Islamist “scholar” Tariq Ramadan was barred from entering the United States in 2004 by the Bush State Department, and left-wing academics, the ACLU, and the Muslim Brotherhood have been relentlessly trying to get the ban lifted ever since. Now that Foggy Bottom’s under the control of Barack Obama, they might succeed: Tariq Ramadan Rides Again.

Bringing him to this country to pose as an educator is a travesty. Nor is this a question of civil liberties, since unlike American citizens who have the right to say whatever they like without government interference, foreign foes of this country have no intrinsic right to travel or work here. Moreover, the effort to paint Ramadan as simply a controversial academic is false, as Fouad Ajami pointed out in a valuable article in the Wall Street Journal in 2004. A victory for Ramadan would be one more confirmation that under Barack Obama, America has slipped back into a complacent Sept. 10 mentality in regard to those who would destroy us.

The New York Times is unequivocally in favor of letting Ramadan teach at Notre Dame, of course: U.S. Is Urged to Lift Ban on Foreign Scholars.