Philippe Vincke and Emmanuelle Danblon against Tariq Ramadan

Philppe Vincke, vice-president of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), and Emmanuelle Danblon, his advisor, explain why they refused to welcome the Islam specialist Tariq Ramadan into the university. The two want to draw "the attention of the community to the rise of potentially obscurantist discourse, even if expressed with politically correct language. None of us would accept the visit to the campus of a xenophobic representative of the far-right. We are bound by duty not to have double standards. For some time now, a certain discourse, certain practices and claims that are endangering political secularism, the guarantor of living together, have become common on campus. ... Need we be reminded that Tariq Ramadan never clearly condemns the stoning of women, not even when asked to? On the contrary, for a while now, uneasiness, taboos and fear of evoking certain scientific theories or certain historical facts in broad day light have become visible and palpable."

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