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Controversial Muslim scholar to talk about jihad in Livonia

Snips: A controversial Muslim scholar previously banned from entering the U.S. because of alleged terrorism links is to speak Sunday in Livonia about jihad. Tariq Ramadan, a professor at Oxford University who is grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, is set to deliver a lecture titled “Jihad Within Young Hearts: Toward a Positive Engagement." ......Stopping Americans from hearing diverse voices is unconstitutional."

He added: "Other governments — in the Near East — continue to ban me from their territory and forbid me to express myself freely. We must salute the progress accomplished by the United States — while remaining vigilant and critical of American policies...The road ahead is long."

The Obama Administration's ballistic missile defense program

Snips: For example, the report does not point out that Aleksandr Prokhanov, a Russian writer close to the Russian General Staff, has written, "We [Russia] were not defeated by the West in the Cold War, because the Cold War continues. We lost gigantic territories, but we held Moscow. From here we launched our counterattack."[7]

Chinese Senior Colonel Liu Mingfu reportedly stated in his book The China Dream that the U.S. and China are in a "competition to be the leading country, a conflict over who rises and falls to dominate the world."[8]

Regarding U.S. ally South Korea, North Korea has stated in the context of U.S.-South Korean contingency planning: "We will start a pan-national holy war of retaliation to blow away the den of South Korean authorities, including the presidential Blue House, who have led and supported the drawing up of this plan,"[12]

In 2009, around the time of Iran's satellite launch and the 30th anniversary of the Islamic revolution, Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati stated:

The noble and prosperous Iranian nation hit another severe punch against the head of the Americans and the Israelis with that move, starting a soft enemy breaking plan against those who are planning for overthrowing the system softly....