They say he scrapped his plans because of pressure from the Daily Express newspaper. From ZeeNews:
London - A hardline Muslim cleric based in Qatar has scrapped plans to speak to Muslims in Britain following an outcry in the wake of the July 7 London terror attacks, a newspaper reported.
Qatar-based Sheikh Yussef al-Qaradawi, a prominent member of the Muslim brotherhood, dropped plans to visit Manchester next month, the Daily Express reported.
It said the cleric's office in Qatar confirmed yesterday that he would not attend a Muslim unity convention organized by the Ramadhan Foundation, a British-Islamic education group, on August 7...
Prime Minister Tony Blair's government is considering new anti-terrorist measures, including strengthening procedures to exclude or deport people who incite religious hatred.
Qaradawi, who has condoned Palestinian suicide bombings in Israel, was viewed as a test case for the measure.
Not enough. But pressure works.
There must be a list of all these bastards drawn up. Then as-and-when they make those evil statements from the evil book, they should be put to sleep for the good of humanity - their `peace god` be damned.
Only then will the results be positive.
Has Tariq Ramadan still been allowed into England, sponsored by the British police?
If anyone in England is still wondering about what's so wrong with Tariq Ramadan, please read "Frere Tariq" by Caroline Fourest. It may by now have been translated.
Here from the interview published by L'Express with Caroline Fourest:
"The interview bears the provacative title "Ramadan is a Warlord" ("Ramadan est un chef de guerre"). For this is what Caroline Fourest claims one discovers upon listening to the cassettes of Tariq Ramadan's lectures, in which he addresses "his public - often young graduates susceptible to Islamist theses." "One here discovers Ramadan, the warlord," Caroline Fourest says, "giving orders and spelling out his political objectives: to modify the secular state and help matters evolve toward 'more Islam'. Unfortunately, the Islam in question is not an enlightened and modern Islam, but a reactionary and fundamentalist one...." The full interview is available in French here.
L'Express: "Ramadan wants 'more Islam', you say. But that doesn't mean that he wants to islamicize society as such, including non-Muslims."
C.F.: "I don't see anyone today who is as effective as Tariq Ramadan in furthering fundamentalism in France. He radicalizes the Muslims under his influence by introducing them to the thought of Hassan al-Banna (this constitutes the introduction to his recorded seminars), then he brings them into contact with the present-day ideologues of the Muslim Brotherhood: Youssef al-Qaradhawi, one of the few Muslim theologians openly to approve suicide attacks, or Fayçal Mawlawi, who is not only a Muslim Brother, but also the principal chief of a Lebanese terrorist organization. And that is not all. He weakens secular resistance to fundamentalism by forming alliances with secular anti-racist associations. He has accomplished a sort of tour de force: to make Islamism seductive in the eyes of certain militants of the anti-globalization Left. His tactic is simple: to send young partisans of his cause to register in anti-racist associations and left-wing parties."
And if the book by Caroline Fourest is not enough, then read "Lettera aperta a Tarir Ramadan" (An Open Letter to Tariq Ramadan) by Magdi Allam, appended to his recently-published "Vincere la paura" (Overcoming Fear). Allam, who was born and raised as a Muslim in Egypt, knows exactly what the Muslim Brotherhood is all about, and he traces Tariq Ramadan's close connections, even today, with those who are the agents of the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe. Every word in this "Open Letter" states or implies "I know you, Tariq Ramadan, I know you perfectly. You may fool the Infidels, but you can't fool me. I was raised in Cairo, I know the Muslim Brotherhood, I have read what you write, listened to what you speak. I have understood your taqiyya. You can fool many of the Infidels. But you can't fool me."
Surely the C.I.A. or MI5 could pay someone to translate the Fourest and the Allam books, into English and other relevant European languages? Where are all the Translation Projects? Where are those who will subsidize translations, publication, distribution, of such essential material?
Surely the C.I.A. or MI5 could pay someone to translate the Fourest and the Allam books, into English and other relevant European languages? Where are all the Translation Projects?
Don't they have to get past their dhimmi ('friends with benefits') advisors like John Esposito? He would probably tell them it't 'crazy talk by a crazy woman' and it would be dropped.
Qaradawi's non-visit was discussed on the (UK) Channel Four news earlier tonight. The interviewer - the left-leaning Jon Snow - was asking his guest, a pro-Western member of the Jordanian royal family, who the British government should be looking to keep out and who they should allow in.
What about Qaradawi? he asked.
The guest was equivocal; he had had run-ins with Qaradawi and wasn't sure he was the 'voice of moderation' as some would have it.
Snow pressed him - but isn't he the type of person it's important to have a dialogue with?
The Jordanian replied that Qaradawi had failings that disappointed him personally. One being: "He won't talk to Jews."
End of interview.
And, watching at home, a few more well-meaning liberals began to have doubts...