SEPTEMBER 2006 THU : (US DENIES SWISS CITIZEN TARIQ RAMADAN A VISA -- See ACLU, TERROR CHARITIES, HAMAS,
RAMADAN'S SPEECHWRITER DJAMEL BEGHAL ) The U.S. government has banned a prominent Muslim scholar from the United States after accusing him of aiding a terrorist group, though a civil rights lawyer said Monday that the small charitable donation cited as an infraction was a pretext for censorship.*
[* My note: Nonsense- the US cannot possibly "censor" someone who is not inside our borders.]
Janelle Hironimus, a State Department spokeswoman, said a U.S. consular officer last Thursday denied the application by Tariq Ramadan for a temporary business and tourism visa based on new information the government learned about Ramadan. She said it was determined that Ramadan was ineligible to enter the country "based solely on his actions, which constituted providing material support to a terrorist organization." Hironimus said she could not reveal specifics about Ramadan's case due to confidentiality rules regarding visa applications.
The ...[ACLU] said the U.S. government notified Ramadan he was being excluded because he donated about $765 to French and Swiss organizations* that provide humanitarian aid to Palestinians. [* My note: And which would those be?]
The ACLU said the organizations are legitimate charities in France* [*My note: so what? He's not French and neither are we], but the Bush administration contends the groups gave funds to Hamas and has invoked a law allowing it to exclude individuals whom it believes have supported terrorism.
"This case is really about speech," said Jameel Jaffer, an ACLU lawyer. "The government is using the immigration laws as a means of silencing and stigmatizing a prominent critic."
Ramadan, a Swiss citizen and a visiting fellow at Oxford University in England, has said he opposes the U.S. invasion of Iraq and U.S policies in Israel and the Palestinian terrotories [sic], though he has no connections to terrorism, opposes Islamic extremism and promotes peaceful solutions.
On his Web site, Ramadan said in a statement Monday that he brought the donations to the State Department's attention and that the organizations "are not deemed suspect in Europe, where I live."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...------ US rejects visa for Muslim scholar AP ^ | 9/25/06 | LARRY NEUMEISTER
The ACLU wants to spin it as just a donation issue but the guy's speech writer was Djamel Beghal. There's no way he didn't know about Beghal's ideology.
A man named Djamel Geghal is mentioned in this artilce - Google Translation - Snippet:
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 2010 - 08:07
“An Algerian Islamist breaks his house arrest”
SNIPPET: “Algerian Islamist U n 35, Kamel Daoudi, was sentenced yesterday to six months by the firm Criminal Court Gueret for non-compliance with house arrest.
In 2005 he was sentenced on appeal to six years in prison for conspiracy in connection with a terrorist enterprise for planning an attack against the embassy of the United States in Paris he had served his sentence. Deprived of French nationality after his arrest September 25, 2001 in Leicester, United Kingdom, Kamel Daoudi was under house arrest in a hotel Aubusson since 2008, pending his deportation to Algeria, his homeland.”
SNIPPET: “Born in the town Sedrata Algerian, Kamel Daoudi arrived in France at the age of 5 years. Computer training, he is seduced by the ideas of radical Islam and ends up with Djamel Beghal in training camps in Afghanistan.
After his arrest in Britain, it will appear as a defendant in the trial network Djamel Beghal in March 2005. Both men will be sentenced to ten years imprisonment, Kamel Daoudi was regarded as “religious mentor” of the group. His sentence will be reduced to six years on appeal.”