An Islamist in Professor's Garb: Tariq Ramadan Returns to America

by Winfield Myers  •  Apr 15, 2010 at 7:26 am

http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2010/04/an-islamist-in-professors-garb-tariq-ramadan

	Tariq Ramadan

Writing at American Thinker, Brendan Goldman today reports on Tariq Ramadan's recent lecture in New York City. What the New York Times claimed was a triumph of freedom of speech over censorship was in fact, as Goldman demonstrates, further confirmation of Ramadan's radical Islamist beliefs:

A capacity crowd of 860 students, professionals, hijab-clad women, and others filled Cooper Union's Great Hall on Thursday, April 8, to hear Tariq Ramadan deliver his first public address in the U.S. since the Bush administration revoked his visa in 2004. The controversial Swiss Muslim, who teaches Islamic history at Oxford University, was banned for his 2002 donation to a Muslim charity with links to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas -- a move that cost him an endowed chair at the University of Notre Dame. Earlier this year, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton personally intervened to allow Ramadan to enter the country.

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