Here is the latest from The National, a paper that appears in the Emirates, where the Muslim Brotherhood is despised and so, too, is Tariq Ramadan, as the loyal grandson of the Brotherhood’s founder, Hasan Al-Banna. “Confidential report unearths Tariq Ramadan’s foul past,” The National, November 29, 2018:
A devastating new report summarising Swiss investigations into Tariq Ramadan sets out a series of alleged sexual assaults and contacts with underage girls.
The Oxford professor was arrested in France in February on charges of sexual assault, and has since faced allegations in Switzerland of a similar nature.
A Swiss radio report has revealed authorities in Geneva interrogated around 50 people including former students of the academic at the college des Coudriers and the college of Saussure, where he taught French between 1984 and 2004.
The final report disclosed by the French-speaking Radio Lac found that Mr Ramadan “tried to seduce a 14-year-old student with no success, and he managed to have sexual relationships with three other students aged between 15 and 18.”
It also revealed that Mr Ramadan had sought contact with students outside the premises of the school and that he regularly invited his pupils – both boys and girls – for individual restaurant lunches. One student confessed to having been sexually molested by the scholar in his car.
According to multiple teachers and students interviewed in the investigation, Mr Ramadan is described as a charismatic figure who always took initiatives in organizing cultural or social events. Some described having a “fascination” for him.
But the proximity to students of a man known to be a seductionist raised suspicion among his peers….
Mr Ramadan, a married father of four whose grandfather founded Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, now stands accused of having raped two women in 2009 and 2012, a disabled woman identified in media reports as “Christelle” and feminist activist Henda Ayari….
The 56-year-old Swiss academic, who has been in custody in France since February 2, denied all rape charges and claimed the relationships had been consensual….
Tariq Ramadan is at long last being properly recognized for what he always was. Not a “towering intellect.” Not a “leading scholar of Islam.” Not, as TIME Magazine labelled him in 2004, one of the 100 Most Influential People In the World (he was placed in the category of “Scientists and Thinkers.”). TIME"s paean of praise did, however, get one thing right in its first sentence:
“Few observers deny the seductive brilliance of Swiss philosopher and Islamic theoretician Tariq Ramadan, but disagreement over his true agenda is ferocious.”
