A coupla’ days ago I posted a notice about “American Jihad,” the forthcoming Harvard commencement “speech” from Zayed Yasin, former president of the Harvard Islamic Society and an affiliate of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (who, not surprisingly, signed the infamous Israel Divestiture petition — as did the Chair of the committee who chose him for the honor). Since then, the story has grown quite a bit, and is creating quite a buzz in the North East.

(Or, as we used to say down around North Howard Street, “Shit. The ivy be shakin’ ’round the Charles, yo!)

Matt Yglesias, who sent me the original info., has been on this story like Semptex on a Jenin school girl. Today, he points me toward this (wet noodle) Harvard Crimson article, which he comments on here.

Crimson Crusadertrade; Glenn Kinen has also taken notice (as a graduating senior, he has actually to sit through this garbage, the poor lad), and has a ton of compelling stuff about it on his site. Start here and scroll down.

Lots of interesting discussion in the comments section of the Yglesias blog, too. Check it out. And check out Charles Murtaugh’s thoughts here.

In the meantime, here’s ol’ Zayed, pleading his case to the Crimson:

Yasin said he is not surprised by the outcry that followed the announcement of his speech title.

‘That is part of why I wrote this speech,’ Yasin said. ‘Jihad is not something that should make someone feel uncomfortable. It