THE WAR IN CONTEXT:: Iraq, the War on Terrorism, and the Middle East Conflict - in Critical Perspective: "Message from Kroc Institute Director, University of Notre Dame:

'Tariq, a Swiss scholar, accepted an appointment to be our Luce Professor of Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding. It is a joint, tenured appointment with the Department of Classics. Earlier this year he applied for, and received, a work visa from the U.S. State Department. He was to start work this semester, with Aug. 24 his first day of teaching a course in Islamic Ethics.

'But in late July, two weeks before he and his family were to arrive in South Bend, he was informed that his visa had been revoked at the request of the Department of Homeland Security. No explanation has been given to him, or to the university.'"