Hamline University President Announces Retirement Following Muhammad Image Scandal
“announced she will retire on June 30, 2024, according to a Monday statement from the university”
We covered this story. The scandal is that an art lecturer (pictured above) didn’t get her contract renewed after she showed an image of Muhammad in class.
FOX News reports:
Minnesota university president announces retirement following criticism over Muhammad image scandal
The president of a liberal arts college in Minnesota announced she is retiring next year following calls from faculty leaders for her resignation over her handling of an incident where an art history instructor showed depictions of the Prophet Muhammad during an “Islamic art” class.
Hamline University President Dr. Fayneese Miller announced she will retire on June 30, 2024, according to a Monday statement from the university. Miller has made headlines in recent months over criticism for the way she handled the situation regarding the art history lesson.
In October, Erika López Prater, a former adjunct art history professor at the university, was fired after a student complained that she showed images of the founder of Islam, the Prophet Muhammad, in her art history course.
Miller went viral on Twitter in December for her letter to the campus apologizing for the incident.
“It is not our intent to place blame,” Miller said. “[R]ather, it is our intent to note that in the classroom incident—where an image forbidden for Muslims to look upon was projected on a screen and left for many minutes—respect for the observant Muslim students in that classroom should have superseded academic freedom.”
The incident sparked a debate about the balance of academic freedom and respect for religion. The university called the professor’s actions “undeniably islamophobic” and Miller conceded in her message to students that even though academic subjects may contain controversial subject material, kindness for others is more important than academics.
“Academic freedom is very important, but it does not have to come at the expense of care and decency toward others,” she said.
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“Prophet”? Maybe to the pagans, but certainly not to me. The author should clarify that he is a Mohammedan “prophet”.
“Miller conceded in her message to students that even though academic subjects may contain controversial subject material, kindness for others is more important than academics.”
Which is why to Democrats, it’s always been much more important to determine whose brother-in-law benefits from the construction contract, than to worry about how safe the final projects will be for housing residents, highway commuters, etc.
” kindness for others is more important than academics.”
How could someone who thinks like that ever be chosen to lead an institution that even pretends to be academic? So truth takes a back seat if ‘widdle snowflakes” feelings might get bruised?