Dutch sack Muslim scholar over Iran government ties

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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch city of Rotterdam and its university have fired Swiss Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan as an adviser to the city over his involvement with groups that detractors say hurt his role as an expert on integration issues.

Ramadan is a visiting professor of theology at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands' second-largest city.

Rotterdam's mayor is Ahmed Aboutaleb, a Muslim who was formerly junior minister for social affairs and who has vowed to ease tensions between the city's native Dutch and a growing immigrant population.

Ramadan was criticized after media reported last week he was hosting a weekly television show on broadcaster Press TV, which Rotterdam says is financed by the Iran government.

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I wish universities in this country would follow suit with others at our schools here.

"Last month, a U.S. federal appeals court reversed a lower court ruling barring Ramadan from entering the United States. The U.S. government had revoked his visa several times, saying contributions were given in his name to a group banned by the United States, the Swiss-based charity, or the Association de Secours Palestinien"

Unfortunately, we can't even keep Ramadan out anymore. Here's some background on him from Daniel Pipes ....

http://www.danielpipes.org/2043/why-revoke-tariq-ramadans-us-visa

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Good call posting this one in Front Page News. I’m sure O’Reilley will be leading with it tonight. Not.

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Finally. Good riddance. Of course the left in Holland doesn’t quite see it that way. Oh well, tough sh!t.

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The Islamist must be laughing everytime they have anything to do with westerners.

The Islamists are trying to kill the Westerners and the Westerners are worried about hurting the feelings of the Islamists...we'll even pay you to come help us figure out how not to hurt your feelings, we tell them.

We're idiots!!