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News that Harvard receives funds from the bin Laden family makes national news. Sheik Bakr Mohammed bin Laden, Osama bin Laden??s brother, made two gifts totaling $2 million to the University to fund fellowships for the study of Islamic culture. Harvard officials, responding to attacks, stress that the University will cease using funds if any explicit link to Osama bin Laden??s terrorist organization are found...
...Laden??s book, we may have lost the upper hand, but then again, his is a book that preaches destruction, revenge and wholesale slaughter. His was an assault that dictated its own ghastly terms, that wrote its own rules of war. In our own book of rules, though, the unthinkable is sometimes unpreventable, apprehension is sometimes inevitable and our loss of confidence in air travel is sometimes normal...
...took some of these away still rides in the backs of our minds. It probably should. There’s nothing abnormal about feeling apprehensive, nothing abnormal about the inability to prevent the unthinkable, and nothing abnormal about America’s loss of confidence in her skyways. Bin Laden??s assault may have written its own rules of gaining the upper hand in war, but our reaction to it should not, even in an attempt to ignore his attempt to assault the American spirit, rewrite the rules of what is normal...
...United States is often associated with cultural hegemony on a global scale. Opposition to United States cultural exports is one of the tenets of bin Laden??s particular brand of fundamentalism, a tenet that has attracted many who harbor resentment towards the United States. It is also true that radical cultural change imposed by external powers is often highly destructive to the social fabric of a nation. Witness the extreme opposition and cultural backlash to Soviet Communist rule in Afghanistan, for instance, a backlash that fed the fervor of the mujahudeen, of which the Taliban were a part...
Murphy cites the recent “bin Laden?? order—a motion sponsored by Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 linking Harvard’s money to Osama bin Laden and calling for University donations after Sept. 11—as an example of an unproductive move in the City Council chamber...