If you are contemplating a public career today, especially in politics and/or religion, make sure you choose your ancestors, particularly your grandfather, carefully. That would seem to be the moral of the lesson in which Tariq Ramadan is playing such a prominent role today. Ramadan, a Swiss intellectual from a well-known Muslim family of Egyptian origin, was appointed to a chaired and tenured faculty position as the Luce Professor of Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding at the University of Notre Dame.

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