Tariq Ramadan Gives Up – Then Tries Again

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Tariq Ramadan Gives Up – Then Tries Again

by Daniel Pipes

Jan. 20, 2010 update: From today's Associated Press:

    Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has signed orders enabling the re-entry of professors Tariq Ramadan of Oxford University in England and Adam Habib of the University of Johannesburg in South Africa once they obtain required admittance documents, department spokesman Darby Holladay said.

    Clinton "has chosen to exercise her exemption authority for the benefit of Tariq Ramadan and Adam Habib," Holladay said. "We'll let that action speak for itself." In a prepared statement, Holladay noted the change in U.S. posture since both professors, who are frequently invited to the United States to lecture, were denied admittance after making statements counter to U.S. foreign policy. Both the president and the secretary of state have made it clear that the U.S. government is pursuing a new relationship with Muslim communities based on mutual interest and mutual respect."

Daniel Pipes

More at the link. A most poignant question by Pipes for all of us at the bottom of the link (he's got various updates to this issue stemming from 2004, culminating with today).