The two women say they approached Ramadan, whose grandfather founded Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood movement, separately to seek the conservative scholar’s religious advice.
Source/Credit: Dawn Pakistan / AFP
By AFP | February 1 2018
PARIS: French police on Wednesday questioned prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan over allegations that he raped two women, who went public with their claims in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal.
The Oxford professor was summoned to a Paris police station and taken into custody “as part of a preliminary inquiry in Paris into rape and assault allegations”, a police source said.
Ramadan has furiously denied the complaints made by two Muslim women who said they were emboldened to break their silence after the revelations that toppled Hollywood mogul Weinstein.
The two women say they approached Ramadan, whose grandfather founded Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood movement, separately to seek the conservative scholar’s religious advice. [more ...]
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