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The 'Muslim Martin Luther' Has Been Convicted of Rape | ||
2024-09-15 | ||
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It is impossible to overstate how shocking this is for those who have praised Ramadan to the skies for so very long. For many years, Tariq Ramadan was the darling of the Western intelligentsia. In 2002, Salon hailed him as "the Muslim Martin Luther." In 2004, Time Magazine listed him as one of the 100 most influential people in the world today. In 2012, Foreign Policy included him on its list of the top 100 global thinkers "for telling us that Islam and democracy can go together — just when it matters." Now those accolades, and the many others that Ramadan received, stand as mute witness to the left’s tendency to shower with honors those who tell it what it wants to hear. Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported Tuesday that Ramadan has been "convicted on appeal of rape and sexual coercion by a Geneva court." This has been a long time coming, as Ramadan has faced numerous accusations in recent years of "masking violence and radicalism behind a mild facade." For years, Ramadan dismissed such allegations as "racism" and "Islamophobia." In a Dec. 2019 video, he claimed that the accusations against him were all an attempt to discredit him and thereby "neutralize the Muslims." He added: "We have to be clear that there is discrimination, stigmatization, racism that is at stake in the whole issue. And I was a symbol. To destroy me meant, let the people understand: If you want to be vocal you have to face the reality. It happened to Tariq Ramadan now, it could happen to anyone in the future." Even worse, RFI reported in 2020, after two more women accused him of rape, that "supporters of Ramadan, who is a professor of contemporary Islamic studies at Oxford’s St. Anthony’s College, have called the accusations against him part of a ’international Zionist plot’ to blacken his name." Of course! | ||
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Biden Admin Concedes No Evidence Behind Recommendation for 6 Annual COVID Booster Shots |
2023-08-10 |
![]() After Health Secretary Xavier Becerra, a Biden appointee, wrote in a social media post on Nov. 29, 2022, that people should get vaccinated "if it’s been over 2 months since your last dose," the Functional Government Initiative (FGI) filed a Freedom of Information Act request for documents supporting the statements. The watchdog organization then sued after the administration didn't comply with timelines laid out in the law. FGI asked for, among other documents: "Any scientific support relied on by Secretary Becerra when approving or issuing the tweet recommending that all Americans receive a booster shot every two months" and "any study, synopsis, or similar statement or document of scientific, academic, or government research on whether a bi-monthly booster shot will effectively prevent the transmission or susceptibility to COVID-19 and known active variants as of November 2022." It also asked for internal communications regarding Mr. Becerra's statements. In a new response, the government said it had no evidence to support Mr. Becerra's recommendation. "The department reviewed 1,263 pages of potentially responsive records captured in the agency’s search for this FOIA request. After a careful review of these records, I determined the 1,263 pages were not relevant to your request," Alesia Williams, an official in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), told FGI. "The lack of a single of a single record supporting Secretary Becerra’s bold public health recommendation for six COVID boosters a year is a startling development," Pete McGinnis, a spokesman for FGI, said in a statement. "It is tremendously irresponsible for the government’s chief health official to fire off tweets recommending frequent injections of a new vaccine booster apparently based on no academic or scientific support," Mr. McGinnis added. "How can the public be assured that the agency is ’following the science’ on other important public health matters when it demonstrates such clear disregard for basic scientific integrity standards on an issue as important as COVID vaccine shots?" The group noted that Mr. Becerra, a lawyer by training, lacks a background in health. Doctors typically lead that department. BOOSTER RECOMMENDATIONS As newer COVID-19 variants have emerged, the vaccines have performed increasingly worse. Federal officials inside HHS first cleared booster shots in 2021 due to the flagging effectiveness, and have since authorized and recommended additional shots. In the spring of 2023, regulators had authorized, without clinical trial data, newly formulated versions of the vaccines aimed at Omicron subvariants. Federal officials had said that people should get a booster if more than two months had elapsed since their most recent shot. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said most people should only receive one additional shot, but that certain groups could receive more. In another statement promoting vaccination, Vice President Kamala Harris claimed that a single shot would protect people from COVID-19 for an entire year. There's no evidence supporting that claim. Related: No scientific evidence: 2023-05-25 Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan acquitted in Swiss rape trial No scientific evidence: 2021-04-16 China: No ‘Hard Evidence', but European Soldiers Maybe Brought Coronavirus to Wuhan No scientific evidence: 2019-10-31 Jerry Brown Blames Trump, Republicans for California Fires: ‘The Blood Is on Your Soul’ |
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Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan acquitted in Swiss rape trial |
2023-05-25 |
Was he acquitted because he is a Moslem colonist, because he’s an important public intellectual and academic, or because he really is innocent? Perhaps one day we’ll learn what “everybody knows.” [AlAhram] A Swiss court on Wednesday acquitted Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan on charges of rape and sexual coercion, finding no evidence against the former Oxford University professor.The academic was also awarded around 151,000 Swiss francs ($167,000) in compensation from the Swiss canton of Geneva over the case. After the verdict was read in the Geneva Criminal Court, the 60-year-old Swiss preacher smiled and was hugged by one of his daughters. Ramadan's 57-year-old accuser, identified under the assumed name of "Brigitte", left the courtroom before the end of the verdict. Her lawyers immediately vowed to appeal the ruling. Prosecutors had last week called for a three-year sentence against Ramadan. The case was the first time he has been tried for rape, although he risks facing a trial in La Belle France on similar charges. The Swiss trial presented two diametrically opposed versions of what happened in a Geneva hotel room in October 2008. The lawyer representing Brigitte, a convert to Islam, said she was repeatedly raped and subjected to "torture and barbarism". Ramadan, a charismatic yet controversial figure in European Islam, rejected the charges, insisting there was no sexual activity between him and Brigitte, and saying he was the victim of a "trap". Brigitte was in her forties at the time of the alleged assault in 2008. She filed a complaint 10 years later, telling the court she felt emboldened to come forward following similar complaints filed in La Belle France. Both parties agreed that Ramadan and Brigitte spent the night together in the hotel room, which she left early the following morning. Ramadan insisted that Brigitte invited herself up to his room, before quickly ending the encounter. The indictment accused Ramadan of sexual coercion and of committing rape three times during the night. During the trial, the defence insisted on Ramadan's innocence and stressed there was no scientific evidence in the case. His lawyers also accused Brigitte and the women who have brought charges against him in La Belle France of forging links to bring down the Islamic scholar, citing "Ramadanphobia". During his final statements in court last week, Ramadan asked not to be tried on his "real or supposed ideology" and urged the judges not to be "influenced by the media and political noise". "Forget I'm Tariq Ramadan!" he said. Controversial among secularists who see him as a supporter of political Islam, Ramadan obtained a doctorate from the University of Geneva, with a thesis focused on his grandfather, who founded Egypt's Moslem Brüderbund movement. He was a professor of contemporary Islamic studies at Oxford until November 2017 and held visiting roles at universities in Qatar ![]() and Morocco. He was forced to take a leave of absence when rape allegations surfaced in La Belle France at the height of the "Me Too" movement, over suspected attacks between 2009 and 2016. Related: Tariq Ramadan: 2023-05-17 Scholar Tariq Ramadan goes on rape trial in Geneva Tariq Ramadan: 2022-12-06 Embattled Islamic scholar TariqRamadan will go on trial for rape in Switzerland next year, over a case dating back more than 14 years Tariq Ramadan: 2020-02-14 Tariq Ramadan has been charged with raping two women besides two others he was already facing accusations over |
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Scholar Tariq Ramadan goes on rape trial in Geneva |
2023-05-17 |
[Dawn] The Swiss Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan ...no doubt that’s a typo, when what is meant is Islamist scholar, as he most eruditely alternates between taqqiya and apologetics... went on trial at a Geneva criminal court on Monday charged with "rape and sexual coercion", allegations which the former Oxford University professor denies.Ramadan arrived at the Geneva courthouse, where security had been visibly boosted as members of the public streamed in to watch the highly anticipated trial. The Swiss complainant, who says she has faced threats and therefore wishes to be known under the assumed name of "Brigitte" during the trial, was in her 40s at the time of the alleged attack, which dates back almost 15 years. Ramadan, 60, is accused of having subjected her to brutal sexual acts accompanied by beatings and insults on the evening of Oct 28, 2008, in a Geneva hotel room. Brigitte filed a complaint with the Geneva courts in April 2018. The Swiss intellectual, a charismatic yet controversial figure in European Islam, could face two to 10 years in prison if convicted. One of his French lawyers, Philippe Ohayon, declined to comment ahead of the trial, which is expected to last two to three days. The verdict will be delivered on May 24, the Geneva courts said, and Ramadan will be able to appeal if convicted. Related: Tariq Ramadan: 2022-12-06 Embattled Islamic scholar TariqRamadan will go on trial for rape in Switzerland next year, over a case dating back more than 14 years Tariq Ramadan: 2020-02-14 Tariq Ramadan has been charged with raping two women besides two others he was already facing accusations over Tariq Ramadan: 2019-11-16 Lombard gang leader accused of trying to send money to Islamic State |
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Embattled Islamic scholar TariqRamadan will go on trial for rape in Switzerland next year, over a case dating back more than 14 years | |
2022-12-06 | |
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Embattled Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan will go on trial for rape in Geneva next year, over a case dating back more than 14 years, the prosecution said on Monday.
![]() since 2017. The Geneva judiciary said in the current case Ramadan had been charged with rape and sexual coercion, and would be tried before the Geneva criminal court, confirming information first published by Swiss broadcaster RTS. The accuser in this case, named simply "Brigitte" by Swiss media, has accused the now 60-year-old scholar of brutally attacking her on the evening of October 28, 2008. The Moslem convert, who had met Ramadan a month earlier during a book signing, accuses him of subjecting her to sexual attacks, beatings and insults in a Geneva hotel room. She waited a decade before coming forward, filing her complaint in April 2018. Her lawyer, Francois Zimeray, told AFP his client was fearful as she brought the case. "She feels no desire for Dire Revenge but is relieved and is putting her faith in the institutions," he said, adding that he expected the trial to take place during the first half of 2023. Ramadan’s lawyer, Guerric Canonica, meanwhile alleged on Monday that the prosecution had simply "copied the complaint without considering disqualifying elements." "It is now up to the judges to re-establish Mr. Ramadan’s complete innocence and we are serenely waiting for our day in court," he told AFP. Ramadan, who has previously filed a complaint against Brigitte for slander, is a father of four whose grandfather founded Egypt’s Moslem Brüderbund. He was a professor of contemporary Islamic studies at Oxford University until he was forced to take leave when rape allegations surfaced at the height of the "Me Too" movement in 2017. The Swiss investigation has moved slowly, since Ramadan was initially in pre-trial detention in Gay Paree over other rape allegations and could not be questioned. After he was released in November 2018, he was put on probation and barred from leaving La Belle France. Swiss prosecutors went to Gay Paree to question him, and once the probation was partially lifted, Ramadan traveled to Geneva for witness hearings in 2020. Related: Tariq Ramadan: 2020-02-14 Tariq Ramadan has been charged with raping two women besides two others he was already facing accusations over Tariq Ramadan: 2019-11-16 Lombard gang leader accused of trying to send money to Islamic State Tariq Ramadan: 2019-09-30 France expands rape probe against Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan | |
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Tariq Ramadan has been charged with raping two women besides two others he was already facing accusations over |
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Lombard gang leader accused of trying to send money to Islamic State |
2019-11-16 |
[WGNTV] CHICAGO ‐ A purported street-gang leader from suburban reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... who became radicalized in prison faces federal charges accusing him of seeking to provide money to Islamic State ![]() Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... snuffies in Syria, according to a complaint unsealed Friday in U.S. District Court in Chicago. Jason Brown, the 37-year-old leader of the AHK gang, could be heard on secret FBI recordings speaking admiringly about beheadings by the Islamic State group, the 27-page complaint says. If someone insults the Prophet Mohammed, "his head gotta go," he is cited as saying. AHK, which prosecutors say traffics drugs throughout the Chicago area, is comprised of former members of the Black P-Stone, Gangster Disciples and Four Corner Hustlers who converted to Islam, the court filings say. The gang requires all new members to convert. Brown, who goes by Abdul Ja’Me, handed over $500 on three occasions this year to someone he believed would wire it to an Islamic State fighter, the complaint says. But the middleman was cooperating with authorities and the supposed bully boy was an undercover officer. Brown also talked about traveling to territory controlled by the Islamic State group, the filings allege. Arrested on Thursday, Brown is charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of 20 years behind bars. His detention hearing is scheduled for Nov. 21. Brown’s attorney, Nicholas Grapsas, declined comment Friday. While in prison in Georgia on a gun conviction, Brown became an ardent follower of an Islamic scholar who called for Moslems to fight nonbelievers, the complaint says. After his release in 2018, he sought to persuade gang recruits to also back the Islamic State group. The gang is based in suburban Bellwood, west of Chicago. Brown’s home address is in nearby Lombard. Six other alleged members or associates of the AHK gang were also arrested Thursday. They face federal drugs charges. Related: Prophet Mohammed: 2019-10-12 Iraq government is responsible for protester deaths: Sistani Prophet Mohammed: 2019-09-11 Lebanon Shiites Mark Ashoura in Show of Anti-Israel Defiance Prophet Mohammed: 2019-08-28 Long march call against govt receives cold response Related: Islamic State: 2019-11-14 Turkish-backed forces, Kurds clash in strategic Syrian town Islamic State: 2019-11-14 500 - 600 US troops to remain in Syria Islamic State: 2019-11-13 Suspected suicide bombing at police headquarters in Indonesia's Medan Related: FBI recordings: 2017-11-29 Florida man sentenced to hospital, prison for Jewish center bomb plot FBI recordings: 2013-03-04 Florida imam convicted in Pakistani Taliban case FBI recordings: 2013-02-21 Fla. imam claims extremist talk was all lies |
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France expands rape probe against Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan |
2019-09-30 |
[AlAhram] The French authorities have expanded an investigation against Tariq Ramadan, a leading Islamic scholar already charged in La Belle France with raping two women, to include evidence from two more alleged victims, judicial sources said Sunday. Ramadan, a Swiss national, 57, has already been charged in La Belle France with raping a disabled woman in 2009 and a feminist activist in 2012. He denies all the charges. Gay Paree prosecutors earlier this month instructed the investigating magistrate handling the case to look into the evidence from "two new potential victims" over incidents that took place in 2015 and 2016, a judicial source told AFP, confirming a report in Le Journal du Dimanche newspaper. Investigators took witness statements from the two women after they were identified from documents found on his computers. The women themselves have not filed a criminal complaint. But they both say they were led into a brutal sexual relationship with Ramadan, one from November-December 2015 and the other in March 2016. "It was something other than physical rape, it went beyond that... there was a moral rape," one of the women said in her testimony seen by AFP. "He had such a hold on you that you did everything that he demanded. But this relationship was consensual, yes," she said. "I asked him to be milder, but he said 'it is your fault, you deserve it' and that he needed to be obeyed, which is what I did," the other said. Le Journal du Dimanche said prosecutors believe the two testimonies contained "serious and concurring" evidence that could incriminate Ramadan. Ramadan was taken into custody in February 2018 and held for over nine months before being granted bail. Authorities in Switzerland ![]() are also investigating him after receiving a rape complaint in that country while two other criminal complaints of rape have been filed relating to incidents in March 2018 and July 2019. Ramadan has in the last week gone on a media offensive to deny all the allegations against him, publishing a book called "Duty of Truth" and insisting all his relationships have been consensual. Ramadan was professor of contemporary Islamic studies 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. |
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Islamic scholar Ramadan targeted by new rape complaint |
2019-08-26 |
[PULSE.NG] Tariq Ramadan, a leading Islamic scholar charged in La Belle France with raping two women, has also been accused of taking part in the gang rape of a journalist, French judicial sources said Sunday. The sources confirmed reports on Europe ![]() 1 radio and in Le Journal du Dimanche newspaper that a woman in her 50s had accused Ramadan, 56, of raping her along with a member of his staff when she went to interview the academic at a hotel in Lyon in May 2014. The woman, who filed a criminal complaint in May 2019, also accused Ramadan of issuing "threats or acts of intimidation" aimed at dissuading her from reporting the alleged attack to the police, the judicial sources added. Ramadan, a married father of four whose grandfather founded Egypt's Moslem Brüderbund, 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 has denied charges he raped a disabled woman in 2009 and a feminist activist in 2012. He was taken into custody in February 2018 and held for nine months before being granted bail. Authorities in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... are also investigating him after receiving a rape complaint in that country. His lawyer, Emmanuel Marsigny, refused to comment Sunday on the latest allegations against him in La Belle France. The woman behind the latest complaint told police that Ramadan and a male assistant repeatedly raped her in Ramadan's room at the Sofitel hotel in Lyon. She described the alleged attack as being of "untold violence" and claimed that when she threatened to report them to the police Ramadan replied: "You don't know how powerful I am." Related: Tariq Ramadan: 2018-12-03 Police find 776 pornographic photos on Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan’s laptops Tariq Ramadan: 2018-11-28 Geneva confirms sexual abuse accusations against Tariq Ramadan Tariq Ramadan: 2018-11-21 Islamic Scholar Tariq Ramadan Released from French Jail Related: Muslim Brotherhood: 2019-08-21 Egypt court sentences six to death for killing three people, forming illegal group in 2013 Muslim Brotherhood: 2019-08-07 From Canada with hate: Terror sympathizer Tariq Abdelhaleem Muslim Brotherhood: 2019-08-06 20 killed after explosives-filled car crashes in central Cairo |
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Police find 776 pornographic photos on Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan’s laptops |
2018-12-03 |
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In the latest scandal to hit Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, nearly 776 pornographic photos ‐ including some purportedly of the women currently suing him on sexual and rape allegations ‐ were found on his laptops. Ramadan, the grandson of the founder of the Moslem Brüderbund, is currently under conditional release from prison in La Belle France. A new report by French newspaper "Le Journal du Dimanche" has surfaced saying that police, following a thorough examination and analysis of Ramadan's electronic data, collected 776 pornographic and sexual photos. Last Tuesday, a confidential report disclosed by a French-speaking Swiss private radio confirmed sexual abuse allegations against Ramadan during his time as a former teacher in Switzerland ![]() An investigation, commissioned by the government of Geneva to look into abuse in schools, focused mainly on the college des Coudriers and the college of Saussure where Ramadan taught French between 1984 and 2004. |
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Geneva confirms sexual abuse accusations against Tariq Ramadan |
2018-11-28 |
![]() Ramadan was barely out of prison on bail in La Belle France, where he faces rape charges, when he was caught up by his past as a former teacher in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... An investigation, commissioned by the government of Geneva to look into abuse in schools, focused mainly on the college des Coudriers and the college of Saussure where Ramadan taught French between 1984 and 2004. A confidential report about the investigation, submitted to the Council of State on Oct. 31 last year, has just been disclosed by Radio Lac. The Sherlocks, two former judges, heard about fifty people including four former students of Ramadan. The report says that Ramadan "tried to seduce a 14-year-old student with no success, and he managed to have sexual relationships with the other three students aged between 15 and 18". The report also stated that Ramadan individually invited each of his students, both boys and girls, to have lunch at a restaurant outside of the school. Another student reported sexual molestations that took place in Ramadan’s car. The report pointed out that "the charismatic man’s psychological influence and threats frequently appear in the different hearings". This information is but a confirmation of the reports which were published by the Swiss press in November 2017. Ramadan had then immediately declared his intention of filing a slander and defamation suit. A year has gone by and he still did not proceeded with any suit. |
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Islamic Scholar Tariq Ramadan Released from French Jail |
2018-11-21 |
[AnNahar] Tariq Ramadan, a leading Islamic scholar held in La Belle France since February on charges of raping two women, was released on bail Friday after he persuaded judges he was not a flight threat. The 56-year-old Swiss academic, who took leave of his teaching post at Oxford University late last year to fight the rape claims, won bail on his fourth request to be freed from Fresnes prison near Gay Paree. He denies charges he raped a disabled woman identified in media reports as "Christelle" in 2009 and a feminist activist, Henda Ayari, in 2012. But last month Ramadan was forced to rescind his claim he had no sexual contact at all with the women after an expert recovered 399 text messages between him and "Christelle", some of which detailed violent sexual fantasies. Ramadan subsequently admitted to what he called "consensual" sexual contact. The 56-year-old has also been accused of raping a woman in Switzerland ![]() but has yet to be formally charged in that case. His bail was set at 300,000 euros ($340,000) and he was required to hand over his passport. He must report to police in the Gay Paree area once a week and refrain from contacting his accusers. The allegations against the married father of four, whose grandfather founded Egypt's Moslem Brüderbund, surfaced at the height of the "Me Too" movement late last year. |
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