Clarify the rationale for objection

Submitted by Peter Irwin (United States), Jan 22, 2010 at 05:18

Which two organizations did Tariq Ramadan fund? What was their relationship to Hamas? To what extent did he fund them? Was funding these organizations illegal in the US at the time he did so? Is your concern that a US law is being broken and, if so, which one? Are you trying to suppress Prof Ramadan's freedom of speech? While I have no sympathy for Hamas, given its avowed objectives and terrorist activities, I have great sympathy for our Constitution and for open and unfettered public debate of political issues. Let us not take the side of those who consigned Socrates to hemlock but, as is our heritage, take on and defeat toxic ideas in our agora.

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