September 10, 2004

Why America Should Welcome Tariq Ramadan

By Alan Wolfe

At the behest of the U.S. Homeland Security Department, the State Department has revoked a visa for Tariq Ramadan, a theologian of Swiss nationality, thereby preventing him from assuming a teaching position at the University of Notre Dame. The damage done to academic freedom is serious, but the harm to our country's efforts to combat Islamic extremism is worse.

Ramadan is Europe's leading Muslim intellectual. The grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization

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