A Teacher Showed Islamic Art Depicting Muhammad to College Students, and Lost Her Job

Jan 7 2023 by The Daily Beast

 
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In November, an adjunct art history instructor was fired from Hamline University, a private liberal arts college in Minnesota. The month before, during an online lecture on Islamic art in the instructor’s survey of art history, she had displayed depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, which is strictly forbidden for many practicing Muslims.

While Hamline decided that the classroom exercise constituted a...

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