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...flurry of controversy emerged in 2002, when former HIS president Zayed M. Yasin ’02 proposed “American Jihad” as the title of his Commencement speech. Students protested Yasin??s use of the word “jihad,” and Yasin later modified the title to “Of Faith and Citizenship: My American Jihad...
...critics of the address decried Yasin??s right to speak at Commencement altogether, pointing to his support while HIS president of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development—an NGO which the U.S. State Department alleges has ties to Hamas, a Palestinian militant movement...
...former president of the Harvard Islamic Society, planned to give a speech at Commencement titled, “Of Faith and Citizenship: My American Jihad.” “The speech was about unity between American and Muslim values,” Yasin says.However, Yasin??s proposed address was met with criticism from a group of students who were concerned that the word “Jihad” would be too offensive to students and family who had lost loved ones in the September 11th attacks. According to a Crimson article published in June...
...without familiarity of the actual speech, members of the Harvard community tried to pressure Harvard to have Yasin censored or removed as a speaker. Yasin even received death threats. And while President Summers did go through the motions of stating his support of Yasin??s right to speak, he also explicitly forbade all administrators at the College from publicly supporting him.In light of the Danish cartoon controversy, the irony that freedom of expression was not fully defended at Harvard is not lost...
Commencement speaker Zayed M. Yasin ’02 becomes the center of controversy after The Crimson reports he would speak about the concept of jihad, as applied to the graduating seniors’ lives. More than 600 persons sign a petition protesting Yasin??s selection as an orator. Yasin has since changed the title of his speech from “The American Jihad,” and is still scheduled to speak...