Word: jihadization
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...give a speech today titled ‘American Jihad,’” he said. “But after receiving several complaints, I decided to change it to ‘The Case for Profiling Young Arab...
Commencement speaker Zayed M. Yasin ’02 is embroiled in controversy after The Crimson reports he would speak about the concept of “jihad,” as applied to graduating seniors’ lives. A week later, Yasin agrees to drop the word jihad from the speech’s title, although it remains in the subtitle, and agrees to add a sentence condemning violence in the name of jihad, which includes a denunciation of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks...
...obligation to protect free speech. But as the world’s leading academic institution, it does. And so I was glad to hear that Commencement would include an oration by Zayed M. Yasin ‘02, who has chosen to speak on the original spiritual meaning of jihad. And I was glad to see the University support Yasin’s attempt to reclaim the word’s holy meaning...
...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...