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November 9, 2005
UK: Islamic Apologist Tariq Ramadan Warns About Possible Thought Crime
Of course the riots in France have everything to do with Islam. They are the expression of the desire for conquest of French Muslims. Tariq Ramadan doesn't even want you to think it. (Apparently, the World Media hasn't groveled before Islam enough for Mr. Ramadan's taste, that he's issuing this warning.) Sadly, Ramadan's illogical, self-serving nonsense will be repeated by our deluded "intellectuals": Scholar warns against putting Islamic spin on French riots
LONDON: From his current vantage point at Oxford University, Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan cautions against putting an Islamic spin to the unrest that has swept France's downtrodden surburbs.In an interview, Ramadan said the French authorities will need to embrace a more sophisticated approach if they want to respond effectively to the rioting that has run for a dozen nights straight. "In all that is happening, there are of course groups who are in it for pure vandalism, for wild violence," said the scholar, named by Time magazine as one of the leading thinkers of the 21st century but barred from the US.
"But the phenomenon doesn't stop there," he added, citing "objective events" involving the relationship between those living in the grim suburban housing projects and French society as a whole.
"People in the suburbs have the impression that they count for nothing, that they can be looked down upon and insulted in any way." He added: "We're in the process of losing a footing in the suburbs. Even so-called Muslim associations are more and more disconnected. The fracture is profound... We are seeing an Americanisation in terms of violence. Above all, one must not Islamisise the question of the suburbs," Ramadan stressed.
"The question that France must answer is absolutely not a question of religion."
P.S. Notice the nasty appeal to authority by the writer, mentioning Ramadan's "vintage point at Oxford University." He's an intellectual and you are not, you see.
Posted by Ruy Diaz at November 9, 2005 8:31 AM
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