This may be an indication that French authorities are taking these allegations seriously, but remember: Ramadan’s first accuser, Henda Ayari, wrote: “I have been silent for several years for fear of reprisals, because by threatening to file a complaint for the rape of which I was a victim, he did not hesitate to threaten me and also tell me that we could ‘take it to my children.’ I was afraid and I kept silent all this time.”
Tariq Ramadan, hailed as a Muslim reformer despite not rejecting any tenet of Qur’anic Islam, is the grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Banna, and has the might of the Brotherhood behind him. He hasn’t struck back yet, but he could, quite hard, and may well do so soon. Meanwhile, these allegations illustrate the fact that Tariq Ramadan believes in the same tenets of Islam that are taught everywhere, sectarian divisions aside, and those include the directive that women have no right to refuse sex. A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “If a husband calls his wife to his bed [i.e. to have sexual relation] and she refuses and causes him to sleep in anger, the angels will curse her till morning” (Bukhari 4.54.460).
Another hadith attributes this to Muhammad: “By him in whose Hand lies my life, a woman can not carry out the right of her Lord, till she carries out the right of her husband. And if he asks her to surrender herself [to him for sexual intercourse] she should not refuse him even if she is on a camel’s saddle” (Ibn Majah 1854).
“Tariq Ramadan has custody extended by French police after Oxford professor accused of rape,” by Romina McGuinness, Express, February 1, 2018:
A UNIVERSITY of Oxford professor remains in custody following his arrest in Paris after two women accused him of rape and sexual harassment.
French police have been granted an extra 48 hours to question Tariq Ramadan without charge.
The Professor of Islamic Studies at the university was arrested on Wednesday during a preliminary investigation after two women accused him of rape and sexual assault last October.
A judicial source confirmed this morning Prof Ramadan’s custody had been extended for a further 48 hours in order to give Paris police more time to question the suspect, after which he should either be freed, formally charged, or made an “assistant witness”, meaning police do not believe he committed an offence.
Prof Ramadan took a leave of absence from Oxford after the allegations came to light but the Swiss professor vehemently denied raping the two women.
He has since filed a complaint for slander against feminist author and former Salafist Henda Ayari, one of his accusers.
Mrs Ayari said the academic raped her in a Paris hotel room in 2012, while his second accuser – a 42-year-old Islam convert whose identity has not been revealed – claimed he raped her in a Hilton hotel in Lyon in 2009.
Mrs Ayari, who waived her right to anonymity last year, first mentioned the rape in a book she published in 2016 – in which Prof Ramadan’s name was not mentioned.
She later told French media the sex scandal involving Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein had encouraged her to “name and shame” her alleged abuser and file an official complaint with police.
The Islam expert took to Facebook to deny the accusations, saying the rape claims were nothing but a “campaign of lies” launched by his “adversaries”….
Following the interview, Prof Ramadan tweeted: “Anonymous allegations have been made against me in Geneva, accusing me of the abuse of students who were minors nearly 25 years ago.
“I categorically deny all these allegations and am today filing a complaint against X for libel.”
StellaSaidSo says
The police need the extra time to question Tariq because Tariq never gives a straight answer.
Champ says
+1
mortimer says
Ramadan goes ding dong. He’s is one of the worst MASTER TAQIYYA-MEISTERS.
Taqiyya is VERBAL JIHAD.
Forcing women to have sex is REWARD for JIHADISTS. Allah DECREES it in the Koran.
J D S says
Lies are part and parcel of the daily lives of people like those in positions as is this man…No telling how many rapes have occurred and those who have been raped are afraid to speak out. Afraid for themselves others in their families. Accused Rapist, if convicted, should be castrated as their punishment not released or imprisoned to be fed clothed,sheltered and medicated at tax payers expense.
Gea says
All Muslims lie,,,and nothing they say can be trusted…they are tuaght to lie (taqiyya) and conceal (kitman) by Mohamed who used lies and concealing as a strategy of cionquests.
Robin says
Ramadan has some obnoxious views and the allegations are of course in line with them. But it is VERY IMPORTANT not to equate allegations (or even police charging) with proof of guilt. There is a huge problem of innocent men being imprisoned for many years on mere allegations from abusive women. In this case it does not look that way. But “innocent until proven guilty” is not just a principle for courts but for life in general, and it should admit of no exceptions even in respect of creeps like Ramadan.
Meanwhile Robert it looks like there may soonish be a vacancy at Oxford University which you could apply for – as a uk citizen I can give you a ref for the home office.
lebel says
Wow, are you sure you’re on the right site? this is jihadwatch, Muslims are guilty! end of story.
For some of the more “enthusiastic” members here you are an enabler of Islam or worse……a SECRET MUSLIM!!
StellaSaidSo says
Nobody on JW has claimed that TR is guilty of sexual assault, lebel. At this stage no charges have been laid. The man is innocent until proven guilty.
What TR is guilty of, however, is a great deal of deception. He is known also for his terrorist connections, his support for sharia, and his rabid anti-Semitism. But you already know this, from earlier threads.
Still waiting on that ‘evidence’ of a ‘Jewish conspiracy’ against TR, lebel.
eduardo odraude says
lebel, enjoy:
Muhammad said, “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.”
He is quoted thus in the most authoritative hadith collection, Sahih al-Bukhari, Book 84, Hadith 57. See muflihun.com/bukhari/84/57
Various other authoritative hadiths attest that Muhammad called for death to those who leave Islam. That’s why even today all the schools of Islamic law prescribe death for apostasy from Islam. See the David Wood video on this subject:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju3HsWLyVlQ
Westman says
I’ll go with Stella on this one. However, he did not, to my knowledge, refute that he had “consensual” relations with women which would have the same effect of lost status with Muslims.
What do you know and think Lebel?
lebel says
Hi Westman, thanks for your question. There appears to be several camps. Firstly most of this supporters are European Muslim followed by sub-saharan Muslims. Within these groups we have people who believe this is orchestrated and thus are rather oblivious to evidence, we also have a minority of supporters who are somehow willing to overlook the massive issue of adultery but do not accept the rape charges. We then have a sizeable portion (including many women) who have thrown him under the bus given the evidence of sexual relations. A minority are leaning towards believing the rape allegations. So to answer your question he has lost quite a bit of his status. If you want to get a feel for what some Muslims think on this issue you can go to Bladi.net. There is a forum (in french) with lots of discussions on Tariq Ramadan.
StellaSaidSo says
@ lebel
‘Orchestrated’? By whom?
Still waiting to see evidence of the ‘Jewish conspiracy’ against TR that you alleged earlier.
Buraq says
@ lebel
‘Innocent until proven guilty’ is a legal technicality of secular law. According to Islamic law – Shariah – Tariq has committed no crime at all! That’s the problem – Islam and its baggage of anachronistic ideology. Islam is totally out of place in the 21st Century.
By the way, Hitler never appeared in a court of law. Should we then assume he was innocent of any crime? Same goes for Tariq. You’re a clown lebel!
Georg says
After thinking about it I have determined he is, in fact, guilty.
mortimer says
Robin, the UK government will gets its head on straight when its politicians STOP BEING BRIBED by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Jayell says
Someone else on this site told me that Ramadan was fired from Oxford University in November. So what’s the situation?
StellaSaidSo says
Tariq Ramadan is officially ‘on leave’ from Oxford University. This is probably a polite way of saying that he has been fired, as funding for his professorship at Oxford came from Qatar. Ramadan was denied entry to Qatar when the scandal broke.
DHazard says
As expected feminists/leftists/communists/etc. are NOT rallying around Ramadan’s accusers because they do not want to be seen as attacking Muslims. In their victim hierarchy Muslim males are just below non-white/non-christian females. Non-white, non-straight females would be at the top, then women in general. Beneath that are the non-white/non-christian men. There are now many new sub-levels based on gender and sexual identity. For instance, if Tariq Ramadan was gay then he would be a notch higher than he is.
Feminists do not treat accusations of rape against non-white, non-christian males the same as they do for other rapes. The silently agreed upon strategy for such accusations is to ignore them. Why? Because the elevated status of being Muslim places all accusations against them in their “no-go zone”. If someone breaches that rule in public they are reflexively labeled as a “far right extremist”, “nazi” or “white supremacist”. However, since this is a rape charge and not an accusation of terrorism then the only option is to remain silent.
It’s a quandary, they don’t want to be seen as endorsing rape by their silence, but they also don’t want to be seen as racist (just forget the fact that Islam isn’t a race). So women attacked by Muslims are left to hang, and sometimes attacked by the same people who endorse “#Metoo”.
StellaSaidSo says
Good points, DHazard.
infidel says
Excellent post… has completely exposed the hypocrisy of the feminists… even in India.. Hindu feminists behave in the same way and Hindu heterosexual men rank the lowest in their eyes,,
Lydia Church says
You cannot ‘reform’ a false and satanic religion!
God will do away with it later.
Lydia Church says
That should read:
You cannot reform the false and satanic religion of islam,
but God will do away with it later… the God of Biblical Christianity!
: D
Savvy Kafir says
If the plan is to wait for God to take care of the Islam problem, I think we’re in big trouble.
God has had 1,400 years to do that. Doesn’t seem to be in any hurry.
Maybe a better plan is to just deal with it ourselves.
StellaSaidSo says
I agree, Savvy Kaffir.
The Crusaders did not rely on prayer alone.
Jayell says
There’s a saying, ‘God protects those who protect themselves’. Which might be the same as saying ‘God insures those who insure themselves’. So what would be the point of paying out for one of God’s insurance policies?
mortimer says
Lydia, what is ‘satanic’ may be perhaps be reformed, but ISLAM cannot be reformed because that door was closed in Islam at the very start when it burst like tsunami of crime upon the unsuspecting ancient world.
Peter Frohwein says
Agreed. Islam cannot be reformed.
Georg says
This whole situation speaks on many levels to what it is counterjihadists have been warning about.
“Tariq Ramadan, hailed as a Muslim reformer despite not rejecting any tenet of Qur’anic Islam…”
LOL! Nice CV for a “reformer.” I’ll bet he still collects his paychecks anyway.
“…the grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Banna”
Not to worry: The Muslim Brotherhood has nothing to do with Islam.
“…Muhammad saying: “If a husband calls his wife to his bed [i.e. to have sexual relation] and she refuses and causes him to sleep in anger, the angels will curse her till morning” (Bukhari 4.54.460).”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVCtkzIXYzQ
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Unrelated:
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/02/01/duckduckgo-ceo-google-and-facebook-are-watching-our-every-move-online-its-time-to-make-them-stop/
Wakeup says
Attitudes are slowly changing but by God it is slow. Central to thewhole problem is our oil dependency so maybe people like Elon Musk with his electric cars are part of the answer who knows what motivates them.
Lavéritétriomphera says
He has been brought to the Department of Public Prosecutions, for investigation https://actu.orange.fr/france/accusations-de-viols-tariq-ramadan-defere-en-vue-d-une-mise-en-examen-CNT000000Xer3h.html.
Peter Frohwein says
Is France now a third world “sh*thole ? Trump was spot on.
Lavéritétriomphera says
It is not the first time we are invaded, we have experienced war often.
Thank you Robert Spencer I translate your articles for a French site.
lebel says
Tu n’as pas honte? accepter qu’on traite ton pays de trous a merde? C’est le pays qui reçoit le plus de touristes au monde.
Lavéritétriomphera says
@Lebel,
Je ne réponds pas des gens qui insultent en permanence mon pays en nous traitant de lâches. Je suis le fils d’un ancien résistant et l’insulte ne déshonore que son auteur (Confucius).
Nous sommes une vielle nation et mon pays en a vu d’autres.
Les arabes nous ont envahi à plusieurs reprises et certains se sont installés en adoptant notre religion : le christianisme romain. Beaucoup de français du sud sont leurs descendants.
Actuellement nous sommes un pays laïque, et il est hors de question que ceux qui s’écrasent cinq fois par jour devant une divinité imposent leurs convictions aux autres.
J’ai une correspondante aux États-Unis et j’aime votre pays.
Have a wonderful day.
StellaSaidSo says
Merci! C’est vrai! The truth will win!
Mike says
Is Tariq Ramadan realy an Oxford University professor ? I thought he was only a guest lecturer .
Anyway ,he didn’t commit rape that is one thing sure because there in no rape in Islam. Islam cholars always said it .
Mahendra Singh says
What I do not understand why it takes a horde of self styled “scholars” to interpret a
book written 1500 years ago by a lunatic, rapist and murderer?
Just tell him to go back to his own sh**hole and spill his smelly product from there.
The Swiss hardly need him.