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Yasin says his is not a political speech??it is not about Israel, Palestine, Sept. 11 or U.S. foreign policy. Instead, he says, it is about supporting “jihad” as it has been used by the majority of the world’s Muslims through 1,400 years of Muslim scholarship...
...next day, Yasin met with Galper, a former president of 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...
...before Pakistan, Commencement—and Yasin’s long-awaited speech??remain. When it is suggested that the controversy is one big misunderstanding, an extended exercise in wordplay, Yasin subtly acknowledges that things could have been handled differently—but mostly sticks to his guns...
...looking for,” but he feels it is justified. The sentence he agreed to add, 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...
Alyssa M. Varley ’02 said that while she thought the speech??s initial title—“American Jihad”—was “unnecessarily controversial,” she thought his message was worthwhile...