Oxford Scholar Denied Visa Due to Alleged Hamas Links

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Facing a court-ordered deadline, the State Department has rejected a visa application from a prominent Muslim scholar who was granted a tenured position at the University of Notre Dame in 2004 but never assumed the post because he was denied entry to America.

In June, a federal judge gave the government 90 days to grant a visa to the Swiss-born author and lecturer, Tariq Ramadan, or explain why it would not. Last week, Mr. Ramadan received a letter indicating that his new visa application was denied because of 600 euros (now worth about $765) in donations he made to groups in France and Switzerland alleged to have links to a Palestinian Arab terrorist group, Hamas.

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