Tariq Ramadan manages simultaneously to deny and affirm that he’s a stealth jihadist...
“On his first trip back, Ramadan, now a professor at Oxford University, gave a keynote address this month at a fundraising dinner for the Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. He also sat down with the Chicago Tribune.”
Q: Your critics point to your grandfather, Hassan al Banna, who founded the Muslim Brotherhood, a political Muslim group in Egypt that has been violent at times. They draw links between your own beliefs and that of the Brotherhood. Do you belong to the Muslim Brotherhood?
A: I don’t belong to the Muslim Brotherhood. (A few days ago) someone asked me to condemn my grandfather. I said, “Look. I’m not from the Muslim Brotherhood. He was living in the ’30s and the ’40s. He was against British colonization. He built schools. He was promoting a vision. There are things with which I agree, and others, that put into context, I may disagree. But I’m not condemning him. He never killed someone.”
Note that while he says that he does agree with some aspects of the Brotherhood program, he only “may” disagree with other aspects. Again, he is sidestepping the essential question: does Tariq Ramadan wish to extend the hegemony of Sharia to the West, even by non-violent means?
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/04/tariq-ramadan-manages-simultaneously-to-deny-and-affirm-that-hes-a-stealth-jihad.html
Ramadan is probably one of the top guys in the Muslim Brotherhood. I’ve always thought Obama was a member. Thinking of Dinesh and his 2012 movie here when I say they bear deep grudges for British anti-Colonialism.
I wish someone would compare his speech in Cairo with what Tariq Ramadan said just prior - would do it myself time permitting. Thanks for the reminder piasa.
Nothing odd or suspicious or treasonous here. Please move along.