There is a development in the case of Tariq Ramadan. He is the prominent Swiss Muslim intellectual who was blocked from entering the United States to accept a teaching position at the University of Notre Dame. After a two year wait, the United States has officially rejected his visa on the grounds that he once gave money to a French-based Palestinian charity. The United States claims the organization has ties to Hamas even though it is a legal charity in France. Ramadan criticized the government’s rejection of his visa saying it was done for ideological reasons. Ramadan is now teaching at Oxford.