Leftists always stand by their friends and allies, while demanding that conservatives denounce any and all of their own who transgress perceived boundaries of acceptable discourse. If Tariq Ramadan were a conservative non-Muslim, the rape allegations would have been the end of his career, and he would never be invited to speak anywhere. If he were, there would be a media outcry that would force a cancellation.
“’Inadmissible’: in Carros, a debate organized with Tariq Ramadan is controversial,” translated from “‘Inadmissible’ : à Carros, un débat organisé avec Tariq Ramadan fait polémique,” Valuers Actuelles, January 7, 2022:
On January 21, an event will take place in Carros. A debate will be organized in the presence of Tariq Ramadan, also with 96 participants, reports Nice-Matin. If the exact location is still kept secret, it would be to avoid a controversy as large as in 2016, when he last visited the Côte-d’Azur. Carros’s municipal opposition challenged a planned March 2016 conference with Tariq Ramadan. The National Front (now called the National Assembly) even appealed to the Nice Administrative Court to have the event banned. Almost seven years later, Tariq Ramadan is still not welcome for some voices who are already rising up.
As Nice-Matin reports, this Friday, January 7, the controversy swells around the next debate in the presence of the Swiss Islamologist, accused of rape by five women and known to be close to the Muslim Brotherhood. To our colleagues, Marine Vengeon, of the collective and co-founder of Uni.e.s Nice, considered that it was “harmful and inadmissible to give a voice to a man accused of having raped women.” According to the feminist, the words of these alleged victims are thus “flouted.” “It’s bashing. This is exactly like appointing a minister accused of sexual violence inside,” she pointed out in reference to the rape charge against Gerald Darmanin, whose investigations ended in September 2021.
A media relentlessness?
On the occasion of this debate in Carros, Tariq Ramadan is supposed to comment on the following two works: The Prophet by Khalil Gibran and The Prince by Machiavelli. “We invite the author and the intellectual. We will not talk about religion, nor about its private affairs,” defended one of the organizers of the event to Nice-Matin. The journalist from Nice, Feïza Ben Mohamed, also close to Tariq Ramadan, recalls that the writer “has not been tried” and is therefore “presumed innocent.” She asked herself in Nice-Matin: “How many personalities, journalists, TV hosts, have the right to air when they are accused of similar acts?” She called in passing for “questioning the media treatment of Tariq Ramadan.” Despite everything, his arrival remains “very disturbing” for Marine Vengeon, who doubts the legitimacy of the Islamologist to debate literary works. “If it comes to commenting on The Prince of Machiavelli, I know dozens of people who would do it brilliantly. “
mortimer says
Tariq Ramadan abused the position of trust that was bestowed on him by naive university authorities who were blind to his family tree … the founder of the fascist Muslim Brotherhood. What did they expect the Muslim Brotherhood would do in their spare time? Tariq Ramadan created his own personal harem.
The Western useful idiots who hired this reprobate (above his competence and station) were clueless about Islam normative opportunism, misogyny, and the role sacred prevarication plays in all relations between Muslim leaders and the KAFIR world.
Muslim leaders know they don’t have to be truthful when they have dealings with the dirty KUFAAR.
Tariq Ramadan is an operative of the Muslim Brotherhood who should never have been hired anywhere. He already has a job.
mortimer says
Almost all Muslim males know that Sharia law sees no problem with the rape of kafirs. Sharia law does not consider that a crime and has no punishment or mention of it. Even the Muslim women he raped came under this rubric, because in the view of Tariq Ramadan, they had become kafirs through their secularist behavior, so he was ‘punishing’ them as kafirs. Tariq Ramadan considered his crimes to be Allah’s just punishment.
He is a monster promoting a monstrous ideology. Western people should learn this and stop being so naive about Islam.
Kesselman says
Ramadan isn’t the last Islamist to be favored by the leftist intelligentsia.
Leonard Dunnet says
Bring back the guillotine for rape of a kafir by a muslin