Jihadist Tariq Ramadan

Stealth jihadist tariq ramadan on why he was barred by the Bush administration from entering America:

The Bush administration denied Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan a visa six years ago, forcing him to turn down a tenured position at the University of Notre Dame. Groups like the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit and fought successfully on his behalf. In January, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton revoked a ban, allowing the Swiss-born Ramadan and another Muslim scholar to visit the U.S. On his first trip back, Ramadan, now a professor at Oxford University, gave a keynote address this month at a fundraising dinner for the Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. He also sat down with the Chicago Tribune.
Q: Why do you think you were banned from the United States?

A: I gave money to many organizations and two were blacklisted in the United States. (The Bush administration) said you gave the money so you should reasonably have known that these organizations were connected to Hamas, or allegedly connected to Hamas. The problem for (the Bush administration) was that they made a mistake because I gave the money between 1998 and 2002, before these organizations were blacklisted in the States, while they were never blacklisted in Europe where I lived. This was all a pretext for keeping me outside (the U.S.). It was an ideological exclusion. [...]

Just because Europe lacks any semblance of moral clarity doesn't mean there is any doubt about hamas being a terrorist gang.

Q: You've been criticized for double-speak, saying one thing to Muslim audiences and another to Western, non-Muslim audiences. Right-wing blogger Robert Spencer has called you a "stealth jihadist." Are you a stealth jihadist?
A: No. They all know that. These are people who have a problem with the Muslim presence. They are scared our presence in the West is going to change Western policies to something which is more open, for example, toward Palestinian rights, more critical toward the unilateral support of the States toward Israel.

What they are concerned about regarding the muslim presence in America is terrorism and the implementation of sharia law which is taking place in Europe due to massive muslim immigration.

As for western policies, when has the west ever given unilateral support to Israel? Europe has for decades favored the arabs and has been blatantly hostile to Israel. Even America gives money and military aid to arab states such as Egypt and saudi arabia. Even the PA has received billions in U.S. aid over the years. American troops have given their lives defending arab countries, but we never have done so for Israel. America also has numerous times prevented Israel from defeating its enemies, and saved arab countries from total defeat; from the Sinai to the six day war and the Yom Kippur war, the first and second Lebanon wars and Gaza. The U.S. even under Reagan condemned Israel for bombing Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor and defying Israeli protests, sold planes to saudi arabia. Not to mention we refuse to place our embassy in Jerusalem and condemn Israeli communities in eastern Jerusalem and in Judea and Samaria, referred to as "settlements".

The notion that we have always been one-sided in support of Israel is one of the great myths of our time.