Art professor sues Minnesota university that fired her after a Muslim student objected to images of the Prophet Muhammad that she taught in a global art course.
, the professor, alleges that Hamline University — a small, private school in St. Paul — subjected her to religious discrimination and defamation, and damaged her professional and personal reputation.
Hamline University President Fayneese Miller and Ellen Watters, the Board of Trustees chair, released a joint statement Tuesday saying recent"communications, articles and opinion pieces" have led the school to"review and re-examine our actions." The statement did not address the lawsuit, but said the university strongly supports academic freedom, which should co-exist with support for students. The university plans to hold two public conversations in coming months, one on academic freedom and student care and another on academic freedom and religion.
López Prater has said she and the department chair were discussing her teaching a new course, but after the student's complaint she was told"her services were no longer needed." On Friday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a national civil rights organization for Muslims,that López Prater's behavior was Islamophobic. The group said professors who analyze images of the Prophet Muhammad for academic purposes are not the same as"Islamophobes who show such images to cause offense."
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