Brother Tariq : the doublespeak of Tariq Ramadan / Caroline Fourest ; translated into English by Ioana Wieder and John Atherton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fourest, Caroline.

Standardized Title:

Frère Tariq. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Ramadan, Tariq.

Muslim scholars--Switzerland--Biography.

Muslim scholars.

Muslim theologians--Switzerland--Biography.

Muslim theologians.

Islam--20th century.

Islam.

Switzerland.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xv, 262 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Encounter Books, 2007.

Summary:

Tariq Ramadan is a global phenomenon. A Swiss-born Muslim activist, he is the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, the radical group credited with inspiring modern Islamic radicalism. Ramadan is fluent in English, French and Arabic. In Europe, he is the most quoted and circulated writer on Islam. His writings are a regular feature of major English-speaking newspapers, but his real message is revealed in his speeches to Muslim groups in France, Africa, and the Middle East. Caroline Fourest has carefully transcribed and translated those speeches and shows that Ramdan's ingenious rhetoric is a Trojan horse, fostering the anti-Semitic and anti-Christian values of fundamentalist Islam on its latest battlefield: Western civilization.

Contents:

Tariq Ramadan : his record and background

"Islam's future" or the future of the Muslim brotherhood?

The heir

Discourse and rhetoric

A "reformist" but a fundamentalist

An "Islamic feminist"

but puritanical and patriarchal

Muslim and citizen, but Muslim first!

Not a clash but a confrontation between civilizations

The West as the land of "collaborations".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-254) and index.

ISBN:

9781594032158

1594032157

OCLC:

172569288