Rape claims hit Islam scholar Tariq Ramadan in France

Henda Ayari accused Mr Ramadan of having beaten and raped her in a Paris hotel

French prosecutors are researching claims by two ladies who say they were assaulted by Tariq Ramadan, a famous Islamic researcher and Oxford professor.

One of them, Henda Ayari, told a French TV questioner that Mr Ramadan had attacked her in a Paris lodging in 2012.

"He truly jumped on me like a wild creature," she said.

In a Facebook post Prof Ramadan denied the allegations, calling them "a battle of untruths", and said his legal advisor was suing the ladies for "defame".

Ms Ayari used to wear the Islamic full-confront shroud however is presently a common women's activist dissident.

She said the inappropriate behavior embarrassment encompassing Hollywood film head honcho Harvey Weinstein had encouraged her to denounce Mr Ramadan unequivocally.

Numerous ladies worldwide have shared records of inappropriate behavior utilizing the Twitter hashtag #MeToo. In France the proportional is #balancetonporc, signifying "uncover your pig".

Ms Ayari had already distributed a record of an affirmed strike in a book, without naming the man.

Talking on BFMTV, she said she had gone to Mr Ramadan's lodging space to get some information about Islam and at the time "I respected him in particular".

Alluding to the asserted assault, she said "he kissed me truly hard... at that point for a couple of moments he gagged me, I truly thought I would kick the bucket".

The second lady - a change over to Islam - has asserted that she was assaulted by Tariq Ramadan in an inn in Lyon in 2009.

Mr Ramadan decried the charges as "a crusade of defamation obviously arranged by my long-term foes".

He is a dubious and persuasive figure among Muslim researchers. He challenges fundamentalist Islam, however a few faultfinders blame him for advancing political Islam.


Tariq Ramadan is a controversial Islamic scholar (2011 photo)

A Swiss national, he is the grandson of Hassan al-Banna, who established the Muslim Brotherhood.

Since 2009 he has been educator of contemporary Islamic investigations at St Antony's College, Oxford. He has additionally sat on a UK Foreign Office admonitory gathering on opportunity of religion.