A U.S. university hired a European Muslim scholar who wrote an article accusing French Jewish philosophers of abandoning universalist values. Notre Dame hired Tariq Ramadan, a Swiss scholar who wrote an article on a Web site in October saying French Jewish intellectuals had placed their religion ahead of their duties as scholars by supporting the U.S.-led war in Iraq, the New York Sun reported.
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