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Yasin has been heavily criticized for a fundraiser held almost two years ago by the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS) when he was its president. HIS was considering donating the proceeds to two groups, the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) and the Red Crescent. The Bush administration now says HLF supports the terrorist group Hamas by “direct fund transfers,” supporting of schools “encouraging children to become suicide bombers” and enabling it “to recruit suicide bombers by offering support to their families...
Yasin has been heavily criticized for a fundraiser held almost two years ago by the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS) when he was its president. HIS was considering donating the proceeds to two groups, the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) and the Red Crescent. The Bush administration now says HLF supports the terrorist group Hamas by “direct fund transfers,” supporting of schools “encouraging children to become suicide bombers” and enabling it “to recruit suicide bombers by offering support to their families...
...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?...
...later decided to donate the proceeds to the Red Crescent, the Middle Eastern equivalent of the Red Cross. Yasin has consistently defended HLF, saying that while working with children in refugee camps in Albania three years ago he witnessed the group’s “professionalism, compassion and dedication to helping people in dire need...