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...forum, sponsored by the Harvard College Interfaith Council, came as death tolls mounted in worldwide riots sparked by the Muhammad cartoons. According to the Associated Press, 19 people have died in cartoon-related violence so far this month—including 11 in Afghanistan and five in Pakistan...
Responding to the Salient’s decision to print the cartoons, the Harvard College Interfaith Council announced that it would host a forum on Thursday night at 7 p.m. in the Kirkland Junior Common Room to discuss the cartoons and put them into a broader context. The forum will be co-sponsored by various religious and political groups, including Harvard Hillel and the Harvard Political Union...
...Lala ’07, the president of the Harvard Interfaith Council, said that the Salient’s decision to print the cartoons brought the international issue closer to home and made Harvard seem like “a microcosm of the whole world,” she said...
...Jameel Jaffer, a 1999 graduate of Harvard Law School, an ACLU attorney working on the lawsuit, said that Ramadan could not possibly be considered a supporter of terrorism or a national security risk because Ramadan has condemned acts of violence by Islamic extremists and has been an advocate of interfaith dialogue. Eck suggested that Ramadan’s criticisms of American foreign policy, and his suggestion that certain prominent French Jewish intellectuals were inappropriately biased toward Israel, might explain the revocation of his visa. “If we’re going to start suppressing the kinds of speech...
...furniture to Harvard paraphernalia, alumni have left behind items such as a pewter stein from the Owl Club or Let’s Go travel guides, according to the Harvard Magazine article.Lala, who won the John Eliot Scholarship and will live in Jesus College, founded the Harvard Interfaith Council as a sophomore and worked in the health policy office of Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56.“What I proposed to do in Cambridge was to undertake a interdisciplinary master’s program that focused on the intersection of public health...