We required and monitored the recipients not to gamble, not to drink, and must be willing to work.

We, my wife and I, are planning to go back home and spend the rest of our years there. This Thanksgiving our extended family will discuss and decide what to do with the lunch program. It is just so heart rending; no one – absolutely no one – should go hungry.

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Ramadan is, to say the least, a controversial figure.

A few years ago, the U.S. State Department rejected his visa application. State Department spokesman Kurtis Cooper said, “The consular officer concluded that Dr. Ramadan was inadmissible based solely on his actions, which constituted providing material support to a terrorist organization.” (http://www.nysun.com/national/oxford-scholar-denied-visa-due-to-alleged-hamas/40328/)

In 2001, one of Ramadan’s interfaith partners, Fr. Christian Delorme, said “One of Ramadan’s interfaith partners, Fr. Christian Delorme, said: “I am today convinced–and it took me time to understand it–that Tariq Ramadan’s thinking and actions are dangerous. I believe he is not at all a man of dialogue. He knows how to charm his audience, but in reality, he wants a total separation between Muslims and other communities. I am convinced that Tariq Ramadan deeply hates the West.” (http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/800naxnt.asp?pg=2)

In a televised debate with Nicolas Sarkozy, Ramadan was pressed by Sakozy to condemn unequivocally the stoning of women. Ramadan wouldn’t do it. The most he would do is call for a “moratorium” to facilitate a “true debate” on the subject.

But most damning, is what Ramadan has said about his grandfather, Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood:

“I have studied Hassan al-Banna’s ideas with great care and there is nothing in this heritage that I reject. His relation to God, his spirituality, his mysticism, his personality, as well as his critical reflections on law, politics, society and pluralism, testify to me his qualities of heart and mind. . . . His commitment also is a continuing reason for my respect and admiration.” (http://www.city-journal.org/2008/bc0229iw.html)

That kind of praise is staggering, and should certainly disqualify Ramadan from any kind of “charter for compassion,” let alone supported by an organization like TED.

For those who don’t know much about al-Banna, here’s just a taste…

From a speech of his (http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/003067.html)

“For we want the flag of Islam to fly over those lands again, who were lucky enough, to be ruled by Islam for a time, and hear the call of the muezzin praise God. Then the light of Islam died out and they returned to disbelief. Andalusia, Sicily, the Balkans, Southern Italy and the Greek islands are all Islamic colonies which have to return to Islam’s lap. The Mediterranean and the Red Sea have to become internal seas of Islam, as they used to be.”

Much more about Tariq Ramadan can be found in Caroline Fourest’s devastating expose, Brother Tariq: http://www.amazon.com/Brother-Tariq-Doublespeak-Ramadan/dp/1594032157

So the big question remains. What system of checks and balances is approving the use of TED’s prize money toward elevating (and perhaps even paying) someone who has “respect and admiration” for a Muslim movement committed to Islamic conquest?