ACLU Still Fighting To Get Radical Muslim Scholar Into U.S.

Posted on April 14, 2006

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.
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 Le Parisien:

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.info from Daniel Pipes

However, the ACLU are fighting hard to get this radical inside our borders, claiming the government only revoked his Visa because he has critical views of Bush.

The American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union today urged a federal judge to lift the ban that prevents Professor Tariq Ramadan from entering the United States.

The groups said the government is using a Patriot Act clause known as the “ideological exclusion” provision to deny a nonimmigrant visa to Ramadan, a Swiss citizen who now teaches at the University of Oxford in England.

“The immigration laws should not be used as instruments of censorship,” said ACLU staff attorney Jameel Jaffer, who is lead counsel in this case. “The State Department should not be deciding which ideas Americans hear and which they do not.”

The ACLU and NYCLU are seeking a preliminary ruling prohibiting the government from barring entry to Ramadan based on the ideological exclusion provision, which authorizes the exclusion of foreigners who, in the government’s view, have “endorsed or espoused terrorism.” Ramadan has repeatedly condemned terrorism in his public and written statements. The ACLU believes government officials are censoring Ramadan because he is a vocal critic of American policy in the Middle East.

What a load of crap. The ACLU once again endanger us with their irresponsible actions.