Tariq Ramadan
Islamism
Tariq Ramadan is a leader of the Global Muslim Brotherhood and son of Said Ramadan and the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. He is Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Islamic Studies in Qatar and former Director of the Research Centre of Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE; Doha, Qatar). In 2009, Ramadan was dismissed from his positions as an adviser on integration for the city of Rotterdam and from a Dutch University over his role as a talk show host on Iranian TV. A ban on Ramadan traveling to the US was lifted in January 2010 and since then he has appeared a number of times in the US to speak at events organized by various US Muslim Brotherhood organizations. Until 2018, Ramadan was Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford University and also taught at the Oxford Faculty of Theology. In wake of the #MeToo movement in 2017, several women have come forward and accused Ramadan of rape. As a consequence, the University of Oxford announced in November 2017 that Ramadan has taken a leave of absence from the university. Ramadan was taken into custody in France in February 2018 and held for over nine months before being granted bail on claims that he raped two women––one in 2009 and the other in 2012. In February 2020, France charged him for rape in regards to two other women.