UOIF, Muslim Brotherhood and the Ramadan family
Not only the UOIF is inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood, but the UOIF works in a network almost exclusively formed by the Muslim Brotherhood : Ghannouchi, Mawlawi and Qaradhawi. References which must be added the Ramadan family and the Islamic Center of Geneva, with which the UOIF is working very closely. The Islamic Center of Geneva is one of the European headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Islamic Center of Geneva was founded in 1961, with Saudi money, to Islamize the old continent and unite against “atheistic materialism” by Said Ramadan, exiled leader of the international branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. Nicknamed the “little Banna” because he was the favorite disciple of Hassan al-Banna, Said Ramadan married Banna’s favorite daughter, Wafa, and together they dreamed of seeing the triumph of the totalitarian Muslim Brotherhood political islamism from Europe. The Old Continent has even become a challenge in itself for the next generation, when the children of Said Ramadan and Wafa al-Banna were old enough to take over. The two youngest son born inEurope, Hani and Tariq Ramadan, have particularly taken over from his father’s death in 1995.
The official director of the center, Hani Ramadan, is one of the most requested speakers by the various associations of the UOIF. He even wrote several pamphlets collection of Islam, did you know?, Leaflets published by the UOIF to be distributed to Congress Bourget and serve as the basic theoretical corpus militants. One of them, The Meaning of the bid, insists that a good Muslim is totally submitted to God.
The other, Islam and Democracy, says that Islam is incompatible with democracy as understood Western [1]. One can easily imagine the influence exercised by the director of the Islamic Center of Geneva, successor to the small and large Banna, the activists of the Union. Like his grandfather, Hani Ramadan is haunted by the idea of being contaminated by the decadence of the West,
“Do we not observe this day in fact, that in our modern societies, despite the progress of Science and material comfort, we are invaded by all sorts of ailments that reflect a constant drift to worship Taghut in all its aspects? Would not that at the level of unbridled sexuality that is expressed in relationships outside marriage, prostitution, homosexuality, harassment, rape, pedophilia, incest? “[2].
Sexual liberation is one of his obsessions. In interviews, director of the Geneva Islamic Center never loses an opportunity to remind that in Islam “homosexuality is a stalemate, both from the point of view of the law revealed that the logic is not opened a door with two key “[3]. In 1998 he published a book, Women in Islam, in which he defends the right to polygamy as the best way to fight against the risk of adultery and obvious vis-a-vis secular hatred wishing to ban the veil at school: “The veil in Islam is a sign of submission to the belief in the divine commandments. Why try to prevent a young high school girl to express their conviction? The compulsion to reveal, is not to repeat the gesture of the ruthless Inquisition and communist executioners? (…) Against the secular extremists, Islam will remain in any case a school of wisdom and tolerance:
“No compulsion in religion, “says the Koran. Lesson that lay torturers have not taught us! “[4]
This book caused a scandal in Switzerland. But Hani Ramadan was dismissed from the Swiss National Education after having published an article in the newspaper Le Monde, in which he justifies stoning as “a punishment, but as a form of purification” and AIDS as a divine punishment:
“Who created the AIDS virus? Observe that the person who adheres strictly to divine commandments is immune from this infection, which can not be achieved, unless an error of blood, an individual who maintains no extramarital relationship, which has no homosexual practice and preventing drug use. ” Moral: “Muslims are convinced of the need, at any time and any place, to return to the divine law” [5].
That, in a few sentences, the thought of an Islamist theorists serving as a model for the faithful of the UOIF. Often occurring at his side, his brother, Tariq Ramadan [6], is a model for all young people of the Union since 1992, when he intervened for the first time at the Annual Congress of Le Bourget, then answered all invitations satellite associations of the UOIF. That year at Le Bourget, the young preacher is expected as the Messiah by all participants. He has just returned from a quick training on Islamic issues in Egypt, but the public has heard much about him through his relationship with Hassan al-Banna and Hani Ramadan. The public immediately falls in love. Since then, Tariq Ramadan had a decisive influence on the strategy and rhetoric of the UOIF – out of the separatist confinement to become more political, and therefore more effective, on contact. In 2003, we will come back, executives of the UOIF will quarrel with Tariq Ramadan about the CFCM, but the preacher has never ceased to be admired and associations invited by the satellites of the UOIF. Moreover, when France 2 program critically Special Envoy on the preacher in November 2004, the UOIF goes immediately into the breach to defend him and asking the chain to deprogram this documentary. Proof that the links are not so distended it. Between Brothers, the division can never last very long, though short-term strategies may differ punctually. Although any dispute on the form is often interpreted hurriedly, as a war on the bottom showing independence of thought of the UOIF vis-a-vis the Muslim Brotherhood. This is what the EU would like to believe.
Fouad Alaoui, general secretary, wants to prove its independence: “We do not feel the need to belong to a foreign school of thought. We see ourselves as a school of Islam of France “. Yet when pushed into a corner, he confesses willingly be in regular contact with al-Houweidi Syrian, one of the official ambassadors of the brotherhood. [7] This means that the end of the formal tutelage vis-a-vis the Muslim Brotherhood as an organization is not an ideological break and all of emancipation, aimed primarily efficiency nationally. But this formal independence and do not advertise this refocusing provided an ideological change. The UOIF remains an organization whose model of thought and method of Hassan al-Banna, taking as reference preachers trained by the Muslim Brotherhood, networking with the Muslim Brotherhood and, above all, defending the same as Islam Muslim Brotherhood.
Taken from takeover of Islam in France: The ambitions of the UOIF
[1] Prospectus published by the UOIF and distributed to Congress Bourget in 2003.
[2] Hani Ramadan, Aspects of Islamic monotheism Tawhid, Lyon, 1998, p. 98.
[3] “The impasse of homosexuality”, interview by Le Nouvelliste, January 25, 2003.
[4] Hani Ramadan, Woman in Islam, Lyon, Tawhid, 2000.
[5] “The Sharia misunderstood,” published by Le Monde on 10 September 2002.
[6] Despite the decisive influence on the UOIF Tariq Ramadan, I will not elaborate more here about the character. His career and his speeches were perfectly decrypted in Caroline Fourest, Brother Tariq, Paris, Grasset, 2004 425 p.
[7] Xavier Ternisien, Le Monde, 13 December 2002.
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