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To: lorne who wrote (11169)	12/21/2007 8:43:22 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

Those people are crazier than ever... GZ

To: lorne who wrote (11169)	12/21/2007 10:02:10 AM
From: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

He sees his main mission, as he recounted in a Nov. 16, 2005, speech in Tehran, being to "pave the path for the glorious reappearance of Imam Mahdi, may Allah hasten his reappearance." seriously deluded. We must hasten his return to his allah instead

To: lorne who wrote (11169)	12/22/2007 9:32:24 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

Islamic Scholar’s Suit for a Visa Is Rejected New York Times ^ \| Dec 21, 2007 \| ALAN FEUER nytimes.com Saying the government had acted properly and for “bona fide” reasons, a federal judge threw out a lawsuit on Thursday that was brought last year by an Islamic scholar who claimed that a portion of the Patriot Act had been used to deny him a work visa to enter the United States. The judge, Paul A. Crotty of Federal District Court in Manhattan, said the Patriot Act had not, in fact, been used to deny the visa to the scholar, Tariq Ramadan, who was trying to enter the United States from his home in Switzerland in 2004 after being hired to at the University of Notre Dame. Crotty said the government’s decision was made because...Mr. Ramadan had given $1,336 to a Swiss charity later designated as a terrorist group. Mr. Ramadan, a respected academic and a grandson of Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, once-militant group, sought to portray himself victim of the Patriot Act and as a standard-bearer for academic freedom. The ACLU filed the suit on his behalf... The suit claimed that a portion of the Patriot Act denying visas to people who “endorse or espouse terrorist activity” was unconstitutional... The government originally said Mr. Ramadan was denied the visa under the Patriot Act but later said it was because of his contributions.... Judge Crotty nonetheless ruled that he had not provided “clear and convincing” evidence that he was unaware of the charity’s links to terrorism. ...Judge Crotty said American consular officials could bar foreigners from entering the country, without judicial review, if they could prove that there were legitimate and bona fide reasons for doing so... (Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ....