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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Gene Lyons

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: An academic drama over false islamophobia - Caught on Camera

Aram Wedatalla, a Hamline University senior and the president of Muslim Student Association, speaks at a Jan. 11 news conference about the controversy over an instructor showing a photo of the Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photos)

Chances are, your humble, obedient servant here will never be invited to teach at Hamline University, a Methodist school in St. Paul, Minnesota. For one thing, I’m almost old enough to be president of the United States — that is, well beyond my professorial sell-by date.

For another, administrative jellyfish who cave to self-dramatizing undergraduates demanding to dictate on religious grounds what can and cannot be taught in the institution’s classrooms fill me with disdain. I’d be almost certain to end up embroiled in some soul-deadening, comic opera dispute like the one roiling Hamline’s campus over the past several months.

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