Brother Tariq and the Muslim Hoods: Towards a Taxonomy of Islamic Subterfuges
by Ibn Warraq (May 2010)
Brother Tariq: The Doublespeak of Tariq Ramadan
By Caroline Fourest, Foreword by Denis MacShane
New York & London, Encounter Books, 2008
Notes, Index. xv + 262 pp.
Faith, here’s an equivocator that could swear in both the scales sake, yet could not equivocate to Heaven. Oh, come in, equivocator.
Francis Tesham, one of the plotters [of the Gunpowder Plot, 1605], giving ambiguous and evasive answers to interrogators but also defended the technique of mental reservation, in which one spoke words that had a misleading or false signification while adding a silent mental supplement that rendered the entire proposition truthful.
In Islam, Taqiyya, and also kitman, is a doctrine of pious fraud or religious Reader, ed. Raymond Ibrahim
“The neo-Islamic totalitarian movements are essentially fascist movements. They concentrate on mobilizing passion and violence to enlarge the power of their charismatic leader and the solidarity of the movement. They view material progress primarily as a means for accumulating strength for political expansion, and entirely deny individual and social freedom. They champion the values and emotions of a heroic past, but repress all free critical analysis of either past roots or present problems.”
Halpern continued:
“Like fascism, neo-Islamic totalitarianism represents the institutionalization of struggle, tension, and violence. Unable to solve the basic public issues of modern life—intellectual and technological progress, the reconciliation of freedom and security, and peaceful relations among rival sovereignties—the movement is forced by its own logic and dynamics to pursue its vision through nihilistic terror, cunning, and passion. An efficient state administration is seen only as an additional powerful tool for controlling the community. The locus of power and the focus of devotion rest in the movement itself. Like fascist movements elsewhere, the movement is so organized as to make neo-Islamic totalitarianism the whole life of its members”.[1]
The Swiss bank Al-Taqwa, founded by leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, such as Youssef Nada, was closed down on December 31, 2001 because it was found to be a financial sponsor of terrorism, with links to Hamas, al-Qaeda, and the GIA in Algeria. Tariq Ramadan tells us, “We never had any sort of contact with the bank. The fact that our name appears in its address file doesn’t mean a thing…” This is hardly credible, is indeed a lie, since the Ramadans were well-acquainted with its chief administrator, beginning with its president-founder, Youssef Nada, one of Tariq Ramadan’s father’s best friends. But there is more: Said Ramadan, Tariq’s father, was one of the founders of al-Taqwa! It is no coincidence that other founders of al-Taqwa were active Nazi supporters of Hitler during World War II.
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http://jcb.blogs.com/jcb_blog/2006/09/tariq_ramadan_n.html, accessed 2 February, 2008.
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