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Article: Should this man come to the U.S.?
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- December 6, 2004
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GENEVA--In search of a restaurant to break the day's fast, Tariq Ramadan negotiates the crowded rush-hour streets of his native city with the easy grace of the athlete he once was. But the soft-spoken scholar, whose short, receding hair and closely cropped beard reveal flecks of gray, is barely remembered, if at all, for those displays of soccer brilliance that almost turned a semi-professional career into a professional one. Instead, his renown--some would say his infamy--derives from his standing as one of Europe's most influential and provocative Muslim thinkers.
The renown has spread. Named by Time magazine as one of the top 100 intellectual innovators of the ...