April 9, 2010
Tariq Ramadan Gets the American Debate He Says He Craved
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Tariq Ramadan made his first public appearance in the United States since being denied entry six years ago. He spoke at Cooper Union in New York on Thursday.
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Tariq Ramadan made his first public appearance in the United States since being denied entry six years ago. He spoke at Cooper Union in New York on Thursday.
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Finally allowed into the United States to discuss his views, the prominent European Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan found himself fielding questions on Thursday that exposed just how difficult it might be for him to fulfill his stated mission of building bridges between the Islamic world and the liberal, democratic societies of the United States and Western Europe.
The forum was a panel discussion on "Secularism, Islam, and Democracy: Muslims in Europe and the West" held in the Cooper
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