UCLA Prof Khaled Abou El Fadl Compares Tariq Ramadan Rape Case to Dreyfus Affair

UCLA professor Khaled Abou El Fadl is comparing France’s detention of Tariq Ramadan on rape allegations to the Dreyfus affair, claiming that the Islam scholar is “a political prisoner being persecuted by his sworn ideological enemies.” Alleging “insidious discrimination,” “political assassination,” and a “virtual public lynching,” Abou El Fadl joins other apologists in insisting that Ramadan, “a Muslim public intellectual,” be free from accountability.

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Cinnamon Stillwell

Cinnamon Stillwell analyzes Middle East studies academia in West Coast colleges and universities for Campus Watch. A San Francisco Bay Area native and graduate of San Francisco State University, she is a columnist, blogger, and social media analyst. Ms. Stillwell, a former contributing political columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, has written on a wide variety of topics, including the political atmosphere in American higher education, and has appeared as a guest on television and talk radio.