By Eleanor Goldberg
Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS) With an open collared baby blue shirt and Dolce & Gabbana jacket( Ha ha! Do some journalists just love to make up such silly stuff. It makes them sound like they know. Unless he had a tag on the sleeve somewhere! A remote possibility but I doubt it) hugging his slim frame, Tariq Ramadan appears the epitome of Western sophistication.
But from 2004 until just a few months ago, the Department of Homeland Security viewed him with suspicion.
Ramadan, a 46-year-old Oxford University professor and a golden child of American academia, was banned from the U.S. for six years because of alleged ties to a Muslim charity that supported the militant group Hamas.
"A silly decision from the Bush administration," as Ramadan prefers to put it now.
Ramadan, the author of more than 20 books on Islam and the grandson of the founder of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, is widely considered a go-to scholar on all things Islam. He's made enemies on both sides with his criticisms of both U.S. foreign policy and Islamic fundamentalism.
The Huffington Post
He causes such a stir because he speaks with a forked tongue. Read Caroline Fouret's book.
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