Posted on 12/21/2021 10:20:54 PM PST by NewsRael
When last we heard about Tariq Ramadan, at one time the most famous Muslim “public intellectual” in the Western world, he had fallen from grace. The curtain was pulled back and as one woman after another came forward to charge him with rape, he was revealed to be not only a serial rapist, but one who enjoyed humiliating – and physically hurting – his victims.
He has been allowed out of prison, and awaits trial in Paris. He may also have to face trial in Geneva, with a different set of accusers. In the wake of these charges, he was relieved of his prestigious position at St. Antony’s College, Oxford.
His travels across the world to lecture eager audiences on “the ethics of Islam” also came to a halt. Few want to hear the serial rapist dilate upon “ethics” of any kind.
For many, Ramadan has become an object of ridicule, scorn, and embarrassment. But he’s not withdrawn from public life; he’s still proclaiming his innocence, and still trying to keep himself in the public eye, even starting a new career as a singer of protest songs against the malevolent West.
As I have pointed out previously, before Tariq Ramadan was charged with being a serial – and violent – rapist, he had been the Islamic world’s golden boy. He was hailed as a “towering intellect” and a “leading Islamic scholar.”
In 2000, TIME called Tariq Ramadan “one of the seven most important religious innovators” of the 21st century; in 2004, TIME named Ramadan as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World Today.”
In Internet polls, Foreign Policy magazine listed Ramadan as one of the “100 top global thinkers” in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2012. No longer.
Now after so many revelations have come out about this monstrous human being, for so long the privileged paladin of Islam in Europe, he’s unlikely to be ever taken seriously again. He still has his supporters. The Qatari Emir apparently is still providing him with 35,000 Euros a month. He won’t starve. He and his wife recently bought two luxury apartments in Paris. But he is no longer taken seriously as a “thinker.”
It turns out that what has brought him down is not his stout defense, over decades, of both his grandfather, Hasan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, and of the Brotherhood itself. Nor is it his years of well-practiced taqiyya on behalf of Islam, lecturing here, debating there, speaking one way before Muslim audiences and quite another way before the Infidels.
It turns out that what has brought him down is not his stout defense, over decades, of both his grandfather, Hasan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, and of the Brotherhood itself. Nor is it his years of well-practiced taqiyya on behalf of Islam, lecturing here, debating there, speaking one way before Muslim audiences and quite another way before the Infidels.
It's odd he's not an editor at the Washington Post.
That’s a good muzzrat tight there. Muzzies gotta muzz
And, in many cases, the religion for the neice.
IOW, just your average “good” muslim.
History - 1400 years / 800 MILLION INNOCENT PEOPLE MURDERED BY MUSLIMS - ETHICS??
Are the feminists still supporting him and telling women to take one for the team?
islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.
He’s out done Bill Cosby 🤣
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