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Why I'm banned in the USA
The Washington Post ^ | October 1, 2006 | Tariq Ramadan

Posted on 10/01/2006 11:00:48 AM PDT by 3AngelaD

For more than two years now, the U.S. government has barred me from entering the United States to pursue an academic career...

First, I was told that I could not enter the country because I had endorsed terrorism and violated the USA Patriot Act. It took a lawsuit for the government eventually to abandon this baseless accusation. Later, I reapplied for a visa, twice, only to hear nothing for more than a year. Finally, just 10 days ago, after a federal judge forced the State Department to reconsider my application, U.S. authorities offered a new rationale for turning me away: Between 1998 and 2002, I had contributed small sums of money to a French charity supporting humanitarian work in the Palestinian territories.

I am increasingly convinced that the Bush administration has barred me for a much simpler reason: It doesn't care for my political views. In recent years, I have publicly criticized U.S. policy in the Middle East, the war in Iraq, the use of torture, secret CIA prisons and other government actions that undermine fundamental civil liberties. And for many years, through my research and writing and speeches, I have called upon Muslims to better understand the principles of their own faith, and have sought to show that one can be Muslim and Western at the same time...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: aliens; immigrantlist; immigration; islam; islamokazi; muslimbrotherhood; personanongrata; ramadan; tariqramadan; terrorism; terrorist; trop
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To: danamco
Why don't you go to france to pursue your career??? They would love to have guys like you!!!

Actually, France won't let him in either.

61 posted on 10/01/2006 12:46:57 PM PDT by Bahbah (Shalit, Goldwasser and Regev, we are praying for you)
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To: 3AngelaD

Why are the courts ordering the Bush administration to admit Islamic extremists to the US?


62 posted on 10/01/2006 12:49:27 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: 3AngelaD

BINGO


63 posted on 10/01/2006 12:51:54 PM PDT by The Cuban
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To: 3AngelaD
"undermine fundamental civil liberties."

What do you know? Chew on it you s.o.b.


64 posted on 10/01/2006 12:55:35 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: 3AngelaD
From the article:

"I fear that the United States has grown fearful of ideas."

No, the United States may finally be waking up to the threat that islam presents to our way of life. None too soon IMO.

65 posted on 10/01/2006 1:03:19 PM PDT by theymakemesick (If allah demands muslims kill non-muslims, he must be satan)
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To: DCBryan1

Ban Mooslimes from the U.S.A.? Whatever for? They're, after all, merely practicing a peaceful religion don't you know? Below is abundant evidence to support that lie (and there are easily about a 100 additional verses to be found). There's absolutly no other conclusion but that Islam is a religion of peace:

[2.191] And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers.

[2.193] And fight with them until there is no persecution, and religion should be only for Allah, but if they desist, then there should be no hostility except against the oppressors.

[2.216] Fighting is enjoined on you, and h is an object of dislike to you; and it may be that you dislike a thing while it is good for you, and it may be that you love a thing while it is evil for you, and Allah knows, while you do not know.

[3.28] Let not the believers take the unbelievers for friends rather than believers; and whoever does this, he shall have nothing of (the guardianship of) Allah, but you should guard yourselves against them, guarding carefully; and Allah makes you cautious of (retribution from) Himself; and to Allah is the eventual coming.

[4.3] And if you fear that you cannot act equitably towards orphans, then marry such women as seem good to you, two and three and four; but if you fear that you will not do justice (between them), then (marry) only one or what your right hands possess; this is more proper, that you may not deviate from the right course.

[4.34] Men are the maintainers of women because Allah has made some of them to excel others and because they spend out of their property; the good women are therefore obedient, guarding the unseen as Allah has guarded; and (as to) those on whose part you fear desertion, admonish them, and leave them alone in the sleeping-places and beat them; then if they obey you, do not seek a way against them; surely Allah is High, Great.

[4.74] Therefore let those fight in the way of Allah, who sell this world's life for the hereafter; and whoever fights in the way of Allah, then be he slain or be he victorious, We shall grant him a mighty reward.

[4.76] Those who believe fight in the way of Allah, and those who disbelieve fight in the way of the Shaitan. Fight therefore against the friends of the Shaitan; surely the strategy of the Shaitan is weak.

5.33] The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His apostle and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement,

[5.51] O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.

[8.12] When your Lord revealed to the angels: I am with you, therefore make firm those who believe. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.

[9.5] So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

[9.14] Fight them, Allah will punish them by your hands and bring them to disgrace, and assist you against them and heal the hearts of a believing people.

[9.23] O you who believe! do not take your fathers and your brothers for guardians if they love unbelief more than belief; and whoever of you takes them for a guardian, these it is that are the unjust.

[9.29] Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Apostle have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.

[9.39] If you do not go forth, He will chastise you with a painful chastisement and bring in your place a people other than you, and you will do Him no harm; and Allah has power over all things.

[9.111] Surely Allah has bought of the believers their persons and their property for this, that they shall have the garden; they fight in Allah's way, so they slay and are slain; a promise which is binding on Him in the Taurat and the Injeel and the Quran; and who is more faithful to his covenant than Allah? Rejoice therefore in the pledge which you have made; and that is the mighty achievement.

[9.123] O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness; and know that Allah is with those who guard (against evil).

[38.44] And take in your hand a green branch and beat her with It and do not break your oath; surely We found him patient; most excellent the servant! Surely he was frequent m returning (to Allah).

[47.4] So when you meet in battle those who disbelieve, then smite the necks until when you have overcome them, then make (them) prisoners, and afterwards either set them free as a favor or let them ransom (themselves) until the war terminates. That (shall be so); and if Allah had pleased He would certainly have exacted what is due from them, but that He may try some of you by means of others; and (as for) those who are slain in the way of Allah, He will by no means allow their deeds to perish.


66 posted on 10/01/2006 1:54:29 PM PDT by raygun (Whenever I see U.N. blue helmets I feel like laughing and puking at the same time.)
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To: 3AngelaD
I am increasingly convinced that the Bush administration has barred me for a much simpler reason: It doesn't care for my political views.

We don't want you. Simple.

67 posted on 10/01/2006 2:13:09 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (Pornography kills - a man's soul, a woman's spirit, a child's body.)
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68 posted on 10/01/2006 2:20:41 PM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: DCBryan1

The average American doesn't want ANY of them here and he thinks he's being singled out.

I want them gone - NOW! No exceptions.

Oh, wait, I guess we could allow their world famous scientists to come here on a temporary visa. </s


69 posted on 10/01/2006 2:38:11 PM PDT by Let's Roll ( "Congressmen who ... undermine the military ... should be arrested, exiled or hanged" - A. Lincoln)
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To: 3AngelaD

Get a visa to Mexico, then just stroll across our open border.


70 posted on 10/01/2006 2:55:51 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: 3AngelaD

and his last name is Ramadan, "a holy month of jihad and kidnapping"


71 posted on 10/01/2006 3:27:02 PM PDT by omega4179 (Islam 14 Centuries of Jihad and counting./'Rats want to turn clock back to 2000)
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To: A CA Guy

Agreed. The foreigner is rather arrogant.


72 posted on 10/01/2006 3:34:41 PM PDT by TheDon (The Democratic Party is the party of TREASON!)
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To: VOA

That's enlightening. And therein lies the problem. We have enough philosophers here already. Now, if he could shovel, or paint; well, maybe we could fit him in somewhere.


73 posted on 10/01/2006 3:55:58 PM PDT by lomitarocks
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To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; 7.62 x 51mm; ..

ping


74 posted on 10/01/2006 9:39:46 PM PDT by gubamyster
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To: 3AngelaD
The grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood is still trying to "fool" useful idiots on the left.
Ramadan should be in Gitmo.
75 posted on 10/01/2006 9:43:49 PM PDT by rmlew (DeathKlok Rules!)
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To: 3AngelaD

Show him pictures of Israel, and the pope, and 9/11. Invite him in for bacon and eggs. See if he blows himself up. One less threat to humanity as he checks off the planet.


76 posted on 10/01/2006 10:05:58 PM PDT by Issaquahking (Trust can't be bought)
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To: Brilliant

"Why are the courts ordering the Bush administration to admit Islamic extremists to the US?"

That is a good question. Here is another good question:

Why are our courts involved in a case regarding the US governemt allowing entry to someone who is not a US citizen and has never been here?


77 posted on 10/01/2006 10:11:59 PM PDT by mjaneangels@aolcom
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To: longtermmemmory

Islam is only about 1. convert or 2. submit or 3 die

There is no other choices.




The fourth option is to utterly destroy "islamic culture" by whatever means necessary. This must be done if we are to survive. The worst of all possible futures is a world enslaved by islam. The West must prevail.


78 posted on 10/01/2006 10:56:38 PM PDT by 11B40 (times change, people don't)
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To: gubamyster

Bttt!


79 posted on 10/01/2006 11:49:14 PM PDT by TheLion
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To: 3AngelaD
"I am increasingly convinced that the Bush administration has barred me for a much simpler reason: It doesn't care for my political views. In recent years, I have publicly criticized U.S. policy in the Middle East, the war in Iraq, the use of torture, secret CIA prisons and other government actions that undermine fundamental civil liberties. And for many years, through my research and writing and speeches, I have called upon Muslims to better understand the principles of their own faith....

FINALLY!
Someone at State Department gets it right.

80 posted on 10/02/2006 12:58:19 AM PDT by norton
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