Middle East studies academics, such as Georgetown University’s John Esposito, UC Berkeley’s Hatem Bazian, and UCLA’s Khaled Abu-El Fadl, are defending Tariq Ramadan, the Islam scholar under investigation in France following rape allegations. Like Ramadan’s Islamist supporters, the open letter they’ve signed blames bigotry by asking, “Is there one form of justice for Muslims in France and another for everyone else?”
