Go See Tariq Ramadan For Free
Date: Wednesday 14 October 2009
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Tariq Ramadan
Chair: Dr Effie Fokas
Tariq Ramadan’s latest book, What I Believe, lays out the basic ideas he stands for in clear and accessible prose. He describes the book as a work of clarification, directed at ordinary citizens, politicians, journalist and others who are curious (or sceptical) about his positions. Aware that that he is dealing with emotional issues, Ramadan tries to get past the barriers of prejudice and misunderstanding to speak directly, from the heart, to his Muslim and non-Muslim readers alike.
Tariq Ramadan is professor of Islamic studies at Oxford University, a visiting professor at Erasmus University and president of the European think tank European Muslim Network in Brussels.
Ticket Information
This event is free and open to all however a ticket is required. One ticket per person can be requested from 10.00am on Wednesday 7 October.
Comments
| 13 October 2009, 3:28 pm |
Pin him down about his claim that there ought to be a mere ‘moratorium’ on stoning to death until the issue has been adequately chewed over by the bearded ones in Cairo, Makkah and Madinah!
| 13 October 2009, 3:30 pm |
Mark J. need only check Brother Tariq’s record; there’s even at least one Tariqophobic book in print but it may be only in French.
| 13 October 2009, 3:38 pm |
I don’t think he is ‘professor of Islamic studies at Oxford University’.
http://resources.theology.ox.ac.uk/staff.phtml?lecturer_code=tramadan
| 13 October 2009, 3:53 pm |
I’d love to take a gander at the audience even if it is just for the laughs. The mere fact *Frère Tariq* is not just tolerated, but also fêted, in university circles speaks volumes about the destruction and decay of true intellectual life and academic honesty.
Of just what value is a degree in The Humanities these days?
A bucket of shit?
| 13 October 2009, 4:00 pm |
Emotional issues? Give him a box of kleenex for god’s sake.
| 13 October 2009, 7:14 pm |
Malek Boutih, the former head of the leading french anti racist group SOS described Tariq Ramadan as a…”fascist…[who is].. no better than Jean Marie Le Pen.”
| 13 October 2009, 7:22 pm |
WTF!!!???
I leave Harry’s Place for one day and you’re already promoting Tariq Ramadan.
I better stay, just to make sure you don’t start bigging up Qaradawi.
| 13 October 2009, 10:02 pm |
“Go see Tariq Ramadan for free”. If I pay, can I get the right not to see him?
| 13 October 2009, 11:33 pm |
Banned from the USA in 2004 and 2006 for “providing material support to a terrorist organization” by donating money to Hamas, Tariq Ramadan is the grand son of the Fascist Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan Al Banna.
Ramadan was recently appointed (as Melanie Phillips recently pointed out here; http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/5312276/oxfords-latest-prize.thtml) “His Highness Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Oriental Studies with effect from 1 October 2009…The chair is funded by a benefaction from Qatar”.
My guess is that Harry’s Place, keen to find any reformist Muslim scholars, no matter how dubious there sincerity, promotes Ramadan in the absence of a more serious contender for a “true Muslim reformer.”
| 14 October 2009, 12:50 am |
It is full
| 14 October 2009, 9:04 am |
One might have described him as unctuous; even oliaginous, but “slippery as a bucket of shit” covers it far more eloquently.
A much needed work too because I still don’t know what Tariq ’slippery as a bucket of shit’ Ramadhan believes.