Ibn Warraq Reviews Caroline Fourest’s Exposé on the Cultural Jihadist Tariq Ramadan

comment by Jerry Gordon

tariq_ramadan_200.jpgTariq Ramadan is the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), Hassan al Banna, an Egyptian acolyte of Hitler. Ramadan, a Swiss Citizen and university professor had been denied entry to the US for contributing funds to a terrorist ‘charity’ to take a visiting professorship at Notre Dame University. Denied that academic post, although he gave lectures by webcast. He is now ensconced at Oxford University in Londonistan. His academic ‘followers’ here in the US are desperate to have his immigration barrier lifted in the name of ‘academic freedom’. So would CAIR and MB front here in America. He is after all the man whose sermons reverberated through Mosques in those banlieuses in France inflaming young Muslims to riot, mayhem and murder.

Andrew Bostom has a posting with a review by Ibn Warraq, the Muslim apostate scholar of Islam of a new book about Ramadan:Brother Tariq: The Doublespeak of Tariq Ramadan, by Caroline Fourest: “The Pious Fraud: Tariq Ramadan, Islamist and equivocator” .

Here’s what brilliant Warraq has to say about taqiyyah artist, Tariq Ramadan:

    ibn_warraq_002.jpgRamadan is a dangerous radical who, far from modernizing Islam, is in fact attempting to Islamize modernity. Of undoubted ability and charisma, but with no respect for or allegiance to Western values of liberty, Ramadan is poisoning the minds of young Muslims in the West. He spreads his message through personal appearances and with the sale of tens of thousands of cassettes through Tawhid, an Islamist publishing house with close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Under Ramadan’s influence, Islamist youths develop a hatred for Western values and dream of creating a totalitarian Islamic theocracy, not only in the heart of Europe, but eventually the entire globe, until, in the words of al-Banna, “the Islamic banner . . . waves supreme over the human race.”

by Andrew Bostom, blog, March 2, 2008

Ibn Warraq, writing in the February 29, 2008 City Journal reviews Brother Tariq: The Doublespeak of Tariq Ramadan, by Caroline Fourest: “The Pious Fraud: Tariq Ramadan, Islamist and equivocator”

Ibn Warraq, author of the landmark Why I Am Not a Muslim (1995), since 1998 has edited several books of Koranic criticism and on the origins of Islam, including Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out, Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism, and Which Koran? (forthcoming).

Read every word of Warraq’s review of Caroline Fourest’s remarkable investigative analysis of our era’s foremost cultural jihadist—a point perhaps overlooked given the apt characterization of the pseudo-intellectual Ramadan by author-essayist Theodore Dalrymple as the “second-hand car salesman of Islamic fundamentalism.”

Here is Warraq’s conclusion:

    Fourest has rendered an invaluable service. She demonstrates with great skill that Ramadan is a dangerous radical who, far from modernizing Islam, is in fact attempting to Islamize modernity. Of undoubted ability and charisma, but with no respect for or allegiance to Western values of liberty, Ramadan is poisoning the minds of young Muslims in the West. He spreads his message through personal appearances and with the sale of tens of thousands of cassettes through Tawhid, an Islamist publishing house with close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Under Ramadan’s influence, Islamist youths develop a hatred for Western values and dream of creating a totalitarian Islamic theocracy, not only in the heart of Europe, but eventually the entire globe, until, in the words of al-Banna, “the Islamic banner . . . waves supreme over the human race.”

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March 2nd, 2008 at 11:56 • opinionAndrew BostomTariq Ramadanbook reviewMuslim BrotherhoodCaroline FourestIbn Warraq 0 Comments

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