CAIR Continues to Support Tariq Ramadan, Excluded From Entry For His Actions

By Andrew Cochran

Tariq Ramadan, who was denied a visa to enter the U.S. last September, has written an article for "The Chronicle of Higher Education" in which he asserts once again that his denial was due to his criticism of American foreign policy and a general "fear of ideas." The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) chose to highlight a link to Ramadan's article on its home page and include more text on another page.

Clearly CAIR management wanted to support Ramadan's efforts to show that the Administration excluded Ramadan for political reasons with no reference to his own actions. We've already been through Ramadan's own actions which merited his exclusion, but since CAIR and Ramadan choose to continue their propaganda campaign instead of living in reality, here is what I wrote on October 2 of last year, with links to numerous posts by our Contributing Experts:

We have tracked Ramadan's repeated attempts to enter the U.S. and hide his past; I last wrote on them on August 30, with links to other entries by Doug Farah, Steven Emerson (who wrote of Ramadan's support for attacks against the U.S., Israel, and Russia), Olivier Guitta, Lorenzo Vidino, and Bill West. Then, in his post here on September 29, Doug Farah discussed European intel detailing contacts between Ramadan and numerous terrorists, including Al Qaeda #2 Ayman al-Zawahiri (when he was still running Egyptian Islamic Jihad), Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman (the 1993 WTC bombing), and others. Other terrorism experts have provided more details of Ramadan's statements or publications in support of terrorism. And far from being "humanitarian organizations," as Ramadan claims, the two groups to which he contributed "have appeared in several terrorist investigations since 1995..."

CAIR's support of a man with known terrorist connections contradicts any claim that it opposes terrorism.

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