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March 25, 2009

Obama Admin Backs Ban on Foreign Scholar
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The Obama administration has apparently decided to continue the former
President George W. Bush’s policy of banning foreign scholars under
anti-terror laws. In a federal appeals court hearing Tuesday, a
government lawyer argued in favor of maintaining a ban on a prominent
Muslim intellectual barred from a teaching job in the United States. The
scholar, Tariq Ramadan, was offered a position at the University of
Notre Dame in Ohio in 2004. The Bush administration initially barred his
entry without explanation and then said it was because he once gave
money to a Palestinian charity. The American Civil Liberties Union is
challenging the ban on Ramadan’s behalf.



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