European Islamist scion Tariq Ramadan was banned from the U.S. by the Bush administration in February 2004 for his financial support of a charity that funded terrorist groups. In January 2010, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton overturned that ban. Clinton personally approved a visa for the controversial grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Now, Tariq Ramadan is facing multiple accusations of rape and sexual assault of minors.
Hillary Clinton’s visa for Tariq Ramadan was seen as part of the new Obama administration policy of embracing more hardcore Islamists.
The New York Times reported in 2010:
Six years after using the Patriot Act to revoke the visa of a prominent Muslim academic, the United States State Department reversed itself and said Wednesday that it would no longer bar the scholar from entering the United States.
The decision came in the form of an order signed by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. It paves the way for the scholar, Prof. Tariq Ramadan, to apply for a new visa free of the authorities’ former accusation that he had contributed money to a charity connected to terrorism.
Since last month, Ramadan has been the target of multiple rape claims.
The National reports:
One of them, French writer Henda Ayari, says Mr Ramadan raped her in a Paris hotel room in 2012. Ms Ayari, 41, who lodged a rape complaint against the 55-year-old Swiss national on October 20, claimed that for Mr Ramadan, “either you wear a veil or you get raped”.
“He choked me so hard that I thought I was going to die,” she told Le Parisien on Monday.
Mr Ramadan is also accused of raping another woman in a hotel room in 2009. The unnamed 42-year-old, who is reported to have disability in her legs, said on Friday that the professor had subjected her to a terrifying and violent sexual assault.
A third complainant, identified as Yasmina, told Le Parisien in an interview on Saturday that Mr Ramadan sexually harassed her in 2014 and blackmailed her for sexual favours.
Mr Ramadan has denied the accusations and has filed counter-charges for libel.
Andy C. Ngo✔@MrAndyNgo
Read @carlottagall‘s NYT profile of first woman who accuses Muslim scholar & preacher #TariqRamadan of rape. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/world/europe/henda-ayari-tariq-ramadan-oxford-muslim-scholar.html ...
1:31 AM - Nov 5, 2017 · Portland, OR
Aymenn J Al-Tamimi @ajaltamimi
In light of @TariqRamadan scandal, I have published an EXCLUSIVE account of his unwanted sexual advances on a friend http://www.aymennjawad.org/2017/11/tariq-ramadan-the-insicere-hypocrite ...
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FRANCE 24✔@FRANCE24
French prosecutors investigate claims Oxford professor raped feminist campaigner http://f24.my/207l.t
Following the rape charges, Ramadan was accused of molesting four of his underage pupils in Geneva during the 1980s and 1990s:
Telegraph World News✔@TelegraphWorld
Oxford professor accused of sexual misconduct with Swiss minors http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/05/oxford-professor-accused-sexual-misconduct-swiss-minors/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter ...
Oxford professor accused of sexual misconduct with Swiss minors An Oxford University professor and government adviser on tackling extremism is facing new allegations including sexual misconduct with minors. telegraph.co.ukOxford’s initial response to the rape and molestation accusations was to entertain support for Ramadan in an effort to protect Muslim students from “Islamophobia.” Eugene Rogan, director of Oxford’s Middle East Center, said during a meeting with students:
Last week, Ramadan announced that he was taking a leave of absence:
Oxford University✔@UniofOxford
Please see @UniofOxford‘s official statement on Professor Tariq Ramadan, here: http://po.st/nSj4br
Why was Oxford so slow in responding to the accusations? Some observers had some theories:
Asra Q. Nomani✔@AsraNomani
IMPT reporting from @TheNationalUAE w/context on why it took Oxford 18 days to put Ramadan on leave amid rape charges:
1) “Qatar poured £11 million into the new building” at @UniofOxford.
2) @QF funds gave #TariqRamadan his endowed Oxford job https://www.thenational.ae/world/europe/an-oxford-quad-falls-silent-amid-tariq-ramadan-rape-allegations-1.674487 ...
11:48 AM - Nov 10, 2017 · Sterling, VA
An Oxford quad falls silent amid Tariq Ramadan rape allegations In the city of dreaming spires, a new £11 million building offers clues as to why the prestigious university waited over two weeks to act on accusations of rape and sexual assault against one of its... thenational.aeInterestingly, Ramadan rose to the defense of American Islamist media darling Linda Sarsour earlier this year in response to “Islamophobic attacks":
He also defended a Muslim Brotherhood leader in Virginia who openly advocated for female genital mutilation (FGM) at a Washington D.C.-area mosque:
Middle East Forum @meforum
.@TariqRamadan: female genital mutilation is “part of our tradition” & matter for internal discussion among Muslims. http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2017/06/tariq-ramadan-defends-female-genital-mutilation ...
Notwithstanding Ramadan’s extremist stands, he still has his Western defenders:
Glenn Greenwald✔@ggreenwald
An actual intellect & scholar of Islam - rather than the charlatans you see on HBO & YouTube - @TariqRamadan: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/28/tariq-ramadan-muslims-need-to-reform-their-minds ...
Tariq Ramadan: ‘Muslims need to reform their minds’ The academic believes Islam and the west shouldn’t be at odds, but was banned from the US and slated in the Sun. Isis hates him, too – so why is he still dogged by controversy? theguardian.comIn response to the rape accusations against his brother, Hani Ramadan appealed to Islamic law to clear Tariq, invoking sharia that four witnesses are required:
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Daniel Pipes✔@DanielPipes
.@_HaniRamadan, brother of @TariqRamadan, insists that Koranic injunctions be applied to Tariq, meaning 4 men of good reputation must witness his sex acts in flagrante delicto. Otherwise, there’s no case.
Me: (1) You must be kidding. (2) Shari’a’s handy.http://pointdebasculecanada.ca/defense-brother-tariq-hani-ramadan-stresses-islam-individual-cannot-found-guilty-rape-unless-four-witnesses/ ...
In defense of his brother Tariq, Hani Ramadan stresses that in Islam an individual cannot be found... . pointdebasculecanada.caHani Ramadan, who runs the mosque founded by their father in Geneva, was deported from France earlier this year.
The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, whose staff was murdered by Islamic terrorists nearly two years ago, had an famous take on the Tariq Ramadan scandal:
Page @J_F_Page
Tariq Ramadan “Je suis le 6e pilier de l’islam”
That promptly produced death threats in support of Ramadan:
AFP news agency✔@AFP
The threats came after the satirical weekly’s cartoon of Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, who faces rape allegations http://u.afp.com/4Vks
Charlie Hebdo gets fresh death threats over Islam cartoon French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo said Monday it was pressing charges after receiving fresh death threats against staffers over a cartoon of the Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan who faces rape... yahoo.comThus far, Hillary Clinton has not publicly spoken about her decision to overturn Tariq Ramadan’s visa ban, or on what information she might have had about Ramadan’s sexual abuses at the time.
