This man who has been held up for inspection and exposure in France and Switzerland -- see "Frere Tariq" by Caroline Fourest -- and was forced to move on to England, now describes himself as an "Oxford professor"  and that phrase is repeated in the popular press. But Tariq Ramadan is no such thing. He is the temporary holder of a temporary position as a lecturer at St. Antony's, where for years the Middle Eastern wing (which has nothing to do with the reputable, Russian and East European affairs wing, except insofar as those in the Middle Eastern wing are able to influence some in the Russian-and-East-European wing, as Ramadan was able to influence the impressionable Timothy Garton Ash, still believing that Muslim victims in the Balkans, which was all he knew of Islam and made a career from reporting on it, out of historical context, was enough to make one forget the entire history of Islamic conquest and subjugation of non-Muslims, to overlook the figure of Muhamamd, and the texts, and tenets, and attitudes, of Islam) ) was under the control of the recently-deceased Albert Hourani,and became a diploma mill, with its course-less D.Phil, for  such people as Rashid Khalidi and other young Arabs busily  participating in the "project" of "constructing a 'Palestinian identity"  and suchlike.

Ramadan need not be given money by the taxpayers of Greater London.  He has all the money he needs, after all, from the rich Arabs, individuals and governments, who support him directly and indirectly. Why, within the past year those Arab admirers of Tariq Ramadan have created a special professoriship, even better-endowed than Jayne Mansfield or Diana Dors, for him at the University of Leiden. This position will no doubt allow Tariq Ramadan  to continue to mostly live, and continue to slither snake-like through London's intellectual demi-monde, offering his sly apologetics to all those still willing to listen.