Tel-Chai Nation

Hugh Fitzgerald addresses the news of the Islamic "scholar" Tariq Ramadan now being convicted for sexual assault:

Remember Tariq Ramadan, “Europe’s leading Islamic scholar” and “towering intellect” and one of the “100 top global thinkers” who was once a professor of contemporary Islamic studies at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University? As Jihad Watch noted briefly here, he has just been convicted by a Swiss Appeals Court of the rape and sexual coercion of a woman known as “Brigitte” in Geneva.

Brigitte was not one of the four students he taught years ago at a lycée in Geneva. who have accused him of seducing them when they were his trusting pupils, aged between 14 and 18. No, she’s “in addition” to those former students, a victim of Ramadan’s predatory ways. It’s not known if those four Swiss girls-now-women will be bringing charges against him, but this first conviction in Switzerland should encourage them to move forward in pressing their own claims.

More to the point, we must hope they will file reports of their own against him, because this awful man, whose grandfather was a founding member of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, deserves to be in prison for a long time. And it's abominable how men like him with his kind of religious background have been lionized without question or scrutiny for so long. That has to stop. That he apparently exploited any one of them who was under 18 speaks volumes too. He committed pedophilia, and that's obscene.

Labels: dhimmitude, Europe, islam, misogyny, Moonbattery, sexual violence, terrorism