On Tuesday (January 17), a former liberal arts Professor named Erika López Prater sued Hamline University for damaging her professional and personal reputation and subjecting her to religious discrimination. The development comes weeks after she was fired by the varsity for displaying two historic paintings of Prophet Muhammad to her students during a global art history class. Served with a lawsuit today, @HamlineU — which in previous weeks repeatedly said students’ feelings trump academic freedom — suggest it’s all been a big misunderstanding and they’ve loved academic freedom all along. In the interest of hearing from and supporting our Muslim students, language was used that does not reflect our sentiments on academic freedom,” the statement read. She had warned them in advance about her plan to show two historic paintings of the last Islamic Prophet Muhammad.

Source: New York Times January 20, 2023 23:35 UTC