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Summers’ speech was preceded by opening remarks from Swami Tyagananda, president of the United Ministry at Harvard, Bernard Steinberg, executive director of Harvard Hillel, Taha B. H. Abdul-Basser of the Harvard Islamic Society and Cyrus R. Mehta of the Harvard Zoroastrian Association...
Taha B.H. Abdul-Basser, a graduate student adviser to the Harvard Islamic Society, will be one of three speakers to speak before Summers. Swami Tyagananda, president of United Ministry at Harvard, and Bernard Steinberg, executive director of Hillel, will also address the crowd...
...last year’s Sept. 11 vigil, Abdul-Basser spoke about the “dignity and integrity” of the Islamic tradition and said he plans to give a similar talk today...
...Abdul-Basser points out that HIS’s religious services have always been open to the entire community and are held in a University building. Only after the attacks, however, did HIS send out an e-mail specifically inviting non-Muslims to observe their Friday prayers...
...There are some natural points of interfaith with the Haitian groups and the African-American groups on campus,” Abdul-Basser says. “[With] some of the events that are coming up, it’s definitely in HIS’s interest to cooperate with other groups...