Word: islamicization
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While the events are aimed to better educate the Harvard community about Islam, Rehman said the events were not a response to a perceived anti-Islamic atmosphere at Harvard.
"I don't think there is any particular sense that there is any anti-Islamic sentiment on this campus," he said. "There is no evidence of an anti-Islam perspective here, but there is a lot of ignorance," he said.
Rehman said that the number of Islamic Society activities have increased recently along with the size of theIslamic student community. He said that there areabout 150 undergraduates who have identifiedthemselves as Muslim to the United Ministry, theUniversity's interfaith coalition of chaplains,which offers religious programming.
The speakers in yesterday's panel discussion,which was attended by about 40 spectators, were:Hossam El Gabri of the Islamic Society of Boston;Fatima Iliasu and Abdallah bin Laden, students atthe Law School; and Suheil Laher, the Muslimchaplain at MIT.
The events continue tomorrow, when the societywill hold another call to prayer on the steps ofWidener Library at noon and present a speech byGSAS doctoral candidate and Islamic Societygraduate adviser Taha Abdul-Basser. Abdul-Basser'sspeech is titled "Projection, Perception andOrientation: The Muslim Presence in America," andwill be given at...