Ramadan

Muslim WakeUp! reports that Tariq Ramadan has been denied a visa by Homeland Security, and will not take up his teaching post at Notre Dame.

I don't have time to comment on this beyond pointing to what I've written on Ramadan previously... and to just register that this a shameful, terrible decision, which will have wide ranging implications in American (alleged) attempts to reach Muslim moderates. When the United States attacks Islamist moderates like this, it does Osama bin Laden's work for him. Well done.

UPDATE: Scott Martens does what I don't have time to do - and very well!

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Fee fie foe fipes
I smell the interference of Daniel Pipes.

Earlier this year, a Spanish academic cancelled his contract with NYU because of the insulting HS policy of fingerprinting and detailed background check. All the poor fellow wanted to do was teach a course in ethics.