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...takes care of the poor, the sick, because you disagree with the causes that may have contributed to these people’s destitution,” Yasin told The Crimson earlier this year. Now, he says he does not know enough to feel comfortable either supporting or condemning HLF: “On one hand, I know firsthand that they do wonderful work in very difficult situations. On the other, I understand that some very serious allegations have been leveled against them...
...could be a more appropriate beginning than this—Yasin turning our pain of last fall into a hope for a new beginning and some moral direction? He’s not saying we have to agree with all his moral decisions—maybe you disapprove of HLF, and maybe you don’t. But the speech doesn’t have anything to do with HLF. Like most graduation speeches, it has to do with you. Yasin is saying that each individual should take up the cause of jihad—internal struggle?...
...major criticism focused on Yasin’s support of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF). When Yasin was HIS president, the organization held a dinner fundraiser initially scheduled to benefit HLF, a group the U.S. State Department later alleged has ties to Hamas, an Islamic terrorist organization. HIS eventually decided, however, to donate the dinner’s proceeds to the Red Crescent, the Middle Eastern equivalent of the Red Cross...
...Yasin has publicly rejected terrorism and violence, and said that Hamas is not fronting HLF,” he continues. “That is not the same as saying he publicly rejects Hamas and Al Qaeda, though you may interpret it that way. Many people, unfortunately, play with the meaning of words...
...itself, Hillel and CSA, which have continued through to today,” wrote Rita Hamad ’03, former president of the Society of Arab Students (SAS) and a close friend of Yasin’s, on the Eliot list. “And he defended the HLF based on his work with them in Albania, where he was doing public service work...