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Hi, I'm Nachalid. I'm Professor of History at Carlton College in Minnesota.

I recently wrote a piece for Persuasion titled Don't Ban Depictions of Muhammad from the Classroom.

This piece was inspired by what happened at Hamlin University

where an adjunct professor was dismissed

because she showed a 14th century Islamic painting of Muhammad as part of her Islamic art class.

This was an optional exercise and students did have the chance to turn their screens off.

Plenty of content warnings were given in the syllabus

and also within the classroom setting itself.

However, one particular student found this offensive

to her Muslim sensibilities sensibilities and this triggered the

D. E. I bureaucracy of the college to weigh in who decided that the incident was

Islamophobic and dismissed the professor for that reason.

I wrote this piece in defense of the professor who showed this piece of art.

I'm offended by what Hamlin did at many levels.

First, I'm offended as a professor because this is a direct attack on our academic freedom to teach our material with integrity.

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