Tariq Ramadan, the grandson of Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, is still whinning.
Boo Hoo…
[quote][url=http://www.danielpipes.org/article/2043]Why Revoke Tariq Ramadan’s U.S. Visa?[/url]
It’s not every day that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security revokes a visa issued to a Swiss-national scholar scheduled to teach at one of America’s premier universities. But this has just happened, and it’s a good thing too.
The Swiss scholar is Tariq Ramadan. He is Islamist royalty – his maternal grandfather, Hasan al-Banna, founded the Muslim Brotherhood, probably the single most powerful Islamist institution of the twentieth century, in Egypt in 1928. Tariq is a Swiss citizen because his father, Sa‘id Ramadan, also a leading Islamist, fled from Egypt in 1954 following a crackdown on the brotherhood. Sa‘id reached Geneva in 1958, where Tariq was born in 1962.
What’s up? The DHS knows much more than I do, but it is not talking. A review of the press, however, gives an idea of what the problem is. Here are some reasons why Mr. Ramadan might have been kept out:
* He has praised the brutal Islamist policies of the Sudanese politician Hassan Al-Turabi. Mr. Turabi in turn called Mr. Ramadan the "future of Islam."
* Mr. Ramadan was banned from entering France in 1996 on suspicion of having links with an Algerian Islamist who had recently initiated a terrorist campaign in Paris.
* Ahmed Brahim, an Algerian indicted for Al-Qaeda activities, had "routine contacts" with Mr. Ramadan, according to a Spanish judge (Baltasar Garzón) in 1999.
* Djamel Beghal, leader of a group accused of planning to attack the American embassy in Paris, stated in his 2001 trial that he had studied with Mr. Ramadan.
* Along with nearly all Islamists, Mr. Ramadan has denied that there is [url=http://www.lagruyere.ch/archives/2001/01.09.25/article4.htm]"any certain proof" that Bin Laden was behind 9/11.[/url]
* He [url=http://www.lepoint.fr/impression/imprime.html?did=145608&displaymatrix=false]publicly refers to the Islamist atrocities of 9/11, Bali, and Madrid as "interventions,"[/url] minimizing them to the point of near-endorsement.
And here are other reasons, dug up by Jean-Charles Brisard, a former French intelligence officer doing work for some of the 9/11 families, as reported in [url=http://www.franceradicale.org/ramadan_terrorisme_14nov03.htmLe Parisien:[/url]
* Intelligence agencies suspect that Mr. Ramadan (along with his brother Hani) coordinated a meeting at the Hôtel Penta in Geneva for Ayman al-Zawahiri, deputy head of Al-Qaeda, and Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind sheikh, now in a Minnesota prison.
* Mr. Ramadan's address appears in a register of Al Taqwa Bank, an organization the State Department accuses of supporting Islamist terrorism.
danielpipes.org/article/2043[/quote]
or…
[quote]Middle East studies in the News
- From survey: Notre Dame
Tariq Ramadan
by Fouad Ajami
Wall Street Journal
September 7, 2004
Tariq Ramadan was no ordinary academic, and the people who authorized this appointment at Notre Dame no doubt knew that. In the world of the new Islamism, Mr. Ramadan was pure nobility. He was the maternal grandson of Hassan al-Banna, the Supreme Guide and founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, who lit the fuse of this religious radicalism back in 1928. Banna had lived a short and violent life. He was struck down by an assassin – most likely form the ranks of his own Brotherhood – in 1949. A village boy and a chameleon, a plotter who preached the simple but deadly doctrine of the Koran on the one hand and that of the gun on the other, Banna made his appearance when a fragile modernism was struggling to take hold in Egypt. His targets were the classic themes of nativism: the British presence in Egypt, the role and the place of the Copts – the country’s Christians – in public life, the moral “pollution” of secular modernism. His favorite disciple and son-in-law, Said Ramadan, made it to the safety of Switzerland when the Nasser regime, in the mid-1950s, launched a brutal campaign of suppression against the Brotherhood. It was in Switzerland, with the help of Saudi money and patronage, that Said Ramadan picked up the pieces of his life, stayed true to the legacy of Banna, and raised his two sons, Hani and Tariq, who would stay with the family business – the intersection of religion and politics, Islamic activism, and the call to the faith.
The genealogy of Tariq Ramadan was fundamental to his ascendancy to power and prominence: Nasab (acquired merit through one’s ancestors) is one of the pillars of Arab-Islamic society. (It is fast becoming so in two endeavors of American life, politics and Hollywood, but that is another tale.) Cunning in his use of his grandfather’s legacy, Mr. Ramadan could embrace his grandfather while maintaining, when needed, that the sins of ancestors cannot be visited on descendents. But he would never walk away from his legacy, and pride in his grandfather suffuses his work. In a piece of writing in November 2000, the reverence for Banna was astounding. No, he would not, he said, disown his descent from a man who “resisted British and Zionist colonialisms, who founded 2,000 schools, 500 social centers, and as many developmental cooperatives,” and who never ordered or sanctioned terrorist attacks. No serious historian of Egypt in the '40s would let stand this version of history.
campus-watch.org/article/id/1287[/quote]
or…
[quote]Tariq Ramadan accused of anti-Semitism
Caroline Monnot and Xavier Ternisien
Translation by Douglas
French original: “Tariq Ramadan accusé d’antisémitisme”
(Le Monde, 2003/10/10)
See also: “Critique des (nouveaux) intellectuels communautaires”
(Tariq Ramadan, Oumma.com, 2003/10/03)
Bernard-Henri Lévy calls on the anti-globalization movement to distance itself from the militant Muslim who is helping prepare November’s European Social Forum.
Is Tariq Ramadan an anti-Semite? The question was put clearly by André Glucksmann in Le Nouvel Observateur of 9 October and by Bernard-Henri Lévy who, in his “note-pad” column of the 10 October issue of Le Point, wrote: “This clever intellectual, trained at the school of the Muslim Brotherhood, (…) had until now always been able to present a smooth, socially acceptable self-image. (…) He has lowered his mask. He has dishonored himself.” For his part, André Glucksmann has written of the “anti-Semitic obsession” of the Muslim intellectual: “What is astonishing is not that Mr. Ramadan is an anti-Semite but that he should dare to admit this publicly.”
watch.windsofchange.net/themes_67.htm[/quote]
or maybe…
[quote]France’s Wake-Up Call
By Olivier Guitta
FrontPageMagazine.com | December 23, 2003
Last week, French President Jacques Chirac declared that “(French) schools will remain secular.” Thus, the hijab, the yarmulke and “large crosses” are going to be banned in France’s schools. But the real underlying issue, one not addressed by Chirac, concerns the extremist version of Islam currently threatening the French Republic, host to the largest Muslim population in Europe.
For example, last week, it was revealed in the French newspaper Le Monde that Saudi Arabia is going to finance the restoration of the Paris Mosque, thus exporting discreetly its extremist version of Islam, Wahhabism.
The most vocal advocate of Wahhabism in France is Tariq Ramadan, a Swiss philosophy teacher who happens to be the grandson of Hassan Al Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. Ramadan has been very active in France during the past ten years, spreading his extremist views and becoming the unofficial voice of French Islam. He has now become a “star,” appearing constantly on French prime-time television. Ramadan symbolizes the view, as Jacques Jormier, a leading French expert on Islam, puts it, “that does not modernize Islam but Islamizes modernity.” The extent to which Ramadan’s brand of totalitarian Islam has gained a strong foothold in France can be seen in the plight of French Muslim women.
frontpagemag.com/Articles/Re … p?ID=11445[/quote]
I think its more on Ramadan to show why he should be allowed into the USA. He’s spent a lot of time and energy already showing why he shouldn’t be allowed in.
