Posted on 01/21/2010 3:22:17 AM PST by Michael van der Galien
The Associated Press is reporting that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has signed orders enabling radical Muslim professor of philosophy Tariq Ramadan, of Oxford University in England, and professor Adam Habib, from the University of Johannesburg in South Africa, to re-enter the United States, after having been banned from doing so for over 5 years.
The State Department has concluded that the two no longer pose any danger to the country. According to spokesman Darby Holladay:
[Clinton] has chosen to exercise her exemption authority for the benefit of Tariq Ramadan and Adam Habib. We’ll let that action speak for itself. Both the president and the secretary of state have made it clear that the U.S. government is pursuing a new relationship with Muslim communities based on mutual interest and mutual respect.
Another spokesman added:
As we look at it, we do not think that either one of them represents a threat to the United States.
Habib, a frequent critic of the war in Iraq, was initially denied a visa when the U.S. Government accused him of engaging in “terrorist activity,” an accusation denied by Habib.
Ramadan initially had his visa revoked, as he was about to begin a teaching job at the University of Notre Dame. His subsequent visa applications were denied on the grounds that he had donated $1,336 to a charity that gave money to the Islamic terrorist group Hamas (interestingly, he is also banned for sundry reasons from some Arab countries, such as Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Egypt). Ramadan has denied any connections to terrorism, and claims to oppose Islamic extremism in all its forms.
But does he?
(Excerpt) Read more at newsrealblog.com ...
Oh, well that is solid and encouraging. No doubt they simply want to attend flight school.
Welcome back,
Your dreams were your ticket out.
Welcome back,
To that same old place that you laughed about.
Well the names have all changed since you hung around,
But those dreams have remained and they’re turned around.
It’s okay, they don’t wear underpants.
Ramadan: Hahaha stupid infidels!
The headline does not make any sense.
hellary is illustrating why she would have been as bad as the o.
The press should demand she addresss this change in light of the recent state-department-involved security lapse.
Wrong move, worst time.
Must be in keeping with hillary; She doesn't make sense either.
Background Link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2433662/posts
or, use toilet tissue.
Hitlery is a ‘Progressive’ (Marxist) who is part of the mob that want to destroy this nation. What could we expect?
“Our diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse,”
“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. “
“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.” “
Tariq Ramadan is the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood Hassan al-Banna. Doublespeak is his specialty
http://www.amazon.com/Brother-Tariq-Doublespeak-Ramadan/dp/1594032157
The left, disciples of Alinsky and implementers of the Cloward and Piven strategy, don't recognize that threats to the United States can be philosophical as well as physical? Come on....
Is this Hillary’s first step in her plan to undermine Obama after the Massachusett’s Miracle? Scott Brown reported that in their internal polls, the number one hot button issue is Obama’s treatment of terrorists. Allow terrorist teacher’s into the country to weaken Obama?
So Obama/Hillary have learned nothing from letting the underwear bomber in. The US is becoming “Londonistan.”
Here’s Daniel Pipes’ list from the 2004 visa revocation:
He has praised the brutal Islamist policies of the Sudanese politician Hassan Al-Turabi. Mr. Turabi in turn called Mr. Ramadan the “future of Islam.”
Mr. Ramadan was banned from entering France in 1996 on suspicion of having links with an Algerian Islamist who had recently initiated a terrorist campaign in Paris.
Ahmed Brahim, an Algerian indicted for Al-Qaeda activities, had “routine contacts” with Mr. Ramadan, according to a Spanish judge (Baltasar Garzón) in 1999.
Djamel Beghal, leader of a group accused of planning to attack the American embassy in Paris, stated in his 2001 trial that he had studied with Mr. Ramadan.
Along with nearly all Islamists, Mr. Ramadan has denied that there is “any certain proof” that Bin Laden was behind 9/11.
He publicly refers to the Islamist atrocities of 9/11, Bali, and Madrid as “interventions,” minimizing them to the point of near-endorsement.
And here are other reasons, dug up by Jean-Charles Brisard, a former French intelligence officer doing work for some of the 9/11 families, as reported in Le Parisien:
Intelligence agencies suspect that Mr. Ramadan (along with his brother Hani) coordinated a meeting at the Hôtel Penta in Geneva for Ayman al-Zawahiri, deputy head of Al-Qaeda, and Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind sheikh, now in a Minnesota prison.
Mr. Ramadan’s address appears in a register of Al Taqwa Bank, an organization the State Department accuses of supporting Islamist terrorism.
http://www.danielpipes.org/2043/why-revoke-tariq-ramadans-us-visa
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