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I was surprised to learn today that Tariq Ramadan has abandoned his attempt to teach at the University of Notre Dame. Given that the State Department was openly rooting for him to try again, given that the Department of Homeland Security questions were excluded from his immigration interview in Basel, given that the higher education and related lobbies were pulling for him to be allowed in, it seemed only a matter of time until he would be permitted entry to the United States to take up the university position.

That he has formally resigned from Notre Dame suggests just how solid the DHS evidence against him is. And this, by the way, does not surprise me. A senior DHS official looked me hard in the eyes a few weeks ago and assured me, "The evidence we have is damning."

Tariq Ramadan Gives Up – Then Tries Again by Daniel Pipes

The title raises one's curiosity – "Islamic leader urges Jews be wary of fundamentalists" but it is the quotes in the Boston Globe story that takes one's breath away. Ingrid Mattson, apologist for Wahhabism and president of the Islamic Society of North America (a key component of the "Wahhabi lobby") spoke at Harvard University on March 12 and gave American Jews some unsolicited advice. "Right-wing Christians are very risky allies for American Jews because they are really anti-Semitic. They do not like Jews." And therefore, she implied, Jews should stay away from Evangelicals and other pro-Israel Christians.

Islamist Advice to Jews