ACLU Sues to Let Muslim Scholar Enter U.S.
Posted on January 25, 2006
Once again, the ACLU shows us how to be safe.
From the Las Vegas Sun:
The ACLU sued the federal government Wednesday for blocking a Muslim scholar from entering the United States, arguing that the government should not use anti-terrorism laws as “instruments of censorship.”
Jaffer said the provision blocks entry into the United States by any prominent alien who has used his status to endorse or espouse terrorism or to persuade others to endorse or espouse terrorist activity.
It isn’t every day that the U.S. government revokes a visa issued to a Swiss-national scholar scheduled to teach at one of America’s premier universities. It could be as the ACLU alleges, to squash acedemic debate through ideological exclusion, or it could be for any number of other reasons.
Tariq Ramadan is Islamist royalty. His grandfather is Hasan al-Banna who founded the Muslim Brotherhood, in all probability the most powerful Islamist institution of the twentieth century, in Egypt in 1928. The Muslim Brotherhood, has been referred to by some to be the father of virtually all modern-day Islamic terror groups. 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.
Daniel Pipes gives us a list of possible reasons.
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 “any certain proof” that Bin Laden was behind 9/11.
He publicly refers to the Islamist atrocities of 9/11, Bali, and Madrid as “interventions,” minimizing them to the point of near-endorsement.
Then there is the intriguing possibility, reported by Olivier Guitta, that Osama bin Laden studied with Tariq’s father in Geneva, suggesting that the future terrorist and the future scholar might have known each other.
Ramadan denies all ties to terrorism, but the pattern is clear. As Lee Smith writes in The American Prospect, he is a cold-blooded Islamist whose “cry of death to the West is a quieter and gentler jihad, but it’s still jihad.”
The ACLU thinks we should not use anti-terrorism laws as “instruments of censorship?” Are they insane? I don’t want any terror loving Muslims to come into my country to get a tenured teaching position in our Universities. We have enough cliff-dwelling Left Wing professors of our own, we don’t need another terrorist enabler as a professor. We are still in the process of getting rid of our own Muslim professors that support Terrorist groups, we don’t have to import them!
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Good post. Take care.
The French are going hard against terrorist so why are we baby-ing them. Has something gone wrong. Regardless of how old an organization is or how educated its leaders are they can still be counted as enemies if they seek to do us harm. It doesn’t take a degree from an institution of higher learning to know that. I guess Muslim scholars have’nt taken terrorism 101.
Michael
We are still in the process of getting rid of our own Muslim professors that support Terrorist groups, we don’t have to import them!
But hey, lets not discuss all terrorists now…
http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-01-25-voa73.cfm
Once again, the ACLU has proved that they should be prosecuted for impersonating attorneys. They have no concept of the difference between rights and priviledges.
A visa to a foreign national is a priviledge granted by the US to allow visitation or residency. It is not a right. The US needs no reason to deny visas to any person, group, or nationality.
They can legally discriminate against any person or group.
The ACLU has been reduced to a frivoulous group filing frivolous suits and actions in search for relevancy.
It is time for some sane judge, if any are left, to slam them with a bankrupting fine for filing these actions.