Obama Administration Lifts US Ban on Muslim Brotherhood Leader

IsraelNationalNews ^ | January 28 2011 | Avi Yellin

[txgirl4Bush]

The Barack Obama administration has decided to lift a ban preventing Muslim Scholar Professor Tariq Ramadan from entering the United States. Ramadan, an Egyptian currently living in Switzerland, is a leading member of Europe’s Muslim Brotherhood branch and the grandson of the movement’s founder Hassan al-Banna. The Muslim Brotherhood is the parent organization for Hamas and some of the groups that recently merged into al-Qaeda, including Ayman al Zawahiri’s Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Ramadan was invited to teach at the University of Notre Dame in 2004 but the George W. Bush administration revoked his visa, citing a statute that applies to those who have “endorsed or espoused” terrorism. The administration later dropped the terror endorsement claim and linked the ban to $1,336 in donations Ramadan made between 1998 and 2002 to a Swiss charity that was later blacklisted by the US. Although the White House asked the court last March to uphold the Bush-era entry ban on Ramadan, the administration has now decided to lift the ban and possibly allow both Ramadan and South African Muslim activist Professor Adam Habib onto American soil. State Department spokesman Philip Crowley told reporters that the government no longer views Ramadan or Habib as representing threats to the United States. “The next time Professor Ramadan or Professor Habib apply for a visa, they will not be found inadmissible on the basis of the facts that led to denial when they last applied.”

[Victoria Delsoul]

Obama should be providing leadership to the people of those nations (Egypt and Iran - where he didn't come across as strong to those rising up against Ahmadinejad), encouraging their efforts to seek freedom and a more democratic process, and also quietly backing the political forces that are most likely to rise to power and not be theocratically inclined.

Instead, he is cozying up with terrorists and supporting Egyptian terrorists during this chaotic moment in Egypt, as his recent move to let a Muslim Brotherhood leaders into the US comes across as a signal of approval for the Muslim Brotherhood.

[TheCause]

Tell me the fu%^*$ corner and I will meet you bastards!

[wac3rd]

None whatsoever, and now SEIU is linked with Hamas.

The Marxist Muslim is trying to kill us, and turdballs like Chrissy Matthews rail about the TEA Party.

I hope they enlist Chrissy to fellate a donkey in Cairo.

[Tigen]

Bump to the front page!

[NowApproachingMidnight]

Here is the weasel’s twitter that reported this as the State Dept’s spokes-mouth:

http://twitter.com/PJCrowley