The leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe demands not to be tried during Ramadan
Tariq Ramadan wants the French justice system to adapt to his religious timetable in a rape trial. Lawyers warn that accepting it would bring justice to a standstill for a month.
Tariq Ramadan
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The criminal court of Paris Tariq Ramadan has been summoned to appear from 2 to 20 March to answer several aggravated rape charges, the outlet reveals. BVoltaire that The accused does not want to sit on the bench during those dates because it coincides with Ramadan.. His lawyers allege that the fast could affect his physical and mental faculties.
In the absence of a response from the court to the request for an adjournment, The defence has filed a motion to recuse the judge. and remove her from the process. They argue that holding the trial during Ramadan would demonstrate that does not offer “the guarantees of impartiality necessary for a fair hearing"”In other words, they turn the court's timetable into a religious issue and present the court's silence as a violation of rights. The manoeuvre not only seeks to delay the hearing but also to call into question the judge's very neutrality and to force a new procedural incident that could postpone the proceedings by weeks or months.
Several French lawyers see it as a pressure tactic. Parisian lawyer Lara Fatimi warns that accepting this criterion “would set a precedent of extraordinary gravity”: For one month, hearings, charges, police detentions and legal proceedings would be affected.s. “The criminal justice system would become unworkable,” he summarises.
Spiritual leader accused of rape in Switzerland and France
For years, Tariq Ramadan He has accumulated allegations of sexual assault in several European countries. The accusations date back to encounters with female followers and students between 2008 and 2016, which describe a similar pattern: relationships initiated under an aura of intellectual and spiritual prestige that, according to the accusers, ended in violence, coercion and intimidation.
A Geneva, A woman accused him of having raped and assaulted her in a hotel room in 2008. After years of litigation, the Swiss courts overturned an initial acquittal and convicted him of rape and sexual coercion, sentencing him to three years' imprisonment. Swiss Federal Court The sentence was subsequently confirmed, and is now final.
The friendly face of the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe… and in Barcelona
For years, Tariq Ramadan He has presented himself in Europe as a dialoguing intellectual, a university professor and a champion of a “modern Islam” compatible with democracy. Conferences, universities, the media and public institutions have opened their doors to him under this image of a moderate, reformist expert. In front of a Western audience, he speaks about coexistence and civil rights.; In the doctrinal sphere it refrains from condemning practices such as stoning and promotes an identity-based reading of Islam incompatible with state neutrality. It is what many analysts describe as a double discourse: moderate in appearance, Islamist at heart.
This façade has allowed him to forge alliances with politicians, academics and journalists who have treated him as a respectable voice, while he acted as the ideological reference for the Brotherhood in Europe. Barcelona, even, He participated in the institutional definition of “Islamophobia”, helping to turn religious or cultural criticism of Islam into a form of discrimination and restricting public debate.
From institutional prestige to the dock for rape
The academic aura of Ramadan has been replaced by a much more prosaic reality: a firm conviction for rape in Geneva and a new trial pending in Paris on similar charges. The Muslim Brotherhood's spokesman no longer speaks from a university lectern, but from the dock.
Who for years has demanded symbolic privileges, institutional recognition and confessional exceptions in the public sphere, It now also demands special treatment in the courts.. The same leader who was calling for schools, administrations and speeches to be adapted to their religious sensibilities. It now intends to adapt the court calendar accordingly.. It's not a matter of faith but of personal interest: a new tailor-made exception to evade justice.
If it is accepted that a defendant can postpone a trial because it is Ramadan, the door is opened to dismantling equality before the law. Today it is Ramadan; tomorrow it could be any other belief or pretext.
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