Hamline U. Lecturer Showed a Painting of the Prophet Muhammad. She Lost Her Job

[Wahoo Redux]

FIRE: https://www.thefire.org/news/10-worst-colleges-free-speech-2023

[Mobius]

Hamline isn't even in the top 100, despite a high-profile incident.

[Langue_doc]

Hamline isn't even in the top 100, despite a high-profile incident.

True, but now Hamline is internationally famous for the wrong reasons.

[Wahoo Redux]

When liberal institutions fail us: "Envious reversal" and the Hamline University debacle

Everywhere we look, we're being failed by institutions that are "supposed" to protect us — and not just those, like the police, that progressives have good reason to distrust.  Take the recent example of Hamline University in Minnesota, which firing an adjunct art professor, Erika López Prater, for showing her class a famous medieval Islamic painting of the Prophet Muhammad. Hamline failed both the professor and its Muslim students, though in different ways.

[Hibush]

An update on the situation.
López-Prater has accepted a visiting instructor position at Macalaster College in St. Paul.
She filed a lawsuit against Hamline in county court. The university had it moved to Federal court, which she did not want.  So she asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit so that they could refile in county court. I don't know why county court is preferable, but it does seem like Hamline is trying to make life difficult and expensive.

[Langue_doc]

Glad to hear that the instructor has a job and that she isn't backing down. I'm curious as to why the university prefers the federal court as opposed to the county court.

[marshwiggle]

Glad to hear that the instructor has a job and that she isn't backing down. I'm curious as to why the university prefers the federal court as opposed to the county court.

I have no idea about the legal angles, but is it possible it would reduce the amount of local publicity, which may be more harmful to them if their potential audience is mostly local?

[apl68]

Glad to hear that the instructor has a job and that she isn't backing down. I'm curious as to why the university prefers the federal court as opposed to the county court.

Maybe it's nothing more than a ploy to slow down and complicate the litigation, in hopes that she'll get worn down and give up.

[Langue_doc]

The latest on the Hamline controversy:

Hamline University's President Announces Retirement After Prophet Muhammad Controversy
Fayneese S. Miller found herself in a fierce debate over academic freedom and Islamophobia, after an art history lecturer lost her job for showing images of the prophet.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/03/us/hamline-university-prophet-president-fayneese-miller.html

[marshwiggle]

The latest on the Hamline controversy:

Hamline University's President Announces Retirement After Prophet Muhammad Controversy
Fayneese S. Miller found herself in a fierce debate over academic freedom and Islamophobia, after an art history lecturer lost her job for showing images of the prophet.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/03/us/hamline-university-prophet-president-fayneese-miller.html

I guess if she's no longer in the position, they can't ask her to apologize if they lose the lawsuit.

[secundem_artem]

The latest on the Hamline controversy:

Hamline University's President Announces Retirement After Prophet Muhammad Controversy
Fayneese S. Miller found herself in a fierce debate over academic freedom and Islamophobia, after an art history lecturer lost her job for showing images of the prophet.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/03/us/hamline-university-prophet-president-fayneese-miller.html

I guess if she's no longer in the position, they can't ask her to apologize if they lose the lawsuit.

On the bright side, at least nobody was forced to look at the pee pee of the statue of David.  The pearl clutching would have been too much to deal with.

[dismalist]

The latest on the Hamline controversy:

Hamline University's President Announces Retirement After Prophet Muhammad Controversy
Fayneese S. Miller found herself in a fierce debate over academic freedom and Islamophobia, after an art history lecturer lost her job for showing images of the prophet.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/03/us/hamline-university-prophet-president-fayneese-miller.html

I guess if she's no longer in the position, they can't ask her to apologize if they lose the lawsuit.

On the bright side, at least nobody was forced to look at the pee pee of the statue of David.  The pearl clutching would have been too much to deal with.

Statue of David in Florence? Look at Mannekin Pis in Brussels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCE8HezwqP4