More concessions to questionable Muslims

Obama Administration Lifts US Ban on Muslim Brotherhood Leader by Avi Yellin The Barack Obama administration has decided to lift a ban preventing Muslim Scholar Professor Tariq Ramadan from entering the United States. Ramadan, an Egyptian currently living in Switzerland, is a leading member of Europe’s Muslim Brotherhood branch and the grandson of the movement’s founder Hassan al-Banna. The Muslim Brotherhood is the parent organization for Hamas and some of the groups that recently merged into al-Qaeda, including Ayman al Zawahiri’s Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
Ramadan was invited to teach at the University of Notre Dame in 2004 but the George W. Bush administration revoked his visa, citing a statute that applies to those who have “endorsed or espoused” terrorism. The administration later dropped the terror endorsement claim and linked the ban to $1,336 in donations Ramadan made between 1998 and 2002 to a Swiss charity that was later blacklisted by the US.
Although the White House asked the court last March to uphold the Bush-era entry ban on Ramadan, the administration has now decided to lift the ban and possibly allow both Ramadan and South African Muslim activist Professor Adam Habib onto American soil. State Department spokesman Philip Crowley told reporters that the government no longer views Ramadan or Habib as representing threats to the United States. “The next time Professor Ramadan or Professor Habib apply for a visa, they will not be found inadmissible on the basis of the facts that led to denial when they last applied.”
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Obama Overrules Homeland Security for Tariq Ramadan David P. Goldman
Daniel Pipes :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...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...this change was ordered from the very top, specifically invoking Obama.Note also the sleaziness of the State Department spokesman, ascribing Ramadan’s exclusion to his “making statements counter to U.S. foreign policy.” No, the reason was explicitly his having provided funds to a terrorist-related organization. Why the gratuitous lie, State Department?...it’s always been a terrorism case, with no connection to issues of Islam. What amateurs....So, fellow Americans, how many of you feel safer with the prospect of Tariq Ramadan present in person to talk to our Islamists? Paul Berman, who...showed how the Swiss-born Islamist terrorizes journalists with the threat of violence, had this comment in Tablet magazine today:
Tariq Ramadan is coming to America. Is it a mistake for the Obama administration to let him in?It’s a good move for the U.S. to encourage freedom of speech and open debate. It’s a mistake, however, to imagine that he has positive contributions to make....I do think it’s worth the trouble to look into his deep thoughts, and to notice how problematic they are. He can say something attractive at the level of a slogan; but when you examine it more closely it turns out to have unexpected meanings. He opposes terrorism but he does it with a series of asterisks....How can so many Western intellectuals, like Buruma and Garton Ash, just to name two, be so wrong about Ramadan?...many people to think the Muslim world, which contains 1.5 billion people, is incapable of producing genuinely attractive thinkers.....but because so many people believe it, they turn to Tariq Ramadan...a Western fantasy that some messianic Muslim figure will step forward and resolve all the outstanding problems between Islam and the West... Ramadan is put into that role, and he puts himself into it. To imagine that such a figure will step forward also reflects a bias against the Muslim world,...Islam has 10,000 sects and heresies and 100,000 episodes in its history, on the one hand. On the other hand, there are 56 states in the Organization of the Islamic Conference, each of which has its own history. So we’re talking about 1.5 billion people resting on 1,400 years of history. It’s absurd to think of this as constituting a single unit. The idea that it does constitute a single unit is a doctrine of the Islamist movement—with a single movement you have a single leader, like the caliph. The defense of Tariq Ramadan in intellectual circles reflects a series of unexamined and in some cases very unattractive assumptions...