Harvard Shy About Islam in The Classroom

A student notices a curious gap in the discourse at Harvard: “Examining the public comments of Harvard’s last four presidents, I was unable to find one reference to radical Islamism, even while they addressed major attacks.” “In my searches of Harvard’s course catalog, I found just one class mentioning either ‘Islamism’ or ‘Islamist.’” “Or take the offerings outside class…. When I searched for ‘Islamism’ or ‘Islamist’ in the Harvard Gazette, I found only a single event described across all of campus in the last two years.” “Why aren’t we talking about this?”

— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) October 5, 2026