Guest Thinkers — May 25, 2010

Notorious Reformist

“Dubbed the ‘best-known Muslim in all of Europe,’ a ‘Muslim Martin Luther,’ and ‘the prophet of a new Euro-Islam'”, Tariq Ramadan is a Muslim reformist worth considering.

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“Dubbed the ‘best-known Muslim in all of Europe,’ a ‘Muslim Martin Luther,’ and ‘the prophet of a new Euro-Islam'”, Tariq Ramadan is a Muslim reformist worth considering. “If it’s dangerous to zap Islamism these days, it’s not easy being a Muslim reformist thinker, either. Most coverage of Ramadan in recent years has focused on the U.S. government’s revocation of his visa, in 2004, ostensibly because he made contributions to two Islamic charities subsequently linked to terrorism, i.e., Hamas.”

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