Tariq Ramadan Repudiated

by Winfield Myers  •  Aug 28, 2009 at 9:30 am

http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2009/08/tariq-ramadan-repudiated

	Tariq Ramadan

In the latest Campus Watch Research, Stephen Schwartz examines the recent firing of Islamist scholar Tariq Ramadan by Dutch authorities in "Tariq Ramadan Repudiated," which appears today at The American Thinker. Here's an excerpt:

In an important development for the fight against extremist Islam in the West, the Dutch city of Rotterdam and Erasmus University Rotterdam have dismissed Tariq Ramadan, the Swiss-born Islamist academic, from his two local jobs.

Born in Switzerland, Ramadan is the grandson of Hassan al-Banna, founder of the radical Muslim Brotherhood. He is a close associate of the fundamentalist Muslim theologian Yusuf al-Qaradawi, with whom he collaborates in the so-called European Council for Fatwas and Research [ECFR], a Brotherhood-oriented body. Al-Qaradawi is the leading theorist of a "European Islam" that would abuse Western standards of religious freedom by erecting a parallel system of Shariah law alongside established civil law, coupled with aggressive da'wa or Islamic proselytizing. Ramadan has endorsed this strategy. The ECFR scheme, and Tariq Ramadan's involvement in it, are documented in the recent Center for Islamic Pluralism report, A Guide to Shariah Law and Islamist Ideology in Western Europe, 2007-2009.

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