Last week in a small classroom on Global History at Hamline University, adjunct professor Erika Lopez Prater was quickly fired from her job when a Muslim student who signed up for the class complained she violated his rights and had offended Islam by displaying the image from a book written by Rashid-al-Din.
The Muslim Public Affairs Council demanded Hamline University reverse its decision to fire art history professor Erika Lopez Prater in a statement released Monday.
The decision by a US university to sack an art history teacher for showing students depictions of the Prophet Muhammad has sparked a flood of mixed reactions, with some welcoming the move and others condemning it.
A Minnesota school that fired a professor for showing a historic painting of Muhammad during a class, drawing a complaint from a Muslim student, now could lose its accreditation for failing to protect the professor's rights