HAMLINE UNIVERSITY in ‘Minnesotastan’ files motion to dismiss lawsuit from art history professor who was fired for committing ‘blasphemy’ against Islam
MARCH 12, 2023 BY BARENAKEDISLAM1 COMMENT
The professor was unjustly fired for displaying an image of the prophet Mohammed during an art history class. After years of ridiculing warnings that an alliance with Muslims would require them to enforce sharia law, liberals did just that at Hamline University. And this time their targets weren’t white men, but a minority (Hispanic) woman and a historical Islamic painting.
FOX News Alex Morey, director of campus rights advocacy at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), told Fox News Digital. “This is an exceptionally bad articulation of academic freedom. There’s absolutely no reason that an art history professor shouldn’t be able to show a historical masterpiece in class.”
Erika López Prater, a former adjunct art history professor at Hamline University, was reportedly fired last month after a Muslim student complained about historical images of the founder of Islam in her art history course. She issued a syllabus warning students that the class would contain images of religious figures, including Muhammad and the Buddha, and students were told they could contact her with any concerns about the course material, according a report from the New York Times.
Prater also reportedly warned students that a painting containing an image of Muhammad was going to be displayed a few minutes ahead of time, giving anyone who might be offended by such imagery an opportunity to leave the classroom.
Despite all this, she was fired anyway.
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