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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Ban on Tariq Ramadan Lifted

The ban on Tariq Ramadan visiting the United States has been lifted. About time. His appointment at Notre Dame had to be abandoned a few years back because the US wouldn't grant him a visa. I may not agree with everything Tariq Ramadan believes, but I certainly don't think he's outside the bounds of moderate Islamist thought. He's a professor at Oxford. He's Swiss. I never did get it, but it certainly exercised some of the usual suspects a lot when he was earlier offered the Notre Dame job.

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