February 10, 2006

ACLU Challenges Patriot Act Provision Used to Bar Foreign Scholar

By BURTON BOLLAG

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit last month challenging a provision of the USA Patriot Act that was used to deny a visa to at least one prominent foreign scholar, Tariq Ramadan. The provision allowed the federal government to bar him, the ACLU asserts, solely because the Bush administration disapproved of his political views.

In August 2004, Mr. Ramadan, an influential professor of Islamic studies and philosophy whose home is in Geneva, Switzerland, was informed that

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