MB baffled by confessions of Banna's grandson

Cairo – Statements carried by a French newspaper quoting lawyer of Islamist thinker Tariq Ramadan, grandson of Hassan el-Banna, who founded the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928, that Ramadan admitted a sexual affair outside marriage has stirred divide among loyalists of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood organization.

Mauritanian researcher Muhammad Mukhtar Shinqitee, a professor at Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies, said in a tweet on Friday that "if it is true that Ramadan has admitted an illegitimate affair, it will be abusive to Islam".

"That means the man [Ramadan] has led double-faced life, which is a big sin in Islam," Shinqitee said on Twitter.

However, Hamdi Jawara, a researcher of African and European affairs at the European Institute of Human Sciences, doubted in a tweet what the French daily newspaper Libération reported.

"If Ramadan admitted that in public, we wouldn't believe it as he won't do it on free will not to mention his illness. The charges of rape were dismissed. The objective is to prove the sexual affair now," he said, criticizing Shinqitee and calling for supporting el-Banna's grandson.

Ramadan has admitted he had relations with one of the five women who have accused him of rape, according to Swissinfo website.

"He knows her, he had a relationship with her, but not what she described," said Ramadan’s lawyer, Emmanuel Marsigny.