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...King Day in the context of their own cultural concerns. “The idea is to involve a portion of the Harvard community that in the past has not been involved,” said Om L. Lala ’06, the chair of the Harvard College Interfaith Council, which co-sponsored the event. “His message has a universal application. It in fact applies to everyone.” During his speech at the 90-minute service, Lala pointed out that there was a diverse group in attendance. But he emphasized that...
...Interfaith Council brought students together for music, food, and information at their first-ever Holiday Festival, a celebration of eight different religious holidays. The event, which was co-sponsored by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, drew a crowd of over 200 students to the Kirkland Dining Hall on Wednesday night, according to Om L. Lala ’06, president of the Council. Lala said that the celebration was part of the Council’s new effort to give students the chance to learn from each other about different religions without the pressure of a formal...
...Muslim think tank co-founded by al-Arian at U.S.F., turned up in Syria as head of Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Al-Arian maintained that he hadn't known of Shallah's involvement in the terrorist group and kept building an image of himself as an "enlightened Islamist" who led interfaith projects in Florida, gave women leadership positions at his Tampa mosque--and in the 2000 presidential campaign, stumped for George W. Bush because he found Bush more attuned than Al Gore to Arab-American issues. By then the FBI had told U.S.F. administrators it had nothing to charge al-Arian...
...Santosh P. Bhaskarabhatla ’09, who is Hindu, says he thinks “a relationship shouldn’t focus on a person’s religious tradition and background but mainly on personal characteristics and compatibility.” His parents would not agree. Interfaith dating forces many students to make a difficult choice: conceal their relationship from their parents, or face fighting with them about it, Bhaskarabhatla says. He adds that many Indian families would not support interfaith relationships, and that this attitude is characteristic of many other cultural traditions as well...
...revitalized Harvard Interfaith Council (HIC) met for the first time this year on Thursday, drawing about 100 people to discuss religion over chocolate fondue. Among the crowd were guest speakers Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 and Dean of Harvard Divinity School William A. Graham, as well as leaders of the Harvard Baha’i Association, Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship (HRCF) and Dharma. Representatives from The Pluralism Project, a Harvard-based research endeavor focused on religious diversity, also participated in the event. “To have them all in one room, you realize...