I blame Islamophobia. And Rapephobia
French police on Wednesday detained prominent Swiss Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, a legal source said, months after two women filed rape charges against him.
The Oxford professor was summoned for questioning to a Paris police station and taken into custody "as part of a preliminary inquiry in Paris into rape and assault allegations", the source said.
Ramadan, the grandson of the founder of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Islamist movement, has furiously denied rape allegations from two women that emerged late last year...
They probably don't even have four male witnesses each. This will never fly under Sharia law.
Henda Ayari, a former Muslim fundamentalist who says Ramadan raped her in a Paris hotel room in 2012, said she was encouraged to speak out against him publicly by the "Me Too" campaign sweeping the world.
Ayari, who lodged a rape complaint against the 55-year-old Swiss national on October 20, charged that for Tariq Ramadan, "either you wear a veil or you get raped".
"He choked me so hard that I thought I was going to die," she added.
A second unnamed woman on Friday also accused Ramadan of raping her in a hotel room in 2009.
The Bush administration kept Ramadan out of America. Obama and Hillary let him in.
Hillary Clinton, has signed an order effectively lifting the Bush-era ban for Ramadan, a visiting fellow at St Antony's College Oxford.
"Both the president and the secretary of state have made it clear that the US government is pursuing a new relationship with Muslim communities based on mutual interest and mutual respect," said state department spokesman Darby Holladay in a statement. "We'll let that action speak for itself."
It does.
What was Obama's mutual interest in letting a leading Islamist into America? And how long until Hillary Clinton posts a longwinded explanation praising the courage of the women Ramadan abused?