Tariq Ramadan: Oxford Don
By Steven Plaut
Discover The Networks – Moonbat Central
August 28, 2005

You probably remember the arch-radical Tariq Ramadan.    Ramadan is a Swiss Arab anti-Semite who hates the Christian West, and has close ties to al-Qaeda and Hamas.   He was the darling of the pro-terror Marxist "Kroc Institute", which tried to finance Ramadan for a three year "visiting scholarship" at Notre Dame "University" in Indiana.   The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service said No Way Abu Jose.  Ramadan was denied papers and Kroc had to go shopping for some other terrorists and hate-America-leftists.

Time magazine had sucked up to the jihadniks by declaring Ramadan one of the "great innovators" of the 21st century, his main innovation I guess being terror and war against the West.  "Time" rhymes with "slime".  The Washington Post has also toadied for him, declaring him a "moderate".  An entire blog was set up to fight his hiring by Notre Dame.

Ramadan hates Jews, is a reactionary sexist, and insists that Islamic shaaria law become the law of the land.  Ramadan was "outed" by Orientalist scholar Daniel Pipes, who was quoted in the Chicago Tribune as saying: "I worry that he [Tariq Ramadan] is engaged in a complex game of appearing as a moderate but has connections to Al Qaeda." Those connections have been reported in detail in the French media.  Ramadan’s name turned up in an investigation of al-Qaeda in Spain where he was listed as a contact for Ahmed Brahim an al-Qaeda financial operative. Ramadan has also been linked to a planned attack against a U.S. embassy.  Noam Chomsky strongly supports him, so that pretty much removes all doubt as to whether Ramadan is really a terrorist. 

Notre Dame’s loss was Oxford’s gain.  Oxford University has now hired the terrorist. St Antony’s College says he is due to begin a Visiting Fellowship in October.  Ramadan, 38, is the grandson of Hassan al-Banna, who founded the fascist Islamist fundamentalist movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, in 1928.  The "brotherhood" is thought to have ties with al-Qaeda.  Ramadan has been accused of supporting attacks in Israel and Iraq.  On the Counterterrorism Blog Steven Emerson says of him: "

"Mr. Ramadan is not any more a moderate than David Duke would be considered a moderate on race relations. The only difference is that David Duke is not smart enough to speak in two languages, cloak his racism under the mantle of pluralism or enjoy the witting collaboration of the media."

Shortly after the London bombings The Sun newspaper in the UK ran a front page story criticising a decision to invite him for a conference - entitled "Meet Islamic Militant Professor Tariq Ramadan."

An Oxford college spokesperson said: "Professor Ramadan is an internationally-recognised scholar."  Sure almost as well known as Osama bin Laden.

"St Antony’s college is a forum for free academic exchange on the issues of our times, and opposes all manifestations of hate speech and intimidation designed to curb academic freedoms."  

We will see what the morons at St Antony’s say when Ramadan’s "academic freedom" motivates some new terror attacks on the London Underground.