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...have been an impassioned and chilling event, which escaped the trivialization it has encountered in years past.Outside the Science Center last week, amidst the Clothesline Project, a collection of t-shirts with jostling messages from rape victims written on them, one could still find the tangential leftover. The most vile read: “‘Your mother gave you up for adoption because she wanted you to have a better life’ means ‘she couldn’t afford an abortion.’”Although Harvard’s TBTN...
...would seem an absurd and intolerable innuendo to suggest on these grounds that any gift made by any American in support of scholarship is tied to torture.Of course, it would be highly objectionable if someone giving money to Harvard were a known supporter of terrorism or anything so vile. Perhaps we should look more carefully at gifts that have been made to Harvard over the years from people who could also have supported dictatorial regimes like those in the Middle East or Latin America, or insurgent causes like Northern Irish Republicanism. In the case of Islamic studies, however, it seems...
...does make a powerful point when you contrast these cartoons with even more vile cartoons from Middle Eastern publications,” he said, referencing a cartoon from the Egyptian paper al-Ahram depicting Jews killing children and drinking their blood, which the Salient published next to the cartoons of Muhammad. “I hate to say it, but provocative content can have meaning...
...could have been the embassies burning, or the pledges of decapitation for offending cartoonists, or the priest shot dead while praying in his church in Turkey. Whether it was a singularly disturbing violent act or the coalescing of many vile reactions, I have been gripped by the ongoing Danish cartoon jihad, and my sentiments have settled with that rare union of outrage and scholarly interest.From these Muslims at the beginning of the 21st century, the history student within detected a certain resonance with the pre-modern Church and the way it dealt with dissidents.I’d like...
There should be no delusions about the Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR). Its suggested implementation of distribution requirements merely expands “student choice”—to use the most favorable name for what really is a vile concept—to the disadvantage of the academy’s mission to guide and educate its students...