Tariq Ramadan is a global phenomenon. A Swiss-born Muslim activist, he is the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, the radical group credited with inspiring modern Islamic radicalism. Ramadan is fluent in English, French and Arabic. In Europe, he is the most quoted and circulated writer on Islam. His writings are a regular feature of major English-speaking newspapers, but his real message is revealed in his speeches to Muslim groups in France, Africa, and the Middle East. Caroline Fourest has carefully transcribed and translated those speeches and shows that Ramdan's ingenious rhetoric is a Trojan horse, fostering the anti-Semitic and anti-Christian values of fundamentalist Islam on its latest battlefield: Western civilization.
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Caroline Fourest is a French feminist writer, journalist and editor of the magazine Prochoix. A graduate in sociology and political science, she has written many books on such topics as the conservative right, the pro-life movement (France and USA), and current fundamentalist trends in the Abrahamic religions. She blogs regularly on herhomepage (French).
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TARIQ RAMADAN was interviewed and the results posted on a Pew research website.
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If you get a chance, read Ramadan's answers -- they don't say much, and in some cases don't make sense. He seems to claim that Apostacy is not a crime punishable by death in the last few sentences, part of the obfuscation and word salad that this fellow spews out hoping nobody will challenge him, since his arguments are not logical, not even based on fact.
He is, in a word, an apologist for Islam, trying to befuddle those who see Islam as an intolerant religion.
Tariq Ramadan is always shown to be the good face of 'moderate European Islam' and he is trotted out, or rather trots himself out, everytime there is some question about the ability of Europe to swallow and assimilate its millions of Muslim immigrants. A passionate defender of Muslims he pretends that Islamism is but a tiny minority and that Islam and European civilization can go hand in hand. But despite having been born in moderate and tolerant Switzerland he learned none of the nuetrality of that country. Instead as this book shows he speaks with two mouths: one to Europeans and Westerners and another to his fellow Muslims in Arabic
In fact Ramadan is a practitioner of 'Taqieh', the Muslim Shiite idea that is defined as "to hide the truth is the ultimate art of a Moslem" according to Interruptions. This book does the reader of the service of translating what he says in Arabic and showing that it does not jive with what he says in English and what is often quoted in English language media.
A fascinating expose that will surely startle anyone familiar with this influential individual.
*Tariq Ramadan is an adept at delivering reassuring speeches and interviews to the public at large: it gets to hear what it wants to hear. *This while he promotes ideas harmful to liberty, equality, and fraternity the rest of the time! *The book is very interesting and very complete. Lots of details. *If you want some proof of his deceitful behavior before you buy this, Google him for his very recent (April 12, 2010) CNN television interview with Christiane Amanpour. You can see and hear him dodging the outright condemnation of the stoning of women!!! (Also visit Wikipedia if you want more juice.) *The ideology this guy promotes can only fracture a society in two, causing fatal enmity and conflict.
Much needed book exposing Tariq Ramadan who is indeed doublespeak in different platforms. His first DISSERTATION JURY resigned and then his political friends found another jury to give him his so-called doctorate.
While Fourest's book is written (or perhaps translated) like a grocery list, this book exposes Ramadan as the wolf he is. He is the typical race and religion baiter, using the openness of the West as the tool by which he hopes to destroy it. We might write Ramadam off as a comic character if he was acting for personal wealth - and that may indeed be one of his motivations - but his main motivation is to promote his fringe and violent ideology and promote his political movement. Why the spineless Europeans allow this man to live and do his work among them is beyond me.
This is a very detailed expose comparing the subversive methods that are being used to try to gradually entrap the world (or at least the Western developed nations) into a hypothetical Islamic paradise.
I liked "Muslim Mafia" better as it was pretty much the dry facts, whereas "Brother Tariq" is written from a viewpoint that is fairly extreme in terms of the author's strong allegiance to secularism (as opposed to the Muslim Brotherhood allegiance to a world umma with a 7th Century form of Sharia as the absolute law). "Muslim Mafia" is more focused on relatively recent activity (and mostly in the U.S.)
"Brother Tariq" fills in a lot of the detail as to the historical and world-wide activity of the Muslim Brotherhood and their goals, and documents clearly the relationships between so-called moderate spokesmen such as Tariq and the active terror organizations such as Hamas (as does "Muslim Mafia" regarding Tariq's counterparts in the U.S.)
The author's extreme positionalities, however, make some of her accusations sound petty and even make some of the Brotherhood's positions sound relatively sane.
There is something fair and just when a propagandist is taken down. Tariq Ramadan must be taken in the same way as other apologists for Islamic imperialism; Esposito, Eduard Said, Saudi Embassies and Consulates.