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jinelson
02-24-07, 10:36 AM
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ACLU: US Can't Bar Terrorism Supporters

By LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press Writer


NEW YORK - A civil rights group asked a judge Friday to find it unconstitutional for the federal government to exclude a prominent Muslim scholar or anyone else from the United States on the grounds that they may have endorsed or espoused terrorism.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed the papers attacking the policy in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. The group included in its submissions a written declaration in which the scholar, Tariq Ramadan, said he has always "opposed terrorism not only through my words but also through my actions."

The ACLU said schools and organizations who want to invite Ramadan and others into the United States are concerned about what is known as the ideological exclusion provision.

It said an entry in the State Department's Foreign Affairs Manual says that the provision is directed at those who have voiced "irresponsible expressions of opinion."

The group said the provision violates the First Amendment and has resulted since 2001 in the exclusion from the United States of numerous foreign scholars, human rights activists and writers, barred "not for legitimate security reasons but rather because the government disfavors their politics."

The ACLU said some foreign scholars and writers are now reluctant to accept invitations to the United States because they will be subjected to ideological scrutiny and possibly denied entry.

Rebekah Carmichael, a spokeswoman for government lawyers, said she had no comment Friday.

In the case of Ramadan, a 44-year-old native of Switzerland, the ACLU said he was excluded last year for making small donations that totaled $1,336 to the Association de Secours Palestinien, an organization that the U.S. government said he should have known provided funds to Hamas, which the government has designated a foreign terrorist organization.

Ramadan said in court papers the donation was for humanitarian aid and he would not have given it "if I had thought my money would be used for terrorism or any other illegal purpose."

Before his visa was revoked in 2004, Ramadan had spoken at Harvard University, Stanford University and elsewhere. He said he continues to decline numerous invitations to appear in the United States, including a request by The American Academy of Religion to speak next November at its annual meeting.

yellowwing
02-24-07, 11:53 AM
Its odd that just last night I sat and had a beer with some "Scholars". Real live professional eggheads. Very nice gentlemen so I kept it polite and cordial but it was obvious that they had no clue on hard times. I talked to them of the hard times when someone really was trying to kill you.

HOLM
02-24-07, 12:21 PM
Yeah it makes good sense in this day and age to just let everyone in... my wife works at a county jail... Every damn one of them down there is innocent just ask em......

What a bunch of crapp... Now they think that every foreign citizen has some right to come over here..

What is it going to take to get the ACLU scum thrown in Leavenworth for being the treasonous scum they are?????

Sgt Leprechaun
02-24-07, 06:12 PM
Typical. Would we expect anything LESS from the "American Communists and Liberals Union"???

In some ways, it would be fun to see these liberals try to operate under Sharia law. First time they smoked dope or didn't pray at the right time, they'd get caned or whipped in the public square.

I'd pay some real money to see that.

OLE SARG
02-24-07, 06:45 PM
The members of the aclu are a bunch of ****ing WEENIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND leftwing ones at that!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *******s that take up for child molestors are **** scum in my opinion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SEMPER FI,

FistFu68
02-24-07, 06:53 PM
:evilgrin: ONE OF THEIR OWN,HIGHER UP'S;WAS BUSTED ON KIDDY-PORN CHARGE'S THIS MORNING~IN VIRGINIA!!! 10/4~20/20:sick:

Sgt Leprechaun
02-24-07, 07:12 PM
Beautiful! Again, though, is ANYone surprised? I'm not.