Clinton lifts U.S. ban on Muslim scholar

yahoo news ^ | 1/20/10 | rueters

[Cindy]

http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html

http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-41827920090818

#

Note: The following post is a quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318988/posts

Dutch sack Muslim scholar over Iran government ties
Reuters ^
Posted on August 18, 2009 2:30:59 PM PDT by nuconvert

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at in.reuters.com ...

[Cindy]

ping

[Enchante]

The Ramadan dude represents the pseudo-scholarly convergence of the “Muslim Brotherhood” of his grandfather, and the depraved, wistful longing for an Islamo-Euro union which drives out Christianity:

---

“Had Charles Martel not been victorious at Poitiers — already, you see, the world had fallen into the hands of the Jews, so gutless a thing is Christianity! then we should in all probability have been converted to Mohammedenism, that cult which glorifies the heroism and which opens up the Seventh Heaven to the bold warrior alone. Then the Germanic races would have conquered the world. Christianity alone prevented them from doing so.”

Adolf Hitler
28 August 1942
Hitler’s Table Talk 1941-44, page 667
translated by N Cameron and R H Stevens, 1953

[Cindy]

ADDING to your post #38 a link — for archival purposes:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369871/posts

[Cindy]

ping

[Cindy]

Previously...

Note: The following posts are a quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2296949/posts

Court Reverses Ruling Dealing With Visa of Muslim Scholar
NY Times ^ | 7/17/09 | BENJAMIN WEISER
Posted on July 20, 2009 2:53:10 PM PDT by dervish

A federal appeals court in Manhattan on Friday reversed a lower-court ruling that had allowed the government to bar a prominent Muslim scholar from entering the United States on the ground that he had contributed to a charity that had connections to terrorism.

The scholar, Tariq Ramadan, 46, a Swiss academic, was to become a tenured professor at the University of Notre Dame, but the Bush administration revoked his visa in 2004 and again denied him a visa in 2006. The government cited evidence that from 1998 to 2002, he donated about $1,300 to a Swiss-based charity that the Treasury Department later categorized as a terrorist organization because it provided money to Hamas, the militant Palestinian group.

‘snip’

In its ruling on Friday, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [Sotomayer’s court] held unanimously that the government was required to “confront Ramadan with the allegation against him and afford him the subsequent opportunity to demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that he did not know, and reasonably should not have known, that the recipient of his contributions was a terrorist organization.”

‘snip’

“The government, in barring Professor Ramadan, had first offered no explanation, and then cited a provision of the Patriot Act that allows for the exclusion of foreigners who use “a position of prominence within any country to endorse or espouse terrorist activity.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...

TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror; Click to Add Topic
KEYWORDS: hamas; patriotact; tariqramadan; wot; Click to Add Keyword
[ Report Abuse | Bookmark ]

h/t Atlas Shrugs.
Terror Finance Blog

http://www.terrorfinance.org/the_terror_finance_blog/2006/09/us_visa_denied_.html

Why Revoke Tariq Ramadan’s U.S. Visa?

Daniel Pipes

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

1 posted on July 20, 2009 2:53:10 PM PDT by dervish

[Cindy]

stepping back in time...

http://www.terrorfinance.org/the_terror_finance_blog/2006/09/us_visa_denied_.html

#

All Press Releases for September 18, 2006

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/09/prweb438947.htm

“Terror Finance Expert Exposes New Information about Tariq Ramadan’s Links to Terrorism”

[Cindy]

Off Thread Topic - Trivia:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/823702/posts

“Clinton is No. 1 pick to lead Oxford”
Chicago Sun Time/ Daily Telegraph ^ | 01/16/03 | PETER FOSTER
Posted on January 16, 2003 6:17:17 AM PST by prisoner6

“Clinton is No. 1 pick to lead Oxford”
January 16, 2003
BY PETER FOSTER

SNIPPET: “LONDON—Bill Clinton has emerged as the overwhelming favorite among Oxford undergraduates to succeed the late Roy Jenkins as chancellor of the university.”

[piasa]

According to that last link he’s connected to al Taqwa bank and to Hassan al Tourabi of Sudan.

[Cindy]

I would print out that page, except I don’t know if it’s allowed or not.

#

Here’s a related link:

http://www.terrorfinance.org/the_terror_finance_blog/2006/09/tariq_ramadan_n.html

[Cindy]

Regarding al Taqwa Bank:

Blog:

http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/01/21/hillary-to-banned-muslim-scholars-welcome-back/

“Hillary to Banned Muslim Scholars: Welcome Back!”
2010 JANUARY 21
by Claude Cartaginese

SNIPPET: “Ramadan’s 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.”

[Cindy]

Re Hassan al Tourabi:

http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&client=pub-8263383326298855&cof=FORID:9%3BAH:left%3BCX:Pipes%2520English%3BL:http://www.google.com/intl/en/images/logos/custom_search_logo_sm.gif%3BLH:30%3BLP:1%3BVLC:%23551a8b%3BDIV:%23cccccc%3B&ad=w9&cx=015692155655874064424:smatd4mj-v4&adkw=AELymgWaQ2ejknfwswk5WXm6Ejd6XXa7V60jbyS-AG4cLWnDzgJU3Qjl2hHgzji0F2CNXLBF-c3CZYUOT-OcvnYpfS7PPzQNs2NFjaIHh4Jt1hZGFFuaE1E_CmxIR3oSs-vRC3oNSi3Iz1vfhRpwAvyM2v5muUt4ZmMPN91-6zUumwsezNCnODpKDxfdzb9mceFudBIG-9c_l83aLDgJ4CQhp211zLpPGS9NH8QZR4SS_hR9wEzwzyE&rurl=http://www.danielpipes.org/search.php%3Fcx%3D015692155655874064424%253Asmatd4mj-v4%26cof%3DFORID%253A9%26ie%3DUTF-8%26q%3DHassan%2Bal%2BTourabi%26sa%3DSearch%26google_rsg%3D__OwjPcpqNUyO44uLWK5SloC7t2CI%3D&boostcse=0&oe=ISO-8859-1&ei=NR9YS-jRE5KMswPr1_TFBw&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=Hassan+al+Turabi&spell=1

[SJackson]

TARIQ RAMADAN

• 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 world’s 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.

Ramadan’s maternal grandfather was Hasan al-Banna, who in 1928 founded the Muslim Brotherhood. Ramadan’s 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 Ramadan’s 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.  
• Ramadan’s 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 Ramadan’s 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. Antony’s 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, Ramadan’s 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 France’s poorer neighborhoods, and audiotapes of those talks sell by the thousands.

Ramadan serves as an adviser on religious issues for the European Union.

 

[La Lydia]

What a magnificent thread. I especially enjoyed the part of this where we apparently allowed him to define Western culture, in its entirety, in term of Nietzsche, without complaint, without note! Nietzsche vs Islam, rather and Judeo-Christian culture vs Islam. What a joke.

I went to bed too early last night, after posting the NY Times version of this story. My comment, which stands, is This makes me furious. Why do we have to let these bastards, these cretins, into our country? It is just suicide. He is not "Swiss," in any way, except for his presence there. He is a MUSLIM and the grandson of the Egyptian who founded the Muslim Brotherhood. ... TENURED professor at Notre Dame? Thank heavens that fell through. They are out of their minds, too. And the court part puzzles me. Since when do foreign nationals have some kind of a constitutional right to a US visa? Whose judgment do you trust on who should be allowed into our country? Obama and Clinton? Or the Bush administration?

[SJackson]

Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

..................

Bio in post 53

[left that other site]

I heard this on Dr. Savage’s broadcast last night.

Is there ANY question now that the Obama Administration is a treasonous entity hellbent on the destruction of the United States?

[Cindy]

Additional link:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2433757/posts

“Hillary to Banned Radical Muslim Scholars: Welcome Back!”
David Horowitz’s NewsRealblog ^ | Claude Cartaginese
Posted on January 21, 2010 3:22:17 AM PST by Michael van der Galien

[cricket]

This not getting enough play; nor Geert Wilders trial, either for that matter. E-mail Fox News! Let them hear. . .Haiti and even Scott Brown no reason to ignore these stories save the constraints and restraints of judgment that continue to damn us all here, by way of politcal correctness.

[Cindy]

Hi Cricket.

I don’t get my news from Fox News.

When I do quote them it’s because I need an additional source or once in awhile they actually break news.

[piasa]

Hasan al Tourabi was the guy who facilitated meetings between al Qaeda and Iraqi intelligence. He did the same between al Qaeda and Iran.

1992 : (THE FIRST MEETING BETWEEN THE IRAQI INTELLIGENCE SERVICE AND AL QAEDA IS BROKERED BY HASSAN AL-TURABI, LEADER OF SUDAN'S AL-QAEDA-AFFILIATED NATIONAL ISLAMIC FRONT; IRAQI INTELLIGENCE SERVICE DIRECTOR FARUQ HIJAZI AND SENIOR AL QAEDA LEADER AYMAN AL ZAWAHIRI WERE IN ATTENDANCE ---See IRAQ AL QAEDA/AL QAEDA IRAQ) 4. According to a May 2003 debriefing of a senior Iraqi intelligence officer, Iraqi intelligence established a highly secretive relationship with Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and later with al Qaeda. The first meeting in 1992 between the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) and al Qaeda was brokered by [* leader of Sudan's al Qaeda affiliated National Islamic Front, Hassan] al-Turabi. Former IIS deputy director Faruq Hijazi and senior al Qaeda leader [Ayman al] Zawahiri were at the meeting--the first of several between 1992 and 1995 in Sudan------- "The U.S. government's secret memo detailing cooperation between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. ," by Stephen F. Hayes, 11/24/2003, the Weekly Standard, Volume 009, Issue 11

1994 : (IRAQ'S SADDAM HUSSEIN SENDS FARUQ HIJAZI aka FAROUK HIJAZI TO SUDAN TO MEET WITH BIN LADEN ; MEETINGS WERE BROKERED BY HASSAN AL-TOURABI---See IRAQ AL QAEDA/AL QAEDA IRAQ, SAMI AL ARIAN'S ICP) Desperate for allies after the Gulf War, Saddam sent Faruq Hijazi, his secret service director, to Sudan in 1994, where bin Laden then had his headquarters. The meetings were brokered by Hassan al-Tourabi, the Sudanese Muslim leader, who was bin Laden’s protector. The Sudanese belatedly offered to show the CIA all they knew about bin Laden and his visits, to ingratiate themselves back into the international fold, but the Americans scorned the approach. - "Hijacker 'given anthrax flask by Iraqi agent'," by DANIEL MCGRORY, The London Times, SATURDAY OCTOBER 27 2001

1990S early : (SUDAN : NIF'S HASSAN AL TOURABI/TURABI FACILITATES COOPERATION BETWEEN SHIITE & SUNNI GROUPS-- see IRAN/ALQAEDA, ALQAEDA/IRAN) Links between al-Qaeda and Iran are not new and have developed over time. Ties between the two first blossomed during the early 1990s when al-Qaeda was based in Sudan. Hasan al-Turabi, the leader of Sudan's National Islamic Front, encouraged relationships between Shiite and Sunni entities as part of his attempt to establish a unified global effort against the common enemy. As a result, Iran and al-Qaeda reached an informal agreement to cooperate, with Iran providing critical explosives, intelligence, and security training to bin Laden's organization.
Iran continued to provide assistance after al-Qaeda relocated to Afghanistan in 1996. Iranian officials were often willing to help facilitate al-Qaeda members' transit through Iran on their way to Afghanistan. Iranian border guards were instructed not to stamp their passports, presumably to prevent their home governments from suspecting that they had traveled to Afghanistan.
Although the 9/11 Commission found no evidence that Iran was "aware of the planning for what later became the September 11 attacks," it concluded that "strong evidence" exists that Iran facilitated al-Qaeda travel -- including some of the September 11 hijackers -- to Afghanistan....----- "The Iran-al-Qaeda Conundrum," WASHINGTON INSTITUTE.org ^ | January 23, 2009 | By Matthew Levitt and Michael Jacobson Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2009 2:05:27 AM by Cindy

Tourabi was also brought in to give a lecture to an islamic organization in Florida that has some members tied to terrorism:

1995 : (TAMPA, FL : SAMI AL ARIAN, & SUDAN'S HASSAN TURABI) [Sami] Al-Arian's close ties to both PIJ and Hamas go back to at least 1995. Al-Arian used a group he founded, the Islamic Committee for Palestine, to plead for funds for PIJ and Hamas.
Conferences organized by ICP featured Islamic Jihad founder Abdel Aziz-Odeh, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman (spiritual leader of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers), leading Hamas official Mohammed Sakr and high-ranking Sudanese terrorist Hassan Turabi, a close ally of Osama bin Laden. --------- Democrats' imam was character witness to terror supporter , WorldNetDaily.com, Thursday, July 29, 2004 Maybe Hillary will invite Tourabi to come to the US again, too. He could lecture at Columbia U.