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Last year, Zayed M. Yasin ’02 was selected as the undergraduate English orator. Some students and national media decried the use of the word “jihad?? in the title of his speech...
...Yasin, whose speech entitled “My American Jihad?? made him an instant celebrity last June, the attention came as a shock. “I thought and hoped that [my speech] would raise some eyebrows and get people thinking,” Yasin wrote in an e-mail from Pakistan, where he is currently working, “but had absolutely no idea that it would become the national news item that...
Speaking publicly for the first time on the incident, Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) Chief Francis D. “Bud” Riley says that a number of issues—including the controversy behind the “American Jihad?? speech by Zayed M. Yasin ’02, a World Bank protest at MIT planned for the day after Harvard’s Commencement and post-Sept. 11 concerns—led HUPD to plan for heightened security at the June 6 Commencement ceremony...
...dare to raise their voices on politically controversial issues. Only five months ago, a Harvard graduating senior, Zayed M. Yasin ’02, was slated as one of the commencement speakers. Due to pressure from students and others, he had to remove the word “jihad?? from the title of his speech. Approved by the University, the speech was intended to reclaim the true meaning of the word “jihad?? as the moral and personal struggle to better oneself and one’s community. It was a critical and historicizing...
After the controversial Commencement speech, Pipes conducted research that he says revealed that most Middle Eastern specialists support a “soft” definition of jihad??as opposed to the definition that he endorses, which describes jihad as an aggressive military struggle...