Oxford Don Ramadan, recently seen “laughing” with faculty members.
This came out over the weekend,
Tariq Ramadan accusé d’avoir eu des relations sexuelles avec des élèves mineures.
You can read the full report on this link from BFMTV.
This, amongst the other accounts, is important,
Une d’entre elles, âgée de 14 ans à l’époque, dit avoir refusé de coucher avec Tariq Ramadan: “Il a mis sa main sur ma cuisse en me disant qu’il savait que je pensais à lui le soir avant de m’endormir (…) C’était de la manipulation. Il disait qu’il pensait à moi mais qu’il était marié. J’étais mal, mais je ne pouvais rien dire. C’était mon prof”, raconte-t-elle en décrivant un “homme possessif et jaloux, (…) tordu, intimidant, qui usait de stratagèmes relationnels et pervers et abusait de la confiance des élèves”.
One of them, 14 years old at the time, said that she’d refused to sleep with Tariq Ramadan, “He put his hand on my thigh saying that he knew that I was thinking of him in the evening before going to sleep…it was manipulative. He said that he thought of me although he was married. I felt ill, but I couldn’t say anything. He was my Teacher…”. She described a “possessive and jealous person, warped, intimidating, who used a game of perverse ploys, and who abused the trust of his students.”
Comrade Edwy Plenel author of Pour les musulmans (2014), commented, while rejecting the “diabolisation” of Tariq Ramadan, the following,
Edwy Plenel: le cas de Tariq Ramadan “ressemble à celui des prêtres pédophiles”
I think that needs no translation.
Here is the Telegraph’s report on the latest developments.
Oxford professor accused of sexual misconduct with Swiss minors
An Oxford University professor and government adviser on tackling extremism is facing new allegations including sexual misconduct with minors.
Prof Tariq Ramadan was accused of rape last month by a French feminist author. He has denied the allegation and said he will sue for libel.
He is now facing new accusations from four Swiss women who say he made sexual advances to them when they were studying under him as teenagers in Geneva.
One of the women told Tribune de Geneve newspaper Prof Ramadan made unsuccessful sexual advances to her when she was 14 years old.
Another alleged he had sexual relations with her in the back of his car when she was 15 years old.
The other two women said they were 18 when they had sexual relations with him, but accused him of abusing his position of power as their teacher.
Prof Ramadan was accused of rape by the French author Henda Ayari last month.Since then two more women have accused him of rape. He has denied the accusations and filed a case for libel in the French courts.
In statements posted on Facebook, he claims he is being targeted by “a campaign of slander clearly orchestrated by my longtime adversaries” and says he has been advised by his lawyers not to comment further.
Currently Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford, he was chosen by Tony Blair to work on a task force to help tackle extremism in the UK following the 7/7 attacks in London in 2005.
He has also worked with the Foreign Office’s Advisory Group on Freedom of Religion or Belief, chaired by Tory Peer Baroness Warsi.
The Telegraph has sought comment from Prof Ramadan about the allegations.
The law in Switzerland permits sexual relations at the age of 16, but those taking advantage of their position in an educational establishment who have sexual relations with their students up to 18 years old risk up to 3 years in Prison.
In this case however, because the alleged acts took place in the 1980s/90s they have passed the time limit for prosecution,
La majorité sexuelle est fixée à 16 ans en Suisse, mais le fait de “profiter des rapports d’éducation” pour obtenir des actes sexuels auprès d’un(e) mineur(e) de 16 à 18 ans, est passible de trois ans de prison au plus.Cependant, les cas des quatre Genevoises sont tous prescrits. Nouvel Obs.
Andrew Coates
November 6, 2017 at 1:03 pm
If a school janitor was accused of rape he would be sat in prison awaiting trial before his feet could touch the ground.
Zafid
November 6, 2017 at 10:19 pm
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- Butterflies and Wheels
November 7, 2017 at 1:22 am
I’m surprised Tony Greenstein hasn’t yet jumped to Ramadan’s defence, claiming it’s a right wing witch-hunt, and anyway these little minxes dressed up as schoolgirls:
http://azvsas.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/the-framing-of-kelvin-hopkins-mp-lies.html
Jim Denham
November 7, 2017 at 9:04 am
Ramadan still welcome at Oxford.
Andrew Coates
November 7, 2017 at 5:13 pm
Just out:
Andrew Coates
November 7, 2017 at 5:48 pm
Andrew Coates
November 7, 2017 at 6:14 pm
This blog supposedly has an “anti-racist” policy. So why the constant, obsessive witch-hunt against a prominent MUSLIM academic? What is your objective? To drive him from his job? Mr Coates, will you be gloating if Mr Ramadan were to take his own life a la Carl Sergeant.
Aaeesha
November 8, 2017 at 11:52 am
Because he has been, amongst other things, accused of anti-Semitism in the past.
“The former head of the French antiracism organization SOS Racisme, Malek Boutih, has been quoted as saying to Ramadan, after talking with him at length: “Mr. Ramadan, you are a fascist”.[69] In an interview with Europe 1, Malek Boutih also likened Ramadan to “a small Le Pen”;[70][71] in another interview he accused him of having crossed the line of racism and anti-Semitism, thus not genuinely belonging to the alter-globalization movement. Bertrand Delanoë, mayor of Paris, declared Ramadan unfit to participate at the European Social Forum, as not even “a slight suspicion of anti-Semitism” would be tolerable.[72]
Talking to the Paris weekly Marianne, Fadela Amara, president of Ni Putes Ni Soumises (Neither Whores Nor Submissive, a French feminist movement), Aurélie Filippetti, municipal counsellor for The Greens in Paris, Patrick Klugman, leading member of the Conseil Représentatif des Institutions juives de France, and Dominique Sopo, head of SOS Racisme, accuse Ramadan of having misused the alter-globalization movement’s ingenuousness to advance his “radicalism and anti-Semitism.”[72] Egyptian intellectual Tarek Heggy has also charged Ramadan with saying different things to different audiences.[73] Other criticisms have included claims that an essay attacking French intellectuals was anti-semitic[74] and that Ramadan has shown excessive generosity in his rationalization of the motives behind acts of terrorism, such as in the case of Mohammed Merah.[75]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariq_Ramada
Andrew Coates
November 8, 2017 at 12:24 pm
Predictably, the tragic death of Carl Sargent has provided apologists for sexism and sexual harassment with an excuse to go on about “witch-hunts” and to bleat “it’s all gone too far”, etc, etc.
Jim Denham,
November 8, 2017 at 12:36 pm