• Accueil / Homepage
  • À propos / About us
  • Contact

Logo

Navigation
  • Articles
  • Actualités / News
  • Index 1
    Acteurs / Actors
    • Individus / Individuals
    • Organisations / Organizations
    • Pays / Countries
  • Index 2
    Charia / Sharia
  • Index 3
    Résistance / Resistance
  • Index 4
    Radicalisation / Radicalization

Tariq Ramadan and Salah Basalamah on sharia, reasonable accommodations and citizens’ agoras

By Point de Bascule | on April 19, 2012 |

ramadan basalamah carr
In 2004, Tariq Ramadan criticized Muslim leaders operating in Canada for having openly promoted sharia. He suggested that they rather take advantage of the current Canadian legal framework in order to discretely implement sharia principles one at a time.

Version française ICI

ramadan basalamahIn 2004, in an interview given to an Egyptian periodical, Tariq Ramadan criticized Muslim leaders operating in Canada for having openly promoted sharia and Islamic tribunals. Ramadan stressed that they had shown a “lack of creativity” by openly revealing their ultimate goal. As Ramadan noted, the term sharia “is laden with negative connotations in the Western mind”. It would therefore be better not to openly talk about it “for the time being”, he added. Instead, Ramadan suggested taking advantage of the current Canadian legal framework (“one of the most open in the world”) in order to discretely implement sharia principles one at a time. This is the approach that led Islamists to press for the establishment of reasonable accommodations in the following years.

EXCERPT OF TARIQ RAMADAN’S INTERVIEW TO EGYPT TODAY

The Muslims in Canada’s battle to set up shariah courts to settle domestic disputes is another example of lack of creativity. Within the normative law in Canada, they have huge latitude for Muslims to propose an Islamic contract. These courts are not necessary; all they do is stress the fact that Muslims have specific laws and for the time being this is not how we want to be perceived. We need to show that our way of thinking is universal, that we can live with the law and there is no contradiction.

It’s more useful for Muslims to examine the legal framework they have in Canada, which is one of the most open in the world, and come up with something Islamic that at the same time fits the Canadian reality. The term shariah in itself is laden with negative connotations in the Western mind. There is no need to stress that.

In an article published on November 5, 2009 by the National Post, Tarek Fatak commented Tariq Ramadan’s program in these terms:

(Tariq Ramadan) was not opposed to sharia law coming to Canada; he just didn’t think it was the right time to introduce it. In his words, Muslims were displaying a “lack of creativity”. He suggested that rather than ask openly for sharia law, Islamists should have sneaked it in through the existing legal framework.

Taken aback, I was reminded of the Islamist doctrine of Taqiyaa, a dissimulation methodology employed to hide one’s true agenda, which recommends appearing harmless to one’s adversary with the objective of having them lower their guard.

Salah Basalamah: “Citizens’ agoras” to discuss the “issues that get people angry”

In an interview given to a Quebec trade-union publication in 2010, Salah Basalamah, a close associate of Tariq Ramadan, promoted a “complement” to the reasonable accommodation approach.

Basalamah proposed setting up meetings (“citizens’ agoras”) in districts, cities and areas throughout Quebec during which citizens would be asked to bring up the “issues that get people angry” («les questions qui fâchent»).

Basalamah specified that these meetings would have to be held “far from the media and the courts.”

We can easily imagine what would happen. A restaurant owner is convened by a bunch of Islamists at this meeting, this so-called citizens’ agora. His sale of alcohol being one of these “issues that get people angry”, he is notified that he must stop selling alcohol. You would not want to get your Islamist neighbours angry. Would you? All this “far from the media and the courts”, as planned by Basalamah.

Just imagine the level of intimidation to which this kind of meeting would open the door. You are serving food during Ramadan. You have to explain yourself. You are not wearing a hijab. You have to explain yourself. You are decorating your house for Christmas. You have to explain yourself. All these issues being among those that get your Islamist neighbours angry.

In his book The right to translate (Le droit de traduire, Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa, 2009), Salah Basalamah introduces Tariq Ramadan as his “intellectual brother in arms”. Before speaking at a 2008 conference in Montreal, Salah Basalamah was introduced by the organizer Peter Leuprecht, a former dean of McGill University Faculty of Law as “Tariq Ramadan’s representative here in Canada.” (Le Devoir [Montreal], September 13, 2008, p. G11)

While in Dallas in July 2011, Tariq Ramadan incited his supporters to colonize the United States of America “with our understanding of Islam, our principles”. Ramadan has also written the foreword to one of Youssef Qaradawi’s compendium of fatwas. Qaradawi is the Muslim Brotherhood’s spiritual guide. Ramadan has introduced him as a “prominent scholar” who has outlined the attitudes and the kind of behaviour that Muslims living in the West should adopt. (Radical Reform, New York, Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 31 and 326)

Because of his “incitement to hatred and violence”, Youssef Qaradawi was recently banned from entering France (Le Figaro – Reuters). In 2007, Salah Basalamah endorsed the same Qaradawi who incites Muslims to conquer the West and presents Hitler as Allah’s envoy who came to punish the Jews. In 2002, Basalamah was chosen by Qaradawi to translate one of his books.


Share this story:
  • tweet

Don / Donation

Faites un don via Paypal. // Donate via Paypal

Infolettre / Newsletter

Recevez les derniers articles et des nouvelles exclusives par courriel.
Cl

Articles

  • La relation privilégiée de la Commission Bouchard-Taylor avec l’organisation islamiste Présence Musulmane de Tariq Ramadan

    La relation privilégiée de la Commission Bouchard-Taylor avec l’organisation islamiste Présence Musulmane de Tariq Ramadan

    February 22, 2020
  • Charles Taylor (2007) : «L’excision n’est pas dans le Coran. Ce n’est pas dans la religion musulmane.»

    Charles Taylor (2007) : «L’excision n’est pas dans le Coran. Ce n’est pas dans la religion musulmane.»

    February 22, 2020
  • De la motion anti-charia adoptée par l’Assemblée nationale du Québec en 2005 à la Commission Bouchard-Taylor

    De la motion anti-charia adoptée par l’Assemblée nationale du Québec en 2005 à la Commission Bouchard-Taylor

    February 22, 2020
  • L’affaire Khashoggi, selon Rex Murphy, le journalisme contemporain a abandonné toute tentative d’objectivité

    L’affaire Khashoggi, selon Rex Murphy, le journalisme contemporain a abandonné toute tentative d’objectivité

    December 31, 2018
  • Ce que les médias ne vous disent toujours pas sur Jamal Khashoggi

    Ce que les médias ne vous disent toujours pas sur Jamal Khashoggi

    October 29, 2018

Actualités / Latest News

  • Commission Bouchard-Taylor

    Commission Bouchard-Taylor

    February 22, 2020
  • Request identifying flags of group of about 8 marching, face-veiled, on Bank street in Ottawa

    Request identifying flags of group of about 8 marching, face-veiled, on Bank street in Ottawa

    October 29, 2018
  • Sen. Rand Paul: Repenser la relation entre les États-Unis et le royaume de l’Arabie saoudite

    Sen. Rand Paul: Repenser la relation entre les États-Unis et le royaume de l’Arabie saoudite

    October 26, 2018
  • Rioux : ‘Les Français juifs ont 25 fois plus de risques d’être agressés que leurs concitoyens musulmans’

    Rioux : ‘Les Français juifs ont 25 fois plus de risques d’être agressés que leurs concitoyens musulmans’

    April 30, 2018
  • + de 250 personnalités signent un «manifeste contre le nouvel antisémitisme» en France, marqué par la «radicalisation islamiste» et dénonçant un  «silence médiatique »

    + de 250 personnalités signent un «manifeste contre le nouvel antisémitisme» en France, marqué par la «radicalisation islamiste» et dénonçant un «silence médiatique »

    April 27, 2018
© 2014. Point de Bascule Canada