In Shift, U.S. Lifts Visa Curbs on Professor

by Sarah Lyall
New York Times
January 20, 2010

http://www.islamist-watch.org/3053/in-shift-us-lifts-visa-curbs-on-professor

Excerpt:

Six years after using the Patriot Act to revoke the visa of a prominent Muslim academic, the United States State Department reversed itself and said Wednesday that it would no longer bar the scholar from entering the United States.

The decision came in the form of an order signed by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. It paves the way for the scholar, Prof. Tariq Ramadan, to apply for a new visa free of the authorities' former accusation that he had contributed money to a charity connected to terrorism.

"I am very happy and hopeful that I will be able to visit the United States very soon and to once again engage in an open, critical and constructive dialogue with American scholars and intellectuals," Professor Ramadan said in a statement.

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