Word: jihadization
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...previous summer, Yasin, then a Weissman intern, worked in Zambia developing public health information systems. But it was the summer he spent with children in Albanian refugee camps, the summer after his first year at Harvard, that indirectly brought him grief over “American Jihad...
...Leverett House Senior Tutor Catherine Shapiro Wednesday morning, May 29. He also met that day with Thomas—the meeting at which, according to Shinagel, Yasin agreed to change the title of the speech. He also agreed to add a sentence condemning violence in the name of jihad, including a condemnation of the Sept. 11 attacks. He had condemned both publicly before...
...Hillel, and Thomas. Galper said the changes were “a step in the right direction,” although he said he still had concerns about the speech—that Yasin, for example, had still not specifically condemned groups that fund or actively participate in violent jihad. Petitioners also said they were considering handing out flyers on Commencement Day explaining their opposition to the speech and the way in which it was chosen. But the controversy, clearly, was dying down...
...furthermore, was simply added to a paragraph in a similar vein that was already there. And while he will say that there has been some wordplay through the controversy—the speech’s title has now been changed because of a fear that having the word jihad upfront would distract the audience from the speech’s message, he says, perhaps tellingly—he does not regret his decision to go forward...
...things have turned out, any use of the word jihad in the public sphere, the Harvard sphere, would have produced such a strong response. Once the word jihad was uttered, such a reaction was inevitable, sadly,” Yasin says. “If anything, this has convinced me more and more that this is a speech that needs to be given...