Hani Ramadan is a Swiss imam originally from

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Medit ...

. He is a grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder

Hassan al-Banna Sheikh Hassan Ahmed Abdel Rahman Muhammed al-Banna ( ar, حسن أحمد عبد الرحمن محمد البنا; 14 October 1906 – 12 February 1949), known as Hassan al-Banna ( ar, حسن البنا), was an Egyptian schoolteacher and imam, b ...

, a son of

Said Ramadan Said Ramadan ( ar, سعيد رمضان; April 12, 1926 in Shibin Al Kawm, Al Minufiyah – August 4, 1995 in Geneva) was an Egyptian political activist and humanitarian, and one of the preeminent leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood. He was the so ...

and the brother of scholar

Tariq Ramadan Tariq Ramadan ( ar, طارق رمضان, ; born 26 August 1962) is a Swiss Muslim academic, philosopher, and writer. He was a professor of contemporary Islamic studies at St Antony's College, Oxford and the Faculty of Theology and Religion, Uni ...

Life and career

He is married and the father of three children. He is the director of the Islamic Center of Geneva and the author of several books and newspaper articles on Islam and its doctrine. In 1983 he obtained Swiss citizenship by naturalization and earned a doctorate in Philosophy form the University of Geneva. He taught French in high school until he was fired in 2002 by the Swiss government for "anti-democratic" statements he made in French newspaper ''

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.'' He defended stoning for adultery and believes AIDS is a "divine curse". He went to court and won his case in 2002 but the Swiss government refused to reinstate him. He again attracted the attention of the press and Swiss authorities by virtue of his radical statements. At the 2014 meeting of the Union of Islamic Organizations in France, he stated: "“All the evil in the world originates from the Jews and the Zionist barbarism.” In June 2016 he was invited to speak about islamophobia at a Swiss high school. He stated that a woman "is like a pearl in a shell. If it is shown it fosters jealousy. Here a woman without a veil is like a two euro coin. Visible to all she goes from hand to hand." He was expelled from France on April 8, 2017, for his past remarks and behaviour that posed a serious threat to public order, as per the statement issued by the French Interior Ministry.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ramadan, Hani Muslim activists Swiss Muslims 1959 births Living people Naturalised citizens of Switzerland Egyptian emigrants to Switzerland