Henda Ayari

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Henda Ayari (born December 4, 1976 in Rouen ) is a French women's rights activist and author, as well as an activist against Islamism in France. She founded the aid organization Libératrices and published a biographical book about her exit from Salafism . In 2017, she filed a lawsuit against Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan for raping her in 2012 .

Live and act

Henda Ayari grew up as the daughter of a forced marriage between a Tunisian mother and an Algerian father, both non-practicing Muslims, in Normandy . Her childhood was shaped by her tyrannical mother, and when she was nine she experienced sexual violence . After the separation of her parents, the death of a close cousin and the successful prevention of a forced marriage, she began to study psychology at the University of Rouen , came into contact with women from the Islamist scene and became radicalized . Although no one in her family had been veiled, she chose to wear a jilbab . At the age of 20 she met a Tunisian Salafist living in Lyon , married him a few months later and, at the request of her family, dropped out of her studies again. For ten years she lived in Roanne, wearing a niqab, completely isolated from society. After separating from her husband because of domestic violence began in northern France a new life as a single mother of three children, learned new, to move into a world of undisguised, to open a bank account and first with odd jobs of temporary employment agencies to make a living. Since there was only an Islamic marriage and not a civil marriage , she was not entitled to support from her husband. During a hospital stay, the judiciary transferred custody of their children to her ex-husband who sympathized with jihadism : he forbade them to see their mother or to speak to her on the phone for two years. She was later able to fight back custody. However, she initially remained loyal to Salafism. In 2010 she began to wear only a hijab in public instead of the niqab .

In March 2015 she founded the aid organization “Libératrices” in Rouen with the aim of uniting men and women in a network of mutual support to promote women's rights . The association wants to offer help to isolated mothers with difficulties in raising their children alone, as well as to young people from single-parent families , through long-term veiling or similar . Libératrices also campaigns against Islamism.

The horror at the terrorist attacks on 13 November 2015 Paris on the one hand and on the other their admission to the court paperwork -School "ENG" in Dijon and the joy associated about to start over from the beginning to be able to solved at Ayari the decision made, to finally abandon the hijab and make its deradicalization public. On Facebook , she admitted that she was a staunch Salafist and showed pictures of herself with and without hijab. The weekly Tunisian magazine Réalités was the first to report on Ayari, as it wrote under the title "My story with the veil":

“I am still a practicing Muslim , although I no longer wear a veil [...] I would be happy and proud if my story could help other women. I have nothing against women who wear veils, but I refuse to accept that some attempts to impose the veil on others. I am not saying that women should remove their veil, [...] I just advise women to live as they want, with or without a veil. [...] But it has to be your decision and in no case someone else's. "

- Henda Ayari : Realities

A few days later, France Télévisions picked up the article in which congratulations from other users on the "brave decision", but also reports of the photos to Facebook because of " nudity " were reported, and wrote that Ayari had "the Internet on fire" with her post set. The Women in the World Foundation, founded by Tina Brown and appearing in the New York Times , wrote of a “rebirth after years as one of the living dead”. In addition to numerous insults and threats, Ayari received 85,000 “ Likes ” on Facebook.

In the following year she published her biography under the title " J'ai choisi d'être libre " (German: "I have decided to be free" ) about her life as a Salafist and the liberation from it. Le Figaro called the book "a story of the 'renaissance' of the modern age ", the magazine Glamor wrote: "If you read the book, you realize how much this falsely spiritual extremism is synonymous with isolation and can thus lead to the worst." Interviewing known Ayari to have received death threats and was therefore forced to change residence.

After Emmanuel Macron was elected President of France, Ayari asked him in an open letter published on the French national holiday and the anniversary of the attack in Nice to make the fight against political Islam a top priority. In a full-page interview in the leading French medium Le Figaro and the talk show "Le Grand Oral des Grandes Gueules" on the television channel BFM TV , Ayari explained her demands for programs to help women caught in radical Islamist movements, protective measures for children from Salafist relationships Prevention of radicalization , organization of educational meetings on secularism and citizenship to liberate radicalized women from their isolation as well as sensitization of women against the political instrumentalization of the Islamic veil.

On October 24, 2017, she filed a lawsuit against Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan for raping her in 2012 . When in October 2017 under the hashtag #BalanceTonPorc (German: "Verpfeif 'dein Schwein") a six-figure number of confrontations with sexual harassment and violence (based on the #MeToo debate as a reaction to the Weinstein scandal ) in French social networks were portrayed, she felt encouraged to reveal his name. Although she had already described the rape in her book, she still used the pseudonym “Zoubeyr” ( Arabic بقوة 'Strong') is used. Tariq Ramadan's attorney said his client denied Henda Ayari's allegation and threatened a counterclaim for defamation , according to The Guardian . Ayari known, the religious and social advice of the then fifty-year university professor of contemporary Islamic studies at Oxford of and grandson of the founder Muslim Brotherhood to be followed in social media. When he gave a lecture at a conference of the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe in the Paris suburb of Le Bourget in 2012 , he invited her to meet him at his hotel in Paris. After she accompanied him to his room, but refused to let him hug and kiss her, he became violent. Ayari also accuses Ramadan that he is using Islam to "subjugate women". If a woman does not wear a veil and she is raped, he believes it is her fault. After making her allegations against Ramadan public, Ayari found herself exposed to such massive hostility on social networks that she had to ask for help. On November 21, 2017, the media reported that Ayari had been placed under police protection because of ongoing threats .

Publications

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Patricia Buffet: À Rouen, Henda Ayari s'est libérée du salafisme . In: Paris Normandy . January 6, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Emad Blake: Who is Henda Ayari, the woman accusing Islamist Tariq Ramadan of rape? . In: al-Arabiya . October 22, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b Jürg Altwegg: The woman who said no . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 6, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b Emma-Kate Symons: Woman opens up about her resurrection after years spent as "one of the living dead" . In: Women in the World in collaboration with the New York Times . August 10, 2017.
  5. ^ Carlotta Gall: "I Could Not Forget What Happened to Me That Night With Him" . In: New York Times . November 3, 2017. Retrieved November 11, 2017.
  6. ↑ Libératrices . Association entry according to the law of July 1, 1901 .
  7. ↑ a b Baptiste Erondel: Sortie du salafisme, une femme témoigne . In: Le Figaro . November 2, 2016.
  8. ↑ a b Laure Lugon: Henda Ayari: “J'étais salafiste, je suis une femme libre” . In: Le Temps (Switzerland) . November 8, 2016.
  9. ^ Hajer Ben Hassen: Une tunisienne se débarrasse de son Hijab après 18 ans et suscite la polémique . In: Réalités (Tunisia) . December 29, 2015.
  10. ↑ Par Mohamed Berkani: Henda Ayari, ancienne salafiste, enlevé son voile et fait le buzz . In: France Télévisions . January 1, 2016.
  11. ^ Sophie Rosemont: "J'ai choisi d'être libre": Henda Ayari, sa vie après le salafisme . In: glamor . 5th December 2016.
  12. ↑ Caroline Laurent-Simon: Endoctrinée, aujourd'hui rescapée du salafisme, elle raconte sa liberté retrouvée . In: Elle . November 1, 2016.
  13. ↑ Henda Ayari: Open Letter . to Emmanuel Macron, Gérard Larcher , François de Rugy , Édouard Philippe and Patrick Bernasconi on July 14, 2017.
  14. ↑ Stéphane Kovacs: Henda Ayari: "Le salafisme m'a anesthésiée" . In: Le Figaro . July 10, 2017.
  15. ↑ Le Grand Oral d'Henda Ayari, fondatrice de "Libératrices" . In: BFM TV . July 14, 2017.
  16. ↑ Tariq Ramadan: a rapist? In: emma.de . October 30, 2017. Retrieved November 11, 2017.
  17. ↑ Accusations de viols: Tariq Ramadan placé en garde à vue. In: www.leparisien.fr. January 31, 2018, accessed January 31, 2018 (French).
  18. ↑ “C'est la campagne #BalanceTonPorc qui m'a poussée”, raconte Henda Ayari, première femme à avoir porté plainte contre Ramadan . In: The Huffington Post . October 30, 2017.
  19. ^ Cécile Deffontaines: Henda Ayari, ex-Salafiste franco-tunisienne, porte plainte contre Tariq Ramadan pour viol . In: L'Obs . 20th October 2017.
  20. ↑ Stéphane Kovacs: Henda Ayari, l'accusatrice de Tariq Ramadan, cible de cyber-harceleurs . In: Le Figaro . November 8, 2017. Retrieved November 11, 2017.
  21. ↑ Rape claims hit Islam scholar Tariq Ramadan in France . In: BBC . October 30, 2017.
  22. ↑ Angelique Chrisafis: Feminist campaigner accuses Oxford professor of rape. In: The Guardian , October 22, 2017.
  23. ↑ Henda Ayari: "Chaque femme doit trouver le courage de prendre la parole comme j'ai osé le faire" . In: Le Monde . October 30, 2017.
  24. ↑ Thomas Pany: Serious allegations against Tariq Ramadan . In: telepolis . October 30, 2017.
  25. ↑ Sylvie Kauffmann: A Toxic Mix: Sex, Religion and Hypocrisy . In: New York Times . November 13, 2017. Retrieved November 16, 2017.
  26. ^ Jean-Michel Décugis: Insultée et menacée, l'accusatrice de Tariq Ramadan porte plainte . In: Le Parisien . November 21, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Ayari, Henda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French suffragette and author
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Rouen