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March 18, 2010

Muslim Scholar to Make First US Appearance Since Lifting of Ban
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And a prominent Muslim scholar who was barred from the United States
under the Bush administration is scheduled to appear at his first US
event since the ban was lifted earlier this year. The scholar, Tariq
Ramadan of Oxford University, will take part in a panel on Muslims in
Europe and the West at New York’s Cooper Union next month. Ramadan was
barred from taking a position at the University of Notre Dame in 2004
after the Bush administration denied his entry without explanation. The
Bush administration later said it was because Ramadan had once given
money to a Palestinian charity.



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