Leftists Who Get It Tariq Ramadan

MARXIST SEES THE LIGHT ON TARIQ RAMADAN: 40 REASONS WHY RAMADAN IS A LYING REACTIONARY…….

Those of you who follow the Tundra TAbloids on a daily basis knows the  TT’s opinions on Leftism. With the situation of Islamization being a dire one, we need all the people we can get to help expose and counter the sharia loving charlatans who position themselves as democracy loving reformists, but are in fact, split tongued hard core traditionalist Muslims with sharia on their minds. This Leftist indeed gets it, and while the TT will argue against his political ideals as being dangerous, or at least, almost as dangerous as Islam, he has to be credited as spotting this Muslim Brotherhood front guy for what he is, a radical Muslim. KGS

H/T: Gaia

40 reasons why Tariq Ramadan is a reactionary

 

Islamism

Author: 

Yves Coleman

“40 reasons why Tariq Ramadan is a reactionary bigot” was written by the French Marxist, Yves Coleman and has been reproduced by the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty (AWL). The text presents factual information about the politics of Tariq Ramadan.

There are many issues the Left must address.

First is the question of honest polemic.
Useful political debate requires clearly presented political positions and an attempt to honestly engage with opponents.
And yet Yves Coleman believes that it almost impossible to either ‘catch’ or ‘corner’ Tariq Ramadan. He is difficult to pin down. The reason is simple: Tariq Ramadan often says one thing to one group, and something different, or contradictory, elsewhere.
This slipperiness connects with the second issue for the left.
No doubt, given the support Ramadan has on the “left”, there will be further “left” attempts to refute the damning contents of this document. However, it will not be good enough to answer Yves Coleman by producing further quotes from Ramadan.
It just won’t do to reply to the reactionary statements Ramadan has made on the issue of women’s rights, for example, by presenting other quotes suggesting he is a liberal on the question (and so implying Ramadan can’t have made the statements cited by Yves Coleman without having to address the quotes directly). Ramadan might well have made both the reactionary and the liberal statements. As Yves Coleman shows, on many issues Ramadan has done exactly that.
It will not do to protest that Ramadan is more liberal-minded, less rigidly reactionary than extreme Islamist groups like Hizb-ut Tahrir. He is. Mainstream Catholic ideologues are less rigidly reactionary than the Tridentines. They are still not allies for the left.
Nor will it do to try to change the question by saying that the left has also had Christian preachers sometimes share platforms with it to denounce apartheid or war. The left will work with campaigners who may be Muslims on the same basis. But Tariq Ramadan’s left-wing friends promote him not because he has campaigned on some progressive political issue (and despite his Islamic ideas), but because he is a (sometimes left-sounding) Islamic ideologue, regardless of him doing nothing for progressive politics other than making bland statements against poverty and so on.

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