Professor Tariq Ramadan, Swiss citizen and grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder, Hassan al Banna won a reversal yesterday by the US Second Circuit Court in Manhattan of a lower court decision barring his entry to the US to take up a tenured position at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Center for International Peace studiesin South Bend Indiana. The ACLUand other allies on the academic left in America mounted a legal defense to lift the bar against his Visa preventing him coming to the US. The State Department barred Ramadan from entry in 2004, in large measure, because he had written a check for $1,336 to a charity affiliated with Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist organization. In the interim, Ramadan is the author of “Radical Reform: Islamic Ethics and Liberation”and other works extolling the doctrine of European Islam, a code word for the Islamization of Eurabia.
Nidra Poller, ex-Pat American writer in Paris, wrote me this morning with this trenchant comment: “not that particularly to lapdogs to the Muslim Brotherhood! Is there no limit?”
My colleague at the New English Review, Rebecca Bynum, noted this in her Iconoclast post on this mind numbing court decision:
Professor Ramadan had said in an affidavit that he was not aware of any connections between the charity, Association de Secours Palestinien, and terrorism, and that he believed the organization was involved in legitimate humanitarian projects. In its ruling on Friday, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit 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.”
Do we assume that Judge Sotomayor, presently going through US Senate Confirmation hearings, participated in this ruling? Ramadan knew what he was doing when he wrote the check to Hamas. After all he’s the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Hassan al Banna, of which Hamas is an affiliate. Then there were the thousands of taped Friday sermons distributed by the Islamist publishing house ,Tawhid, that this taqiyyah artist flooded French Mosques with Muslim Brotherhood hate cant and rhetoric. This is a travesty of justice. Now, we suppose that Ramadan can travel to the US and take up physically his tenured position at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana and send the same Muslim Brotherhood tapes to radical Mosques, here.
Ramadan and his ‘double speak"about the Muslim Brotherhood had been exposed in a book, “Brother Tariq: The Doublespeak of Tariq Ramadan” by author Caroline Fourest. Fourest noted this about Ramadan:
- When speaking to a Muslim audience, in particular young Muslim under his guidance, Tariq Ramdan, never criticizes Hassan al-Banna or the Muslim Brotherhood in any way. He does, of course, emphasize certain aspects, but he remains true to the doctrine of the Brotherhood and the Brotherhood leader is clearly identified as the model to be imitated….Far from expressing any reservations about the fanaticism that is an integral part of Al-Banna’s ideology, he accuses those who point out the unsavory aspects of his political and family heritage of conspiracy and post-colonial racism.
