On May 27th, before Muslim terrorist Mehdi Nemmouche was arrested for the Brussels attack, Swiss Tariq Ramadan wrote on his Facebook as follows:
"The two tourists targeted in Brussels worked for the Israeli Secret Service according to Le Soir and other sources .... The government is not commenting. By chance. Is it anti-Semitism or a red herring to hide the true motives and attackers? I condemn the killing of innocents and all forms of racism without exception, but they must also stop taking us for fools."
It is true that the French media (as well as anti-Semitic sites) played around with the possibility that the two Israeli tourists were targeted for a 'good' reason. It was a targeted killing, not a run-of-the-mill terrorist attack against Jews.
The man who says he "condemns the killing of innocents and all forms of racism" bothered to strongly imply that this this attack did not kill innocents and had nothing to do with racism.
Since then, Ramadan has nothing further to say on the topic. It's easy to tell your followers an antisemitic attack might be a Mossad-related killing. More than 10,000 people 'liked' his conspiracy theory. It's harder to face the fact that a Muslim was responsible. For Ramadan, it's too hard.
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