Word: yasin
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Commencement speaker 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...
Several University Hall officials say Lewis and Summers butted heads on preregistration, study abroad policies, last year’s Senior English Address by Zayed M. Yasin ’02 at Commencement and the role of extracurricular activities at the College...
...Direct personal threats are reprehensible and all of us who believe in the values of this University should condemn them in the strongest terms,” Summers said in a written statement after learning that Yasin was threatened. He also encouraged people to “keep open minds” in a university setting...
...past year, two incidents have particularly struck me as demonstrating the lack of charity held by this student body toward its peers. One was last May’s protest by over 150 members of the Class of 2002 against the Commencement address of fellow classmate Zayed M. Yasin ’02. While I understand “jihad” may have had painful connotations in the aftermath of Sept. 11, the rush to condemn Yasin and sully the honor of being selected to address the Commencement ceremony—without any idea of the (actually benign) content...
...compromise Yasin renamed his speech “Of Faith and Citizenship: My American Jihad,” moving the disputed word to the subtitle of his address...