The Australian reports that Swiss academic Tariq Ramadan will be speaking at a conference in Queensland on Monday.
CONTROVERSIAL Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan, who was refused entry into the US over alleged links to terror networks, is due to deliver a lecture on Islam at a conference sponsored by the Queensland Government on Monday.
Professor Ramadan – whose grandfather Hassan al-Banna founded one of the world’s most radical Islamist movements, the Muslim Brotherhood, in 1928 – will be introduced by federal Labor Parliamentary Secretary for Multicultural Affairs Laurie Ferguson at the Griffith University event, which has drawn $50,000 worth of sponsorship from the Bligh Government.
But the former Prime Minister’s handpicked Muslim advisor Dr Ameer Ali is not impressed at all. In fact, he’s calling for the government to subject Professor Ramadan to “close surveillance” whilst visiting Australia:
Muslim and Jewish leaders yesterday expressed concern about Professor Ramadan’s second visit to Australia from Europe since 2004, with a former Howard government adviser on Islam, Ameer Ali, urging national security authorities to keep him under close surveillance.
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Dr Ali said it was a common problem among Arabic scholars such as Professor Ramadan to alter their messages for different audiences.
“It appears that these people speak in different languages to different audiences and they don’t convey the same message,” he said.
“If he’s allowed to go and mix with the local community, then they (authorities) have to monitor what he is saying.”
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I can’t believe someone like this can attempt to trash all of the good work Dr. Abdalla and others at Griffith are doing just in order to get some air time. Disgusting!
Subhanallah – we will be held accountable to Allah, on the Day of Judgment for the lies and rumours we spread about others that have no basis in fact or grounding. May Allah preserve us from our own traitors.
P.S. I highly admire Tariq for all the excellent work he has been doing, so you can imagine I think it’s wonderful that we have an opportunity to hear from him in our own country. Actually, I just finished reading “The Messenger” and whilst I did find it a curious type of history, it was quite clear how disturbing the munafiqun were in the time of the Prophet, and yet so little has changed, a’udhu billah.
I am interested to see the volume and quality of Ameer Ali’s output as a “noted Islamic scholar” now that he is off the Howard government teat, and is no longer funded by the Muslim Quisling stipend.
I predict it will mirror the mediocrity of his output as an anonymous lower rung academic in a tiny suburban university.
Ameer Ali was a Muslim Lord Haw Haw during the Howard Years but now Howard is gone, his cheer-leading for the oppression of innocent Muslims falls on deaf ears. He’s like a lone Japanese soldier in the jungles of Borneo continuing to fight against an enemy that has already won in a war that has already ended.
Ameer Ali once gave a lecture to our law class in uni, seriously this guy doesn’t know sh*t. He just stood up there making a fool of himself with his trashy indian accent.
Pathetic.
What are Ameer Ali’s credentials? What has he had published in peer reviewed journals? (Serious question.)
he has no serious pedigree of Islamic scholarship, beyond the echo chamber of his rectum that his head inhabits
yes… Ameer Ali.. who can forget when he said he wanted to support the anti-terror legislation “more than 100%”…..
Again we see the phenomenon that was dubbed the “House Negro” by the Muslim civil rights leader Malcolm X:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znQe9nUKzvQ
Thabet, he’s an economist. He’s written a few papers mostly on third world development issues. He has no training in Islamic law or anything related to Islamic law.
meanness is so ugly. you can disagree with someone without making racist remarks about their ‘trashy indian accent.’
Wow. As if someone as visible (and already heavily monitored, thanks to all this hysterical rhetoric) as Tariq Ramadan is likely be *able* to (much less want to) slip into an alley and plot terror operations during a brief visit.
Talk about a boot-licking self-promoter.
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