[ April 19, 2024 ]
Tariq Ramadan was asking his female admirers to contact him after writing his phone number in his books at signing events
In 2010, the blog Bruxellois, non peut-être maintained by Khalil Bernoussi in Brussels was shut down after his web service provider was pressured by Tariq Ramadan. At the time, Bernoussi was criticizing Ramadan’s ideas and he had been relaying anonymous testimonies by several women who claimed to have been sexually assaulted by him.
For many years, Marie-Cécile Royen has been covering the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood in Belgium for Le Vif / L’Express, the main French-language weekly magazine in the country. Recently, she interviewed Bernoussi. She asked him to describe the technique used by Ramadan to meet all these women in Belgium.
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Le Vif / L’Express: “[Translation] Tariq Ramadan was very often in Brussels, particularly at Saint-Louis [University] where the Muslim Presence’s conferences were taking place. There were lots of people. [Tariq Ramadan’s] technique at book signing sessions was to write ‘contact me’ beside his phone number in the book. Nadia had the book… That’s how she contacted him. At first, the girls did not know each other. To each of them, he would say that he was not married anymore, that he was looking for a real woman, a Muslim woman for life, and that he had found that in them… When they met him, they were hypnotized.”
While awaiting his trial for rape in France, Tariq Ramadan has been detained at the Fleury-Mérogis jail since February 2, 2018. French authorities have refused him a bail for fear that he could leave the country. Other women have also accused him of rape in Belgium, in Switzerland and in the U.S.
In Switzerland, Tariq Ramadan has been accused of raping several non-Muslim students (often minor) to whom he taught at a Swiss college in the eighties and nineties. Although Ramadan cannot be prosecuted for these actions given the time limitation, several Swiss personalities have asked for an investigation that would determine why the government and its agencies were unable to protect Ramadan’s students given the complaints at the time.
Muslim Presence (Présence Musulmane)
Muslim Presence’s bases of operations in the world, as they were presented on the organization’s website in 2011. Right, a picture of Tariq Ramadan taken during an activity in the Ivory Coast in 2010.
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Tariq Ramadan founded the organization Muslim Presence (Présence Musulmane) in 1996 in France. According to cofounder Yamin Makri, also a close supporter of Ramadan against the women who accuse him of sexual assault, Muslim Presence was initially set up to target the Francophonie, the French-speaking countries. Later, it set up an English-language website and organized activities in English Canada. In 2010, the organization’s website described Muslim Presence as “a group of Muslim citizens who follow the ideas of Tariq Ramadan.”
In Africa, Muslim Presence was partnering with CIMEF (Colloque international des musulmans de l’espace francophone). Of all the substructures once linked with Muslim Presence, this is the only one still active. Tariq Ramadan was listed as a member of CIMEF’s steering body from 2010 to 2015.
In August 2017, Tariq Ramadan announced an activity jointly organized by the Africa-based CIMEF and the Qatar-based Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics, of which he is still officially the Executive Director.
From 2004 to 2010, Tariq Ramadan was banned from entering the U.S. after it was revealed that he had contributed to the Swiss collector of the terrorist organization Hamas. Ramadan’s status changed in the U.S. after the election of Barack Obama.
During the U.S. ban, the organization Muslim Presence played an important role to help Ramadan maintain his presence in North America. While he was banned by U.S. authorities, Ramadan was advising the Canadian government. This was revealed by Gregory Baum (1923-2017), a Theology professor at McGill University (Montreal) and a close ally of Ramadan. In his book The Theology of Tariq Ramadan (Note 10), Baum wrote that “In Canada, Ramadan has been consulted by the Minister of Foreign Affairs […] and the Ottawa Police Department.”
From 2005 to 2016, Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs’ website promoted Ramadan as “a man with a vision.”
The closeness between Tariq Ramadan’s Muslim Presence organization and the Ottawa Police Department (OPD) was such that, in 2005, when a group of British police officers led by Norman Brennan criticized the country’s police chiefs for inviting Tariq Ramadan to talk about the radicalization of Muslim youth at a conference in London, Muslim Presence and the Ottawa Police Department submitted a joint letter to the Guardian to defend Tariq Ramadan and make sure that the scheduled conference would take place in London.
Point de Bascule has dedicated a file to the organization Muslim Presence.
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14 Comments
5 years ago
You see, the world of Islam has something very important to teach us all: Great Pickup Lines!
(OK, maybe just half of us)
5 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
It is remarkable how so many Western feminists defend Islam so. They hate assault but they love Muslims, so one wonders how they will react to this. Perhaps quietly ignore it, I suppose.
5 years ago
Hi there, iffy. If you will read the accounts, of many of the women that thing raped, they were viciously beaten … and DID say no … but he beat them into submission. Moreover, he and many of his moslem associates threatened the very lives of their families .. Some, went to parent’s and sibling’s homes to personally deliver threats.
So, this vile creature was nothing more than a moslem just bein’ a moslem. It’s due to moslem males being homosexuals … they take their frustrations out on innocent women.
Face it, moslems are the vilest of ALL creatures, FAR lower than rats and cockroaches.
5 years ago
“PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. That’s what comes first”. No, in islam, anything can be abrogated to mean whatever is convent at the time, you start by talking about personnel responsibility, then blame women for men’s actions. Personnel responsibility means just that, it has nothing to do with other people, you cannot control the actions of others, you can control your response. In a civilized society, that is expected.
” Also while you are at work your wife has no worries about you, and every bit confidant that you may be not be flirting with some female colleague at work but busy doing your days work”. As you are allowd four wives, you could be courting another wife, not flirting. You also have the sharia proclaimed right, from sharia – “• A husband has the right to beat his wife and does not have to say why to her family or police.
• Rebelliousness on the part of the wife nullifies the husband’s obligation to support her, gives him permission to beat her and keep her from leaving the home.
• Divorce is only in the hands of the husband and is as easy as saying: “I divorce you,” and is effective even if the husband says he did not intend it.
• A wife has no right to divorce her husband, even if he is polygamous, with additional wives.
• A man is allowed to have sex with slave women and women captured in battle, and if the enslaved woman is married, her marriage is annulled.
• There is no community property between a husband and his wife/wives.
• A woman inherits half what a man inherits.
• Parents have the legal right to perform female genital mutilation on minor daughters.
• A man must pay the woman dowry to be given in exchange for his right to her sexual organs.
• A rapist may only be required to pay money (dowry) without marrying the rape victim.
• A man is allowed to have sex with slave women and women captured in battle, and if the enslaved woman is married her marriage is annulled.
• A woman’s testimony in court is half the value of a man.
• A woman loses custody of her children if she remarries.
• To prove rape a woman must have four male witnesses.
• A woman must cover every inch of her body, which is considered awrah (a sexual organ). Exposing face is allowed by most, but not all Sharia schools.
• A Muslim man will not be prosecuted if he kills his wife if caught in the act of adultery. However, the opposite is not true since husband “could be married to the woman he was caught with.” Thus loyalty is only expected from wife, and not the husband”.
5 years ago
Reply to
lucifer69
He can’t stand the competition. Right now he is running third behind hillary and mutgonad, police beat upon him.
5 years ago
I won’t blame the Rapist. The Left/Liberal pro-jihadis do not teach real idealogy and history of islam in schools and colleges .
Raping infidel women as per koran pleases allah and is one of best way to pray to allah http://bit.ly/2tTQW4b
If the women / girls knew it they would keep their distance from musrats. That won’t stop kidnapping and gang rapes but swift trial with death sentence would definately reduce it. Nothing else will.
..or ban muslim from western countries.
5 years ago
According to the word of Yahuah anyone who has committed rape was to be PUT TO DEATH. According to Demoncraps anyone who has committed rape is to be President or a leading member of the Demoncrap party.
5 years ago
MMMmmmm… So men are unable to ‘control themselves’ if a woman is ‘attractive’? WHY? What are those men taught, & by who (?) that lets them believe that because another person is ‘attractive’ they can commit violence against them? Sure there are rapists & murderers in all societies but they do know they are doing wrong! The idea of men blaming womens appearance is so backward & weird that (as a man) I am ashamed of the person that can twist words in this irresponsible way.
5 years ago
Ahmad’, with all this, are you aware that you live in LALA LAND. Wake up wanker.
