We knew the “
Islamologist
”, the “
philosopher
”, the author of essays, the organizer of seminars, here Tariq Ramadan improvises himself as a singer.
Slammer, more exactly, since his first title, “
What do you think?
", Which he has just announced the release, is"
poetry set to music
".
While the preacher, indicted for rape of five women in France and Switzerland, appeared a fortnight ago before the Rouen criminal court for defamation, he launches into an indigenous diatribe dedicated to all those "
who have suffered. colonization across the world
”.
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It starts out loud, against a background of haunting music: “
You've been stealing and lying for centuries.
You would have come, you say, to civilize us.
You have despised our languages, our cultures, our religions, humiliated our memories, sullied our traditions
”.
Before resuming in chorus: “
Wait!
But what do you think?
That we're going to sit there and watch you?
Plunder our lands, our wealth, our minerals?
Let yourself quietly write history and colonize it?
"
"
Either you share, or we will help each other
"
Then come the thinly veiled threats: "
Either share, or we'll help ourselves!"
".
“
Peoples are going through misery, remain proud and worthy, and, even, they multiply.
Your order and your borders will not get the better of our youth, even less of life, he pontificates.
Tomorrow, in your streets, we will walk, free and serene.
Tomorrow, hear, fraternity and diversity will be the only guarantors of your security
”.
Ironic, even cynical, Tariq Ramadan plays with antiphrases ... and the “great replacement” theory: “
Are you afraid?
Are you going to lose your privileges and your identity?
The mix would be your loss and soon you will be savagely replaced?
Sleep in peace, friends of equality, we have come neither to replace nor to steal.
Beyond the colors, the religions, we are good news, a wind of freedom
”.
A little piece of music that he had already sung in his book Devoir de Truth *: "
France is still a prisoner of its imperial aspirations and its dominating inclinations: it has settled neither the question of colonialism, nor that of xenophobia and of racism
”, assailed Ramadan in a chapter entitled“
Political prisoner?
".
Listing white personalities accused of rape, he still wondered:
"How is it that I am the only one in prison, an 'Arab', of course, a 'Muslim', whose biggest fault is undoubtedly to embarrass the political class and the French intellectuals? "
.
Ramadan has a deep loathing for French and Western society, specific to the Muslim Brotherhood
Mohamed Sifaoui, writer
For Henda Ayari, the first woman to have accused him of rape, “
Tariq Ramadan's strategy is to recover his popularity and the support of people of immigrant origin, in particular Muslims, by standing up as the protector of Muslims against the "bad French racists and Islamophobes"
".
The writer Mohamed Sifaoui, director of publication of the Islamoscope.tv platform, also sees only “
marketing
”: “
Ramadan has a deep loathing for French and Western society, which is also specific to the Muslim Brotherhood,
analyzes- he does
.
This resentment was accentuated with his time in prison.
Despite these words which seek to seduce the
Islamo-leftists
, it will be very difficult for him to bounce back: he is now vomited by all those who were his followers yesterday
”.
The album,
Traversées
, is scheduled for release on May 29.
*
Presses du Châtelet, 2019
.
