Hani Ramadan

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Hani Ramadan ( ar . هاني رمضان, DMG translation Hānī Ramaḍān ; born June 2, 1959 in Geneva ) is a Swiss school teacher, Islamic preacher and book author of Egyptian origin. Ramadan heads the Geneva Islamic Center and has authored several books and press articles on Islamic topics, some of which have been controversial. He is the brother of Tariq Ramadan , son of Said Ramadan and grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood Hassan al-Banna .

Ramadan was established in April 2017 France with a residence ban is what he to Switzerland deported was.

biography

Hani Ramadan was born on June 2, 1959 in Geneva and completed his entire training in the canton of Geneva . At the University of Geneva he obtained a licentiate in literary studies in 1981 , in philosophy in 1983 and in 1984 in Arabic and Islamic studies . In 1990 he received his doctorate from the same university. phil. hist. In 1983 he was naturalized in Geneva .

Since 1981 Ramadan was employed by the canton of Geneva at the La Golette school in Meyrin as a French teacher for the upper level, where he taught students between the ages of 12 and 15 years. From the 1980s onwards, he also began to give lectures on Islamic topics, which were distributed on video cassettes in Switzerland and France . He has also published books on the doctrine of Islam and participated in round tables and interreligious dialogues.

In 1991 he published the book The Woman in Islam , in which he describes the role of women according to his religious beliefs. His statements in this regard were often described as discriminatory and also led to tension in Ramadan's workplace.

In 1995 he succeeded his late father as honorary director of the Islamic Center in Geneva. In addition to the administrative management of the center, he also worked as an imam , gave sermons, led the Friday prayers and carried out Islamic weddings . His sermons are published on the centre's website.

At the beginning of 2003, Ramadan was dismissed from the canton of Geneva as a teacher on the grounds that his public statements on religious issues were incompatible with the separation of church and state in the canton . Ramadan fought his dismissal in court and got right after a two-year legal battle. The canton of Geneva then employed him again and had to pay him two annual wages; however, he was no longer allowed to teach at the public school.

Ramadan is married and has three children.

Dismissed as a teacher

Since 1981 taught Ramadan in school La Golette in Meyrin French at the advanced level . His book The Woman in Islam , published in 1991, led to conflicts with his colleagues and especially his female colleagues. After the book was discussed in L'Hebdo magazine in 1998 , 50 of his colleagues signed a petition against Ramadan to the Geneva Director of Education. In return, his students also signed a petition in support of him. Ramadan was then reminded by the canton of his duty to be politically and religiously neutral; no other consequences followed. In 2000, Ramadan was again at the center of controversy after calling for jihad in an anti-Israeli demonstration . He then expressed himself in the sense that his understanding of jihad should not be understood as a call to violence and that he had been misunderstood by the press.

On September 10, 2002, Ramadan published an article in the French newspaper Le Monde entitled La Charia incomprise ("the misunderstood Sharia "), in which he explained his understanding of Islamic law. Among other things, he presented stoning as a method of punishment that is difficult to apply in practice but is fundamentally legitimate. In addition, in this article he referred to AIDS as the divine punishment for homosexuality and drug use.

In response to a request from the Geneva cantonal government , the Directorate of Education came to the conclusion that Ramadan had grossly violated his duty to be politically and religiously neutral and dismissed him as a teacher, even if he had not discussed his religious views directly in front of his students. Ramadan appealed against this decision and was right after two years; he was then employed again by the canton and received two annual wages.

Theses and controversies

Ramadan's article on the “misunderstood Sharia” in Le Monde sparked a strong reaction in the Swiss and international press. In it, he described the death sentence by stoning against Amina Lawal in Nigeria as the will of God and AIDS as divine punishment for sinful behavior. On August 23, 2009, he spread a conspiracy theory on Hezbollah- affiliated Al-Manar television that the Israeli government was conducting a brisk trade in the organs of killed Palestinians .

Ramadan often addresses events in the Palestine conflict in a controversial way. He describes "the Zionist logic as essentially warlike" and thereby motivates the State of Israel to "emphasize the superiority of the Chosen People in creating facts". He also described Europe as " infiltrated by the Israeli military ".

In August 2015, in the Tribune de Genève , he criticized the widespread recognition of the three Americans who had overpowered the assassin in the attack on the Thalys train 9364 on August 21 , and was particularly disturbed by their “staging as heroes ” while at the same time in the Civil war in Syria daily give people cruel strength. His article met with widespread criticism in the French-language press. Ramadan responded to this criticism with an article in Le Temps , in which he argued that the World Zionist Organization had been actively promoting prejudice against the Syrian people for 30 years.

Five days after the attacks in Paris on November 13, 2015, he stated on his blog that Islam had nothing to do with the attacks and that the culprit should be found in the Mossad . In June 2016, his statements on the hijab were controversially discussed at a Swiss school : Ramadan had compared unveiled women with two-euro coins, which, like these, are "passed from hand to hand as seen by everyone".

Ban on performing in France

From 2016, various planned performances of Ramadan in France were banned by the authorities, for example on September 17 in Nîmes , on October 1 in Le Havre , and in February 2017 in Roubaix and Saint-Quentin . He was banned from residence by France on April 7, 2017 , and was deported to Switzerland on April 8 before a scheduled performance in Colmar .

Publications

  • La Femme en Islam , 1991.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f Enquête sur Hani Ramadan et son activité pour l'État de Genève ( Memento of the original of November 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aidh.org
  2. Press release of the Geneva government on Ramadan's dismissal (French)
  3. La Charia incomprise , Hani Ramadan, Le Monde , September 10, 2002 (French)
  4. Debate ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Tribune de Genève , October 14, 2002 (French) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.droitshumains.org
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  6. Bernard Kouchner et la logique sioniste , blog by Hani Ramadan (French)
  7. Fait divers: trois Palestiniens tués à Gaza, trois autres grièvement blessés , blog by Hani Ramadan (French)
  8. Visages de l'imposture: l'Europe infiltrée par Tsahal , blog by Hani Ramadan (French)
  9. Hani Ramadan s'en prend aux héros du Thalys ; Le Point (French)
  10. ^ Vrais-faux héros du Thalys: le frère de Tariq Ramadan dénonce une "mise en scène ; La Libre Belgique (French)
  11. De qui se moque-t-on, le frère de Tariq Ramadan critique les heros du Thalys ; Le Figaro (French)
  12. Vous avez dit "théorie du complot"? ; Le Temps (French)
  13. Hani Ramadan sur les attentats: "Commençons par surveiller le Mossad" , Conspiracy Watch, November 21, 2015 (French)
  14. [2] , marianne.net, June 12, 2016 (French)
  15. France 3
  16. http://www.paris-normandie.fr/mobile/region/les-defenseurs-de-la-laicite-reclament-l-interdiction-de-la-conference-d-hani-ramadan-au-havre-YH6898991 #
  17. http://www.lepoint.fr/societe/roubaix-l-islamologue-hani-ramadan-ne-donnera-finalement-pas-de-conference-01-02-2017-2101548_23.php
  18. http://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/hauts-de-france/nord/lille-metropole/roubaix/conference-annulee-islamologue-hani-ramadan-apres-roubaix-saint-quentin-1188221.html
  19. L'islamologue suisse controversé Hani Ramadan expulsé de France . RTS (French)