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Obama Welcomes A Stealth Jihadist-Tariq Ramadan returns to the U.S
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| 3-25-10
| Robert Spencer
Posted on 03/25/2010 4:22:25 AM PDT by SJackson
Five years after being barred from the U.S. for making charitable contributions to a group that sent those contributions to the jihad terror group Hamas, internationally renowned Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, often dubbed the Muslim Martin Luther, will make his first public appearance in America this April after being permitted to enter the country.
The turnabout comes not because Ramadan has been cleared of these charges, but because Secretary of State Clinton has, in the words of State spokesman Darby Holladay, chosen to exercise her exemption authority for the benefit of Tariq Ramadan.
Holladay disingenuously suggested that the Bush Administration had barred Ramadan from the country because of his opposition to the Iraq War, but no exemption authority would have been needed to overturn a ban that had been put in place for that reason. Clinton was exempting Ramadan from prohibitions on supporters of terror groups entering the country.
And ironically, days after the Obama State Department announced the exemption for Ramadan, a Detroit-area Muslim named Mohamad Mustapha Ali Masfaka was arrested at the border while attempting to cross from Canada back into the United States. His crime? Lying to the FBI and immigration officials about his work with the Holy Land Foundation, formerly the largest Islamic charity in the United States, which has now been shut down for funneling charitable contributions to Hamas.
So what is the difference between Tariq Ramadan and Mohamad Mustapha Ali Masfaka? They have both allegedly been disingenuous about their ties to a Hamas charity, and yet Ramadan is free to enter the United States and Masfaka is under arrest. So what unique and compelling benefit does Tariq Ramadan bring to the U.S. that would move Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to bend their own anti-terror rules and make this exemption for him?
The answer, of course, is that Tariq Ramadan is internationally famous as a voice of Islamic moderation and a vocal critic of the Bush Administrations Middle East policies, which the Obama Administration very much wants to subject to public criticism. Mohamad Mustapha Ali Masfaka, in contrast, toils in relative obscurity and offers the Obama Administration no such political fringe benefits. Ramadan represents the kind of Muslim who should respond most favorably to Obamas recurring pleas for a new relationship based on mutual respect: urbane, sophisticated, Westernized, closely identified with Islamic moderation and reform. In fact, Holladay explained the exemption for Ramadan in terms that specifically recalled Obamas repeated appeals: Both the president and the secretary of state have made it clear that the US government is pursuing a new relationship with Muslim communities based on mutual interest and mutual respect.
However, there are cracks in Ramadans façade that should have raised eyebrows even in Obamas State Department. Ramadan is the grandson of Hasan Al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood an international Islamic supremacist organization that is dedicated, in its own words (according to an internal Brotherhood document captured in a raid of the Holy Land Foundation), to eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house. French journalist Caroline Fourest, who has published a book-length study of Ramadans sly duplicity, Brother Tariq, concludes that this much-lionized putative Muslim Martin Luther is actually anything but a reformer: in reality, Ramadan is remaining scrupulously faithful to the strategy mapped out by his grandfather, a strategy of advance stage by stage toward the imposition of Islamic law in the West.
Ramadan, she explains, in his public lectures and writings invests words like law and democracy with subtle and carefully crafted new definitions, permitting him to engage in an apparently inoffensive discourse while remaining faithful to an eminently Islamist message and without having to lie overtly at least not in his eyes. Ramadan, she said, may have an influence on young Islamists and constitute a factor of incitement that could lead them to join the partisans of violence.
In light of Ramadans smooth duplicity, his new welcome into the U.S. is a fitting symbol for the entire catastrophe of the Obama Administrations policy toward the Middle East and Islamic terror. Obama reaches out to the Islamic world, assuming that his overtures will be welcomed by voices of reason and restraint. But in making this appeal, Obama drastically underestimates the jihad threat and mistakes all too many enemies for friends. And so now he also underestimates and misevaluates Tariq Ramadan, with consequences that no one can foretell at this point, but which are not likely to be positive.
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TARIQ RAMADAN |
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- Muslim professor of philosophy
- Grandson of Hasan al-Banna, who founded the Muslim Brotherhood
- His U.S. visa was revoked due to his numerous connections to Islamic terrorism
- Favors the legal extinction of Israel
Tariq Ramadan is a Swiss-born philosophy professor currently based in France. In February 2002 Salon.com called him "one of the most important intellectuals in the world," characterizing him as the Muslim Martin Luther. In 2004 Time magazine named him one of the worlds top 100 scientists and thinkers.
When speaking to Western audiences, Ramadan preaches an amicable message of unity and mutual respect. But to Arabic-speaking audiences, he vents his deep-seated hatred of the West and his endorsement of Wahhabism, the most extreme form of Islam. Moreover, Ramadan has numerous connections to fundamentalist Islamic militants and is suspected by U.S. intelligence agencies of maintaining ties with the terrorist group al Qaeda.
Ramadans maternal grandfather was Hasan al-Banna, who in 1928 founded the Muslim Brotherhood. Ramadans father, Said Ramadan, led the Brotherhood throughout the 1950s and then was exiled from Egypt to Switzerland, where Tariq was born in September 1962.
Tariq Ramadan grew up in Geneva, Switzerland. He was schooled in philosophy and French literature at the University of Geneva, and in Arabic and Islam at Al Azhar Islamic University in Cairo. He eventually found work as a professor in the fields of philosophy and religion. By the end of the 1980s, the Muslim Brotherhood was courting Ramadan to be its European representative.
Upon his return to Switzerland in the early 1990s, Ramadan established the Movement of Swiss Muslims -- an outreach organization that exhorted Muslim youth to Islamize modernity rather than modernize Islam. He taught at the University of Fribourg and the College de Saussure, and became the Islam-and-secularism correspondent at the French daily newspaper, Le Monde.
In addition to his professorial duties, Ramadan made numerous lecture tours throughout North America. He was twice invited to speak at events organized by President Bill Clinton.
In February 2004 Ramadan was offered a tenured position as Luce Professor of Religion, Conflict, and Peace Building at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
Five months later, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revoked Ramadans work visa, thereby preventing him from remaining in the United States. DHS spokesman Russ Knocke explained that the visa revocation was in accordance with a law which denies entry to foreigners who have used a position of prominence within any country to endorse or espouse terrorist activity. Among the items that led to this DHS decision were the following:
- In the midst of a series of mid-1990s attacks in Paris perpetrated by the Algerian Islamist terrorist movement, French Interior Minister Jean Louis Debre forbade Ramadan to enter France because of his connections to that movement.
- According to Spanish judge Balatasar Garzón, Ramadan had routine contacts with Ahmed Brahim, an Algerian believed to be the financial chief of al Qaeda and the financier of the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya.
- In his 2001 trial, Djamel Beghal, an al Qaeda recruiter who confessed to conspiring to blow up the U.S embassy in Paris, testified that he had studied with Ramadan.
- Ramadans address was found in a register of the Al Taqwa Bank, which is part of a network of financial institutions that the U.S. State Department believes is helping to fund terrorism.
- Ramadan characterized the 9/11 attacks, the October 2002 Bali nightclub attack, and the March 2004 Madrid train bombings as interventions rather than acts of terrorism.
- When asked by an Italian magazine whether car bombings against U.S. troops in Iraq were justifiable, Ramadan replied: Iraq was colonized by the Americans. Resistance against the army is just.
According to terrorism expert Jean Charles Brisard, Ramadan took part in a 2004 London conference with Yusuf al Qaradawi, who has justified suicide bombings, the killing of American soldiers in Iraq, and the 9/11 attacks.
Caroline Fourest, a French specialist on Islamic fundamentalism who has meticulously studied all of Ramadans writings and speeches, states, in the 2008 book Brother Tariq: the Doublespeak of Tariq Ramadan, that Ramadan, like his grandfather (Hasan al-Banna), promotes rigid fundamentalism and can accurately be classified as a war leader.
According to Oliver Guitta of The American Thinker:
Even though Ramadan cannot be charged with terrorism, it is clear that his speeches and tapes broadcasted in a lot of European mosques constitute an incitement to terrorism against the West. He supplies moral support for terrorism, and therefore should be viewed as a very dangerous man, because of the numerous terrorists his views foster.... There is a danger in bringing Ramadan into our Muslim communities, because, with his smooth double language, he might succeed in radicalizing the Muslim community, while charming our naïve Left, as he did so successfully in France.
In 2006 Ramadan appealed the DHS decision to ban him from the United States. The State Department denied his appeal, this time on the grounds that he had given money to a French pseudo-charity with ties to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
Following his initial expulsion from the U.S., Ramadan quickly found work as a professor and lecturer at a number of schools throughout Europe. In October 2005 he began teaching at St. Antonys College at the University of Oxford on a Visiting Fellowship, and he was a senior research fellow at the Lokahi Foundation in London. In November 2007, he was appointed to the Sultan of Oman chair of Islamology at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, and he is also a guest professor of Identity and Citizenship at Erasmus University in Rotterdam.
Vis a vis Israel, Ramadan candidly favors the complete eradication of the Jewish state. According to one French investigative agent, Ramadans ambition is to bring about the legal extinction of the state of Israel through a major Muslim lobbying campaign, first in Europe, then in the United States.
In February 2008 Ramadan led a boycott of the annual Turin [Italy] Book Fair -- to punish its organizers for having designated Israel (which was celebrating the 60th anniversary of its creation) as the event's guest of honor. According to Ramadan, it is neither normal nor decent to commemorate Israel when Israeli state and government policies in the devastated occupied territories are clear for all to see. In protest of the book fair, Ramadan helped organize a counter-event of Muslim writers, intellectuals, and activists at the University of Turin, titled Western Democracies and Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine.
In Ramadan's view, women should be forbidden to play in sports where their uncovered limbs would be seen by men. When asked whether he would condemn his own brother's statement that stoning a woman for adultery was an acceptable punishment as prescribed by Islamic law, Ramadan said only that he would ask for a moratorium on stoning.
Ramadan has written more than 700 articles and some twenty books, including: To Be a European Muslim (2003); Western Muslims and the Future of Islam (2005); In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad (2007); and Radical Reform: Islamic Ethics and Liberation (2008). In addition, he has recorded at least 170 lectures, many of which have become popular among Muslim youths in Europe and elsewhere. His speeches attract many young Muslims from Frances poorer neighborhoods, and audiotapes of those talks sell by the thousands.
Ramadan serves as an adviser on religious issues for the European Union.
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posted on
03/25/2010 4:22:25 AM PDT
by
SJackson
To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume
If youd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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posted on
03/25/2010 4:23:36 AM PDT
by
SJackson
(Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided, Barack Hussein Obama)
Comment #3 Removed by Moderator
To: LibLieSlayer
Petty harsh words, but not altogether different from my own views, and the views of many . Hillary is doing a great job of getting Obama’s dirty work done for him. She appears to be a perfect foil for him. The question is, dos she do this under orders or is she as bad as Obama , or worse.
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posted on
03/25/2010 4:36:09 AM PDT
by
Venturer
To: SJackson
Huma requested this when she came up for a breath of air.
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posted on
03/25/2010 4:37:51 AM PDT
by
2nd Bn, 11th Mar
(The "P" in democrat stands for patriotism)
To: SJackson
The ‘Obama outrage an hour’ continues.....delivered daily since Jan.20,2009.
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posted on
03/25/2010 4:38:12 AM PDT
by
penelopesire
("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
To: Venturer
Her college thesis was on Saul Alinsky. She probably gives Obama his talking points....
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posted on
03/25/2010 4:44:56 AM PDT
by
x_plus_one
(Luke 22:36 ......and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.....)
To: SJackson
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posted on
03/25/2010 5:00:26 AM PDT
by
I_be_tc
To: Venturer
Pretty harsh words? no... I am done with the idea of political correctness. PC NEVER won a political battle. Our way of life is under assault... you have not seen “harsh” yet. hildeb!tch is every bit as evil and as sinister as hussein... maybe even his equal.
LLS
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posted on
03/25/2010 5:11:13 AM PDT
by
LibLieSlayer
(Wolverine!)
To: LibLieSlayer
As I stated I agree with your words, only your post got removed. If you continue, your privilege to post will be rescinded and your views will not be seen.
After all , it’s a family site.
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posted on
03/25/2010 5:15:59 AM PDT
by
Venturer
Given how Obama has managed to piss of Bibi and the entire country of Israel, maybe he will have a visit from Mossad - they’ll bring gifts of 72 virgins.
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posted on
03/25/2010 5:28:41 AM PDT
by
Brytani
(Good Morning Comrades!!! FUBO)
To: SJackson
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posted on
03/25/2010 5:31:55 AM PDT
by
FlyVet
To: SJackson
Why is he coming to the USA? Has he been offered or accepted a position somewhere?
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posted on
03/25/2010 5:38:59 AM PDT
by
Pat4ever
(2010-Flip the Congress!)
To: Pat4ever
Obama still does not have a terrorism Czar...well except for Congress and Rham.
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posted on
03/25/2010 5:53:05 AM PDT
by
Brytani
(Good Morning Comrades!!! FUBO)
To: Venturer
Are you threatening me? Has FR become a censored site as to calling these dim animals what they are? Do you rejoice in censorship? Did you personally complain to the moderators about me? I just want to know who my friends and allies are. I also donate so that I can enjoy the privilege of posting here... every single time Jim asks us for support... and I will until obama gets may last penny, or some thought police removes me from this site. I hope that never happens... look at my posting history... I am no FR wall flower.
LLS
To: LibLieSlayer
Of course I am not threatening you. I feel the same way you do. I was once tossed off of here for some things I said and I was just trying to explain to you that if you cross the line the Moderators will come down on you.
Be assured I have never pimped on anyone in a long lifetime, in Free Republic nor in life.. I could care less what you say or what words you use to say it. So be my guest.
I agree with everything you said. This country is under the influence of a Muslim,racist, who is working hard to destroy us.
So don’t go off on a tangent with me, save you angst for Obama and his Democrat Communist pals.
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posted on
03/25/2010 12:55:45 PM PDT
by
Venturer
To: Venturer
I should apologize to you because of two things... I misread your post and I have just about had all of this leftist attack on our Nation as I can stand for one day. I am sorry. Rush is right... these people need to be destroyed so that they can NEVER win another election.
LLS
To: LibLieSlayer
It isnt just one day. we have been sold out for the last year and we have three more to go. Hopefully in November we can neuter the Muslim and the Democrat party will go away for a while.
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posted on
03/25/2010 2:04:31 PM PDT
by
Venturer
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