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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8 of 12 people found the following review helpful
By Dr. Rogers
Format:Hardcover
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.
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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.
73 of 111 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
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.
Seth J. Frantzman
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.
Seth J. Frantzman
10 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
*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.
*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.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By lang27
Format:Hardcover
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.
33 of 56 people found the following review helpful
By Ying Rath
Format:Hardcover
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.
7 of 15 people found the following review helpful
By WindyW
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
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.
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.
8 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The book was needed !
Infidel Europe have to learn about Taqiyya, Kitman and Takfir.
And Ramadan is perfect because he can't open the mouth without using Taqiyya!
Infidel Europe have to learn about Taqiyya, Kitman and Takfir.
And Ramadan is perfect because he can't open the mouth without using Taqiyya!
8 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
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.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
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I haven't read this book. But i have seen the woman who wrote this book several times on TV.
You must know that this woman never has any argument against Tariq Ramadan when... Read more
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Published 22 months ago by abdel
1.0 out of 5 stars
False citations and wrong interpretation
NOTE: I read this book in French in the language it was written. This is the English translation, I doubt it is still accurate...
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Published on May 5, 2011 by Billy The Kid
1.0 out of 5 stars
Slanderlous lies
The writer you must know is a well known bigot , a racist , French racism plain and simple. A disease in France. Read more
Published on April 11, 2011 by rahul
1.0 out of 5 stars
Full of lies and misinformation
This is book should be listed as fiction because it is a made-up story that the racist author shares about Ramadan. Read more
Published on January 25, 2011 by Sue
2.0 out of 5 stars
Malice or Fear ? What drives the anti-Ramadan sentiment in the world...
I see a lot of people giving this book a 5 star rating. Nothing wrong with that. They are free to voice their opinions and reviews as they like but I feel we need to dig a little... Read more
Published on January 17, 2011 by S. H. Quadri
1.0 out of 5 stars
Such a shame
There are people in this world that are so convinced they see something when nothing exists, and they will go to any length to try to convince you that what they see is actually... Read more
Published on May 2, 2008 by Farhan Bhatti
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