Casablanca- “Ariel Sharon: Scary Shame,”reads the title of Tariq Ramadanrecent blog post regarding former Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, published on the scholar’s official website.
“Salute the memory of Ariel Sharon?,”questions Tariq Ramadan, a renowned scholar and Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford University.
In his article, Ramadan expresses dissatisfaction with and surprise at “the media coverage in the United States and France of the death of Ariel Sharon.”
“The media coverage related to the death of Ariel Sharon in the United States and France (especially but not only) is staggering. It seems as if a former Head of State of one of these two countries died. In addition, one salutes his memory as Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and François Hollande did,” he said.
According to him, Ariel Sharon, who died Saturday after 8 years in a coma, was a “warlord who killed many innocent civilians [and ordered the] destruction of Palestinian homes, imprisonment of Palestinians and summary executions,”and does not deserve to be saluted.
Rather, he should be remembered as “an atrocious shame.” For Ramadan, those leaders who have recently saluted the memory of Sharon are “hypocrites and cowards,”given that they had only just saluted Mandela’s memory, a man whose cause was to condemn all crimes against humanity, such as the ones committed by Sharon.
Commentators on Ramadan’s article have expressed firm approval of his impressions of Ariel Sharon, and many have expressed anger at the fuss that was made over Sharon after death.
“I salute the God who put him into 8 years of coma,”reads a comment on Ramadan’s article,“before sending him to burn in the flames of hell.”
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