Submitted by Eussner (France), Mar 5, 2007 at 17:06
It starts with him being no professor at a university but "professeur", i.e. college teacher at Collège de Saussure à Genève.
It continues with him pretending being professor at Fribourg University, but he taught only two academic hours (= 1 1/2 hours), every other week. The courses ended before he applied for a visa for the USA. The university already cancelled this "da`wa course" in 2004.
It was listed as: Let-7 Ramadan Tariq Islam III: Introduction III; mercredi, 15-17 h. (tous les 15 jours) (164). On this, see http://www.unifr.ch/imr/E40page_anglais24.htm
In the online magazine Egypt Today (at http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=2481), he pretended to have two diplomas and two doctorates:
We were political exiles, which made the situation more difficult. At the University of Geneva, I studied philosophy and French literature and, after completing two MA degrees, continued with a PhD on the concept of suffering in Nietzsche's philosophy and later another PhD in Islamic Studies about contemporary Islamic reformist thinkers from Jamal El-Din El-Afghani to Hassan Al-Banna.
For those who read German, you will find more information, with lot of links, about this person, the great pretender, at "Dr. Tariq Ramadan wird nun allmaehlich boese!" ...
Gudrun Eussner
www.eussner.net
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