Word: jihadã
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...arrest of Palestinian activist and suspected terrorist Jaoudat Abouazza in Harvard Square triggered a “lock-down” on Commencement Day 2002. Police had considered heightening security in anticipation of the “American Jihad?? speech by Zayed M. Yasin ’02 and a World Bank protest in Cambridge scheduled for the next day. But it was the arrest of Abouazza that led to the metal detectors, bomb technicians, and National Guard presence at Commencement...
Ironically, the gang’s own name—“Tawhid and Jihad??—defines Islamic concepts that de-legitimize their tactics. The media commonly translate “Tawhid and Jihad?? as “Monotheism and Holy War,” but these are not the literal meanings of either word. Like the terrorists, the media have chosen two very simplistic and material interpretations to define two very complex and profound words...
...they killed Bigley. On the contrary, they acted in a way that God would not want them to act. They succumbed to their emotions, and they acted on their prejudices, and the result was that they committed a horrible crime and desecrated the very principles—tawhid and jihad??for which they claimed to be fighting...
...arrest of a Palestinian activist and suspected terrorist in Harvard Square just a week before Commencement—along with concerns surrounding the “American Jihad?? speech by Zayed M. Yasin ’02, a World Bank protest at MIT planned for the day after and post-Sept. 11 concerns—led the University to use metal detectors and search bags that year...
...lack of charity held by this student body toward its peers. One was last May’s protest by over 150 members of the Class of 2002 against the Commencement address of fellow classmate Zayed M. Yasin ’02. While I understand “jihad?? may have had painful connotations in the aftermath of Sept. 11, the rush to condemn Yasin and sully the honor of being selected to address the Commencement ceremony—without any idea of the (actually benign) content of the speech—was a particularly damning moment...