As it happens, the images she planned to show are hundreds of years old and considered masterpieces of Islamic art. “There is,” López Prater told her students, “this common thinking that Islam completely forbids, outright, any figurative depictions or any depictions of holy personages. Administrators soon announced they would not invite López Prater back for the following semester, essentially firing her; she was an adjunct professor with no tenure protections. This is how a professor who is respectfully teaching the importance and value of Islamic art is fired, then tarnished as Islamophobic. I hope Hamline University officials, instead of digging in, recognize their mistake and reinstate López Prater.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 12, 2023 22:49 UTC