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Hugh Fitzgerald: Tariq Ramadan Could Face Charges in the U.S.

Feb 21, 2018 3:14 pm By Hugh Fitzgerald

For Tariq Ramadan, the news gets worse and worse. First, there were the charges against him in France, where two Muslim women, Henda Ayari and a woman known only by an alias, “Christelle,” both accused him of extreme sexual violence and rape. He now sits in a French prison, waiting trial, his sudden claim about having multiple sclerosis having been deemed insufficient to allow him to await trial without being held in custody. And there are two more Muslim women in Paris who have made claims against him but not yet come forward publicly, for fear of what his followers might do. It is not an idle threat. Henda Ayari, who was the first to accuse Ramadan, has received thousands of death threats from Ramadan’s most fanatical supporters, and is now under 24-hour guard — possibly for years to come.

After France, new accusations against him appeared in the Journal de Geneve, in Switzerland, where four women claimed that when they were his pupils at a high school in Geneva, and between the ages of 14 and 18, he had tried to sexually molest them, and in all but one case succeeded. No doubt the Swiss authorities are still investigating these accusations, and will wait their turn to charge him, as they surely will, once the judges in Paris have reached their decision.

And now comes the latest news: while the peripatetic lecturer was in the United States, spreading his message of “moderation” from coast to gullible coast, and being lionized as a great Muslim intellectual, delivering his Deep Thoughts on Islamic morality and ethics, he also managed to find the time to dally, in his own fashion, with at least one Muslim victim, who now has found a brave Muslim lawyer, Rabia Chaudry, to help her, and though the charges have not yet been yet made public, they surely have to do with sexual violence, possibly including rape.

Rape-accused Muslim academic Tariq Ramadan could now face charges in the United States after American attorney Rabia Chaudry said she had referred an alleged victim to a federal prosecutor this week.

Ramadan is currently being held in a French prison since February 2 on charges that he raped two women in Paris and Lyon.

Chaudry confirmed to Al Arabiya English that she had referred “a Muslim victim” to the prosecutor, declining to comment on the matter further or explaining exactly what the US victim had accused Ramadan of.”

The attorney had written in a Facebook post, however, that she was “guessing there will be more [victims]” to come forward.”

Chaudry is clearly not going to be intimidated by threats from Ramadan’s supporters. She briskly dismisses the claims of his supporters, stating that “this is not a vast international conspiracy” (i.e., a “Zionist plot,” or a “plot by islamophobes.”

And she pithily explains how unlikely it is that Ramadan could be wrongfully convicted, noting the similarity of the charges against him, by at least nine women, in three different countries, with possibly more to follow: “This is also not how people are wrongfully convicted. Wrongfully convicted people are not accused of multiple similar crimes in different countries. In fact, they usually have completely clean records other than one accusation that ends up being false.”

Ramadan has been imprisoned at the Fleury-Mérogis prison, south of Paris, as authorities investigate the rape charges. He could be held in long-term custody while the probe continues.

The Swiss academic, who is a grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Banna, found fame after writing numerous books on Islam and the integration of Muslims in Europe.

He traveled frequently to give talks around the world and was also a professor of contemporary Islamic studies at the University of Oxford.

Commenting on the French judicial proceedings, Chaudry wrote:

“I don’t know much about the French legal system other than it seems to have a lower evidentiary threshold than the US. The standard is not beyond a reasonable doubt. The standard is an intimate  conviction, i.e. jurors’ impressions based on the evidence [sic]. I also don’t know if that[sic] there is a plea process but if there is one it might be better for him than a trial in which the witnesses confront him and testify – imagine a jury reacting to that.”

“I know this is hard on our community, but it does not serve us to bury our heads in the sand. He will likely serve time in prison, and it will likely be a just result,” she added.

A Muslim Daniella, come to judgment. She’s a brave woman.

Ramadan and his lawyers and followers have tried everything. They tried to silence Henda Ayari with death threats. She now has 24-hour security. They tried to depict her as a publicity hound, intent on accusing Ramadan in order to sell more copies of her book (I Chose Freedom), in which she claims Tariq Ramadan appears as the monstrous character “Zoubeyr.” Nobody seems to have bought this, and for good reason. Who in their right mind would seek publicity if it meant thousands of death threats and the need for round-the-clock security? His lawyers have savaged “Christelle,” trying without success to punch holes in her testimony, while his followers suggest that she and Ayari might be part of a plot  against Ramadan. But the absurd charge of a “Zionist plot” never did gain traction, given all the evidence against him, and given, too, that Ramadan’s accusers in France were Muslims (as is his latest accuser, in the United States).

Finally, the last desperate attempt to spring Ramadan — the sudden claim of multiple sclerosis, an illness never before mentioned by Ramadan, which his lawyers insisted was “not compatible” with imprisonment — led the French court to order a thorough medical examination, and the doctors who conducted that examination concluded that his state of health was indeed “compatible with his continued remaining in prison.” Ramadan remains in prison, until his trial — it could be months, even as much as a year, away.

And meanwhile, the wheels of justice elsewhere  — in Switzerland, and then, quite possibly, in the United States and (do you doubt it?) in the United Kingdom too (how many Oxford girls were brought to bed after having been smitten by the smoldering looks of the Grand Panjandrum of Islamic Thought?) — grind exceeding slow, but, alas for Tariq Ramadan, “the great Muslim intellectual” of hallmark-card sentiments and ithyphallic impulses, they do grind.

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  1. Tjhawk says

    Feb 21, 2018 at 3:22 pm

    I am really enjoying the trials and tribulations of Tariq Ramadan.

    My better self is telling me that maybe I shouldn’t be enjoying this quite so much.

    My real self is enjoying the hell out of this.

    • RichardL says

      Feb 22, 2018 at 12:47 am

      Same here!

      • Lydia Church says

        Feb 22, 2018 at 1:14 am

        Just another day on JW:

        Posted article: Are we diverse enough yet? They have just declared “International Jihad Day” in the UK! People are supposed to engage in a multicultural experience of solidarity and cross-cultural empathy, identification, and celebration of and understanding for the cultural context of jihad! This is not a joke! See article below….(evidence provided).

        Comments:

        mortimer says – “This is atrocious! What will it come to before people do something!”

        gravenimage replies – “+1 ! By the time people figure out what has happened, it will be too late!”

        StellaSaidSo says – “When will they have a day for celebrating ‘counter-jihad’?”

        CRUSADER says – “Time is up! See video.”

        Jay Boo says – “Then, let’s do something! Like a protest at least!”

        LeftisrunningCanada says – “It has come to this slowly, like the frog in the boiling water who did not jump out. They are already conditioned and no one will speak out I’m afraid.”

        ibrahim itace muhammed says – “The west is all evil! They must all die! All these people are filthy pigs! They are not worth the air they breathe and are a waste of space! They don’t believe like we do in islam so they are not human and don’t deserve to live, they all need to be exterminated like rats! One day this will come! All of you will DIE! DIE! DIE!
        (evil laughter erupts…)”

        infidel says – “What rot! Such crap! Just hit that detonation button on your explosives belt! This just shows how evil and satanic your soul is! Go on, it just proves our point about all of you muslim terrorists!”

        Lydia Church says – “Christianity is the one true religion. islam is a false religion. That is what it boils down to at the end of the day. Turn to Jesus, and be loyal to Him, no matter what! Stand up for truth! They will never have an ‘international victim of jihad’ day, because that’s not in their scripted blueprint for global takeover, so we have to be the voice of the victims!”

        *Fictional play for a little comic relief late in the evening…

    • Benedict says

      Feb 22, 2018 at 5:54 am

      We can glee with spite over Ramadan’s fate, inchallah, but at the end of the day Ramadan will have his 72 virgins and be rewarded for his forked tongue and his unspeakable profundities together with his ditto prophet in the hereafter.

    • Mamo says

      Feb 22, 2018 at 7:52 am

      You know what president Tramp harassed many women,but he is a billionaire.

      • Benedict says

        Feb 22, 2018 at 8:05 am

        Yes, but mr. T. is not a Muslim. If you are a Muslim your should postpone your gratification and wait with your sexual harassments till you arrive at the heavenly brothel.

  2. Hugh Fitzgerald says

    Feb 21, 2018 at 3:26 pm

    I can’t wait for the Oxford delegation to make itself heard.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 21, 2018 at 5:03 pm

      You are probably correct, Hugh–I cn’t imagine why Ramadan would not have behaved the same way in England.

      • mortimer says

        Feb 21, 2018 at 6:11 pm

        GI, the British are soft on Muslim rapists as we have seen. Any British victims of Ramadan no doubt thought it wouldn’t be worth their emotional turmoil to see him handed little or no punishment. Heck, Oxford University immediately went to bat for Ramadan, even though a white professor who was accused would have been put on leave until the rape case was determined.

        • StellaSaidSo says

          Feb 21, 2018 at 6:45 pm

          ‘…even though a white professor who was accused would have been put on leave…’

          Tariq Ramadan was ‘put on leave’ from Oxford, Mortimer. And Qatar pulled the funding for his position. Even if he were found not guilty of the charges against him, he won’t be returning to Oxford.

        • mortimer says

          Feb 21, 2018 at 10:46 pm

          Dear Stella, Robert Spencer wrote about the opening round when Oxford initially defended him, but I won’t look it up. At first Oxford said he was ‘NEEDED’ by his students and they allowed him to continue until there were more charges. Only then did they take action.

        • StellaSaidSo says

          Feb 21, 2018 at 11:12 pm

          I was not defending Oxford, Mortimer. I simply stated, for the benefit of JW readers who may not be as well-informed about this case as you or I, that TR was ‘put on leave’ from Oxford, a fact which you had not mentioned.

        • Peter says

          Feb 22, 2018 at 12:20 pm

          Move aside …..
          Stella comin’ through

  3. Diane Harvey says

    Feb 21, 2018 at 3:40 pm

    “Ramadan has been imprisoned at the Fleury-Mérogis prison, south of Paris”

    Perpignan hasn’t been closed. Put this Muslim there.

    https://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/IMPRISONED-IN-PERPIGNAN-Catch-Me-If-You-Can

    • Stanton Lore says

      Feb 22, 2018 at 8:15 am

      Yes. A fitting “house arrest” for him. A cell from the middle ages!

  4. MR up-side-down says

    Feb 21, 2018 at 3:42 pm

    Let the games begin hope it goes to open court.

  5. Ren says

    Feb 21, 2018 at 3:47 pm

    I heard Tariq Ramadan advocating high moral values when speaking on islam. I would have never guessed he was a hypocrite.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Feb 21, 2018 at 4:27 pm

      “Tell the infidels in public we respect your laws and your constitutions, which we Muslims believe that these are as worthless as the paper they are written on.”

      https://libertygb.org.uk/news/tariq-ramadan-respect

      • lebel says

        Feb 22, 2018 at 5:05 am

        Can we find the audio on this? this seems highly unlikely.

        ps sorry, I know asking for evidence is a capital offense when discussing the evils of Islam

        • Michael Copeland says

          Feb 22, 2018 at 10:22 am

          audio is on a video filmed on a telephone, uploaded some years ago, of a talk Ramadan gave to a muslim audience.

          “Tarek Ramadan visited the Islamic Center in Bilelefeld, Germany (May 21, 2008) and gave a speech. Before he began his speech, he asked if there were any journalists in audience. As the answer was negative, he said, “OK, now I feel free to say what I really want.” Ramadan is well-known for telling his infidel audience something and his Muslim audience another thing.

          Ramadan said, “My brothers and sisters, we must exploit the so-called democracy and freedom of speech here in the West to reach our goals. Our Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, and the Koran teach us that we must use every conceivable means and opportunity to defeat the enemies of Allah. Tell the infidels in public, we respect your laws and your constitutions, which we Muslims believe that these are as worthless as the paper they are written on. The only law we must respect and apply is the Shari’s.”
          (http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/8066)

          text at http://4freedoms.com/group/infiltration/forum/topics/tariq-ramadan-s-context-interpretation-gimmick

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 21, 2018 at 5:06 pm

      He isn’t really a hypocrite. Muslims abusing and raping either Infidels or Muslim women considered “loose” is not prohibited in Islam. The very fact that these Musimahs had contact with an unrelated male made them fair game as Islam sees it.

    • mortimer says

      Feb 21, 2018 at 6:16 pm

      Ren, you do not know that Islam NORMATIVELY has TWO FACES. A Muslim planning ‘PREACHING TOURS’ for Pakistani clerics visiting the UK found out that most of the ISLAMIC PREACHERS popular in Pakistan refused to preach IN THE EVENING? Why? That is when these man liked to watch PORN on the INTERNET. Pakistan has the highest used of PORN IN THE WORLD. Egypt also has a very HIGH USAGE OF PORN. Check it on googlestatistics.

      • Ren says

        Feb 21, 2018 at 11:12 pm

        Allah is doomed. Viva Muhammad 😀

  6. 11B40 says

    Feb 21, 2018 at 3:49 pm

    Greetings:

    And how nice a touch is that “Christelle” alias, as in Christ + elle.

  7. livingengine says

    Feb 21, 2018 at 4:31 pm

    Rabia Chaudry works for CAIR as Media Relations Director
    https://www.cair.com/press-center/press-releases/2375-cair-ct-banquet-a-success.html

  8. Niemoller says

    Feb 21, 2018 at 4:38 pm

    Islam is just a rape gang at the core of a lot of mumbo jumbo.

    Really, that’s all it is–Muhammad’s rationale for killing, stealing and especially raping. To say the claptrap in the Quran is the word of God (or Allah, the Arabic translation of God) is a deep insult to God. To kill in the name of God, as Muslim jihadists do daily, is the worse blasphemy one can do to God.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 21, 2018 at 5:13 pm

      +1

  9. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Feb 21, 2018 at 4:58 pm

    It would be a happy thing if somehow Spencer were brought in as a negative character witness to testify that Tariq is a liar, fraud and charlatan, characteristics that would work well to lure a young woman into as situation set up to do a sexual assault or even rape. If Spencer’s busy, have Fitzgerald appear on the stand to broadcast the truth from coast to gullible coast.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 21, 2018 at 5:17 pm

      True, APF–but this just speaks to his general character, of lack of same. The DAs will probably have enough evidence as it is.

  10. gravenimage says

    Feb 21, 2018 at 5:00 pm

    Hugh Fitzgerald: Tariq Ramadan Could Face Charges in the U.S.
    …………………….

    So now it looks as though he may have molested women and girls in Switzerland and the US as well as in France. What an exemplary Muslim.

    • Baucent says

      Feb 22, 2018 at 2:59 am

      He’s following in the footsteps of his prophet, the “ideal man.” His behaviour is to be expected.

  11. Grrrrrrr.... says

    Feb 21, 2018 at 5:59 pm

    I hope The Great Muslim Thinker get locked up for a looooooong time in a tough US prison and Sheriff Buford T. Justice will teach him some manners.
    Like in this video on youtube; Chain Gang of Arizona – The Hardest Prison – Geographic History
    This is where he belongs.

  12. Georg says

    Feb 21, 2018 at 6:22 pm

    “I know this is hard on our community…”

    It’s “hard on [their] community” when a rapist is prosecuted and punished. What a community.

    Glad I was born into a community where prosecuting rapists is seen as a good thing.

    • dsinc says

      Feb 21, 2018 at 6:43 pm

      Good point Georg, It’s hard on their community only because he got caught.

    • Carol (the 1st) says

      Feb 22, 2018 at 10:30 pm

      Yup, that there persecution and lack of proper understanding follows them doggedly wherever they go!

  13. Phil Copson says

    Feb 21, 2018 at 9:03 pm

    “Multiple sclerosis” – he says ?

    “Multiple neuroses” would be closer to the mark – the desire to succeed in the West whilst simultan-eously working to bring about it’s downfall – to impress young women whilst actually despising them – and to conceal his rage and violence by feigning moderation and peace, must eventually send even the most practised dissembler out to lunch….

  14. infidel says

    Feb 21, 2018 at 10:51 pm

    This Ramadan should be beaten with boots and chappals in public..

  15. infidel says

    Feb 22, 2018 at 3:37 am

    Another good news coming out of India is that the TURD of a Canadian PM, who is currently on a visit to India, has been royally snubbed by the Indian Govt for having questionable people in his dhimmi cabinet that support separatists. But THE TURD took his time to meet India’s Muslim actor from Bollywood.. Shahrukh Khan.. A KNOWN PAKI SUPPORTER….

    • Carol (the 1st) says

      Feb 22, 2018 at 11:07 pm

      @infidel…Good old Justin and his carefree, “sunny, vacationing ways”. High Commissioner to Canada, Nadir Patel, invited a known terrorist, Jaspal Atwal, to a dinner in honour of Trudeau’s visit to India. They say Atwel has been active in Canadian politics in recent years. After a fuss the invitation was rescinded – Atwal was a Sikh separatist who attempted to kill Punjab Minister Sidhu in Vancouver in 1979. Ezra Levant has a petition for Canadians to apologize to India on behalf of our golden boy.

      http://www.therebel.media/were-sorry-india?recruiter_id=738244

      http://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/jaspal-atwal-convicted-khalistani-terrorist-no-longer-in-mha-blacklist-118022200681_1.html

  16. dumbledoresarmy says

    Feb 22, 2018 at 4:20 am

    I wonders, yes I wonders, what might be discovered if Fethullah Gulen were subjected to *thorough* scrutiny.

  17. Richard Courtemanche says

    Feb 22, 2018 at 10:23 am

    The professor at Oxford, he was! What did his students waste the high tuitions on? They ought to be de-indoctrinated and the U refund them.

  18. Politicianophobia says

    Feb 22, 2018 at 10:56 am

    Off topic–Justine Trudeau, the biggest, Canadian, embarrassment ever and Iqra Khalid, Shari’ah girl, are supporters of Islam and MUST not be re-elected.

  19. Lebel says

    Feb 22, 2018 at 11:20 am

    @Michael Copeland

    There is no audio that I could find, the two links reference one another but that’s it. There are plenty of videos of Tariq Ramadan in front of Muslim audiences. This appears to be made up. Believe me if it was real it would be a major piece of evidence and his enemies (like Caroline Fourest) would have highlighted it.

  20. Troybeam says

    Feb 23, 2018 at 9:32 am

    This man was banned from the United States that is until Hillary Clinton opened the door for him to return, no telling what other garbage she allowed to re-enter our nation.

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