For an ardent Zionist like me, it is utterly disappointing
to learn from the United Arab Emirates’ news site The National that
“Supporters of Mr Ramadan are describing the accusations against him [as] part
of a Zionist plot to destroy his name.” Obviously, there can be no doubt
whatsoever that the eminent Oxford professor has the most awesome supporters
who know what they’re talking about. So now the depressing question is: what
took the infamous Elders of Zion so long??? Are they getting real old??? I
mean, why didn’t they act well before 2009, when Ramadan was appointed “H.H.
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies and
Senior Research Fellow” at Oxford’s St Antony’s College???
On the other hand, I have to admit that the Zionist plot
starts to look really formidable. The first to accuse
Ramadan was French ex-Salafi Henda Ayari, who – encouraged by the #MeToo
campaign – went to the police to file a complaint against Ramadan for “rape,
sexual assault, willful violence, harassment and intimidation.” Soon
afterwards, another French woman (who remained unnamed) came
forward and “gave an account of an extremely violent [sexual] assault to
two French newspapers.” A third woman reportedly
“told Le Parisien in an interview … that Mr Ramadan sexually harassed her in
2014 and blackmailed her for sexual favours.”
And then there
was a rather stunning confession by a French official “who was considered
the ‘Monsieur Islam’ of the French Ministry of the Interior between 1997 and
2014, [and who] was well acquainted with Mr Ramadan.” Reportedly, “Monsieur
Islam” was really really shocked by the allegations against Ramadan: he “insisted
he had ‘never heard of rapes’” – all he sort of knew was that Tariq Ramadan “had
many mistresses, that he consulted sites, that girls were brought to the hotel
at the end of his lectures, that he invited them to undress, that some resisted
and that he could become violent and aggressive.”
Shocking, utterly shocking, isn’t it – who could ever
suspect that a man known for sometimes becoming “violent and aggressive” with “girls
… brought to the hotel at the end of his lectures” would rape some of those
girls???
The plot (the Zionist plot, naturally!!!) thickened further when
Swiss media reported
that four Swiss women testified about being sexually exploited by Ramadan while
they were his teenage students. And once again, “a Swiss specialist in Islam
who spent years accompanying Mr Ramadan on his trips across Europe,” admitted “that
he had heard various rumours and suspicions about his former close associate’s
behaviour over the years.”
Of course it should go without saying that the people who
kept quiet about all those allegations against Ramadan did the right thing – as
the Director of Oxford’s Middle East Centre just put
it so delicately: “It’s not just about sexual violence. For some students
it’s just another way for Europeans to gang up against a prominent Muslim
intellectual. We must protect Muslim students who believe and trust in him, and
protect that trust.”
Absolutely and obviously right: it would be plain old
“Islamophobia” to focus on the fact that there have been accusations of sexual
misconduct and even potentially criminal conduct against Ramadan for years and
that some women finally have found the courage to come forward to testify!!!
So all we can do now is helplessly watch the monstrously
evil Zionist plot against Tariq Ramadan take its course. But in the meantime, let
me just highlight a bit of the record of the “prominent Muslim intellectual”
whom Oxford apparently deems so worthy of the continued “trust” of students –
particularly Muslim students.
If you check out Ramadan’s own website, you will see that it
has several pages worth of links to his Press TV show “Islam and Life.”
According to the Facebook page
of the program, it is a “weekly show with Prof. Tariq Ramadan on the world’s
fastest growing religion and the daily challenges faced by its followers
especially in the West.”
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has described
Press TV as “Iran’s official English-language propaganda arm” and “one of the
world’s leading dispensers of conspiratorial anti-Semitism in English.”
Maybe Oxford’s H.H. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies and Senior Research Fellow Tariq
Ramadan could devote one of his shows to the “Zionist plot” against him???
Now let’s have a quick look at some of the views the
oh-so-trustworthy Oxford professor shares with his social media followers (634K
on Twitter, more than 2 million
on Facebook).
Some two years ago – on the same day when The Atlantic
published Jeffrey Goldberg’s excellent piece
on “The Paranoid, Supremacist Roots of the Stabbing Intifada” – Ramadan posted a rant entitled “ISRAELI SOCIETY IS
SICK.” Naturally, no word about the ongoing wave of murderous stabbing and
car-ramming attacks by Palestinian terrorists, but plenty of blood-libel style
poison about how utterly evil and murderous Israeli society is, concluding with
the professor’s view: “It is Israel that is the first danger of Israel, and its
main disease.” One of Ramadan’s fans responded with a succinct summary: “Israel
has become its worst nightmare; zionism is naziism.”
Already a few weeks earlier, Ramadan bitterly denounced “the great democrats of the world”
who “talk about self-defense of Israel” which really means giving “Israel carte
blanche to spread inhumanity, repression and horror.” The eminent professor
concluded “Disgusting, really.”
If you’re not too disgusted by now, here are a few more
similar outpourings of Oxford’s H.H. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies and Senior Research Fellow Tariq
Ramadan: “#Israel They kill in #Palestine;”
“#Israel CONDEMN ! CONDEMN ! FOR GOD SAKE
CONDEMN !!!;” and “ISRAEL AND STATE
TERRORISM.”
Finally, it will come as no surprise that Carlos Latuff –
the proud second-prize-winner of Iran’s 2006 “International
Holocaust Cartoon Competition” – is the kind of “artist” who can express in
a picture that is worth a thousand antisemitic words how Tariq Ramadan feels.
