47 Facts About Tariq Ramadan

Tariq Ramadan is a Swiss Muslim academic, philosopher, and writer.

Tariq Ramadan is a visiting professor at the Universite Mundiapolis in Morocco.

Tariq Ramadan is a senior research fellow at Doshisha University in Japan.

Tariq Ramadan was a visiting professor at the Faculty of Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar, and used to be the director of the Research Centre of Islamic Legislation and Ethics, based in Doha.

Tariq Ramadan is a member of the UK Foreign Office Advisory Group on Freedom of Religion or Belief.

Tariq Ramadan was elected by Time magazine in 2000 as one of the seven religious innovators of the 21st century and in 2004 as one of the 100 most influential people in the world and by Foreign Policy readers as one of the top 100 most influential thinkers in the world and Global Thinkers.

In February 2020, Tariq Ramadan was formally charged with raping two more women and in October 2020, Tariq Ramadan was formally charged with raping a fifth woman.

Tariq Ramadan was born in Geneva, Switzerland on 26 August 1962 to an Egyptian Muslim family.

Tariq Ramadan is the son of Said Ramadan and Wafa al-Banna, who was the eldest daughter of Hassan al Banna, who in 1928 founded the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

Tariq Ramadan's father was a prominent figure in the Muslim Brotherhood and was exiled by Gamal Abdel Nasser from Egypt to Switzerland, where Ramadan was born.

Tariq Ramadan taught at the College de Saussure, a high school in Lancy, Switzerland, and claims to have held a lectureship in Religion and Philosophy at the University of Fribourg from 1996 to 2003, something the University publicly denied in 2018.

Tariq Ramadan was appointed a professor at the University of Notre Dame in the United States in 2004 before his visa had been revoked by the Bush administration because of the Patriot Act.

Tariq Ramadan established the Mouvement des Musulmans Suisses, which engages in various interfaith seminars.

Tariq Ramadan is an advisor to the EU on religious issues and was sought for advice by the EU on a commission on "Islam and Secularism".

Tariq Ramadan is the founder and President of the European Muslim Network, a Brussels-based think-tank that gathers European Muslim intellectuals and activists.

Tariq Ramadan married in 1986 and is the father of four children.

Tariq Ramadan converted from Catholicism to Islam and adopted the name Iman.

In February 2004, Tariq Ramadan accepted the tenured position of Henry R Luce Professor of Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding at the Joan B Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, at the University of Notre Dame.

In September 2005, Tariq Ramadan filed an application for a B Visa to allow him to participate at speaking arrangements with various organizations and universities.

Pursuant to the injunction, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered the government on 23 June 2006 to issue its decision on Tariq Ramadan's pending B Visa application within 90 days.

The consular officer concluded that Dr Tariq Ramadan was inadmissible based solely on his actions, which constituted providing material support to a terrorist organization.

On 8 April 2010, Tariq Ramadan spoke as part of a panel discussion at the Great Hall of Cooper Union in New York City, his first public appearance since the State Department lifted the ban.

Tariq Ramadan rejects a binary division of the world into dar al-Islam and dar al-harb, on the grounds that such a division is not mentioned in the Qur'an.

Tariq Ramadan has been known to cite favourably the dar al-da'wah.

Tariq Ramadan has condemned suicide bombing and violence as a tactic.

Tariq Ramadan wrote that the Muslim response to Pope Benedict XVI's speech on Islam was disproportionate, and was encouraged by reactionary Islamic regimes in order to distract their populations, and that it did not improve the position of Islam in the world.

Tariq Ramadan wrote an article, "Critique des intellectuels communautaires", which French newspapers Le Monde and Le Figaro refused to publish.

Tariq Ramadan was accused, in return, of having used inflammatory language.

Tariq Ramadan said that he opposed corporal punishments, stoning and the death penalty and that he is in favor of a moratorium on these practices to open the debate among Islamic scholars in Muslim-majority countries that enforce them.

Tariq Ramadan later defended his position arguing that, because it involved religious texts that Muslims take seriously, the law would have to be properly understood and contextualized.

Tariq Ramadan argued that in Muslim countries, the simple act to "condemn" won't change anything, but with a moratorium, it could open the way for further debate.

Tariq Ramadan thinks that such a debate can only lead to an abolition of these rules.

On 16 July 2016, Tariq Ramadan was denied entry to Mauritania at Nouakchott International Airport.

Tariq Ramadan had been invited to give lectures in the country.

Tariq Ramadan claimed the decision "came directly from the presidency".

Tariq Ramadan says one thing to his faithful Muslim followers and something else entirely to his Western audience.

The former head of the French antiracism organization SOS Racisme, Malek Boutih, has been quoted as saying to Tariq Ramadan, after talking with him at length: "Mr Tariq Ramadan, you are a fascist".

Tariq Ramadan denies contacts with terrorists or other Islamic fundamentalists and the charges of antisemitism and double talk, attributing the charges to misinterpretation and an unfamiliarity with his writings.

Four other Swiss women subsequently came forth in early November 2017 with allegations that Tariq Ramadan molested them when they were teenagers.

On 7 November 2017, the University of Oxford announced that, "by mutual agreement, and with immediate effect" Tariq Ramadan "has taken a leave of absence".

In January 2018, Tariq Ramadan was denied entry to Qatar as a consequence of the scandal.

On 31 January 2018, Tariq Ramadan was taken into custody by French police.

An American now living in Kuwait, she alleged that Tariq Ramadan had assaulted her in Washington DC in August 2013.

In February 2020, Tariq Ramadan was formally charged with raping two more women.

Tariq Ramadan's attorney reported that several doctors have said his condition is "incompatible with detention"; however, the court insisted on maintaining his detention after multiple hospital exams and medical consultations indicated that his condition was compatible with detention.

In January 2014, Tariq Ramadan was nominated for the title of Religious Advocate of the Year at the British Muslim Awards.

Tariq Ramadan has authored around 30 books as well as "several hundred articles" in French and English, some of which have been translated into other languages.