Minnesota college censors art to prevent ‘non-consensual viewing’ by Muslim students – IOTW Report

Minnesota college censors art to prevent ‘non-consensual viewing’ by Muslim students

JTN: Two liberal arts schools six minutes from each other in St. Paul, Minn., have explicitly subordinated Islam-related academic and artistic freedom to the feelings of Muslim students in recent months, alarming faculty both nationwide and closer to home.

Macalester College temporarily shut down and then added curtains to an art exhibit depicting partially exposed figures in hijabs and niqabs “to prevent unintentional or non-consensual viewing” after Muslim students complained, the administration said in an email Feb. 6 excerpted by Minnesota immigrant news nonprofit Sahan Journal.

Hamline University reversed its pledge to renew adjunct art history professor Erika Lopez Prater’s contract after she showed students Muslim-commissioned depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, saying “respect for the observant Muslim students in that classroom should have superseded academic freedom.” MORE

14 Comments on Minnesota college censors art to prevent ‘non-consensual viewing’ by Muslim students

  1. I remember when South Park depicted Mohammed as “the muslim prophet of flight and flame” in their “Super Best Friends” episode, and literally no one rioted over it, ’cause no one gave a shit.

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  2. Don’t like it: there’s the door. Don’t let it hit ya in the butt on your way out. School and country.

    Who are the biggest weiners here: the “mauseleum” “students” or the administrators?

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  3. @Heatsync – and there are currently 5 episodes which are not available on HBOMax. Every single one because of Muhammad.
    Even after the Dutch cartoon controversy and South Park’s Cartoon Wars double episode (2 of the 5 no longer available) they continued to show Super Best Friends for a while. And when they finally pulled it, the opening credits for that season still had Muhammad in for a while. It only matters because of the screaming and death threats – which the Cartoon Wars episode literally brought up.

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