{"id":1922,"date":"2004-09-03T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-03T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2004-09-03T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-03T06:00:00","slug":"barred_from_the_us_tariq_ramadan_weighs_his_options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2004\/09\/barred_from_the_us_tariq_ramadan_weighs_his_options\/","title":{"rendered":"Tariq Ramadan: Barred from the US, weighing his options"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altmuslim.com\/ee_images\/ramadan2.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\">\n<div class=\"caption\">I think, therefore I am not<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>He was called one of the top 100 living scientists and thinkers by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com%2Ftime%2Finnovators%2Fspirituality%2Fprofile_ramadan.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Time<\/a> magazine last April. He has taken Muslims to task for their post-September 11th head-in-the-sand denial. His denunciation of French anti-semitism even had (and has) sympathy in the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.haaretz.co.il%2Fhasen%2Fpages%2FShArt.jhtml%3FitemNo%3D168205\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Israeli<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forward.com%2Fmain%2Farticle.php%3Fref%3Dlaurence200409011005\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jewish<\/a> press. So why would the US <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhs.gov\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Department of Homeland Security<\/a> revoke the visa of Swiss scholar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net%2Fdebates%2Farticle-5-57-1996.jsp\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tariq Ramadan<\/a> 9 days before he was to take up his new post as a lecturer at the University of Notre Dame? The official reason given was a vague PATRIOT Act reference barring foreigners with a \u201cposition of prominence within any country to endorse or espouse terrorist activity\u201d (this discovered nearly 5 months after his visa\u2019s approval when his furniture had already arrived in Indiana). Many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Farticles%2FA40222-2004Aug27.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">academics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com%2Fcontent%2Fopinion%2Fstory%2F10540088p-11459068c.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">newspapers<\/a>, and even Notre Dame\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southbendtribune.com%2Fstories%2F2004%2F08%2F28%2Flocal.20040828-sbt-MICH-A1-Jewish_ND_students.sto\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jewish students<\/a> have been fervent in their defense, as is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org%2Fviews04%2F0831-07.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ramadan<\/a> himself. \u201cWhere is the evidence of my \u201cdouble talk?\u201d Have you read the articles in which I call upon fellow Muslims to condemn unequivocally radical views and acts of extremism?\u201d (the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com%2Fservlet%2FSatellite%3Fpagename%3DJPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull%26cid%3D1093921794971%26p%3D1006953079865\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">allegations<\/a> in case you were wondering). The bulk of criticism falls on two issues: accusing some French intellectuals last year of favoring Israel simply because they are Jewish (anti-Semitic, you see) and being the grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna (because a bloodline is a bloodline). As of now, other options are being considered for Ramadan, including the possibility of delivering his lectures via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southbendtribune.com%2Fstories%2F2004%2F09%2F02%2Flocal.20040902-sbt-LOCL-B3-N_D__eyes_options_fo.sto\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">videoconferencing<\/a>. But Ramadan says he can\u2019t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turkishpress.com%2Fturkishpress%2Fnews.asp%3FID%3D25547\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">reapply<\/a> for his visa until he knows exactly what he did wrong in the first place. Said Ramadan, \u201cIf I really had something to hide, would really I be trying to go the States?\u201d <\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Zahed Amanullah is associate editor of altmuslim.com.\u00a0 He is based in London, England.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 20 years of espousing a moderate, inclusive Islam, noted scholar Tariq Ramadan is prevented from teaching at Notre Dame by US officials. 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