… via a hijabi who took offense at an image of Muhammed shown in the classroom. The professor was immediately fired; the school is now, in its public comments, backtracking like a bat outa hell but it’s too late. They won’t have to pay the prof (who is, correctly, suing) as much as Oberlin had to pay that bakery, but the same cretinous reflexive bullshit did in both schools and as Joan Baez plaintively asked so many years ago when will they ever learn?
January 21st, 2023 at 7:57PM
We have Elmer Gantry in our literary tradition to make people familiar with similar such grifters in the Christian tradition, and a few of your posts, including the most recent one as of Saturday, suggest the model of misguided piety transfers to Judaism. Is there any reason not to expect a parallel misunderstanding of theology manifesting itself in Islam?
January 22nd, 2023 at 11:23AM
Stephen: No reason at all.