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Who else could it be but Tariq Ramadan? From Expressindia, with thanks to all who sent this in:
London, August 27: A Muslim scholar banned from the United States is to take up a post at Britain's prestigious University of Oxford, his college said today.Tariq Ramadan has been elected to a visiting fellowship (general) at St Antony's College for the coming academic year and is expected to begin work in October.
"Professor Ramadan is an internationally-recognised scholar," St Antony's College, Oxford, said in a statement.
"He was named by Time magazine as one of 100 innovators of the 21st century for his work on creating an independent European Islam.
"He was recently appointed to a prestigious chair in Islamic studies in the University of Notre Dame in the US."
In late July 2004, Ramadan's US visa was revoked and he was forced to return to his native Switzerland.
Posted by Robert at September 4, 2005 8:58 PM
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Why can’t he teach at one of his superior muslim universities in one of the many Islamic paradises out there. Why would he want to surround himself with so many dirty kafirs.
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at September 4, 2005 9:28 PM
Oxford pay's the Jihadi's for making Da'wa...
Why not make Yussuf Islam Defence Minister?
Posted by: Terminator at September 4, 2005 10:53 PM
"He was named by Time magazine as one of 100 innovators of the 21st century for his work on creating an independent European Islam."
And Time had Hitler on its cover once, too.
at September 4, 2005 11:16 PM
"He was named by Time magazine as one of 100 innovators of the 21st century for his work on creating an independent European Islam.
Something is missing here.....mmmm......let me see......I know!
"He was named by Time magazine as one of 100 innovators of the 21st century for his work on creating an independent European IslamIC STATE.
There.......that's better!
Posted by: Anthony at September 5, 2005 12:03 AM
If you can manage the French read Paul Landau's book "Le Sabre et Le Coran: Tariq Ramadam et les Freres musulmans a la conquete de l'Europe." There is also another book by Caroline Fouret also in French. Both books say that Ramadam's message is softened but essentially he has the same aims as radical Islamists - to conquer Europe and turn it into EUarabia. He was also banned from France and played a major role in rousing opposition to the headscarf ban of the French Government.
Posted by: londongirl at September 5, 2005 4:30 AM
londongirl
Those books are urgently needed to be translated.
Posted by: Zico at September 5, 2005 5:51 AM
What does it say about the standards of those who invited Ramadan to St. Antony's when they feel they must rely on that celebrated arbiter elegantiarum and arbiter litterarum TIME Magazine, the scarcely-readable butt of jokes for its entire existence, written in a prose dumbed-down so that dogs and cats can understand, and now invoked by an Oxford college:
"He was named by Time magazine as one of 100 innovators of the 21st century for his work on creating an independent European Islam."
It is not only the shade of Benjamin Jowett, but every self-respecting living don at Oxford, who must be deeply embarrassed by this little display.
And the second reference, the one which described the abortive appointment of Tariq Ramadan to the "Joan Kroc Center on Peace and whatchmafallit" at Notre Dame, a perfectly mediocre Do-Good "Center" under the perfectly mediocre "directorship" of the perfectly medicore Scott Appleby -- "prestigious"?
So that's it. An Oxford college, even one as louche, tendentious, and fourth-rate as the MIddle East Centre at St. Antony's has been virtually from its inception in 1957 (but especially so in the last 20 years), relies as justification for its appointment not on statements from distinguished scholars, for no distinguished scholars would ever endorse Tariq Ramadan, but on TIME Magazine, and the appointment, arranged by the officious Scott Appleby, to the "Kroc Center."
That's it: Tariq Ramadan, endorsed by an American semi-literate newsweekly as one of its "100 important leaders for the future" and by the recipients of Roy Kroc's indirect largesse.
A hiring committee moved by TIME, and McDonald's.
Do they want fries with that?
An Oxford appointment,
at September 5, 2005 12:46 PM
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