A third woman in France — known only as “Marie” — has just come forward to accuse Tariq Ramadan of doing what apparently comes naturally to him: that is, to have raped her repeatedly, and to have subjected her to “violent and sexually degrading acts” during a “dozen meetings” between February 2013 and June 2014.
Here’s the sordid story, a blend of the Marquis de Sade and Histoire d’O, as reported by AFP:
A third woman has accused prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan of rape, a month after he was indicted over similar charges and remanded into custody, judicial sources told AFP on Wednesday (March 7).
The French Muslim woman, who wants to remain anonymous and uses the pseudonym “Marie”, claims to have suffered multiple rapes in France, Brussels and London between 2013 and 2014. [She is not to be confused with this Marie.]
She has accused Ramadan, 55, of subjecting her to violent and sexually degrading acts during a dozen meetings, often in hotels at the sidelines of conferences.
“Marie tried in vain to escape the influence of Mr Ramadan who did not stop threatening her,” according to a judicial source, discussing the period between February 2013 and June 2014.
Ramadan, a prominent TV pundit and Oxford University professor whose grandfather founded Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood movement, was detained on Feb 2 over charges he raped two Muslim women in France, which he denies.
French authorities ordered Ramadan to be placed in custody after he was charged, judging him a flight risk.
His lawyers unsuccessfully proposed handing over his Swiss passport, bail of €50,000 (S$80,000) and daily check-ins at a police station to secure his release.
A professor of contemporary Islamic studies at Oxford, Ramadan has been on leave since November after the allegations emerged.
One of European Islam’s best known figures, he has dismissed the accusations against him as a smear campaign by his enemies and his lawyers argue there are inconsistencies in the women’s accounts.
His supporters – including two million Facebook followers – have lashed out angrily at his arrest, with many complaining that he has been unfairly targeted because he is Muslim.
Now they are three — and it must be an agony for Tariq Ramadan, just a few months ago the “towering intellect” and suave Master of the Universe, as he waits in prison for the next one to accuse him, and the next, and the one after that.
First there was Henda Ayari, who accused Ramadan of rape, sexual violence, humiliation, and making threats to destroy her and to harm her children if she told anyone about what he had done. She described his acts in her book “J’ai choisi d’être libre” (I Chose To Be Free), calling him “Zoubeyr”:
“This man, Zoubeyr, transformed before my very eyes into a vile, vulgar, aggressive being – physically and verbally,” she wrote. “For modesty, I will not give the precise details here of the acts he made me submit to. But it is enough that he took great advantage of my weakness and the admiration I felt for him. ”
“He allowed himself gestures, attitudes and words that I could never have imagined.”
“And when I resisted,” she wrote, “when I cried to him to stop, he insulted and humiliated me. He slapped me and attacked me. I saw in his crazy eyes that he was no longer master of himself. I was afraid he would kill me. I was completely lost. I started crying uncontrollably. He mocked me.”
Later Ayari added: “He choked me so hard that I thought I was going to die.” She also described him as threatening that her children might be harmed if she were tell anyone.
Then a second accuser appeared. Like Henda Ayari, “Christelle” is a Muslim. She understandably uses a pseudonym, given that Henda Ayari, who bravely used her real name when she first stepped forward, received thousands of death threats from Ramadan’s loyal followers — he has two million Facebook friends — and now Ayari requires round-the-clock security, possibly for years to come. “Christelle” accused Ramadan of “blows to the face and body, forced sodomy, rape with an object and various humiliations, including being dragged by the hair to the bathtub and urinated on.”
Now, on March 7, a third accuser has appeared. Like the first two, she is a Muslim. And she has accused Ramadan of behavior quite similar to what those two previous accusers described: rape, and his trademark “violent and sexually degrading acts.”
Ramadan’s lawyers have tried, but failed, to shake the stories or undermine the credibility of Henda Ayari and “Christelle.” With Henna Ayari, they noted her many emails to him, long after she says she was raped. She has explained these emails as attempts not to seduce her rapist, but to entrap Ramadan into a discussion that would become a confession of guilt.
Those lawyers tried to claim that “Christelle” could not have been raped, as she testified, on the afternoon of October 9, 2009, because Ramadan was on a London-Lyon flight that arrived in Lyon at 6:30 PM. That alibi blew up when records of Ramadan’s flights on October 8 and 9 were located. They revealed that he took a London-Madrid flight early on October 8, then another to Jerez de la Frontera, where he gave a lecture at 5 PM on that day — and a photograph of Ramadan giving that lecture also surfaced. Other flight records showed him on October 9, flying early in the morning back to Madrid, and then from Madrid to Lyon, arriving at 12:15 PM. That gave him plenty of time to do what he wished with the hapless, trusting, disabled “Christelle.”
“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” — none of that idiotic praise will help him now.
Of course, we know what his lawyers will say. How could ”Marie,” who says she was raped, still show up, eleven more times, to meet her putative rapist, Tariq Ramadan? They’ll claim it makes no sense, she must be hallucinating. But as the police and psychiatrists can testify, many people can endure an “abusive relationship” for a long time, until that moment when they just can’t. Ramadan apparently threatened her, but with what? We know he took pictures of her. “Marie” told Europe 1 radio that “I had to obey him, be available 24 hours a day, do whatever he told me, take pictures [let him take pictures of me] in submissive positions, on my knees to ask for forgiveness, call him ‘master’.”
Did he threaten to post them online for the world to see? Was she married? Could Ramadan have threatened to send her husband pornographic pictures, or videos, unless she kept coming dutifully back for more? Did she have children whom he could harm, as he suggested to Henda Ayari might happen with her children? Or could he have said he could send those “pictures” to her children unless she yielded again, and yet again? Everything was possible, nothing was unimaginable, for this character out of a horror movie. She knew he was violent and cruel, and took great pleasure in his cruelty. She realized that he was a monster capable of anything, and that’s why she kept on, until, after sixteen months of this, she could stand it no longer. How many others will now step forward, one by agonizing one? Eric Morain, the lawyer for “Christelle,” says that “bringing forward a complaint can be a slow process,” but “there will be others.”
And one final question: How many years behind bars does Tariq Ramadan deserve? Pick a number, divisible by twenty.
mortimer says
OXFORD UNIVERSITY was prepared to allow him to continue tutoring even though they knew of allegations.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY SHOULD STOP ISLAMO-PANDERING.
gravenimage says
Grimly true. Now I believe he has finally been let go.
cornelius says
Great stuff Hugh. Please keep these updates coming.
Meanwhile, let’s not take anything for granted. Tariq Ramadan has the Muslim ummah at his service. His latter two victims might be eventually exposed….threatened, blackmailed, possibly even murdered. Furthermore, there is no telling how the French justice system will deal with such a renowned personality, particularly one who has such fervent support from the Muslim community and from the left. As we all know, in the left-wing ethos, race trumps gender every time.
Only if/when they pronounce sentence…can we be certain about the outcome of this case.
StellaSaidSo says
Tariq Ramadan does not have the Muslim ummah ‘at his service’. Apart from his numerous fans on facebook, and the impressionable youths in the banlieues, his support amongst Muslims is anything but ‘fervent’. The pious have never liked him, because he is ‘too Western’ (he is considered an apostate) – and Westernised Muslims do not wish to be associated with him. At least 8 Islamic countries have banned Ramadan from entry. Even the Left have abandoned him. I think we can be confident that Brother Tariq will receive a fair trial and a long sentence. And in prison he will need to watch his back.
cornelius says
It’s debatable how much support he has. Certainly it is considerable….particularly given the nature of his offence juxtaposed to the climate of the times. The petition to free him now has over 100,000 signatures.As for the left “abandoning him”, I’d certainly like to read some accounts of leftists who have gone on record as having done so. Perhaps you could provide us with some.
As for “the fair trial and the long prison sentence”…..we’ll have to wait and see. I certainly hope you’re right.
StellaSaidSo says
Tariq Ramadan has a lot less support than many people (including some JW readers) assume that he has, especially in Europe, where he has been distinctly unpopular for years. 100,000 signatures on a petition is not a lot, given the number of Muslims and leftists who might have been expected to support the smooth-talking ‘scholar’. Prominent Muslims, Muslim organisations, and leftists are conspicuously silent. Even Oxford has gone quiet. It might be a different story if the charge was treason, but no reasonable person is going to go out on a limb for a rapist. That said, the presumption of innocence applies in France, and even the worst scoundrel is entitled to his day in court. I think Ramadan will get a fair trial, but given the weight of evidence against him, and his famous lack of honesty, he is probably looking at quite a long stretch in a centre penitencier.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Good.
He probably won’t be very penitent though.
dumbledoresarmy says
Let’s put it this way: he has become embarrassing.
He may, just possibly, be thrown under the bus, in order to protect the Ummah. Sometimes the Ummah closes together to protect its own.. but sometimes it deems that, under certain circumstances, it is best to pretend that one has had nothing to do with this or that person.
StellaSaidSo says
He threw himself under the bus by the inconsistency of his message, his dishonesty and hypocrisy. As I have said repeatedly on JW threads, the strict observers reject Ramadan as too ‘Western’, the ‘Westernised’ Muslims reject him because he is not ‘Western’ enough, and all but a few die-hard lefties and youthful hero-worshippers are embarrassed by the scandals.
Lavéritétriomphera says
Tariq Ramadan made a mistake the Muslim brotherhood will not forget, and they are not the only muslims dealing with this issue.
StellaSaidSo says
Exactement, LVT. Indeed, he should fear them more than he fears French justice.
Bob Carrillo says
In the end, the excuse will be, that he is “unstable” in some way..
Well folks, anyone, or any group of homo-sapien, committing such atrocities, with such regularity around the world, as a “culture” of rape, incest, child mutilation, and all manner of barbaric violence against others, and killing, is most definitely unstable. This is in fact insane, regardless of how loosely we define that term..
That would be an axiom…
Today however, his punishment will likely be a speaking engagement request from Harvard, Columbia, Simmons College, Berkeley, the University of Minnesota, or Cambridge University(s). …I am actually only partly joking about that comment…
mortimer says
SADOMASOCHISM is the EMOTIONAL SUBTEXT of Islam.
Who is surprised that Islam teaches RAPE as part of JIHAD?
A LEADING, ‘PROMINENT’ TEACHER of Islam thus normatively teaches RAPE as part of his curriculum.
Genocidal rape is DECREED by Allah in Koran 4.23-24.
elee says
It was all degrading and stuff and she went back 11 times? Interesting insight into the mind of a western woman who gets drawn to Islam.
StellaSaidSo says
His latest accuser is a Muslim.
6woods says
elee, all 3 accusers are muslim. I haven’t read anywhere that they are western converts.
gravenimage says
True, Stella and 6woods.
Martin says
I’ve lived in Brussels for the last seven years (30 minutes walking distance to Molenbeek, Muslim terrorism’s Ground Zero in Europe) and in that time have learned a lot, almost all negative, about Muslims and Islam.
I read most of the sites like Jihad Watch but also decided to look at a few of the pro Muslim websites run my Muslims to read their take on the Muslim story. I came across 5Pillars, a pro Muslim site from the UK, and found it to be one of the most dishonest sites on the internet. It’s hard to believe that Muslims can claim victimhood so easily and endlessly when they are, in fact, the guilty party.
I have provided a link below to an article that was published in 5Pillars about Tariq Ramadan, the writer of this article in a well educated Arab-Muslim woman who tows the Islamophobia line. I recommend reading it to get an idea of how the Muslim mind thinks.
https://5pillarsuk.com/2018/02/05/i-know-france-thats-why-i-dont-believe-tariq-ramadan-accusations/
StellaSaidSo says
I agree, Martin, 5Pillars is one of the most dishonest of many dishonest pro-Islam sites on the internet, and they really excelled themselves with this effort. Thanks for posting the link!
Martin says
You’re welcome. The only thing positive that I have to say about 5Pillars is that they don’t delete my comments unlike The Guardian.
StellaSaidSo says
LOL, I’m not welcome at the Guardian either! We must be doing something right!
Jack Diamond says
Some good replies in the comment section, even linking to Hugh Fitzgerald.
The ever-conspiratorial “Muslim mind” exhibited here is simply an assertion that no fair investigation or trial is possible in racist, Islamophobic France, and the implication this whole “concoction” is yet another Zionist plot:
“Attempts to silence the Swiss-born theologian had been made ever since he emerged as a fierce critic of both Israel and Neo-conservative Zionist politics in the Middle East.
“it’s worth noting that the first person to “discover” victims of Ramadan’s alleged abuse was French-Israeli paparazzi Jean-claude Elfassi. Elfassi is said to be close to Henda Ayari, Ramadan’s first accuser and author of a book that was released shortly after her claims on social media.
{then there is the “lapsed” Muslim} “When a French Tunisian lapsed Muslim decided to write on her Facebook page that the most famous European Muslim man abused her in 2012, France could almost be heard clapping in collective cheer.
“In this climate it’s difficult to imagine a prominent Muslim benefiting from a fair trial or even a fair investigation.”
Comparing Ramadan to Roman Polanski and Bernard Cantat hardly helps the author’s case for presumed innocence, just comes across as a plea Ramadan should be allowed to resume his career because they (those guilty non-Muslims) were allowed to.
Merde, plein de merde.
Martin says
“Some good replies in the comment section, even linking to Hugh Fitzgerald.”
That was my comment.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Martin–I saw those comments. Good stuff.
Carol (the 1st) says
Neither Polanski nor Cantat were sexual sadists. That the 5 Pillars author can compare a borderline pedo and a man who killed in a jealous rage with someone like Ramadan – who has quite credibly been described as a viciously abusive, serial rapist and nasty blackmailing hypocrite illustrates a great deal about the “thinking” and “numbed sense of feeling and perspective” of this muslima. There is no “equivalence” between these three incidents.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Goodness what a revolting article. The superior, arrogant, Jew-hating spirit of dar al harb cursing islam screams out from every sentence.
What a vicious little muslima that writer is.
6woods says
Muslimas are every bit as vicious as their male counterparts (maybe more so. muslim males seem to act by rote…muslimas with a little more malice aforethought). I can’t for the life of me explain it, since the little ladies typically go to hell, as per mo/allah.
dumbledoresarmy says
Think of them as Camp Followers. You know, like the Bad Girls that like to hang out with the Bad Boys.
Alternatively, think of the mindset of a woman who becomes the madam of a brothel run by a violent pimp, and helps him ensnare and spiritually and physically ‘break’ the new ‘recruits’.
StellaSaidSo says
‘…Muslimas are every bit as vicious…’
Despite the use of ‘sister’ as a term of address, there is little sense of ‘sisterhood’, as we know it, among pious muslimas, who are brought up to compete with each other for the approval of men. However, in the face of the kuffar, they will present a united front. As low-level harrassers of kuffar women in the public space, they are as practised as their male counterparts, but more subtle. They travel in packs (usually 3 or 4), and are very skilled at manoeuvring a solitary target off the pavement, to the end of the queue, or out of a seat on a crowded train, always making the deliberate displacement look ‘accidental’. ‘Malice aforethought’ is very apt; think of the three witches in ‘Macbeth’.
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link, Martin–I was not familiar with the 5Pillars site.
In another article, Muslims gloat over the heroes at Britain First being jailed for “anti-Muslim hate crimes”.
“Britain First leaders jailed for anti-Muslim hate crimes
https://5pillarsuk.com/2018/03/07/britain-first-leaders-jailed-for-anti-muslim-hate-crimes/
Of course, they don’t really tell you that the “hate” involved protesting over Muslims raping underaged children. *Ugh*.
RichardL says
thank you for that article link. Difficulty to read, but you are right: one needs to know the enemy. The gall of Muslims is sometimes stunning: she calls Polanski (rightly) a pedophile because he was 44 when he had sex with a 13-year old. If someone would call Muhammad a pedophile because he bought a six-year old and raped her when he was over 50, she would screech “islamophobe”.
When a non-Muslim does that, they go to prison, like Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, and the Austrian judge does a perfect pretzel as the Gatestone Institute pointed out:
“The judge rationalized that Mohammed’s sexual contact with nine-year-old Aisha could not be considered pedophilia because Mohammed continued his marriage to Aisha until his death. According to this line of thinking, Mohammed had no exclusive desire for underage girls; he was also attracted to older females because Aisha was 18 years old when Mohammed died.”
RichardL says
missing: raped her when she was 9 years old
LeftisruiningCanada says
““The judge rationalized that Mohammed’s sexual contact with nine-year-old Aisha could not be considered pedophilia because Mohammed continued his marriage to Aisha until his death.”
Ah, perhaps this is the kind of “fantastic” contribution islam has made to the world?
DLR says
And some other things reported more frequently and in more detail int he French press
As reported in the French press TR fired his original lawyers after the Jerez-on-the-internet-so-not-in-London fraud. New lawyer on the case (in French) https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/justice/tariq-ramadan-mis-en-examen-pour-viols-change-d-avocat_1990055.html
A fourth rape complaint USA https://fr.news.yahoo.com/tariq-ramadan-quatri%C3%A8me-plainte-%C3%A0-washington-193619415.html
And the motive for the hold over “Marie”: she was apparently part of the “Service providers” to Dominique Strauss-Kahn (https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/hauts-de-france/nord-0/ancienne-escort-girl-affaire-carlton-dsk-porte-plainte-son-tour-contre-tariq-ramadan-1436751.html ) which was a confession to TR who obligingly offfered penance so enslaved her on the trips around Europe.
DLR says
And she has , apparently HUNDREDS of recordings, dirty texts, pictures and evidence of TR’s sordid pecadillos (IN french) from same source. (https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/hauts-de-france/nord-0/ancienne-escort-girl-affaire-carlton-dsk-porte-plainte-son-tour-contre-tariq-ramadan-1436751.html )
!La quadragénaire disposerait de centaines de captures d’écran de messages échangés avec l’intellectuel par SMS, Whatsapp ou Viber, ainsi que des photos, des vidéos et des messages vocaux.”
gravenimage says
Thanks for the link.
John says
Does not matter if you are three or 100…none of the so called victims have provided a single evidence about their claims…just blah blah blah
gravenimage says
That’s why the case is in court.
StellaSaidSo says
@ John
The case has not been heard yet. What we know about the evidence is what the news reports tell us. You can be sure that there is plenty more that will be presented to the court in due course. Ramadan would not have been kept in custody if the case against him were considered weak.
Martin says
“Ramadan would not have been kept in custody if the case against him were considered weak.”
He’a also the epitome of a flight risk, he’ll run.
Troybeam says
Would like to see all ladies that he attacked after Hillary, then Sec. of State let him back into the United States after he was banned sue the hell out of her. Hillary’s choice put women in danger therefore she put into motion the actions of this man’s behavior to rape women here in America: all due to the fact Islam tells men they can rape anyone be women, children or men who are not Islamic, btw: does not stop Islamic men from raping their own women as well.
StellaSaidSo says
Apparently there is at least one accuser in the US, but no charges laid as yet.
Somehow I don’t think that even Hillary would issue a visa to Brother Tariq now…
DLR says
A message to Hugh if you are there. Did you ever review TR’s so called reformist stance made public?
He publicises his fanaticism here in 2010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY17d4ZhY8M and it is interesting to see his facial contorsions when talking and listening to remarks about prostitution, women rights and prurity in specific terms. Sex outside of marriage, the “Family” , etc, etc. Starts from 1:13 onwards.
Seems to me a pathological – pyschopathic – control obsession.
He wants Jihad: invokes it publicly here in this rant fest and demands adherence to canonical texts which are not spiritual Jihad and antithetical to reform of any kind. Throws of Nurenberg rally once it gets going.
Also seems to me a great idea if he is found guilty of these beastly allegations by his own admirers, imprisoned and removed from society for a long time.