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"…Met Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair has defended the decision to invite a controversial Muslim scholar to speak at a police-sponsored conference.
Tariq Ramadan’s US visa was revoked in 2004 for “security reasons”.
Mr Ramadan has been accused of supporting attacks in Israel and Iraq. He publicly condemned the 11 September and London attacks.
Sir Ian said his was an important voice that would be listened to by young radicalised Muslims.
He said Mr Ramadan, who was also previously banned in France, had been visiting the UK for five years.
Sometimes Acpo and police organisations try to be so PC that they cross the line and in my view they have crossed the line. They should withdraw their support
Norman Brennan
“We can’t understand why he’s banned in the US, (and) he is no longer banned in France,” Sir Ian said.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4675335.stm
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Perhaps this article of awhile back by de Borchgrave will re-emerge:
"…Tariq Ramadan is radioactive. Speak to any Christian in the Arab world, and “roadkill” is the nicest thing you’ll hear about him. For the left - especially the far left - the grandson of the founder of the incendiary Muslim Brotherhood, the most important Islamist movement of the 20th century, is just in from a little stroll on the Sea of Galilee.
For France’s influential Jewish intellectuals - Bernard-Henri Levy, Andre Glucksmann, Bernard Kouchner - Ramadan is a dangerously skillful anti-Semite.
"…In a televised debate with France’s then Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy late last year, Mr. Ramadan declined to condemn “lapidation” - the stoning of adulterous wives as mandated by a strict interpretation of the Koran. Instead, Mr. Ramadan said he favored a “moratorium” in the practice.
A multimillionaire from the sale of countless thousands of cassettes of his mesmerizing sermons, Mr. Ramadan is lionized by the jobless North African slum-dwellers that cling barnaclelike to France’s major cities. The neo-Marxist, anti-globalization left has also hitched its bandwagon to his star status in French-speaking Europe.
"… Mr. Ramadan’s apocalyptic, nihilistic vision appears to some as a scene setter for the center-stage appearance of Osama bin Laden Superstar.
The author of a dozen books, Mr. Ramadan lets fly staccato-style, at the speed of an AK-47 on full automatic, quotations from Nietzsche, Heidegger and the Koran to prove a central point: Decadent Europe will give way to an Islamized Europe.
The 21st century, he says, will see a second role reversal between Islam and the West: “The West will begin its new decline, and the Arab-Islamic world its renewal” and ascent to seven centuries of world domination after seven centuries of decline.
The fully European Islam, he predicts, presupposes a violent upheaval against the Western values Mr. Ramadan rejects. But he quickly cushions the supposition with hosannas to democracy and free expression. He is a past master of dissimulation and disinformation.
“Only Islam can achieve the synthesis between Christianity and humanism, and fill the spiritual void that afflicts the West.” All good people are implicitly Muslims, he maintains, “because true humanism is founded in Koranic revelations.”
“Today the Muslims who live in the West must unite themselves to the revolution of the anti-establishment groups from the moment when the neoliberal capitalist system becomes, for Islam, a theater of war” is another thunderclap that says “jihad” to his detractors and sweet reasonableness to his fans. "
"…This, in turn, would replace the values of Western civilization. Islam-centric thinking thus replaces Eurocentric rearview mirror nostalgia for what was once a great civilization.
Muslim identity is the only true source of universality, proclaims Tariq Ramadan. “It will fill the spiritual void that afflicts the West.” Music to some, but a hidden Islamist agenda to the Department of Homeland Security. Some would say not so well-hidden."
newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/9/7/205553.shtml
Tariq Ramadan’s US visa was revoked in 2004 for “security reasons”.
Mr Ramadan has been accused of supporting attacks in Israel and Iraq. He publicly condemned the 11 September and London attacks.
Sir Ian said his was an important voice that would be listened to by young radicalised Muslims.
He said Mr Ramadan, who was also previously banned in France, had been visiting the UK for five years.
Sometimes Acpo and police organisations try to be so PC that they cross the line and in my view they have crossed the line. They should withdraw their support
Norman Brennan
“We can’t understand why he’s banned in the US, (and) he is no longer banned in France,” Sir Ian said.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4675335.stm
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Perhaps this article of awhile back by de Borchgrave will re-emerge:
"…Tariq Ramadan is radioactive. Speak to any Christian in the Arab world, and “roadkill” is the nicest thing you’ll hear about him. For the left - especially the far left - the grandson of the founder of the incendiary Muslim Brotherhood, the most important Islamist movement of the 20th century, is just in from a little stroll on the Sea of Galilee.
For France’s influential Jewish intellectuals - Bernard-Henri Levy, Andre Glucksmann, Bernard Kouchner - Ramadan is a dangerously skillful anti-Semite.
"…In a televised debate with France’s then Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy late last year, Mr. Ramadan declined to condemn “lapidation” - the stoning of adulterous wives as mandated by a strict interpretation of the Koran. Instead, Mr. Ramadan said he favored a “moratorium” in the practice.
A multimillionaire from the sale of countless thousands of cassettes of his mesmerizing sermons, Mr. Ramadan is lionized by the jobless North African slum-dwellers that cling barnaclelike to France’s major cities. The neo-Marxist, anti-globalization left has also hitched its bandwagon to his star status in French-speaking Europe.
"… Mr. Ramadan’s apocalyptic, nihilistic vision appears to some as a scene setter for the center-stage appearance of Osama bin Laden Superstar.
The author of a dozen books, Mr. Ramadan lets fly staccato-style, at the speed of an AK-47 on full automatic, quotations from Nietzsche, Heidegger and the Koran to prove a central point: Decadent Europe will give way to an Islamized Europe.
The 21st century, he says, will see a second role reversal between Islam and the West: “The West will begin its new decline, and the Arab-Islamic world its renewal” and ascent to seven centuries of world domination after seven centuries of decline.
The fully European Islam, he predicts, presupposes a violent upheaval against the Western values Mr. Ramadan rejects. But he quickly cushions the supposition with hosannas to democracy and free expression. He is a past master of dissimulation and disinformation.
“Only Islam can achieve the synthesis between Christianity and humanism, and fill the spiritual void that afflicts the West.” All good people are implicitly Muslims, he maintains, “because true humanism is founded in Koranic revelations.”
“Today the Muslims who live in the West must unite themselves to the revolution of the anti-establishment groups from the moment when the neoliberal capitalist system becomes, for Islam, a theater of war” is another thunderclap that says “jihad” to his detractors and sweet reasonableness to his fans. "
"…This, in turn, would replace the values of Western civilization. Islam-centric thinking thus replaces Eurocentric rearview mirror nostalgia for what was once a great civilization.
Muslim identity is the only true source of universality, proclaims Tariq Ramadan. “It will fill the spiritual void that afflicts the West.” Music to some, but a hidden Islamist agenda to the Department of Homeland Security. Some would say not so well-hidden."
newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/9/7/205553.shtml
