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A question to Dr. Pipes
Reader comment on item: Tariq Ramadan Gives Up – Then Tries Again
Submitted by Debanjan Banerjee (India), Feb 1, 2010 at 05:29
Dr. Pipes ,
I believe that you were the one who supported Geert Wilders on free speech. Then why do you take a different step towards Tariq Ramadan.
Dr. Pipes if you really believe in your ideas about freedom of specch and freedom of opinion then why do you not invite Tariq Ramadan on an honest debate on Middle East forum ?
If you believe in the superiority of your ideas over Tariq Ramadan why you do not prove it in an honest debate in United States ?
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Daniel Pipes replies:
Free speech means being able to speak publicly without fear of punishment by one's government. It does mean a guarantee for enemies to enter one's country.
I have no wish to dignify my country's enemies by debating them. See "Television in Time of War" for my reasons spelled out.
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| Tarik Ramadan [125 words] | Rao | Dec 22, 2015 19:47 | 227223 | ||
| The hypocrite Tariq Ramadan [343 words] | dhimmi no more | Aug 8, 2010 10:58 | 176491 | ||
| 3 |  The hypocrite Tariq Ramadan part two [442 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 17, 2010 09:00 | 176491 | |
 A question to Dr. Pipes [88 words]w/response from Daniel Pipes | Debanjan Banerjee | Feb 1, 2010 05:29 | 168215 | ||
| Ramadan elevated, undermines credibility, gives political power [68 words] | myth | Jan 27, 2010 16:25 | 168009 | ||
| RAMADAN'S VISIT [96 words] | JACQUES HADIDA | Jan 25, 2010 15:59 | 167905 | ||
| The Snake [218 words] | Arlinda | Jan 24, 2010 14:34 | 167836 | ||
| Missing the Point [62 words] | Peter Irwin | Jan 23, 2010 14:25 | 167785 | ||
| Governments must have the power to keep islamonazi people out of their countries ....Jan 2010 [276 words] | Phil Greend | Jan 22, 2010 16:14 | 167728 | ||
| Clarify the rationale for objection [117 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Peter Irwin | Jan 22, 2010 05:18 | 167708 | ||
| Between Tarek Ramadan and the "Teffilin" is a disgraceful story to tell. [161 words] | Norma Fares | Jan 21, 2010 18:44 | 167689 | ||
| Tarek Ramadan the grandson of the fascist founder of al-ikhwan al-muslimeen Hasan el-Banna [55 words] | dhimmi no more | Jan 23, 2010 07:34 | 167689 | ||
| Militant Threat in South Asia [151 words] | Mitzi Alvin | Jan 21, 2010 15:59 | 167684 | ||
| I do not feel safer with the prospect of Tarik Ramadan back here, in the US [313 words] | Carmen Waggoner, Ph.D. | Jan 21, 2010 15:25 | 167683 | ||
| Tariq Ramadan [140 words] | Bill West | Jan 21, 2010 14:21 | 167681 | ||
| think again [15 words] | pelta | Jan 21, 2010 09:15 | 167654 | ||
| A timely article in Notre Dame Magazine [146 words] | J Bond | Jan 21, 2010 06:23 | 167648 | ||
| Tariq Ramadan [27 words] | Tirdad Gharib | Jan 21, 2010 03:19 | 167643 | ||
| No wonder islamists won [93 words] | Lady | Jan 21, 2010 01:44 | 167639 | ||
| " Home of the Free " [22 words] | Joe | Jan 21, 2010 00:46 | 167638 | ||
| Send a copy to Scott Brown [82 words] | Wallace Edward Brand | Jan 20, 2010 23:35 | 167637 | ||
| Hillary Clinton sees no danger at all [99 words] | Mike Ramirez | Jan 20, 2010 22:50 | 167635 | ||
| Department of Homeland Security is costing us millions for nothing [487 words] | Bob Sayers | Jan 20, 2010 22:39 | 167634 | ||
| not afraid to have him here [19 words] | hans Guggenheim | Jan 20, 2010 22:31 | 167633 | ||
| Praemonitus, pramunitus [18 words] | Rebecca Moulds | Jan 20, 2010 20:59 | 167629 | ||
| The rattlesnake an' the skunk [49 words] | James E. McMullen, III | Jan 20, 2010 19:27 | 167628 | ||
| Political Correctness-ad absurdum [63 words] | Charles Griffith | Jan 20, 2010 18:28 | 167625 | ||
| Respect of Islam [79 words] | Janusz Kowalik | Jan 20, 2010 18:12 | 167622 | ||
| Tarik Ramadan [28 words] | pierot | Jan 20, 2010 17:26 | 167618 | ||
| US State Dept. has assigned Homeland Security to the doghouse. [49 words] | M.D. | Jan 22, 2010 17:51 | 167618 | ||
| Outrage [34 words] | Bibi | Jan 20, 2010 17:13 | 167617 | ||
| What else to expect? [34 words] | Henrik Ræder Clausen | Jan 20, 2010 17:03 | 167616 | ||
| comment on Tariq Ramadan [44 words] | tajammul Hussain | Sep 27, 2006 12:46 | 57888 | ||
| State Department Shortsighted [253 words] | Jim Middagh | Jan 20, 2010 19:24 | 57888 | ||
| No voyage for the Ramadamned - despite help from fellow travellers at the ACLU 'I only gave a small amounts to Hamas' [140 words] | Ben van de Polder | Sep 25, 2006 10:47 | 57454 | ||
| Ramadan's new "WE" or the latest European Islamic joke [13 words] | Alain Jean-Mairet | Jul 16, 2006 09:38 | 49798 | ||
| informal alliance between Islamists and pluralists? [342 words] | Peter Terry | May 19, 2006 10:21 | 45952 | ||
| They all want to come USA then go Saudi Arabia or Pakistan [36 words] | Jaladhi | Apr 24, 2006 13:38 | 44019 | ||
| State Department Exposed [33 words] | Herrmann | Apr 3, 2006 13:51 | 42228 | ||
| state department [69 words] | Mike | Apr 18, 2006 21:25 | 42228 | ||
| Take it from a European [9 words] | Octavio Johanson | Mar 22, 2006 17:35 | 41097 | ||
| 1 | Fire to put out the fire! [126 words] | Conservative America | Dec 31, 2005 22:01 | 30858 |
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