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[New post] Hamline-Islam mega thread

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Hamline-Islam mega thread

genderdesk

Jan 29

The links for this topic are becoming too unwieldy. So here is a place to add new links so they can be organized and searched. I suppose you could call it a "link farm", but maybe "bibliography" is more dignified.

The obvious starting point is the New York Times article, and a sort of timeline.  Then maybe think pieces and if there is time, profiles of individuals and organizations. Oh, official statements.

Some are unfortunately behind a paywall, and I will mark those so you don't click on something you can't read.  I'm not talking about NYT and WaPo who usually have an archived copy if you want to go to all the effort. Maybe I will put the paywalled stuff together so if you are at a place that has institutional access you can just skim them all at the same time.

Timeline

Prologue: the class

  • The course was ARTH 1100-1 World Art
    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BBo_iBIlT_MQpVJZq6Shq3XPn9zwyAylrSS3PXZyKOU/edit#gid=883328682
  • The staid Minneapolis Star-Tribune finally covered the story, and with new details.  https://www.startribune.com/hamline-university-lands-at-center-of-academic-freedom-debate-over-islamic-artwork-shown-in-class/600242098/ Wedalla did not return to class and is "taking the same course with a different instructor".  I wonder if she was passing the course when she dropped it.
  • lots of background about the course, and adjuncts, and the communications with faculty about the student complaint https://spectator.org/woke-college-fires-adjunct-art-instructor-for-showing-illustrations-of-muhammed/

The Oracle's disappearing letter

The Hamline student paper the Oracle published a letter from Mark Berkson, head of religion department, then removed it. It was then published by Volohk Conspiracy. The Oracle later restored the letter. .

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20221208070901/https://hamlineoracle.com/10740/opinion/commetary-the-debate-over-representations-of-muhammad/
  • Volohk Conspiracy's followup piece. https://reason.com/volokh/2022/12/26/hamline-student-newspaper-the-oracle-removed-published-defense-of-lecturer-who-showed-painting-of-muhammad/
  • reason for removing letter https://hamlineoracle.com/10776/opinion/staff-ed-journalism-minimizing-harm-and-trauma/
  • the restored letter https://hamlineoracle.com/10740/opinion/commetary-the-debate-over-representations-of-muhammad/
  • https://genderdesk.wordpress.com/2022/12/28/the-censored-hamline-islamophobia-essay/

The professor is doxed

It was just a matter of time, of course. The name was probably already well known on campus and in academia's art circles, or just to anyone with the current class schedule. The name was published online by two art publications, and the next day by the NYT.

  • This was the first to publish the name, along with the link to the google doc with the course schedule. https://spectator.org/woke-college-fires-adjunct-art-instructor-for-showing-illustrations-of-muhammed/
  • (paywall) Two art publications followed, this was first, then the second newsletter went right afterwards, citing the first one. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/01/06/professor-who-was-controversially-fired-for-islamophobia-after-showing-depictions-of-prophet-muhammad-is-named
  • https://news.artnet.com/art-world/professor-terminated-art-history-paintings-muhammad-2238922

NYT  1/8/2023

  • https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/08/us/hamline-university-islam-prophet-muhammad.html [guest pass to bypass paywall]

Then everyone got on the bandwagon.

  • https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/08/an-art-treasure-long-cherished-by-muslims-is-deemed-offensive-but-to-whom?
  • https://twitter.com/mehdihasanshow/status/1612989783755689984
  • Christiane Gruber, https://theconversation.com/islamic-paintings-of-the-prophet-muhammad-are-an-important-piece-of-history-heres-why-art-historians-teach-them-197277
  • https://www.thefire.org/news/hamline-hiding-critical-twitter-facebook-posts-amid-blasphemy-ban-controversy?
  • https://thearabdailynews.com/2023/01/10/why-allow-religious-extremists-to-re-define-islam-in-the-west/

a couple of twitter accounts that retweeted the controversy

  • https://twitter.com/emrane/status/1612842013782855680
  • https://twitter.com/gypsy_heart6

CAIR-MN press conference January 11, 2023

  • Minnesota chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations. https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/watch-live-muslim-leaders-speak-on-hamline-university-professor-who-showed-picture-of-the-prophet-muhammad/ Jaylani Hussein, Aram Wedatalla
  • https://www.fox9.com/news/hamline-university-incident-involving-paintings-of-muhammad-generates-national-interest

Lawsuit 1/22/2023

  • Text of lawsuit: https://www.scribd.com/document/620375663/Lo-pez-Prater-Press-Release# Here is a more readable copy: https://reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/LopezPraterComplaint.pdf LopezPraterComplaint
  • Discussion of lawsuit, for those who like secondary sources https://spectator.org/hamline-art-professor-who-showed-image-of-muhammad-lawyers-up/  via the petition page: https://www.change.org/p/petition-in-support-of-dr-erika-l%C3%B3pez-prater-the-dismissed-hamline-instructor-wrongly-accused-of-islamophobia

FIRE billboard campaign for first day of spring term 1/23

  • Michelangelo's David wearing undies https://www.thefire.org/news/fire-targets-art-censorship-mobile-billboards-hamline-university

Hamline Faculty asks president to resign 1/24

  • https://www.thenation.com/article/society/hamline-university-fayneese-miller/
  • https://www.fox9.com/news/hamline-staff-holds-no-confidence-vote-over-professor-who-lost-job-over-showing-muhammad-paintings
  • https://www.startribune.com/hamline-faculty-call-on-university-president-to-resign-amid-dispute-over-art-academic-freedom/600246188/
  • https://www.twincities.com/2023/01/24/hamline-university-faculty-call-on-president-fayneese-miller-to-step-down-over-islamophobia-controversy/
  • DM cites GD

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11677953/Distressed-Hamline-University-faculty-calls-head-school-RESIGN-firing-professor.html LOL they cited my screenshot

  • [PDF] faculty statement

Hamline president Fayneese will not step down

  • https://hamlineoracle.com/10855/opinion/statement-from-president-fayneese-miller/

Think pieces

  • Video "Khanversations" https://youtu.be/sS1d0QJKI-U with Dr. Muqtadar Khan, Dr. Erika Lopez Prater, Dr. Christiane Gruber, Salam Al-Marayati, and Dr. Hyder Khan.
  • Podcast THE LEDE https://newlinesmag.com/podcast/behind-the-hamline-university-incident-with-erika-lopez-prater-and-christiane-gruber/ with art historians Dr. Erika López Prater and Dr. Christiane Gruber
  • Interview with Hamline's female Muslim students: https://sahanjournal.com/education/hamline-university-muslim-students-erika-lopez-prater-prophet-muhammad/
  • Daniel Pipe's Middle East Forum https://www.meforum.org/64068/claims-of-islamophobia-at-hamline-university-fail
  • "Islamic Paintings Of The Prophet Muhammad Are An Important Piece Of History," by Christiane Gruber, January 25, 2023. https://religionunplugged.com/news/2023/1/17/islamic-paintings-of-the-prophet-muhammad-are-an-important-piece-of-history-heres-why-art-historians-teach-them

  • (paywall)(comment about Jaylani Hussein) https://www.chronicle.com/newsletter/the-review/2023-01-17 On preview: "JANUARY 17, 2023, From: Len Gutkin, Subject: "The Review: The Hamline Scandal Is an Onion With Many Layers" Last semester, Erika López Prater, an adjunct teaching art history at Hamline University, showed a 14th-century image of the Prophet Muhammad in a class on global art history. Some Muslim students complained. Then, as Vimal Patel reported in The New York Times...

 

Official statements

  • MPAC Muslim Public Affairs Council https://www.mpac.org/statement/statement-of-support-for-art-professor-fired-from-hamline-university/
  • MESA (Middle East Studies Association): https://mesana.org/advocacy/committee-on-academic-freedom/2023/01/10/letter-regarding-hamline-university-professor-erika-lopez-prater
  • The Medieval Academy: https://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/medieval-academy-of-america-statement-on-the-case-of-hamline-university-and-dr-erika-lopez-prater/
  • The National Coalition Against Censorship: https://ncac.org/news/hamline-university-adjunct-professor-fired-prophet-muhammad
  • CAA-- the country's largest scholarly organization for art historians  https://www.collegeart.org/news/2023/01/18/caa-issues-statement-regarding-the-termination-of-professor-erika-lopez-prater/
  • Statement-from-Full-Time-Faculty-of-Hamline-University-1.24.2023-2

Paywalled

  • "God and Man at Hamline: When Hamline University cut ties with a professor who showed a painting of Muhammad, it sided with the most intolerant element of the American Muslim spectrum", by Graeme Wood. Paywall version: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/hamline-university-minnesota-muhammad-academic-freedom/672742/ If you don't have institutional access: https://localtoday.news/mn/god-and-man-at-hamline-129261.html although they have printed the wrong byline and the English is a bit fractured, but you can probably get the gist.
  • (paywall) https://www.chronicle.com/newsletter/the-review/2023-01-17 On preview: "JANUARY 17, 2023, From: Len Gutkin, Subject: "The Review: The Hamline Scandal Is an Onion With Many Layers" Last semester, Erika López Prater, an adjunct teaching art history at Hamline University, showed a 14th-century image of the Prophet Muhammad in a class on global art history. Some Muslim students complained. Then, as Vimal Patel reported in The New York Times...
  • (paywall) This was the first to published the professor's name, the second newsletter went right afterwards, citing the first one. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/01/06/professor-who-was-controversially-fired-for-islamophobia-after-showing-depictions-of-prophet-muhammad-is-named

 

 

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