | January 19, 2008 5:48 AM

By contrast.

Can anyone list the number of kuffurs in the US, UK and Canada who were fired without appeal and had their careers ruined, for saying a few words that were "Islamophobic", "racist" or "insulting" to islam?

Just say in the last 5 years?

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