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Free Speech Org FIRE: Hamline U. Must Reinstate Instructor Dismissed for Showing Image of Muhammad in Class

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) is calling on Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to immediately reinstate an art history instructor who was reportedly dismissed for showing a medieval depiction of Islam’s prophet Muhammad in class. The university reacted to complaints from Muslim students by saying in a statement: “respect for the observant Muslim students in that classroom should have superseded academic freedom.”

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