Why Tariq Ramadan lost

By Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen
Washington Times | Oct. 11, 2006

Tariq Ramadan’s latest attempt to legally obtain a visa to the United States was denied on Sept. 24. This was not the first time that Mr. Ramadan — an Egyptian-born, Swiss citizen and the grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Banna — was barred from the United States On July 28, 2004, the Department of Homeland Security revoked Mr. Ramadan’s visa under the Immigration and Nationality Act. In that instance, while no specifics were given, Mr. Ramadan’s activities — lectures and writings in support of the Islamist agenda — were presumed the obvious cause.

According to State Department spokeswoman Janelle Hironimus, Mr. Ramadan’s latest application for a visa was denied “based solely on his actions, which constituted providing material support to a terrorist organization.” However, Mr. Ramadan, an Oxford University fellow, claims that his contributions of $940 between 1998-2002 to the French-based Hamas front “Committee for Palestinian Charity and Aid” were legal, because the United States listed it as “Specially Designated Global Terrorists” only in 2003. Nevertheless, the Palestinian charity (and its 17 aliases) at the same Lille, Lyon and Paris addresses, had already been publicly identified and designated by Israel as a Hamas front organization in May 1997.

Indeed, Mr. Ramadan reiterated his commitment to Hamas saying: “If the price to pay for this commitment is to never to tread upon American soil, I am ready to pay that without the slightest hesitation.” Continue reading “Why Tariq Ramadan lost” →

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The Eurabia Code, Part 2: A Planned Sell-Out by the EU

The Brussels Journal | From the desk of Fjordman | Thu, 2006-10-05 14:33

MEDEA (the European Institute for Research on Mediterranean and Euro-Arab Cooperation), supported by the European Commission, is one of the key components of the Euro-Arab dialogue. On its own webpage, it states that:
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“The Euro-Arab Dialogue as a forum shared by the European Community and the League of Arab States arose out of a French initiative and was launched at the European Council in Copenhagen in December 1973, shortly after the “October War” and the oil embargo. As the Europeans saw it, it was to be a forum to discuss economic affairs, whereas the Arab side saw it rather as one to discuss political affairs.

MEDEA Institute wishes to be a resource and a reference point for people wanting to engage in the Euro-Mediterranean dialogue. Via its meetings and talks the Institute seeks to create exchanges between political, economic, and diplomatic players, experts, journalists, academics and others.”

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As Bat Ye’or points out, while most of the workings of Eurabia are hidden from the public view, sometimes we can catch glimpses of it if we know what to look for. If you search the archives of the MEDEA website and other sources and read the documents carefully, the information is there. Even more material exists on paper, both in French and in English. I argue, as does Bat Ye’or, that there are sufficient amounts of information available to validate the thesis of Eurabia. Continue reading “The Eurabia Code, Part 2: A Planned Sell-Out by the EU” →

England’s chilling forecast: the case for granting declaratory relief to prevent English default actions from chilling American speech

By Raymond W. Beauchamp
Fordham Law Review | 2006 Vol. 74

Notes:
9: Alyssa A. Lappen, Libel Wars, FrontPagMag.com, July 18, 2005
29: Lappen supra note 9
37: see Lappen supra note 9