Erasmus University, in the Netherlands, has fired Tariq Ramadan from a visiting professor position he held, citing his having hosted a show on Iranian television, the Associated Press reported. Ramadan is a leading thinker on Islam who teaches at the University of Oxford. He has been engaged in a lengthy court battle to come to the United States for academic positions and to talk with academic groups -- and the last decision in the case was favorable to him, but not final. Erasmus said that it was wrong for Ramadan to continue to participate in anything in Iran after the crackdown there that followed the elections.
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