Dhimmi Watch says they have received word that Islamic supremacist fifth-column “academic” Tariq Ramadan is going to be allowed to enter the United States: Tariq Ramadan allowed to enter USA?

Here’s UPI’s Arnaud de Borchgrave on Tariq Ramadan: Mole or savior?

Tariq Ramadan is radioactive. Speak to any Christian in the Arab world, and “roadkill” is the nicest thing you’ll hear about him. For the left — especially the far left — the grandson of the founder of the incendiary Muslim Brotherhood, the most important Islamist movement of the 20th century, is just in from a little stroll on the Sea of Galilee.

For France’s influential Jewish intellectuals — Bernard-Henri Levy, Andre Glucksmann, Bernard Kouchner — Ramadan is a dangerously skillful anti-Semite.

Mr. Ramadan was scheduled to begin teaching Islam, conflict resolution and peace building, at Indiana’s Notre Dame University this month. It was to be a tenured post. But his visa was rescinded by the Department of Homeland Security.

In a televised debate with France’s then Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy late last year, Mr. Ramadan declined to condemn “lapidation” — the stoning of adulterous wives as mandated by a strict interpretation of the Koran. Instead, Mr. Ramadan said he favored a “moratorium” in the practice.

A multimillionaire from the sale of countless thousands of cassettes of his mesmerizing sermons, Mr. Ramadan is lionized by the jobless, North African slum-dwellers that cling barnaclelike to France’s major cities. The neo-Marxist, anti-globalization left has also hitched its bandwagon to his star-status in French-speaking Europe.

Swiss-born, this handsome 42-year-old is a resident of Geneva, which the U.N.’s European headquarters has made the smallest international city in the world. Banned in France by one interior minister as a dangerous provocateur, he was reinstated by the next interior minister. Mr. Ramadan’s apocalyptic, nihilistic vision appears to some as a scene-setter for the center-stage appearance of Osama bin Laden Superstar.

The author of a dozen books, Mr. Ramadan lets fly staccato-style, at the speed of an AK-47 on full automatic, quotations from Nietzsche, Heidegger and the Koran, to prove a central point: Decadent Europe will give way to an Islamized Europe.

The 21st century, he says, will see a second role reversal between Islam and the West: “The West will begin its new decline, and the Arab-Islamic world its renewal” and ascent to seven centuries of world domination after seven centuries of decline.

The fully European Islam, he predicts, presupposes a violent upheaval against the Western values Mr. Ramadan rejects. But he quickly cushions the supposition with hosannas to democracy and free expression. He is a past master of dissimulation and disinformation.

UPDATE at 10/7/04 3:34:38 pm:

The New York Times published an outrageously sympathetic whitewashing of Tariq Ramadan yesterday, by Deborah Sontag: Mystery of the Islamic Scholar Who Was Barred by the US. (Hat tip: davesax.)

UPDATE at 10/7/04 3:52:08 pm:

The American Thinker has an even more detailed and enlightening look at Tariq Ramadan (hat tip: dennisw). This section deals with Ramadan’s ties to terrorism:

His elder brother, Hani, is the director of Geneva’s Islamic Center. The Swiss Secret Service thinks that this Center is used to receive terrorists from the Algerian GIA or some “Afghan Arabs.” Supposedly, Tariq claims he is not involved with the Center. But that would not explain why he is still sitting on the Board of Directors. Also, he does not agree, at least publicly, with his brother, but Hani affirms that they are exactly the same “like two sides of the same coin.”

Most European Secret Service agencies and others, including Antoine Sfeir, the very knowledgeable editor of the French magazine specializing in the Middle East, Les Cahiers de L’Orient, are also convinced that, at the end of the 1980’s, the Muslim Brotherhood picked Tariq to be their European representative.

Thus, Tariq might finally realize his father’s dream: to put Islam in the center of modern Europe and then the US. Of course, Ramadan totally denies his involvement with the Muslim Brotherhood.

According to Roland Jacquard, President of the International Observatory of Terrorism, Ramadan is not directly involved in terrorist activities but most of his supporters are. His links to shady individuals or networks are numerous.

According to the French daily newspaper, Le Monde, he is suspected of having links with al Qaeda. In fact, Ramadan is said to have organized a meeting back in 1991 between Ayman al Zawahiri, Al Qaeda’s number two, and Omar Abdel Rahman, plotter of the first World Trade Center bombing. Other troubling allegations can be found in a lawsuit filed by the victims of the September 11 attacks: Ramadan greatly influenced Djamel Beghal, a French citizen arrested for plotting to bomb the US Embassy in Paris and Ahmed Brahim, an al Qaeda member arrested in Spain. Additionally, Abdessatar Dahmane, who spent most of his time listening to Ramadan’s conferences and tapes, is a Tunisian involved in the killing of Massoud, the Chief of the Afghan Northern Alliance, whose mortal enemies are Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden, on September 9, 2001. While there is no proof of any links to Ramadan, Lyons, where he is wildly popular, is the place where the Tunisian bomber of the Djerba synagogue and also one of the French-Al Qaeda linked detainees in Guantanamo Bay, came from.

Also the Islamic Center of Geneva, headed by Ramadan’s brother, is linked to al Taqwa Bank which is one of the financial institutions that was used by Al Qaeda. Al Taqwa Bank’s assets were frozen after September 11, and it is being sued by the families of the victims.

Of course, Ramadan strongly denies these allegations of association with terrorists, but Ahmed Hubert, a Holocaust-denying Swiss citizen, converted to Islam by the Center, and also a board member of the Bank, acknowledges that al Taqwa was donating money to the Center. Furthermore, and even more troublesome, is that Said Ramadan was the founder of this bank, and the current president is none other than Youssef Nada, the Muslim Brotherhood’s treasurer.