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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (82301)	4/9/2010 8:25:18 AM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224729

hussein obama said something like get rough he will side with the moslums..after all he did say USA is the largest moslum country. Once-barred Muslim scholar arrives in NY for forum By LARRY NEUMEISTER The Associated Press Wednesday, April 7, 2010 NEW YORK -- A prominent Muslim scholar banned from the United States for six years returned Wednesday for visits to four cities, saying he wants the U.S. to know its greatest threat is that it will surrender its core values because it fears Muslim-dominated countries. "In the name of your fear or mistrust of Muslim-majority countries, you may end up betraying your own values," Tariq Ramadan said in a telephone interview. Ramadan said he was happy to be in the U.S. as he made the 20-mile trip in a car from Newark (N.J.) Liberty International Airport to New York City, where he was to speak on a panel Thursday at The Cooper Union college. "My name has been cleared," he said. Still, he said he was delayed at customs for about an hour as he was interviewed by authorities there. The 47-year-old professor at Oxford University in England was permitted to return to the United States after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in January signed orders enabling re-entry for him and Adam Habib, a scholar from the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. Habib spoke Wednesday at the City University of New York Graduate Center. The Department of State said when the orders were signed that it wanted to enable the professors to return to encourage a global debate. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on Ramadan's behalf after his U.S. visa was revoked in 2004 as he was about to move to Indiana to take a tenured teaching job at the University of Notre Dame. He has spoken at Harvard and Stanford universities and elsewhere. Later, his visa applications were denied on the grounds that he had donated $1,336 to a charity that gave money to Hamas, a Palestinian militant group. Ramadan has said he has no connections to terrorism, opposes Islamic extremism and promotes peaceful solutions. On Wednesday, Ramadan said the controversy over the donation "was something ridiculous." Ramadan said he will be speaking with scholars in Chicago and Detroit before finishing his trip on Monday in Washington, where he will meet with members of Congress and speak at Georgetown University. He said he planned to remain outspoken, criticizing Muslims at times and criticizing any of "our policies that are wrong." He said he was speaking as a European and a Westerner.