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Volume XII, Issue # 15, January 22, 2010
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TARIQ RAMADAN PERMITTED TO ENTER THE U.S.A.
By Dr, Daniel Pipes
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION HAS JUST DECIDED IN FAVOR OF TARIQ RAMADAN, ALLOWING HIM LEGAL ENTRY INTO
THE UNITED STATES. RAMADAN, A SWISS ISLAMIST, WHO HAS PROVIDED FUNDING TO TERRORIST
ORGANIZATIONS,
IS NOW FREE TO ROAM OUR COUNTRY & COMMUNICATE PERSONALLY WITH LIKE-MINDED SUBVERSIVES. SO,
FELLOW AMERICANS, HOW SAFE DO YOU THINK WE WILL BE WITH RAMADAN PRESENT IN AMERICA & CONSPIRING WITH
THE ISLAMISTS WHO ARE ALREADY HERE? WILL THIS BRING ON THE PEACE THAT PASSETH ALL UNDERSTANDING,
OR WILL IT HEIGHTEN THE PROBABILITY OF INCREASING ISLAMIST TERROR ATTACKS LAUNCHED AGAINST AMERICAN
SOCIETY BY ENEMIES OPERATING WITHIN OUR BORDERS?
FULL STORY:
The Swiss Islamist Tariq Ramadan was about to take up a position at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana in 2004, when
the U.S. government prevented him from entering the country on the grounds that he had funded two Hamas-related groups.
For five years, his exclusion has been debated and tried. Finally, it was reversed two days ago. The Associated Press
explains:
"Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has signed orders
enabling the re-entry of Professors Tariq Ramadan of Oxford
University in England and Adam Habib of the University of
Johannesburg in South Africa, once they obtain required
admittance documents, department spokesman Darby
Holladay said.
"Clinton 'has chosen to exercise her exemption authority for
the benefit of Tariq Ramadan and Adam Habib,' Holladay said.
'We'll let that action speak for itself.' In a prepared statement,
Holladay noted the change in U.S. posture since both
Professors, who are frequently invited to the United States to
lecture, were denied admittance after making statements
counter to U.S. foreign policy. 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.'"
Comments:
(1) I always expected this outcome, that Ramadan would be allowed in, because so many forces were aligned in his favor.
That the exclusion lasted over five years was impressive.
(2) Note that this change was ordered from the very top, specifically invoking Obama.
(3) Note also the sleaziness of the State Department spokesman, ascribing Ramadan's exclusion to his "making statements
counter to U.S. foreign policy." No, the reason was explicitly his having provided funds to a terrorist-related organization.
Why the gratuitous lie, State Department?
(4) The Obama administration puts this case into the context of "pursuing a new relationship with Muslim communities
based on mutual interest and mutual respect." But it's always been a terrorism case, with no connection to issues of Islam.
What amateurs.
(5) Note the term "mutual respect," the hackneyed phrase repeatedly applied to the U.S. government and Muslims -- so
much so that I have devoted a whole blog to Obama's use of these words.
(6) So, fellow Americans, how many of you feel safer with the prospect of Tariq Ramadan present in person to talk to our
Islamists?
© Daniel Pipes 2010
Republished with the Permission of Daniel Pipes
Reprinted from the Daniel Pipes Mailing List, January 20, 2010
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2004/12/tariq-ramadan-gives-up-then-tries-again
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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International Politics & World Disorder:
War & Peace in the Real World
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Islamist Terrorism & American Homeland Security
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
Counterterrorism & U.S. National Security
U.S. National Security Strategy
American Foreign Policy -- The Middle East
Dr. Daniel Pipes, a Ph.D. in Islamic History (Harvard University, 1978), is Founder and Director of the Middle East Forum,
Founder of Campus Watch, Taube Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, a
signatory of the Project for the New American Century, a former board member of the U.S. Institute of Peace, a former
adjunct scholar at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a Golden Circle supporter of the U.S. Committee for a Free
Lebanon, a former member of the U.S. Department of Defense Special Task Force on Terrorism and Technology, and a
former lecturer at the U.S. Naval War College, Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and the University of
Pennsylvania. Dr. Pipes was the Director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute from 1986 to 1993.
Author or co-author of eighteen books, Dr. Pipes is a regular columnist for Front Page Magazine, the New York
Sun, and the Jerusalem Post. His analyses of world trends and of forces and developments in the Middle East
have appeared in numerous North American newspapers, including the Washington Post, the New York Times,
and the Wall Street Journal. He frequently appears on American network television, as well as at universities and
think tanks, to discuss the Middle East, Islam, and the Islamist threat to the U.S.A. and the West. He also has appeared on
BBC and Al Jazeera, and has lectured in approximately twenty-five countries.
Dr. Pipes is a Polish-American Jew whose parents fled Poland in 1939, immigrated to the U.S.A., and assimilated well into
American society and culture. His father is Richard Pipes, an American historian specializing in Russian and Soviet history
and serving as Professor of History at Harvard University from 1950 until his retirement in 1996. During the Cold War, the
worldview of Richard Pipes was strongly anti-Soviet and anti-Communist.
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