Whether or not he actually raped her, that part is undeniably true. Tariq Ramadan is or was extremely powerful. As a moderate Muslim who told Westerners soothing fictions about how Islam was reforming and perfectly compatible with democracy, he commanded handsome sums to speak and top positions at Western universities. The world was at his feet. And for similar charlatans, it still is.
“Disabled woman who claims she was raped by an ex-Oxford professor says Islamic scholar ‘destroyed’ her life by penning a book to smear her and ‘hijacked’ her birthday,” by James Wood and James Gant, Mailonline, November 8, 2019:
A disabled woman who claims she was raped by an ex-Oxford professor has accused the Islamic scholar of trying to ‘destroy her life’.
The alleged victim, known by the pseudonym Christelle, is one of two women Tariq Ramadan, 56, is charged with raping.
He was suspended from his post as Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at St Antony’s College after being charged in France with the rape of the disabled woman in 2009 and a feminist activist in 2012.
Now Christelle, who suffers from a bone condition, has said Ramadan has tried to smear her by writing a book naming her 84 times and ‘hijacking’ her birthday for an event to proclaim his innocence.
In her first interview with the UK media, the alleged victim told The Daily Telegraph Ramadan tried to ‘get dirt’ on her to ‘destroy’ her in revenge for her claim he raped her in a Lyon hotel room.
She said: ‘I did try to commit suicide over it. I’m just out from a serious depression….
‘And this is just unbearable for me. Unbearable. Each time I try to put the head out of the water to stand up again, each time he campaigns in order to destroy me at a social level, economically and with my friends as well.
‘It’s as if to say, “You belong to me, you’re mine. You’re my object. For life, you’re going to be related to me, you’re going to be in my book”.’
In his book, Ramadan described his alleged victims as ‘all liars’ and ‘women who were jealous or who felt cheated and who looked to settle scores after the facts’.
He also accuses French judges of ‘deep hostility’ towards him.
The second woman he is charged with raping, feminist activist Henda Ayari, went public with her accusation he raped her in a Paris hotel room in 2012.
The case against Ramadan was earlier this year expanded when a woman in her 50s claimed he and one of his staff raped her when she went to interview the academic at a hotel in Lyon in May 2014.
The accuser, who filed a criminal complaint in May 2019, also accused Ramadan of issuing ‘threats or acts of intimidation’ to dissuade her from reporting the alleged attack to the police, French judicial sources said.
Ramadan, a married father of four whose grandfather founded Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, was a professor at Oxford University until he was forced to take leave when rape allegations surfaced at the height of the ‘Me Too’ movement in late 2017.
He was previously one of British Foreign Office’s Advisory Group on Freedom of Religion or Belief….
But Ramadan has been adamant from the outset that all the allegations are politically or ideologically motivated.
The woman behind the latest complaint told police Ramadan and a male assistant repeatedly raped her in the professor’s room at the Sofitel hotel in Lyon.
She described the alleged attack as being of ‘untold violence’ and claimed when she threatened to report them to the police Ramadan replied: ‘You don’t know how powerful I am.’…
Angemon says
Well, presented as moderate by the left-leaning academia. Caroline Fourest and Favrot Lionel wrote books exposing his duplicity – for example, publicly saying that muslims should respect the law of the land and privately saying that muslims should respect the law of the land insofar as it was contrary to islamic law.
As far as I know, he never publicly denounced, or distanced himself from, his grandfather’s views.
Angemon says
Ups. This:
should read:
Michael Copeland says
“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’a.”
Tariq Ramadan to a muslim audience.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2018/01/tariq-ramadan-freedom-of-conscience/
gravenimage says
+1
Kesselman says
Ramadan is an unspeakable beast: arrogant, deceitful, and as most mooslime males having a personality disorder. Add to this a clammy rapist and an adherer of the most despicable “religion.” Just saying, I know I’m too tepid here.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
TiME Magazine in 2004 named Tariq Ramadan one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World.” He’s been described as a “towering intellect,” of “seductive brilliance,” one of the world’s most important Muslim thinkers.
Much crow remains to be eaten.
gravenimage says
Yes–that so many Infidels swooned over this Muslim thug is grotesque.
Herb says
Muslims don’t think. They do as their Muhammad commands as the perfect man to model.
JDow says
Duplicitous, yes. Evil, yes. Muhammadan, yes. Dumb, no. Underestimate him at your own risk.
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revereridesagain says
I saw so many punk leaders of little obscure cults get away with raping and otherwise abusing, and subsequently libeling, slandering and otherwise abusing, women in this manner. It comes as no surprise that one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World” according to that leftist rag TIME, which has no scruples about putting liars on its covers, would use his “towering intellect” and “seductive brilliance” to do the same. What is needed is heroes devoted to facts instead of groveling to see to it that the crow is served up to its deserving consumers.
DHazard says
Tariq Ramadan will NEVER be found guilty of Zina. None of his rapes were committed in the presence of 4 Muslim men.
gravenimage says
Very true. Rapists are seldom punished in Dar-al-Islam.
Or Else! says
It’s a wonder he didn’t claim to be a victim “Islamophobia”…..or maybe he has….
gravenimage says
Muslims have certainly claimed that concern about rape is “Islamophobic”:
“Professor Tariq Ramadan and France’s Islamophobia”
https://www.dailysabah.com/columns/hatem-bazian/2018/04/16/professor-tariq-ramadan-and-frances-islamophobia
This was written by the appalling Hatem Bazian, whose nastiness has also chronicled here.
gravenimage says
Tariq Ramadan raped her with “untold violence”; she said she’d tell cops, he said “You don’t know how powerful I am”
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This sounds like something a Muslim would say.
terry sullivan says
is st antonys still paying his salary–we need to know
Ellie says
The man was employed by French Catholic institution? I suppose we should expect that. The pope recently attended a service in a Catholic Church just outside the Vatican in which they brought wooden idols from South America into the church and put them in front of the altar. Then they danced around with various objects in front of the altar and the Pope. Apparently the church has become so “multicultural” that they even accept other gods equally.
These two women admitted being raped by this man who was regarded as a religious leader and an educated “scholar.” Imagine how many other women there are that endured this treatment but were unable to bring themselves to speak out about it! For some reason a Islamic scholar raping women is not an issue for the left, however, anyone connected with Christianity who is hinted to have done such a thing is brought before the public and judged guilty without trial.
peter says
With friends like our present who needs enemies!
gravenimage says
What?