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Article: Stopping ideas at the border.(Tariq Ramadan denied of visa )
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- The Progressive
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- November 1, 2006
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The University of Notre Dame invited the Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan in January 2004 to leave his home in Switzerland and become a tenured professor in South Bend. In Europe, Ramadan enjoys a reputation as a leading Muslim scholar, with such works as Western Muslims and the Future of Islam and Islam, the West, and the Challenges of Modernity.
He was no stranger to the United States. He'd given lectures at Harvard, Princeton, and Dartmouth. And he'd spoken at the Clinton Presidential Foundation.
He was excited about the opportunity Notre Dame offered, and so he got a visa on May 5, 2004. He and his family rented an apartment in South Bend. He shipped his ...