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    Robin Abcarian: Firing an art history professor for showing students an image of the Prophet Muhammad is out of line

    by Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times Jan 12, 2023 4 minutes
    An art history class at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, included Islamic artworks from the 14th and 16th century that depicted the Prophet Muhammad.

    The art history instructor was diligent, empathetic and sensitive. She gave plenty of warning, including in her class syllabus, letting her students know ahead of time that she planned to show them ancient depictions of the Prophet Muhammad as part of her global art history course at Hamline University, a private liberal arts college in Minnesota.

    The teacher, Erika López Prater, 42, did this because she was aware that many Muslims believe showing the face of the prophet is a kind of blasphemy, and that some of her Muslim students might take offense at the images she planned to show. In any case, their participation in the

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