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...meeting comes a day after about a dozen students met in the Quincy House Junior Common Room to discuss protesting the speech because of the use of the word “Jihad?? in the title...
...concerned,” said Hilary L. Levey ’02, who organized the meeting. “I don’t know the content of the speech, but I think the use of the word ‘jihad?? in its context now has a lot of other meanings besides the religious meaning. When you say ‘jihad?? now you think of planes flying into a building...
Yasin, a former president of the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS), said that his speech is not political and is meant to relate the original religious meaning of “jihad?? to the road that seniors will face upon graduation...
...Palestinian Authority (PA) president Yasser Arafat appeared on Israeli television to proclaim “my hand is outstretched in peace.” Yet just a few hours earlier, in a speech to a Palestinian woman’s group, he called for a “jihad?? against Israel. Arafat’s message worked: the first female suicide bomber struck Israel that same day. A week later, in a Feb. 3 op-ed piece to the New York Times, Arafat wrote, “I condemn the attacks carried out by terrorist groups against Israeli...
...Jihad?? does not mean ‘holy war.’ It means ‘struggle,’” she said. “The jihad is a struggle to do God’s will that requires an effort of all fronts...