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A Grand Case of Islamic Deception

Tuesday April 5, 2005
Swiss Muslim professor Traiq Ramadan applied for a five year visa to teach at Notre Dame. Based on evidence that Ramadan was a potentially dangerous Islamic militant, the U.S. government refused his request for a visa. Ramadan, contending he was a "moderate," took his case the the American media -- which believed him -- and championed his case for entry into the United States. Upon investigation, however, it was found that Ramadan rationalized terrorism, refused to condemn suicide bombings and was evasive in responding to the question of whether stoning of women should be allowed in Islam today. In his article Tariq Ramadan: The Case of the Grand Deception, writer Steven Emerson argues that the ease with which radicals like Ramadan can deceive the American press and public lies at the heart of why we were so vulnerable on 9-11, and that this deadly weakness continues to exist today. Read Tariq Ramadan: The Case of the Grand Deception...

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