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“Professor” Tariq Ramadan: A “Towering Intellect” Who Faked His Credentials

Mar 14, 2018 10:12 am By Hugh Fitzgerald

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 magazine Le Point and Swiss magazine Le Temps, as well as Dutch outlet TPO, Ramadan presented himself as Professor of Philosophy and Islamic Studies at the University of Fribourg when he was not, in fact, in possession of these titles.

On November 13, 2003, on the French TV program 100 minutes pour convaincre, on which political figures and journalists would discuss and debate their perspectives on current events and social issues, host Olivier Mazerolle presented Ramadan as Professor of ‘Islamic studies at the University of Geneva and Philosophy at the University of Fribourg’ [information which could only have come from Ramadan himself].

Ramadan went on to publish an article in Le Monde on the theme he had proposed previously on the show – a call for a moratorium on the application of sharia law in the Muslim world – signing it as Professor of Philosophy and Islamic Studies at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). [Note that Ramadan promoted himself to being  a Professor not just of Philosophy, but of Islamic Studies as well, at Fribourg] Did he wish to lend weight and authority to his document? At the time of his signing the article,  Le Point reports, Ramadan did not hold these credentials, as evinced by the University’s response to a demand for an explanation by Xavier Ganioz, Vice-President of the Socialist Party of Fribourg, as to how Ramadan came to be associated with it.

The rector of the university has since confirmed that Ramadan, indeed, was neither professor nor assistant at the institution – he would offer one-hour lectures on Islam, once a week. It is now being reported also that five female students filed a complaint of sexual assault against him after the single course. [N.B. These five students are not to be confused with the four Swiss high school students, all underage when Ramadan, their teacher at the time, attempted to sexually assault them] The rector added that the university was not responsible for the academic titles attributed to Ramadan after he left in 2004. In 2005, however, Ramadan would continue to present himself in Le Monde as professor. This, despite the fact that his alleged doctorate studies were fraught with controversy.

An Arab world specialist and former dean in the Faculty of Languages at the University of Geneva, Charles Genequand, had rejected Ramadan’s thesis on Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Ramadan’s grandfather, whom Ramadan tried to make out as a sort of ‘Muslim Gandhi’. The dean had few charitable words for his former student, calling him a ‘pseudo-intellectual’ and a ‘vain opportunist’ whose ideas on Islam were ‘backwards.’”

According to a source, Genequand explained that Ramadan even refused to make corrections to his thesis, going so far as to harass and threaten the university in the case he was not awarded his doctorate. Professor Emeritus at the New Sorbonne University, Ali Merad, recalled that Ramadan threatened him with malicious complaints if he did not get his doctorate, and the academic has described how he had never seen a student behave that way in 40 years”.…

Ahmed Benani, political scientist and anthropologist at the University of Lausanne claims Tariq Ramadan to be little more than a ‘television star’, asking, ‘Where is his academic body of work? Not one researcher…has ever taken him seriously”. His opinions have brought the wrath of Ramadan’s followers against him, and Benani claims that even three words of opposition to Ramadan are liable to incur online hate. Political scientist, sociologist, and Islamic and Arab world specialist Gilles Kepel has expressed a similarly less than favourable opinion of Ramadan, whom he considers neither an academic nor a colleague….

A wicked, depraved, violent sexual criminal, a cruel rapist who delighted in his own cruelty and in the humiliating acts he forced so many women to engage in, a blackmailer, who even threatened to harm the children of one of his victims — yes, that’s part of the Tariq Ramadan story.

Let’s not overlook Tariq Ramadan’s other side, as the quiet scholar and deep thinker, that has led to so many accolades as “Europe’s greatest Muslim scholar,” “Europe’s foremost Muslim intellectual,”  “the great Muslim thinker,” “this prominent theologian,” “this eminent Oxford professor,” “one of the world’s leading Islamic thinkers,” this “profound scholar,” this “great reformer of Islam,” this “towering intellect.”

No, let’s keep that praise in mind as we go over again — or as some would rebarbatively say, “try to process” — what we’ve just learned about our soi-disant scholar and thinker, Tariq Ramadan.

To recapitulate:

Until now, we did not know that he had threatened professors who wanted to reject his doctoral thesis, written about his grandfather Hassan al-Banna, whom Ramadan had “tried to make out as a sort of Muslim Gandhi.” Nor did we know that Ramadan not only refused to make corrections to his thesis, but “harassed and threatened the university in case he was not awarded his doctorate.” Professor Charles Genequand, an Arab world specialist and former dean in the Faculty of Languages at the University of Geneva, who had first rejected Ramadan’s thesis, calls his former student a “pseudo-intellectual” and a “vain opportunist” whose ideas on Islam were “backwards.” That is borne out by his pseudo-profundities on Twitter.

Another professor, Ali Merad, recalled that Ramadan similarly threatened him with “malicious complaints” if he did not get his doctorate. Merad said that he had never seen a student behave that way in 40 years. Still another professor, Ahmad Benani, like Merad a Muslim, regarded Ramadan merely as a “television star,” asking “Where is his academic body of work? Not one researcher…has ever taken him seriously.”

There may be something, somewhere, about Tariq Ramadan that does not fill one with contempt, disgust, and rage. But I have yet to find it. Perhaps you will have better luck.

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  1. RichardL says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 10:24 am

    I am a professor of philosophy and Ramadan’s academic credentials are a joke. Academics today are measured by how many papers they publish is A journals. Only when you have enough journal papers are your books taken into consideration. Ramadan has no A journal paper and only very few papers in refereed journals. Interestingly enough he published a paper in a C journal how great Turkey was.

    Ramadan is a terrorist supporter and of course he uses terror to get what he wants. I have seen top universities give people such as Ramadan doctorates simply to get rid of them.

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Mar 14, 2018 at 11:04 am

      Indeed, there has been much concern expressed in European academic and intellectual circles over the years regarding the quality of Ramadan’s credentials, considered to be slender at best. His lack of representation in reputable journals, his talent for self-promotion, and proven dishonesty – along with his Islamist sympathies – have been widely noted, and most of his career as a ‘professor’ has been outside continental Europe. Positions at the University of Leiden, and at Erasmus College, Rotterdam, ended badly for him. To my knowledge, Ramadan has never been employed by a French university, despite being a native French speaker (he was born in Switzerland) and being based in France. As I have commented previously, on several JW threads, had it not been for the Qatari-funded position at Oxford, Brother Tariq might well have been obliged to return to teaching in an obscure high school in Switzerland.

      • RichardL says

        Mar 14, 2018 at 11:10 am

        I think Swiss high schools are lit bit more particular when it comes to teachers sexually exploiting pupils than European universities. He wouldn’t have lasted long. Sex between students and professors is not even frowned upon at most European universities. Let’s hope he gets prison time: he will have male friends with even looser morals taking very good care of him.

        • StellaSaidSo says

          Mar 14, 2018 at 11:24 am

          Indeed, they would be more particular now, given the amount of publicity the case has attracted. But Ramadan took up the position at Oxford in 2009, long before his sexual predations were a matter of public knowledge.

      • NotInPatagonia says

        Mar 15, 2018 at 7:33 am

        Tariq The Obscure.

        As Tariq beheld for the first time the great prospect of Oxford rise above the horizon at the end of a long road, he remembered the strange man who spoke to him on a country road so long ago. The man said he would teach Tariq how to use English prepositions at the cost of a penny for each preposition. After years of of great mental effort and the expenditure of many pennies, the still strange man pointed Tariq in the direction of Oxford and said that he should go there because there he was destined to be in for it.

    • Lavéritétriomphera says

      Mar 15, 2018 at 12:09 pm

      He says he is a graduate of the prestigious al-Azhar University in Cairo. However, a few years ago, he declared that he did not graduate in Egypt http://www.lepoint.fr/societe/tariq-ramadan-des-etudes-en-egypte-a-geometrie-variable-15-03-2018-2202572_23.php.

  2. elee says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 10:28 am

    “his grandfather Hasan al-Bana”……well this is new but not surprising knowledge…….Can Naziism be inherited, like “Palesinian-ness”? READ UP AND WAKE UP.

    • Mike Larkin says

      Mar 14, 2018 at 6:56 pm

      Oh, it’s not new, it has been the basis of his entire faux academic career.

      The kudos of having the grand son of the founder of MB and all that.

  3. Sentinel says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 10:30 am

    Oxford University fell for his claims.

    I wonder if they’ll hire me as a world renowned astro-physicist and gorilla wrestler ?

    I believe he is on what they term a ‘leave of absence’. Little wonder that UK universities are being sued for providing junk degree courses.

    • RichardL says

      Mar 14, 2018 at 10:55 am

      didn’t Qatar pay for his professorship? Georgetown University happily propagates islamism because they are paid by an islamic regime. And in Oxford one finds people who have other opinions whereas in Georgetown they only hire people who toe the party line when it comes to islam and social justice.

      • StellaSaidSo says

        Mar 14, 2018 at 11:08 am

        Yes, the Oxford gig was funded by Qatar. They pulled the rug as soon as the first rape accusation came to light, and barred him from entry to the country (he is persona non grata in at least 8 Islamic countries). Georgetown University is heavily funded by Saudi Arabia, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal being a particularly generous donor.

        • Sentinel says

          Mar 14, 2018 at 11:00 pm

          Curiously his Oxford University web page states quite clearly that “Tariq Ramadan is H.H. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies” which is very dubious. since that is the name of the ex Emir of Qatar and would make him a member of the Qatar ‘royal’ family.

          What it lacks in accuracy it appears to make up for in comic content and this appears on a supposedly top British academic website ? Heaven help us all.

        • StellaSaidSo says

          Mar 15, 2018 at 1:00 am

          @ Sentinel

          The title ‘H.H. Sheikh Hamid bin Khalifa…’ refers to the professorship, not the professor – ie the position, not the person occupying the position.

    • martin says

      Mar 16, 2018 at 2:47 am

      Hi, I am dean of recruiting at oxford, we would like to be the first in appointing someone that is both a world renowned astro-physicist and gorilla wrestler.

      We can afford you as we get lots of arab funding for bending over to islam.

  4. Politicianophobia says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 10:51 am

    Oh well, keep calm and carry on until all the British people are gone.

    • mortimer says

      Mar 14, 2018 at 11:29 am

      OXFORD UNIVERSITY BESMIRCHED ITS REPUTATION BY ENDORSING THIS EGREGIOUS FRAUD!

      Shame on Oxford for not being more SCHOLARLY.

      • LeftisruiningCanada says

        Mar 14, 2018 at 2:22 pm

        Indeed. Checking sources is about the most basic scholarly practice there can be.

        Funny how even that tends to get forgotten as soon as islam enters the picture.

      • StellaSaidSo says

        Mar 14, 2018 at 9:57 pm

        ‘Shame on Oxford for not being more scholarly.’

        Absolutely. If the European universities could conduct ‘background checks’, why could prestigious institutions like Oxford and Notre Dame not do the same?

        The answer lies in the leftist domination of the academy in the US and UK, and the buckets of money pouring in from oil-rich Arab states to fund ‘schools’ of ‘Islamic Studies’.

        Few of the ‘accolades’ quoted in the article originate in Europe. If they weren’t aware before 2003 of Tariq Ramadan’s true position in relation to Islam, the Sarkozy interview was a wake up call. Since then, the French have not been under any illusions about Ramadan (as I have noted often on a series of JW threads). Yet commentators continue to assume that Tariq Ramadan has credibility – even heroic stature – in France. He does not.

        It is the gullible, ‘open borders’ leftists, mainly in the US and UK, who have championed Tariq Ramadan. Publications like ‘Salon’ and ‘The American Prospect have written in adulatory tones of his presumed intellectual power and significance. The State Dept, under Hillary Clinton, reversed the Bush administration’s refusal to grant Ramadan a visa to enter the US. Where it fits the narrative, normal standards do not apply.

        Tariq Ramadan has some support amongst Muslims, but, again, the extent of this support has been over-estimated. The phony professor has spent decades embarrassing his co-religionists and deceiving the ignorant kuffar. While he richly deserves his comeuppance, there is nevertheless something painfully human and exquisitely tragic about his downfall.

  5. mortimer says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 11:27 am

    FRAUD !

    Normative Islam, rather than an aberration. Also called TAQIYYA. Also called SACRED DECEPTION. Used to enhance and FACILITATE the SUPREMACIST AGENDA of Islam.

    Tariq Ramadan proves by his WORDS as well as his DEEDS that Islam is a RAPE CULT and a FRAUD CULT and a LIE CULT.

    Listen to all the MULLAHS and AYATOLLAHS and SHEIKHS and ISLAMIC SCHOLARS who are DENOUNCING HIM as “NOTHING TO DO WITH ISLAM”.

    (sounds of crickets)

  6. mortimer says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 11:34 am

    In the academic world, it is now clear, Tariq Ramadan behaved as a TERRORIST, threatening his professors if they did not HAND OVER the credentials he needed to commit FURTHER FRAUDS in the name of ISLAMIC SUPREMACISM.

    Tariq Ramadan’s entire career is now seen as a COMPLETE FRAUD and HOAX financed and stage-managed by the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD.

  7. mortimer says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 11:38 am

    Ramadan felt that AS A JIHADIST (a VERBAL JIHADIST) for the Muslim Brotherhood, he had a RIGHT TO RAPE WOMEN.

    Tariq Ramadan’s RAPES now appear to be in the context of the NORMATIVE BEHAVIORS of Mohammed’s JIHADISTS.

    Mohammed awarded SEX SLAVES to his warriors as REWARDS for their participating in his CRIMINAL ENTERPRISES of RAIDING, MURDER, LOOTING, THIEVING, ENSLAVING and CONQUEST.

  8. Phil Copson says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 11:54 am

    So – going from the information detailed above, Ramadan’s known record included passing himself off as
    (A) “Professor of ‘Islamic studies at the University of Geneva”
    (B) “Professor of Philosophy and Islamic Studies at the University of Fribourg”
    (C) Five sexual assault complaints against him made by female students at Fribourg in 2003 – 2004
    (D) Refusing instructions to re-write his thesis
    (E) Harassing and threatening the University of Geneva over being awarded a doctorate
    (F) Threatening a professor at the University of Sorbonne over being awarded a doctorate

    That is already a total of ten pieces of evidence that should have prevented his ever being employed in any university; whether the four complaints of sexual-assault made by pupils at the Swiss finishing school had been made known to the school at the time they occurred, isn’t 100% clear from previous articles.

    The point is that there was a minimum of at least ten good reasons why Ramadan should never have been offered a post at New College, Oxford, AND THIS INFORMATION WAS PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AT THE TIME (excuse cap’s) and could have and would have been established had the college ever bothered to check his purported credentials properly by speaking to his professors and previous employers. Even checking his (lack of) published work would have shown up him up as a charlatan.

    Perhaps they were so busy looking at the Qatari cheque that they plain forgot to ask him for his references ? certainly Ramadan himself seems to have misunderstood what was required when asked to produce his testimonials….

    If I were the parent of a student, and had paid a great deal of money only to find that the college had not only taken my money under false pretences by employing an under-qualified professor, but had also exposed my daughter to the risk of violence and rape, through failing to ask how he had conducted himself towards his students at Fribourg University* and everywhere else he had been employed, I would be suing the pants off that college.

    (*Five complaints from just doing one hour per week? What was his record when doing an 8-hour day?)

    Please keep us informed.

    • Hugh Fitzgerald says

      Mar 14, 2018 at 3:21 pm

      I’d be glad to.

    • Sentinel says

      Mar 14, 2018 at 4:41 pm

      How disrespectful you are,

      According to his page on the Oxford University website his preferred name and style is “H.H. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani”. One must presume that the ‘HH’ refers to his self awarded title of ‘His Highness’. That is vey puzzling since as a Swiss national I find it difficult to believe that he should be a member of the Swiss Royal family if ever one existed.

      • StellaSaidSo says

        Mar 15, 2018 at 1:08 am

        Tariq Ramadan may be dishonest, but he does not claim to be a sheikh or a royal. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani funded the professorship occupied by Ramadan at Oxford. It is normal for such positions to be named in honour of their sponsors.

  9. Ren says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 12:32 pm

    I always knew Tariq Ramadan was a fraud.

  10. Chas49 says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 12:42 pm

    A liar and a muslim, who would’ve thunk it!!!!

  11. jewdog says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 12:48 pm

    Islam is all about coercion and blind obedience, not thinking. We should add Islamic thinker to military intelligence and business ethics as a notable oxymoron; Ramadan is just a plain moron.

    • Carol (the 1st) says

      Mar 16, 2018 at 1:42 am

      He was quite the fast-talker but his belief in Islam relegated him immediately to the ranks of the intellectually doomed.

  12. Buraq says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 1:43 pm

    Tariq’s prophet was also a dab hand at faking his credentials, too. He cobbled together a CV that cited an angel with 600 wings, a winged horse, (no wonder violent jihadists are into aircraft), slicing the moon in two and putting it back together again – all about as plausible as Tariq’s self-recommendations!

    So, Tariq learned the principle of ‘lie big’ from Mohamed.

  13. LeftisruiningCanada says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 2:25 pm

    “There may be something, somewhere, about Tariq Ramadan that does not fill one with contempt, disgust, and rage. But I have yet to find it. Perhaps you will have better luck”

    No, sorry Mr Fitzgerald, no luck here either.

    • Benedict says

      Mar 14, 2018 at 3:53 pm

      I think I have found something:

      https://youtu.be/J266K2Lb-Vs — ?

      In this videoclip brother Tariq asks the question: What can non-Muslims learn from Muslims about their emphasis on charity-giving?

      One must have a heart of stone if one can’t be touched by this good-hearted, emphatic – and at the same time scholarly -presentation by professor Ramadan and his co-professor concerning Muslims’ propensity for charity.

      Surely Muslims “are the best of peoples, who have been selected for the guidance of mankind …” as the Koran has it.

      • LeftisruiningCanada says

        Mar 14, 2018 at 4:07 pm

        you know….there was still something disgusting about that.

        can’t quite put my finger on it though……

        • Carol (the 1st) says

          Mar 16, 2018 at 2:00 am

          Without even watching the link i believe we can rest assured that the “charity” has to do with getting ordinary muslims to impose on each other rather than on the pockets of their “spiritual” leaders. This serves also to stroke their little egos and thus make them better lap dogs for the Allah concept. Although this “charity” only extends to the inner circle it nonetheless mimics real charity and thus lends a shred of credibility to the delusion that Islam is a “religion”.

      • Carol (the 1st) says

        Mar 17, 2018 at 1:42 pm

        And now for a more sophisticated take on Islamic “charities”:

        https://spectator.org/british-council-excuses-islamist-warfare-as-welfare/

        • LeftisruiningCanada says

          Mar 17, 2018 at 8:05 pm

          quite!

  14. Z says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 2:39 pm

    So he’s a rapist and a fake. Good to know

  15. DFD says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 2:55 pm

    He is an intellectual?

    On behalf of two academic heavy weights (by comparison) namely one Daffy Duck & one Elmer Fudd:
    I feel offended!
    ——————–

    Is there no decency and respect left?

  16. Jayell says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 4:13 pm

    “Muslim intellectual” – isn’t that an oxymoron?

  17. DLR says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 4:33 pm

    Don’t worry folks. AL Jazeera to the rescue. I love the bit about

    “Ramadan’s supporters have strenuously rejected the allegations, characterising them as part of a concerted effort to defame the academic on the back of the #MeToo campaign.”

    And then “This is his story” 🙂

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/03/tariq-ramadan-professor-european-islam-180311141628911.html

    Oh Hugh you fibrillating skallywag.

    • Hugh Fitzgerald says

      Mar 14, 2018 at 5:20 pm

      Al Jazeera, supported by the Emir of Qatar, continues to Stand By Its Man. But on the other hand, that same Emir, who paid for Ramadan’s professorship at Oxford and also provided a sinecure for him in Doha (something to do with Islamic ethics),, also let it be known a few weeks ago that Ramadan is no longer welcome in Qatar. Has he reconsidered that decision? Hard to know what’s going on in his head. And of course, there are still more shoes to drop.

  18. DLR says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 5:00 pm

    Oh BTW, as denounced in Carline Fourest’s excellent book TR endorsed Fatwas dictated OUTSIDE Europe telling Muslims to keep their wives in doors and under control. Excellent reference for TR’s belief in Women’s rights. Published in 2002 all in French but easily translated. Sort of comments you would see in a dog breeders’ blog.
    http://www.c-e-r-f.org/fao-180bis.htm
    Fatwa n° 32
    L’époux a le droit d’interdire à sa femme de rendre visite à une femme précise, musulmane ou non, s’il craint que cela porte tort ou préjudice à son épouse ou à ses enfants, ou à sa vie conjugale.
    C’est l’homme en effet qui a autorité sur la famille et qui est son gardien. Il est donc tenu de préserver celle-ci de tout ce qui l’exposerait à un danger, qu’il soit réel ou supposé, l’une des règles de base étant que la prévention du mal doit prévaloir sur l’intérêt éventuel.
    Pour notre part, nous recommandons à l’homme de ne pas abuser de son autorité

  19. DLR says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 5:11 pm

    http://www.c-e-r-f.org/fao-180bis.htm is a “European” yes European fatwas dictated from Doha by Quradawi endorsed by TR . Both are not “Members” of the Muslim Brotherhood but mirror uncannily their philosophy and misogyny,

    Quick translation of “Fatwa 32”

    The husband has the right to forbid his wife to visit any particular woman Muslim or not, if he is afraid that it carries(wears) wrong(disadvantage) or damage to his wife or to his(her) children, or to his married life.

    It is the man indeed who has authority on the family and who is its guardian. He thus has to protect it of all who would expose it to a danger, be it is real or supposed, the basic rule being that the prevention of the evil has to prevail over the possible interest.

    For our part, we recommend to the man not to deceive his authority

    TR wishes to reform Liberal secular democracy and reverse women’s right. That is what is meant by reform.

  20. LeftisruiningCanada says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 6:07 pm

    I know it means a different thing to muslims, but i’m not actually against the second paragraph as i read it.

    Are we going to say that it is wrong for a husband to protect his family from what he considers to be dangerous to them?

  21. DLR says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 6:41 pm

    Maybe. But the important presumption is that a French, UK or Irish citizen (wife) has not natural rights under national law, ” The husband has the right to forbid his wife to visit any particular woman Muslim or not,,”.

    Sounds like imprisonment to me. And is unconstitutional in most European regimes. What happened to one law for all?

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Mar 14, 2018 at 8:09 pm

      I guess it’s a matter of degrees. If a man’s wife somehow become influenced by a drug dealer, as an extreme example, could we say it was wrong for her husband to forbid her to go and meet with him or her, even if she really wanted to go?

      There are many situations where it might be a good thing for a husband to intervene like that on behalf of his wife and children.

      Don’t get me wrong. I know a little about how women are treated under islam, and i’m not defending it or this fatwa. But don’t husbands have a duty to the family to protect and lead?

      • LeftisruiningCanada says

        Mar 14, 2018 at 8:11 pm

        And anyway, i was more supportive of the spirit behind the second paragraph. The first part is more debatable.

        • Carol (the 1st) says

          Mar 16, 2018 at 2:32 am

          IMO the husband is in actuality the real “help-meet”. His assets are that he can normally protect more strongly while also being more “disposable” when he’s struck down (nature’s seeming plan to favor the core unit of mother and child). What is offensive in the wording of the second phrase is the implication that the female lacks the intelligence or authority to be self-guiding. Her will is being displaced by that of another who feels of more worth and thus better able to plan her path FOR her. The other implication is that the male sees his family as his possession. They say this is why some men kill their wife and the children as well when they attempt to leave.

          Most people can do quite well using their own natural resources so long as no one chooses or feels entitled to stand in their way. Luckily Western women and their men have hard-earned options

        • LeftisruiningCanada says

          Mar 16, 2018 at 1:00 pm

          I’m not sure that i can see the same implication in the second paragraph:

          It is the man indeed who has authority on the family and who is its guardian. He thus has to protect it of all who would expose it to a danger, be it is real or supposed, the basic rule being that the prevention of the evil has to prevail over the possible interest.

          I just see it to be saying that the husband has the final place of responsibility to protect and guard the family, IF something should endanger them.

          In a Christian context, the position of authority that the husband has does not imply a great ‘worth’ or ‘value’. In the NT we have the balance between being equal creation before God, while some are given positions of greater authority from where they are required to act justly.

          It is the case that, when it comes down to final decisions, the wife is to submit her will the husbands. To modern feminist influenced people this can sound absolutely terrible, i know. But it isn’t. It is the way to true harmony between a husband and wife – the wife shows her respect to her husband, whose nature means that he can only function at his best if he feels respected. The husband shows his love towards his wife by not being a tyrant – he is free to accept her solutions or wishes as part of a discussion of equals. By leading with compassion, the wife is more able to respect her husband. No respect, no love. No love, no respect.

          It is the rejection of this that i believe causes so much trouble and heartache between men and women today.

          As i said above, we can sure that the way you describe it, is often how it is within an islamic context.

  22. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 10:23 pm

    “According to a source, Genequand explained that Ramadan even refused to make corrections to his thesis”

    This sounds interesting. What changes did Ramadan’s doctoral committee want him to make, and why? And why did Ramadan refuse?

  23. Infidel says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 11:30 pm

    A SLIME BALL Terrorists IN AND OUT!!!. In India, it is very fashionable for the Left lib cronies of Islam to promote Muslims with DUBIOUS credentials and thrust them on the hapless Hindu majority by nominating them in positions of power.. Muslims are like used cars salesman in infidel society where they use the glib and contacts to wheel and deal and promote themselves without any true merit. Because of the Koran, they are adept in Taqiyya and extremely political and hence worm their way to positions of power without the least deserving it. And the standards set to benchmark Muslims are abysmal.. in the sense that they have to do only a fraction of what a non-Muslim does to achieve name and fame. India is filled with such pretender Muslims in many walks of life and it gets sickening..

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Mar 15, 2018 at 1:14 am

      You nailed it, Infidel. Well said.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Mar 15, 2018 at 5:09 am

      And not only India!

      The UK is *full* of such Muslim infiltrators-and-subverters.

      And in Australia we have one Waleed Aly (look him up). He makes my skin crawl. And like Tariq Ramadan, he seems to attract a lot of gushing female groupies… methinks there might be a crashing fall ahead of *him*, too…

  24. Linnte says

    Mar 15, 2018 at 3:49 am

    So how in the heck did he teach at Cambridge? Gee, I’ve been looking for work lately…..

  25. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Mar 15, 2018 at 4:13 am

    Fake their credentials? Don’t they all do that? I’ve lost track of how many Mohammadan neurosurgeons there are out there!

  26. Michael Copeland says

    Mar 15, 2018 at 5:21 am

    Ramadan explains Sharia in an interview with Erick Stakelbeck:

    “You have another understanding of Sharia, and the understanding of Sharia is based on the human agency that is taking from the scriptural sources, the Koran and the prophetic tradition, to try to get the principles and the objectives, and say what our religion is all about, protecting the dignity of the human being, protecting their rights – “ men and women“ – and then if you have this understanding, and this is my position, this, look, Sharia is a way, it’s a path”.

    Are you any the wiser?
    https://libertygb.org.uk/news/tariq-ramadan-respect

    • Carol (the 1st) says

      Mar 16, 2018 at 11:29 am

      Yep, I caught him patting Islam on the back with misleading words like “protecting dignity and rights”.

  27. Baucent says

    Mar 15, 2018 at 8:15 am

    Oh dear!, how his reputation is crumbling.

    ” Not one researcher…has ever taken him seriously”.

    Maybe, but why have they said nothing until now? Fear of the untouchable Mr Ramadan?

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Mar 15, 2018 at 8:34 am

      ‘…why have they said nothing until now?..’

      Maybe nobody asked? It is up to prospective employers to verify an applicant’s CV.

      As I noted in earlier posts, European academia has long been aware of issues surrounding Ramadan’s credibility. If leftist academics in the US and UK choose to take a charlatan seriously, that is hardly the fault of the French or the Swiss or the Dutch, who no-one thought to consult until now.

  28. Richard Courtemanche says

    Mar 15, 2018 at 9:59 am

    The University has a responsibility to reimburse Ramadan’s students.

  29. Eric jones says

    Mar 15, 2018 at 11:42 pm

    I believe that there are many Muslims who have their academic chairs paid for by wealthy Arab states. Tariq is not the only one. In the 1990’s a left radio station was always interviewing young English professors from Arab countries. At the time I could not understand why there were so many young English professors from these Arab countries.

    Eric

    • Chas49 says

      Mar 16, 2018 at 3:25 pm

      As PAul Harvey used to say,”AND now you know the rest of the story”. Unfortunately, this was just the beginning, of things to come.

  30. JW_reader says

    Mar 16, 2018 at 1:11 am

    How low will you go?
    https://www.change.org/p/lib%C3%A9reztariq-ramadan-free-tariq-ramadan?recruiter=200085976&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial.nafta_milestone_share_ask_victory.control&utm_term=psf_combo_share_initial.nafta_milestone_share_ask_victory.control

  31. dumbledoresarmy says

    Mar 16, 2018 at 8:42 am

    Me, I’m hoping that Fethullah Gulen will be next.

    Everything I’ve ever heard about him gives me the creeps, bigtime.

    I would bet my last cent that he ain’t as ‘pure and holy’ as he pretends.

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