September 15, 2004

Tariq Ramadan, new favorite of the left

By Olivier Guitta
Since it was announced that Professor Tariq Ramadan, a so—called moderate Muslim scholar, had his visa revoked on the advice of the Department of Homeland Security, an outpouring of outraged reactions rained down. Ramadan was supposed to start teaching at Notre Dame in September. If you did not know at all about this individual, you would think that we live in a paranoid racist country or shall I say the favorite word of Ramadan 'Islamophobe'? The mainstream media has given lots of coverage to Mr. Ramadan's case but unfortunately just by presenting his own version of the facts. Ramadan wrote two long columns in the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune; this latter paper has been on the forefront of the defense of that 'man of peace.' The Washington Post also published a mind—boggling commentary comparing Ramadan to Martin Luther King, which I refuted fact by fact in the American Thinker. Unfortunately and not surprisingly, each one of these newspapers refused to publish...(Read Full Article)