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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Apparently this is terribly offensive. Why is that? The oldest pictures are Muslim?

And how can we tell more Americans so they don't accidentally upset people?[/quote]

So, I'm not going to show a picture just to try to upset people, but this isn't that case and I can't believe the university fired this professor.

So much for moderate Muslims.[/quote]
Actual, I've read several Muslims condemning the university and supporting the teacher. [/quote]

The president of the Muslim Student Association is the one who got the ball rolling on her dismissal [/quote]
The Hamline University MSA doesn't speak for all Muslims. [/quote]

Which ones doesn't it speak for? I haven't seen any Muslim complain [/quote]

I am offended as a Muslim. In choosing to label this image of Muhammad as Islamophobic, in endorsing the view that figurative representations of the Prophet are prohibited in Islam, Hamline has privileged a most extreme and conservative Muslim point of view
Professor Amna Khalid, who supports the fired Hamline professor[/quote]
Thank you for posting.

Truthfully, it's more of a sign of how self absorbed children are today than anything else. [/quote]

+1, except that I think it's more about how much power the most militant and vocal young people who cannot or refuse to consider nuance or other views wield in spaces like college campuses.

This incident is a useful example for a left-leaning forum like this one. Letting this professor go, despite her efforts to be respectful and to allow any student to opt-out, demonstrates the harm caused by capitulating to every complaint or offense taken by a member of a protected group to avoid invalidating their "lived experience."  Not every perceived offense or slight should be accepted unquestioningly, respected, acknowledged, and acted upon, but that seems to be where we are now.  [/quote]

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