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Debates raged on House e-mail lists as students questioned the appropriateness of Yasin’s giving a speech on “jihad?? in the aftermath of Sept. 11. Some said the committee could have chosen any number of less divisive or touchy speech topics, and others criticized Yasin’s character and creditability...
...heard ‘jihad?? used as ‘holy war’ my entire life,” he says bombastically, before calling Yasin, 22, “a kid known to have been a fundraiser for Hamas.” Over the previous eight days, Yasin’s speech—and sometimes Yasin himself—had become a target for many, with opposition mounting following the announcement of his address’s title, “American Jihad.” After an uproar on campus and in the national media...
...American Jihad?? controversy finds its roots in a seemingly innocuous Crimson story dated two weeks ago yesterday, one announcing that Yasin—one of three students named Commencement orators—would “challenge seniors to apply the concept of the jihad to their lives after graduation” in his speech...
...Eliot list, Deon D. Falcon ’02 wrote that the speech’s content would be “fine,” but that Yasin was “a ick for intellectualizing and expounding upon the meaning of the word ‘jihad??...he is hitting too close to home too soon...
Yasin says his is not a political speech—it is not about Israel, Palestine, Sept. 11 or U.S. foreign policy. Instead, he says, it is about supporting “jihad?? as it has been used by the majority of the world’s Muslims through 1,400 years of Muslim scholarship...