In November 2003, in a televised debate with Nicolas Sarkozy, then France’s interior minister, Ramadan was asked about his brother Hani, who had justified stoning adulterous women to death. Instead of condemning the custom outright as barbaric, Ramadan replied, “I’m in favor of a moratorium so that they stop applying these sorts of punishments in the Muslim world. What’s important is for people’s way of thinking to evolve. What is needed is a pedagogical approach.” In other words, Ramadan wanted, as my dictionary entry on the word informs me, “a legally authorized postponement of the fulfillment of an obligation”—a temporary ban.
http://www.city-journal.org/2008/bc0229iw.html
Siehe auch:
http://europe.courrierinternational.com/eurotopics/article.asp?langue=de&publication=29/02/2008&cat=REFLEXIONEN&pi=3
http://www.lemonde.fr/opinions/article/2008/02/28/israel-le-sens-d-un-boycottage-par-tariq-ramadan_1016844_3232.html
http://www.20minutes.fr/article/216302/Culture-Les-appels-au-boycott-du-Salon-du-livre-se-multiplient.php