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October 9, 2005
Switzerland: Turkish Imam Banned From Post at Islamic Centre
A Geneva islamic center planned to employ a Turkish imam run by the brother of controversial scholar Tariq Ramadan, according to Nasdaq News. The Turkish imam was to have taken up a post at the centre with a Senegalese aide but last year was banned. He has subsequently appealed the decision, but has lost his case.
Dominique Boillat, a spokesman for the immigration office, said the decision by Swiss political authorities backed up the immigration office's decision. " Imams who work in Switzerland must defend our values or at least not be against them," Boillat said.Nasdaq's information came from today's edition of NZZ am Sontag, a Swiss Sunday newspaper, which states that around 500 Turkish and Arabic speaking Muslims attend the center.Hani Ramadan, the director of the Islamic center who had sought to hire the imam, has publicly defended the stoning of adulterers and has also said that AIDS was a form of divine retribution against sinners.
We have written about Tariq Ramadan, the brother of Hani Ramadan who runs this centre, who last year had his US visa revoked, preventing him from teaching at Notre Dame University, though now he has a fellowship at an Oxford University college. He has also partaken in a UK Home Office consultation exercise, whose outcome was a notorious suggestion to ban the UK's Holocaust Memorial Day because it made Muslims feel "left out".
We have also given details of Switzerland's rules on visiting imams, which can be found here, and also the recent banning of Egyptian-born Islamic scholar Sheikh Wagdy Ghoneim from Switzerland.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at October 9, 2005 4:29 PM
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