Word: laila
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...event aimed to help Americans understand that “Islam has no place for violent attacks like the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center,” said Laila El-Haddad, the graduate student advisor to the Harvard Islamic Society...
...Laila El-Haddad would be such a person, and she is a Palestinian Muslim who wears the traditional hajib to cover her head. However, being a Palestinian doesnt preclude her for feeling sympathy and empathy for the American victims...
...President of the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS); Zayed Yasin 02, former president of HIS and president of the Harvard Friends of the American Red Cross for the past two years; Rita Hamad 03, president of the Society of Arab Students; Yassine Daoud, second year student at Harvard Medical School; Laila El-Haddad, graduate student at Kennedy School of Government; Sheila S. Akbar 02; Tawfiq Ali 03, the secretary of HIS; and finally, Laura Cohon...
...Most panelists agreed that, again, the media is in part to blame for a prejudiced view of Islam. Laila said she found the rhetoric spewed from CNN and Fox reporters to be very scary. She also noted that a C-SPAN reporter randomly accosted a man who appeared to be Muslim in order to question his patriotism. The idea behind the question, Laila said, is that it follows that if you dont respond, you support what happened...
...Laila el Haddad put it succinctly: Im Palestinian. I dont have to be American to sympathize with these people. Moreover, you dont have to be an unhyphenated American to be patriotic. Muslim and Arab Americans, the panelists stated, want justice and peace as much as anyone. Zayed pointed to his presidency of the Harvard Friends of the Red Cross...