US lifts travel ban on muslim scholars
The State Department recently said that two prominent Muslim intellectuals will no longer be barred from traveling to the U.S. based on past accusations that they had supported terrorism.
THE STATE department has said recently that two prominent Muslim intellectuals will no longer be barred from travelling to the U.S. based on past accusations that they had supported terrorism.
Tarique Ramadan, a Swiss citizen who teaches at Oxford University in England, had been barred from entering the US. since 2004. At the time, he had planned to take a tenured position at the University Of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. He had donated about $1,000 to a Swiss-based charity that gave funds to Hamas, although he denied charges on basis of lack of knowledge about the Charity institution.
Scholar Habib at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa has also been relieved. The step may be seen as President Obama’s Muslim outreach programme. United States of America is willing to have the opportunity potentially to have Islamic scholars come to US and have dialogue with other faith communities and people.
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