http://blog.oup.com/2006/10/why_im_banned_i/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:48:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.oup.com/2006/10/why_im_banned_i/comment-page-1/#comment-149499 Gab Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:23:12 +0000 http://216.110.190.15/2006/10/why_im_banned_in_the_us_tariq_ramadan/#comment-149499 The United States should not grant Ramadan a visa to lecture. First of all, he prescribes illegal Islamic punishment for offenses that are not even against the law in the western world. And second, who would invite Ramadan to come here and lecture about religious and gender apartheid, when you would not invite Ramadan to preach racial apartheid. The UN world body has rejected these ideas, and so do I. Let him keep it in the Middle East and to go live there if that is his preference. The United States should not grant Ramadan a visa to lecture. First of all, he prescribes illegal Islamic punishment for offenses that are not even against the law in the western world. And second, who would invite Ramadan to come here and lecture about religious and gender apartheid, when you would not invite Ramadan to preach racial apartheid. The UN world body has rejected these ideas, and so do I. Let him keep it in the Middle East and to go live there if that is his preference.

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