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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/08/us/hamline-university-islam-prophet-muhammad.html

Another article. Her firing seems ridiculous to me. [/quote]

Agree…

In the syllabus, the professor warned that images of holy figures, including the Prophet Muhammad and the Buddha, would be shown in the course. She asked students to contact her with any concerns, and she said no one did. … (So apparently the student who complained and demanded action against the professor did not even read the syllabus so she did not show respect for the professor as she claimed …)

In a December interview with the school newspaper, the student who complained to the administration, Aram Wedatalla, described being blindsided by the image. “I’m like, ‘This can’t be real,’” said Ms. Wedatalla, who in a public forum described herself as Sudanese. “As a Muslim and a Black person, I don’t feel like I belong, and I don’t think I’ll ever belong in a community where they don’t value me as a member, and they don’t show the same respect that I show them.”

Oh puhleeze - the student is projecting way too much on to this poor professor ….

In class, the professor had prepped students, telling them that in a few minutes, the painting would be displayed, in case anyone wanted to leave.
Then Dr. López Prater showed the image — and lost her teaching gig.

Officials at Hamline, a small, private university in St. Paul, Minn., with about 1,800 undergraduates, had tried to douse what they feared would become a runaway fire. Instead they ended up with what they had tried to avoid: a national controversy, which pitted advocates of academic liberty and free speech against Muslims who believe that showing the image of Prophet Muhammad is always sacrilegious.

(The professor herself is very badly paid and treated as an adjunct …)

Dr. López Prater’s situation was especially precarious. She is an adjunct, one of higher education’s underclass of teachers, working for little pay and receiving few of the workplace protections enjoyed by tenured faculty members.

I hope civil right smashers take up the professors case pro bono as she won’t be able to afford legal fees as an adjunct.

Better still, I hope a better university snaps up this obviously dedicated and caring professional.

The student needs to learn to read syllabus papers in advance and listen to warnings from professors about material that may trigger them. And get therapy rather than lash out at others … 
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