Word: yasin
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...major criticism focused on Yasin’s support of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF). When Yasin was HIS president, the organization held a dinner fundraiser initially scheduled to benefit HLF, a group the U.S. State Department later alleged has ties to Hamas, an Islamic terrorist organization. HIS eventually decided, however, to donate the dinner’s proceeds to the Red Crescent, the Middle Eastern equivalent of the Red Cross...
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...
...following week, criticism reached a seeming high point with a few e-mails sent by Beau Briese ’01-’02 over the Christian Impact list. “Yasin is an apologist for men who do great evil,” read the second message’s concluding paragraph. “I pray for him; I pray that he changes his mind. But, if he does not reject Hamas and Al Qaeda, he should not speak at graduation...
...Yasin has publicly rejected terrorism and violence, and said that Hamas is not fronting HLF,” he continues. “That is not the same as saying he publicly rejects Hamas and Al Qaeda, though you may interpret it that way. Many people, unfortunately, play with the meaning of words...
...other side, many students lined up to support Yasin...