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...emergency services personnel—4,756 people in total—have signed an online petition opposing the choice of Yasin and urging the public to consider his background as they listen to his speech. It also calls on Yasin to publicly denounce violence in the name of jihad and the events of Sept. 11 in the speech...
...Crimson op-ed among other places. He is a humanitarian: he has worked with emergency personnel and the Red Cross, both in the U.S. and abroad. We know little about the speech, except that after the outcry began, Yasin changed its name from “American Jihad,” to the original title, “On Faith and Citizenship: My American Jihad.” He has promised to talk about our social obligations as part of privileged Harvard: the struggle to find our internal moral compass...
There are those who have said that Commencement morning is an inappropriate time for controversy—especially for the word “jihad,” which has become so painful to some of us after its distortion last fall. I cannot agree; we have spent four years at Harvard, and the best thing that Harvard has taught me is to engage the issue. If we do not argue with some substance, if we do not take the time to consider, to listen, to open our minds in new ways, to test our assumptions and others...
Hunt did not say whether the increased security was related to the controversy surrounding the Commencement speech of Zayed M. Yasin ’02, which had drawn criticism for its original title “American Jihad.” Yasin changed the title last week to “Of Faith and Citizenship” and relegated the contentious word to a subtitle that will not appear in today’s Commencement program...
Controversy flared over the title and subject matter of his address, originally titled “American Jihad” but now known as “Of Faith and Citizenship: My American Jihad...