Tariq Ramadan to teach at Notre Dame
Europe’s slickest Moslem academic,
Tariq Ramadan, currently of Geneva, Switzerland, has been hired to teach at Notre Dame. He hasn’t yet gotten his U.S. visa, and may face some difficulty in that area because of past controversial statements he has made about Jews. Ramadan’s much advertised devotion to “peace,” “tolerance,” and “moderation” would seem questionable, as this excerpt from the article suggests:
Doubts also persist about his position on Sharia law, the Islamic legal system.
His elder brother, Hani, director of Geneva’s Islamic centre, was fired from his public teaching job after he told a French newspaper that stoning a woman for adultery was acceptable.
Ramadan has so far only called for a moratorium on stoning. [Emphasis added.] He has also become embroiled in the debate over young women wearing headscarves at French government schools.
So, should we worry about the influence that Ramadan might wield in the United States, especially in a teaching position at our best known Catholic university? Nah. He is the very model of a modern Moslem college prof.
Posted by Lawrence Auster at February 09, 2004 10:25 AM | Send
Tariq Ramadan is no moderate.
Forget his bronther, the family ties go deeper.
In 1928, his grandfather, Hassan al-Banna, founded the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, an Islamic revival movement that preached a return to Muslim values as part of the struggle against Western colonialism and decadence. (It is now banned in Egypt.) The Muslim Brotherhood is the fountainhead for Islamic militancy.
For Information on Tariq Ramadan see the following articles.
http://www.nationalreview.com/europress/europress200310170948.asp
A Muslim Scholar Raises Hackles in Francehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1022738/posts
The reformer
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2003/11/30/the_reformer/
Notre Dame is importing a Fifth Columnist
If this is Ramadan, I can hardly wait ‘til Eid al-Fitr…
Re: Ramadan and Notre Dame
Each of each carry our own baggage. One may have expressive views that, taken as a whole, may become wrongly interpreted. Is he being hired for his academic skills in certain fields of study? If so, fine. But in the performance of his duties, he must subscribe to a code of honor . His position should be one of educating . If there are ulterior motives behind his candidacy which may cause a problem during his tenure, then that situation can be addressed. We have enough professors on the campus who should really be thinking of another line of work. Would a poster out there explain to me why this man could be viewed as a possible threat to us.