[lbo-talk] US Campaign| Defend Academic Freedom

Michael Pugliese michael098762001 at earthlink.net
Tue Sep 21 09:27:48 PDT 2004


On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:37:03 -0400, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:


> Tariq Ramadan

Getting the enemies he deserves? Hard right Zionists like Daniel Pipes, Martin Kramer http://www.martinkramer.org/pages/899529/ . http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=8046 .
> ...Pipes argued that Ramadan had praised the radical Islamist policies
> of the Sudanese politician Hassan al-Turabi, was banned from entering
> France in 1996 on suspicion of having links with a radical Algerian
> Islamist, and had "routine contacts" with Ahmed Brahim, an Algerian
> indicted for Al-Qaeda activities in 1999. Furthermore, Pipes added that
> Djamel Beghal, the leader of a group accused of planning to attack the
> US Embassy in Paris, stated in his 2001 trial that he had studied with
> Ramadan.

In addition, Pipes said that intelligence agencies suspect that Ramadan met in Geneva in the 1990s with Ayman al-Zawahiri, the deputy of Osama bin Laden. Ramadan's address, he also noted, appeared in a register of the Al-Taqwa Bank, an organization the State Department accuses of supporting Islamist terrorism...

Tons of demogogy and disingenuousness from Zionists like Stephen Plaut http://www.freeman.org/m_online/jun97/plaut.htm and ultras like Yoshiebot on the other side. Support academic freedom yes, of coarse, for folks like Joel Beinin. But, is this academic just another Sami al-Arian, of Islamic Jihad?

-- Michael Pugliese, Heresy yes, Conspiracy no. (Insert self-mocking emoticon)



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