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...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...
Gardiner said that her speech??like Yasin’s—was inspired by Sept...
...used as ‘holy war’ my entire life,” he says bombastically, before calling Yasin, 22, “a kid known to have been a fundraiser for Hamas.” Over the previous eight days, Yasin’s speech??and sometimes Yasin himself—had become a target for many, with opposition mounting following the announcement of his address’s title, “American Jihad.” After an uproar on campus and in the national media, he returned to his original title...
Some of the criticism has gotten personal. On the Eliot list, Deon D. Falcon ’02 wrote that the speech??s content would be “fine,” but that Yasin was “a ick for intellectualizing and expounding upon the meaning of the word ‘jihad’...he is hitting too close to home too soon...
Both Toledo and Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers—who introduced the speech??mentioned Toledo’s indigenous roots, first-hand experience with poverty and eventual attainment of a high-quality education...