U.S. Revokes Visa for Muslim Scholar

A Muslim scholar who had accepted a position at the University of Notre Dame had his visa revoked in August at the request of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Tariq Ramadan had been scheduled to begin teaching this semester, but he learned that his previously approved work visa had been taken away, according to Matthew V. Storin, a Notre Dame spokesman. Mr. Ramadan, a Swiss citizen who had been teaching in Geneva, had planned to arrive with his family in South Bend, Ind., in

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