Now that Tariq Ramadan has been accused of rape, it is useful to recall just how profound the thinking of this renowned intellectual really is. Hugh just posted some illuminating revelations about Tariq Ramadan’s scholarship and academic appointments, and this article I wrote back in 2012, “Deep Thoughts from Tariq Ramadan,” shows that he needed those special breaks to get his professorships, because his intellectual level is generally about that of a Hallmark card. Tariq Ramadan and his ilk are appointed and applauded and lauded by the academic and media elites because they retail the lies that those elites want us to believe, not because they are actually competent intellectuals.
Did Tariq Ramadan punctuate his slaps and threats to Henda Ayari with deep musings whispered in her ear such as “Near to you or without you. Why do we love? Why do we break apart? Why, indeed?”
Deep Thoughts from Tariq Ramadan
Reza Aslan, the immature young apologist for the Islamic Republic of Iran and Sharia oppression, recently bragged in a tweet about being among the “people that press actually takes seriously.” But how does the “press” select those whom it “actually takes seriously”? Does it undertake a rigorous selection process, weighing the intellectual heft of a public figure’s writings and statements, determining whether they stand up to logical and factual scrutiny, and have something of benefit to convey to the public? Of course not: increasingly the figures whom the mainstream media lauds as voices of wisdom are simply those who parrot today’s dominant Leftist talking points, no matter how bereft of substance they may be.
Besides Aslan himself, who has repeatedly shown himself to be abjectly incapable of defending his views without resorting to baseless ad hominem attacks, the most notorious media-created pundit is Tariq Ramadan, the much-lauded “Muslim Martin Luther.” Ramadan has been filling his Twitter feed with maxims and epigrams that he apparently thinks will bolster his reputation as a deep thinker, but which in fact only reveal him as more worthy to be a writer of Hallmark cards than an internationally respected pundit. A sampling (spelling and grammar as in the originals):
We must learn that our encounters like our separations are acts of initiation:we can love wht is and,in the end,know only hurt and suffering
Near to you or without you. Why do we love? Why do we break apart? Why, indeed?
To judge is to love. Suspending one’s judgement is a better way of loving …and to love, in spite of judgement,is truly to love.
Listen without passing judgement,or rather judge there is nothing on which to pass judgement.To judge is human,& to judge is to love
A character trait,a smile,an expression,a feeling,a wound, a silence or an absence:everything speaks to those who know how to listen.
It is up to every one of us to discover the extraordinary that lies hidden in the heart of the all too ordinary presences in our daily lives
Absence. Meaning. Life is flying, people are leaving. The heart is crying, the heart is smiling. Oh God, to learn to thank.Simply to thank !
Life is beautiful, life is sad. This life is not Life. To live is to love
To tell the people we love we love them, and to truly love them. With courage in the heart, tears in the eyes.
As embarrassing as these half-baked platitudes and nonsense are, Ramadan’s followers reverently retweet them as if they were oracles from on high, and no one says a word about the nakedness of the emperor. And so it is with the reception Ramadan is accorded in the mainstream media: it stems from his saying what the media establishment wants to hear, not from any actual substance on Ramadan’s part.
For what substance there is to Tariq Ramadan is, in fact, quite sinister. Many of his statements seem studiedly ambiguous. He admits the possibility that “a Muslim is allowed to live in a non-Islamic country” only so long as “he is able to protect his identity and practice his religion” — a caveat that has already become a source of unrest in France and elsewhere. Referring to Islamic law’s death sentence for apostates, Ramadan argues that it doesn’t apply to “one who would leave the faith for personal conviction without trying to betray Islam and Muslims thereafter, in any way.” He adds: “The necessary attitude is therefore a minimal respect for the faith that one leaves and a sensitivity by those that continue to practice it.”
Ramadan doesn’t explain what form this “minimal respect” must take, and since he leaves the death penalty in place for those who do dare to “betray Islam and Muslims” thereafter, one may legitimately wonder just how compatible his self-proclaimed moderate vision of Islam really is with European and American secularism.
It must be remembered that Ramadan is the grandson of Hasan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. Ramadan says that “there are some things of my grandfather’s with which I agree and others with which I don’t agree.” However, he never has specified anything al-Banna said with which he disagrees.
In fact, several years ago Ramadan contributed a Foreword to a new edition of al-Banna’s Risalat al-Ma’thurat, a collection of key texts from the Qur’an and Hadith. Ramadan describes the book as “the core of spiritual education for all members of the Muslim Brotherhood.” He writes glowingly of his grandfather, lauding al-Banna for the “quality of his faith and the intensity of his relationship with God. Anyone who had ever been in contact with him perceived and experienced this.” He describes al-Banna’s teachings as “simple and luminous.”
He gives no hint in this Foreword or anywhere else that he actually rejects any of al-Banna’s thought – and yet al-Banna was a belligerent Islamic supremacist who wrote: “In [Muslim] Tradition,” al-Banna writes, “there is a clear indication of the obligation to fight the People of the Book [that is, Jews and Christians], and of the fact that Allah doubles the reward of those who fight them. Jihad is not against polytheists alone, but against all who do not embrace Islam.”
Does Ramadan renounce these aspects of al-Banna’s teachings? He has never done so, although most assume that he does. Tariq Ramadan, despite his reputation as a Muslim reformer, sidesteps the extremists only by taking refuge in ambiguity and tweeted cliches.
And his sycophants swoon over his wisdom, as the mainstream media persistently assures us that here is a man with something to say.
mortimer says
In response to the Harvey Weinstein scandal, the hashtag #balancetonporc has taken off in France. Translated as “tell on your pig,” the hashtag has been used by women including Ayari to share stories about incidents of sexual harassment and rape.
So the Muslim Brotherhood crumbles …
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2017/10/231668/salafi-henda-ayari-tariq-ramadan-rape/
Henda Ayari, a former Islamist, who left Islam following the Paris attacks, has decided after years to sue Ramadan in Rouen.
QUOTE: “Ayari took to her Facebook page to tell the story of her rape, recounting that in 2012, on the sidelines of a congress of the Union of Islamic Organizations of France (UOIF), Ramadan invited her to join him in a hotel and raped her.
“I have been silent for several years for fear that he might take vengeance,” she said, explaining that he had threatened to “take it to my children. I was afraid and I kept silent all this time.”
Tariq Ramadan has not reacted to her accusations.
“I decided to file a complaint against Tariq Ramadan for what he did to me,” she said on Facebook.
Ayari’s lawyer, Jonas Haddad, told French outlet Le Figaro that a complaint for “rape, sexual assault, voluntary violence, harassment, intimidation” was filed with the Rouen prosecutor’s office this Friday afternoon.”
John says
Lying , threatening , raping is all allowed against infidels and muslim women
LB says
If you think that MB will crumble after one rape accusation … yeah, no. Tariq maybe the grandson of the founder, but he’s just one (fairly irrelevant) agent.
What about tens of thousands of other agents who are in various pro-muslim NGO’s like CAIR, ISNA, MAS, etc, etc? What about most of Obama’s admin who are still festering in the undrained swamp (FBI, CIA…)? What about muslim college professors and muslim student associations who take advantage of the ignorant leftists to further divide American society?
And all that’s just in the USA. What about Canada and Western Europe? The MB fifth column has grown deep roots into the foundations of our society, and as long as political correctness exists, it will remain there.
Mike9a says
Hallmark card !!!!! Robert you rock!
Mitch says
The insulted party, here, is Hallmark.
SV says
He tweets like Will Smith’s son.
Lydia says
“I love them… I love them!!! I love them to death!!!”
: D
carol says
Give words any kind of poetic twist and they swoon. They drool over someone like Omar Khayyam. I’ve not been empressed but this quote if pretty good:
“And do you think that unto such as you
A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew
God gave a secret, and denied it me?
Well, well—what matters it? Believe that, too!”
― Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
carol says
A quick Wiki-check reveals that Omar’s father was a Persian Zoroastrian and converted to Islam (we’d guess as a practical necessity). Omar himself was hated by the Sufis (he rejected their mysticism and attachment to Islam). He was a great mathematician and may not have written the verses at all (seem to be a compilation of later poets). Some of the verses are quite fine and as familiar to us as is Shakespeare!
mortimer says
Read about Henda Ayari here: https://twitter.com/henda_ayari?lang=en
My comment … Robert Spencer has put his finger on an important, namely, that Ramadan frames his speech in Western terms, while it is pure Salafism from the playbook of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Ramadan claims to support apostates practicing their freedom of conscience as long as they don’t simultaneously practice their freedom of speech.
What a taqiyya artist. I hope this is an eye-opener for Western people.
TheBuffster says
“Listen without passing judgement,or rather judge there is nothing on which to pass judgement.To judge is human,& to judge is to love”
What a contradictory mess.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
History is reaching a turning point. The last day of this month, October 31, 2017, is the 500th anniversary of the proclamation by Martin Luther of the 95 Theses that he tacked to the Wittenberg church door. And now we have an Islamic latter-day Martin Luther, in the person of Tariq Ramadan. What you call “Hallmark maxims and epigrams” and “half-baked platitudes” are in fact Ramadan’s 95 Theses, not tacked on a mosque door but posted online, the same way Martin Luther would do it today.
John S. Obeda says
Martin Luther emphasized that the only source from which we receive God’s truths is Holy Scripture. And Tariq Ramadan would emphasize that the only source from which god’s truths are found is in the Qur’an. But from the Holy Scriptures you find that the true God loves you and forgives you your sins for the sake of the work of redemption by Jesus Christ and He gives you eternal life. This is most certainly true for Jesus rose from the dead. But from the Qur’an you find a false god that condemns you if you don’t do the works that he demands of you. From the Scriptures you find life in Christ; from the Qur’an you find death in Muhammad.
Lor says
Tariq Ramadan = Bullshit. Excuse my candor.
Martin Luther invited everyone to THINK for themselves.
Our little Presbyterian village church will be sponsoring a very nice event for the 500 year anniversary of Martin Luther and his 95 thesis pinned to the church door in Wittenburg Germany 500 years ago.
Lor says
Tariq Ramadan = I represent all those who as a habit don’t think for themselves (which is practiced by most in the muslim religion/ideologie.
Martin Luther invited everyone to THINK for themselves.
Our little Presbyterian village church will be sponsoring a very nice event for the 500 year anniversary of Martin Luther and his 95 thesis pinned to the church door in Wittenburg Germany 500 years ago.
David, Thailand says
The righteous Left ain’t gonna like this one bit!
Gary says
“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge,
but fools despise wisdom and instruction.”
Tariq, God is calling. Are you listening…..? Or are you playing the fool?
“But since you refuse to listen when I call and no one pays attention when I stretch out my hand,
since you disregard all my advice and do not accept my rebuke, I in turn will laugh when disaster strikes you”
Michael Copeland says
Martin Luther?
“When I have time, I must put it into German so that every man may see what a foul and shameful book it is.”
Martin Luther
Michael Copeland says
“Book Reviews: The Koran” at Liberty GB:
https://libertygb.org.uk/news/book-reviews-koran
Georg says
Nice to see a loser among losers get his comeuppance! This will put an asterisk next to his stream-of-consciousness loserly ramblings. Idiot.
John Forbes says
This IDEOLOGY seems to want Women as sex objects only & not as equal partners ?
IF this TARIQ RAMADAN is sent down for RAPE it will be a huge blow to the BROTHERHOOD”S credibility but they seem to have been able to get the LEFT to shield them from worse that this !!
BE VERY INTERESTING to see what FALLS out in the NEXT Interview ??
mortimer says
John, the next ‘interview’ will be in the court in Rouen.
maghan says
All he has to say is that in Islam females are just “tilth to be plowed”. What else? Take him Sweden or Germany or Canada or Britain and he will walk free. Yawn. He was just being an honest Muslim–following the sacred words of the Noble Qur’an.
carol says
Those capable of making objective judgments of men (women) must be subdued and silenced and not distract from the important chauvinist messages of the Koran.
Mark says
His writings are the sort of thing that I couldn’t wait for my teenage daughter to grow out of.
Gart says
Tariq really gives Marcus Aurelius a run for his money with those musings…
Benedict says
Tariq Ramadan resembles the mythological Bifrons with his duplicity and doublespeak. That of cause is the hallmark of Muslims, who for some strange reason have strayed into academia. Here is another Muslim professor with this syndrome:
Watch the pleasant face of him https://youtu.be/bgGlDsHNDd4 (3:18) and the surprising transformation of the same professorial face (8:20) when David Horowitz has pointed out to the audience in the videoclip the symbolism of the Yasser Arafat keffiyeh.
Anne Smith says
Never heard of this man or his ramblings but every Muslim that is sent down for rape adds to the West’s knowledge of what they really believe.
Michael Copeland says
“His public speaking, with a catchy Maurice Chevalier accent, is appealing in style, but nonetheless bluff-filled and vacuous. One of his techniques is to invoke admirable and attractive concepts in the abstract and float them before his audience, like beautiful imagined balloons, to gasps of awe and admiration.”
https://libertygb.org.uk/news/tariq-ramadan-respect
Aussie Infidel says
Ramadan argues that Islam’s law against apostasy doesn’t apply to “one who would leave the faith for personal conviction without trying to betray Islam and Muslims thereafter, in any way.” But Allah doesn’t have much respect for apostates (Quran 2:7, 3:56, 3:85, 4:56, 4:89, 4:137, 5:10, 5:80, 5:86, 7:4, 7:36 and many others).
In Quran 7:40, unbelievers are called ‘criminals’. Islam deems it a crime not to submit to Allah. And yet many foolish Westerners – like Pope Francis – believe that Islam should be treated like all other religions, and Muslims be allowed to practise their ‘faith’ in democratic societies. But Islam is the greatest criminal enterprise ever devised by man – much more so than the Mafia. And until our politicians have the guts to ban Islam from Western countries, our citizens will continue to be murdered by its fellonious followers. This the price we will pay, if we foolishly continue treating Islam as ‘just another religion’.
From the Hadith:
“The blood of a Muslim … cannot be shed except [if he] reverts from Islam (becomes an apostate) and leaves the Muslims.” (Bukhari 9:83:17). Which infers that if anyone DOES leave Islam, he MAY be killed.
“Muhammad said: ‘Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him’.” (Bukhari 9:84:57). It is often argued that this Hadith refers only to the formative years of Islam, but it didn’t stop the Islamic State and other Jihadis from using it to justify their murderous attacks.
From the Sharia:
All schools of Islamic jurisprudence (both Sunni and Shia) agree that apostates must be executed. The Reliance of the Traveller says: “When a person who has reached puberty and is sane voluntarily apostatizes from Islam, he deserves to be killed.” (RoT, 08.1). There is no provision for any “sensitivity by those that continue to practice [Islam].” The Sharia is the law – and it is often followed to the letter in many Islamic countries.
Let Ramadan put his claims to the test. And we’ll see if he keeps his head.
mortimer says
Aussie, The Koran says that kafirs are: ritually unclean, vilest beasts, worst of creatures, deaf, dumb, blind, excluded from paradise, destined for hellfire, unintelligent, mentally ill, wrong-doers, donkeys, falsifiers, evil, rejecters, greediest, like dogs, like apes or swine, despised, astray, perverse, worthless, hollow.
The Koran does not explicitly or directly declare that kafirs are ‘criminals’, but it may be inferred from the above comment. Kafirs are intrinsically evil because they reject the prophethood of Mohammed. That is the gist of the Koranic rant and the reason Allah hates kafirs. Allah hates the kufaar, so Muslims should hate them too, and they do not require more than that, because ‘Allah is sufficient’. Kafirs do not have to do more than be a kafir to be hated by Muslims. Look up the doctrine ‘Al Walaa wal Baraa’.
Aussie Infidel says
Hi Mortimer, Being such filthy, vile and dumb creatures, Westerners should be the ones killing Mohammedans; but strangely it’s the other way around. Why should those following the religion of the ‘pure’ engage in such criminal behaviour? But in the perverted world view of Islam, killing kaffirs for Allah is not a crime. It’s virtually mandatory!
Strange too that the doctrine of ‘Al Walaa wal Baraa’ is never mentioned by Muslims in their dawa presentations. It might scare away potential converts. The Reliance of the Traveller states, “And this clarifies the Koranic verses and hadiths about hatred for the sake of Allah and love for the sake of Allah, being unyielding towards the unbelievers, hard against them, and detesting them, while accepting the destiny of Allah Most High insofar as it is the decree of Allah Mighty and Majestic. (RoT, Acceptance and Hatred, w59.2).”
So by law, Muslims are required to hate non-Muslims, as it is Allah’s decree. The doctrine of ‘hating what Allah hates’ permeates all Islamic ideology.
Muslims are such bare faced hypocrites.
It will be interesting to see whether the charges against Ramadan stick.
A persecuted Christian says
I am glad that Henda Ayari filed a complaint. I hope the evidence will be overwhelming. His beliefs led him to commit the rape. The Kuran should be banned
carol says
And let’s not leave out his other character reference: Coercing one by threatening their children.
John S. Obeda says
But fellow Christian: to ban any book is against the good principle of free speech, isn’t it? It would be much better if our leaders would wake up and teach the people of the land what the Qur’an teaches and what Muhammad teaches and did. God help us.
Aussie Infidel says
John S. Obeda, I also believe in free speech – even something as evil as the Quran. We should not ban the book. It should still be available for historians to understand the barbarity of the Islamic era – so it is not repeated again. However, we MUST ban the PRACTICE of Islam, or we will continue to suffer the fate of millions before us.
In over 50 years of campaigning against Islam, I have never heard one rational explanation of why this barbaric creed should be accorded any protection whatever. Islam is unlike most other religions, which incorporate some sort of universal code of ethics toward others. But there is no ‘Golden Rule’ in Islam. Muslims are commanded to respect only their fellow Muslims. All kaffirs are to be despised and hated, and if they impede the progress of Islam, then they should be killed.
Islam is a criminal political ideology masquerading as a religion, which has no place in any civilized society. The only way it will be circumvented, is to ban its practice in all democratic countries, or it will continue to use our laws and freedoms against us until it becomes the majority. Then when they have political control, Muslims will do what they have always done – impose Sharia law, and invite infidels to accept Islam – and if they refuse, execute them.
Appealing to God won’t help us! In the real world, only politicians can do that. However, they need to get their heads out of the sand and do what is necessary before it is too late. Otherwise, within a hundred years, Western civilization will disappear as did the ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman civilizations before us. And we will have ourselves to blame!
A persecuted Christian says
I agree . The book should be available for historians and for people to see for themselves the kuran verses that lead its followers to commit all thes crimes.
My previous comment was an expression of how fed up I am of hearing about crimes committed by followers of this hateful ideology
mortimer says
Tariq Ramadan could have PREVENTED this scandal if he had followed Islamic laws. He should have:
1) used his 4 wives who do not have the right to say no.
2) used his unlimited sex slaves to provide an outlet for his ‘romanticism’ (rape is so romantic…for him).
3) used Sharia law in which a woman’s testimony is half that of a man, thus his accuser would not be believed.
4) used Sharia law to have Henda Araya beheaded as an apostate, thus eliminating a pesky witness.
5) used Sharia to nullify the rape trial, since the crime was not seen in a clear light and from the right angle to be an actual rape.
Yes, using Sharia law, Tariq Ramadan would not only have been able to quell the scandal quickly, but the scandal might never have been known in the first place.
(sarc/off)
Max Publius says
Quotes by Tariq the brood parasite could have come from the satiric Deepak Chopra fake quote generator:
http://wisdomofchopra.com/
Georg says
That’s pretty hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka–VV-_t_U
Kabooooooooooooooooooooooooooom says
KaboooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooM!!!!!!
UNCLE VLADDI says
i.e: “Judge not the crime; only love, love, and love some more the criminals! Whee!”
Damnit! I must be qualified to be an Oxford scholar too LOL!
Valkyrie Ziege says
: “A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-wop-bam-boom!”
– Little Richard.
TheBuffster says
“Referring to Islamic law’s death sentence for apostates, Ramadan argues that it doesn’t apply to ‘one who would leave the faith for personal conviction without trying to betray Islam and Muslims thereafter, in any way.’ He adds: ‘The necessary attitude is therefore a minimal respect for the faith that one leaves and a sensitivity by those that continue to practice it.'”
“…without trying to betray Islam and Muslims thereafter, IN ANY WAY.'” – And we know from the Koran and the ahadith that to criticize Islam in any way is to betray it. That’s one of the death penalty sins.
In other words, if you quietly leave the faith and never tell anyone why – what it is about Islam that turned you off – Ramadan *claims* that you are safe. I say that he claims it, but it seems to me that if you even admit openly that you’ve left it, that’s a criticism and betrayal in itself, because you don’t leave a religion if you find nothing wrong with it. To leave it is to criticize it, eh? I doubt that we’d find a lot of Islamic scholars who would agree with him.
And if you left Islam because you see that a religion that forbids people to criticize it violates an honest mind’s need to think and, yes, to *judge*, according to its honest understanding, then you left it because you judge it to be harmful to the virtue of mental honesty. Ethically, you have a duty to say so, to speak the truth as you see it, to engage in the marketplace of intellectual and moral debate. But Ramadan is essentially saying that you;d better not do that. Keep your conscience to yourself.
So according to him, Islam has a right to kill you for your intellectual and ethical conscientiousness.
And, of course, if one reason you left is because Islam is supremacist and commands you to take part in the subjugation of non-Muslim lands and peoples, you aren’t going to be inclined to keep that to yourself, since you want to live in a place where you can be free to live according to your conscience, to enjoy your one life and to speak your mind without fear of retaliation in the form of beatings, imprisonment, or murder.
I mean, why do people leave Islam, anyway? If you leave for your *conscience’s* sake, then you have to speak for your conscience’s sake. You have to oppose Islam for your conscience’s sake, precisely *because* it’s a religion that will kill you for doing so.
That’s the kind of monster Islam is.
gravenimage says
Sinister, indeed.