From Jihad Watch, translation in comments:Tariq Ramadan is the world's most famous "moderate Muslim." He was slated to take a professorial job at the University of Notre Dame this year, until his visa was revoked by DHS. DHS hasn't explained why, and his case has become a cause celebre for the anti-anti-terror Left, but here is a French-language story (from the Swiss Le Temps, via proche-orient.info, with thanks to Phil), that gives a hint as to why Ramadan may have been kept out of the U.S.
According to the bill of indictment, Djamel Beghal, preacher accused of having prepared an operation commits suicide against the American embassy of Paris, prepared speeches of ***Tariq Ramadan***
By Time (Switzerland)
« A fright haunts Europe. Since the murder attempts of Madrid and the murder of the Dutch film director Théo van Gogh, politicians and intellectuals recall presence on the Old Continent « of parallel societies » founded on an extremist Islam, sometimes violent », explains Sylvain Besson in " The Time ".
« January 3rd of this year is going to open in Paris an action which will allow to understand the functioning of one of these " parallel societies».
On the dock: a computer scientist, a social helper, a coach driver, a cleaning woman, some unemployed persons... In all six persons, Arabs or Frenchmen converted to Islam, who would have prepared a murder attempt against American interests in Paris. The bill of indictment of 219 pages, that " The Time " obtained, researches their amazing centreboard.
In July, 2001, the authorities of Dubaï, in the Persian gulf, stop a certain Djamel Beghal. For some years, this travelling preacher put his nice paces in the service of a radical Islam which advocates violence against faithless and a comeback to the way of life of first Muslims. He began in 1994, in the contact of a brotherhood of Corbeil, the group " Dawaa et Tabligh ", considered as fundamentalist but apolitical.
In this epoch, according to the bill of indictment, « it notably made responsible for preparing speeches of Tariq Ramadan ». The intellectual genevois, who has never allowed to have met or to remember Djamel Beghal, did not answer messages left by " The Time " in its domicile.
The interviewers thinks that Djamel Beghal, Nizar Trabelsi and Kamel Daoudi accepted the direct boost of Ussama ben Laden to lead an operation commit suicide against the American embassy of Paris. But, according to declarations of their friends, their first target was to live in a society indeed Islamic ».
It seems that Tariq Ramadan has connectections to some very unsavory characters indeed. |