LONDON â A Muslim scholar banned from the United States is to take up a post at Britainâs prestigious University of Oxford, his college said yesterday.
Tariq Ramadan has been elected to a visiting fellowship (general) at St Antonyâs College for the coming academic year and is expected to start in October. âProfessor Ramadan is an internationally-recognised scholar,â St Antonyâs College, Oxford, said in a statement.
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âHe was named by Time magazine as one of 100 innovators of the 21st Century for his work on creating an independent European Islam.
âHe was recently appointed to a prestigious chair in Islamic studies in the University of Notre Dame in the United States.â In late July 2004, Ramadanâs US visa was revoked and he was forced to return to his native Switzerland.
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Britainâs interior minister, Home Secretary Charles Clarke, set out on Wednesday a list of âunacceptable behavioursâ designed to combat extremists. The measures could lead to Clarke banning or deporting foreign so-called âpreachers of hateâ. âWe do not comment on individual cases and we cannot give details on who is on the home secretaryâs list,â facing a ban or deportation, a Home Office spokesman told AFP.
St Antonyâs College said: âRamadan is a regular visitor to Britain and the other states of the European Union, without exception.â The grandson of Hassan Al Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Ramadan was born in Geneva. |