# Professor at CHristian college suspended for her outspoken support of Muslims **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 17, 2015, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-at-christian-college-suspended-for-her-outspoken-support-of-muslims/740651 "2015-12-17T01:11:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-at-christian-college-suspended-for-her-outspoken-support-of-muslims/740651/21 "2015-12-17T03:30:45Z")
> [@Eva\_Luna](#): > > If that ends up being the reason, I’m not sure which would be more ridiculous. But this is why I didn’t even consider attending a religiously based university. And why I don’t have much sympathy for someone who sought employment there if they were thinking they were going to be granted “academic freedom”. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-at-christian-college-suspended-for-her-outspoken-support-of-muslims/740651/22 "2015-12-17T03:36:25Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > And why I don’t have much sympathy for someone who sought employment there if they were thinking they were going to be granted “academic freedom”. She’s been working there since 2003. Maybe she’s fed up. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-at-christian-college-suspended-for-her-outspoken-support-of-muslims/740651/23 "2015-12-17T03:51:27Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > But she said that Christians and Muslims worship the same God. This is theologically problematic – as is pointed out above, the Christian God is the God that enter into a covenant with Abraham, and thus chose the Jews as His people, and then became flesh and dwelt among us as the Messiah. > > That’s not the description of Allah that Islam generally offers, especially with respect to Jews being God’s Chosen. You are mostly mistaken. Abraham is revered at least as much by Muslims as by Christians, and the Quran (e.g. 2.47) notes that the “Children of Israel” were Allah’s most favored people. And I honestly don’t understand this post, which I assume was the one you were referring to with approval: > [@Velocity](#): > > When people claim Muslims and Christians “worship the same God,” I have to ask…so they’re claiming Muslims worship a God who considered the Jews to be the chosen people? Surely the Christian belief that the Israelites were God’s Chosen People hasn’t prevented centuries of blatant anti-Semitism. In fact, it’s only been since Zionism found its stride in the early 20th century that Muslims have been anywhere near comparable to Christians in that respect, and even then, you’d have to say Christians easily took that century, too. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-at-christian-college-suspended-for-her-outspoken-support-of-muslims/740651/24 "2015-12-17T04:02:28Z")
Well, when people claim Muslims and Christians worship the same God, what I have to ask is, they’re claiming that Muslims worship a God who physically came to earth as both the son of that God and God himself and let himself be killed so that people who believe that he was God could go to heaven? That’s the sticking point to me…not whether or not Jews are God’s chosen people. Muslims are monotheists. Christians are polytheists who say they’re monotheists. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-at-christian-college-suspended-for-her-outspoken-support-of-muslims/740651/25 "2015-12-17T04:17:32Z")
> [@inscrutable](#): > > Simple: If there is only One True God, then everyone who worships a God by any name is worshipping the same God. Which, as I recall, is kind of how some Vaishnavists put it. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-at-christian-college-suspended-for-her-outspoken-support-of-muslims/740651/26 "2015-12-17T04:24:38Z")
I believe I have met a sort of henotheistic Christian who considered Jesus and Allah to be two separate spirits fighting over the world, but I was shocked by him at the time, and I’m pretty sure that’s _directly contrary to_ what I was taught as a child. I’m surprised that Christians in any numbers consider God-in-Arabic to be any different to God-in-Greek. It seems more sensible to say that if there is one God, then the different traditions are just different stories and interpretations, not actual existent different persons. If there are actually multiple gods, then monotheism is out on its ear without appeal, as far as I am concerned. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-at-christian-college-suspended-for-her-outspoken-support-of-muslims/740651/27 "2015-12-17T04:32:20Z")
This appears to be one of the rare situations where holding a particular religious belief qualifies as a reasonable job requirement. Wheaton College defined what is acceptable religious belief and Dr Hawkins agreed she held those beliefs. From her public statement, she no longer holds those beliefs. So the college is justified in suspending her. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-at-christian-college-suspended-for-her-outspoken-support-of-muslims/740651/28 "2015-12-17T04:33:46Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > Well, when people claim Muslims and Christians worship the same God, what I have to ask is, they’re claiming that Muslims worship a God who physically came to earth as both the son of that God and God himself and let himself be killed so that people who believe that he was God could go to heaven? No, they’re claiming that Muslims worship a God who numbered Abraham and Jesus among his greatest prophets. Muslims believe that Christians are mistaken about Jesus being God-on-earth; that’s one of the things that Muhammad was sent to straighten out. But it’s not much different than Protestants saying that Catholics worship the same God as they do, even though they believe that Catholics attribute way too much power to Mary. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-at-christian-college-suspended-for-her-outspoken-support-of-muslims/740651/29 "2015-12-17T04:36:12Z")
I’ll express my distaste by forever referring to the school as “hWheaton”. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-at-christian-college-suspended-for-her-outspoken-support-of-muslims/740651/30 "2015-12-17T04:36:48Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > When people claim Muslims and Christians “worship the same God,” I have to ask…so they’re claiming Muslims worship a God who considered the Jews to be the chosen people? Believing different things _about_ God is not the same as believing in different Gods. If you and I are co-workers, and you say the boss came in to work at 8:00 this morning while I say he didn’t get in until 9:30, that doesn’t mean we have different bosses because I believe in a boss who came in at 9:30 while you believe in a boss who came in at 8. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-at-christian-college-suspended-for-her-outspoken-support-of-muslims/740651/31 "2015-12-17T04:40:38Z")
> [@inscrutable](#): > > Simple: If there is only One True God, then everyone who worships a God by any name is worshipping the same God. The issue is who God is. Christians believe Jesus is God and worship him. Jews and Muslims believe Jesus was a mortal man and do not worship him. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-at-christian-college-suspended-for-her-outspoken-support-of-muslims/740651/32 "2015-12-17T04:50:12Z")
> [@Eva\_Luna](#): > > She’s been working there since 2003. Maybe she’s fed up. Good for her. She should seek employment where she won’t be hamstrung by religious belief that she does not adhere to. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-at-christian-college-suspended-for-her-outspoken-support-of-muslims/740651/33 "2015-12-17T05:26:52Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Believing different things _about_ God is not the same as believing in different Gods. . . . It’d be very strange for two entirely different gods to have created Adam and Eve, spoken with them in Eden, sent a flood to drown all but Noah, spared Noah, revealed himself to Abraham, and spoken to Moses. That’s sort of like saying that Zeus is “two different gods” because the stories of Hesiod don’t exactly match the stories of Homer. ETA: if not clear, I’m completely agreeing with **Thudlow Boink** (who, in addition to being correct here, also has one of the coolest login names ever.) ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-at-christian-college-suspended-for-her-outspoken-support-of-muslims/740651/34 "2015-12-17T05:34:00Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > Well, when people claim Muslims and Christians worship the same God, what I have to ask is, they’re claiming that Muslims worship a God who physically came to earth as both the son of that God and God himself and let himself be killed so that people who believe that he was God could go to heaven? > > That’s the sticking point to me…not whether or not Jews are God’s chosen people. Muslims are monotheists. Christians are polytheists who say they’re monotheists. And Muslims also pray to Saints(which to many people is a form of idolatry) and think of the Devil as this extremely powerful godlike being who were we talking about another religion would be classified as a God. I could certainly see many people who weren’t members of the Abrahamic faiths seeing the Christian and Muslims concepts of “God” and “the Devil” as a form of polytheism with the God of the light vs. the God of Evil. I’m not Christian, but if you believe there’s an all-powerful being it strikes me as rather obvious that he could multiply himself like Doctor Manhattan in Watchmen. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-at-christian-college-suspended-for-her-outspoken-support-of-muslims/740651/35 "2015-12-17T05:36:51Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > No, they’re claiming that Muslims worship a God who numbered Abraham and Jesus among his greatest prophets. Muslims believe that Christians are mistaken about Jesus being God-on-earth; that’s one of the things that Muhammad was sent to straighten out. But it’s not much different than Protestants saying that Catholics worship the same God as they do, even though they believe that Catholics attribute way too much power to Mary. That’s a pretty big difference, though. Look, if you say Jews and Muslims have the same concept of God, then sure. The Jewish and Muslim ideas of God are pretty similar, even though they differ about some of the stuff God did. But they both have the idea of a monotheistic, transcendent lawgiver who created mankind and set up a moral code for them, rewarding people who follow it and punishing those who don’t. The differences are in the particulars (Is it ok to eat shellfish? To drink wine? Is there one set of proper moral and ritual behavior for the whole world, or is God stricter with one group of people than another? Which city is holier; Mecca or Jerusalem?), but the basic idea is the same. If you had a Muslim describe his idea of God to a Jew or a Jew to a Muslim, they would be pretty similar. The Christian concept of God, though, isn’t like the Jewish or Muslim concept of God. Christians worship one god who is at the same time, three different gods, one of whom became human and was executed to fulfill some sort of metaphysical requirement for redemption. That’s a fundamentally different concept than the Muslim or Jewish one. God, in the Muslim and Jewish concept, doesn’t become human. He’s a unity, not a multiplicity. I mean, the most basic Jewish statement of belief is “Hear, oh Israel, the Lord your God is One.”, and the most basic Muslim statement of belief is “There is no God but God, and Muhammed is a prophet of God.” Meanwhile, in Christianity, it’s, as the Athanasian Creed puts it: > [@](#): > > That we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; Neither confounding the Persons; nor dividing the Essence. For there is one Person of the Father; another of the Son; and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one; the Glory equal, the Majesty coeternal. A Christian saying that to a Muslim or Jew wouldn’t get agreement there. The concept is too different. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-at-christian-college-suspended-for-her-outspoken-support-of-muslims/740651/36 "2015-12-17T05:41:21Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Believing different things _about_ God is not the same as believing in different Gods. > > If you and I are co-workers, and you say the boss came in to work at 8:00 this morning while I say he didn’t get in until 9:30, that doesn’t mean we have different bosses because I believe in a boss who came in at 9:30 while you believe in a boss who came in at 8. Suppose you believe that behind the closed doors of the executive suite, the founder is running the company by himself, and that the guy who used to go around claiming to be his son is long gone, while I believe that behind those doors, the two of them are running the company together, and that furthermore I believe that the son is going to convince the founder to overlook my bad performance reports and give me my pension anyway, because one time I gave the son half my sandwich. Do we have different bosses then? I guess on some level I’m not sure that saying, “we believe in the same God – but your understanding of His fundamental nature is completely wrong,” is all that different from saying, “we believe in different Gods.” ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-at-christian-college-suspended-for-her-outspoken-support-of-muslims/740651/37 "2015-12-17T05:46:04Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > Christians worship one god who is at the same time, three different gods, one of whom became human and was executed to fulfill some sort of metaphysical requirement for redemption. In all fairness, most _Christians_ don’t even understand the Trinity. For the majority of Christians, the foundation of the teaching of the Trinity is “Errm, don’t think too much about it.” Jews and Muslims can recognize Christians as having the same god by simply writing it off as “Sheesh, did _they_ ever overcomplicate it!” ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-at-christian-college-suspended-for-her-outspoken-support-of-muslims/740651/38 "2015-12-17T06:38:13Z")
> [@Eva\_Luna](#): > > I never claimed they had to. I simply claimed that in my opinion, it was wrong of Wheaton College to take adverse employment action against a tenured faculty member for expressing her own opinion about how she, as a Christian, should behave toward people who are not Christian. This isn’t a regular college that accepts broad concepts like academic freedom when they conflict with the college’s theological position. This isn’t Notre Dame or Georgetown or Baylor, religiously affiliated schools that might require a token religious class, or have some religiously-inspired student behavior codes, or etc, but that otherwise are very similar to a public college and whose main focus is quality college education in secular subjects. This is a small religious college designed for people interested in studying a certain set of theological principles that will guide everything in the entire education. This isn’t a place for people that don’t want faith intermixed with learning about other things, and because Wheaton specifically is organized for, and markets itself as, a place to mix faith throughout your studies it’s kind of obvious this isn’t somewhere you go to promulgate theological opinions at odds with the theological stance of the institution. It’s like getting a job at the Vatican and then expecting to denounce the concept of papal infallibility and not have that be an issue. > [@](#): > > In fact, from what I’ve seen in similar cases (including someone who is now a co-worker of mine because she was forced out of her previous job at a religiously based nonprofit for refusing to abide by a similar statement of faith that was imposed on her agency years after she started working there, an agency that served refugees no less, many of whom were persecuted based on their religion and most of those were not Christian), Wheaton College may well get away with this. > > I have talked with my co-worker about how she was forced out of her previous job, as well as with my boss (who is also an employment lawyer) about this and other similar incidents. He tells me that religiously based institutions have wide latitude to behave in ways that would violate employment law if any other entity did so. (He told me the same when my aunt was laid off from her pre-K teaching job at a synagogue-based school at the age of 64, after more than 30 years of employment with a stellar record.) I am not disputing that Wheaton College may well be within their legal rights to do what they did; I simply believe that what they are doing is morally wrong and violates academic freedom. Actually you say you are familiar with similar cases and then list two that aren’t similar at all. A refugee organization has a relatively non-religious message, and shouldn’t expect people to adhere to strict theological positions to work there. In general it’s also not expected the teachers at K-12 Catholic schools adhere to strict Catholic theology (although certain things that are gravely at odds with Catholic theology have resulted in dismissals, generally simply being Protestant or even atheist isn’t a deal breaker), but Wheaton is explicitly religious throughout–and by design. No position there is expected to be either secular or out of conformity with the established theology. > [@](#): > > I am not a Christian of any flavor, or religiously observant at all. That doesn’t mean I’m not allowed to have an opinion about matters that touch on religion. Incidents like this are among the many, many reasons why I am not a follower of any organized religion. JMHO. That’s great. Wheaton is a private college by a specific religious sect designed to attract students who want a comprehensive religious education by people with the same beliefs. We have public schools and most other private schools for people like you. But in the United States you’re allowed to set up an evangelical private college that doesn’t accept outside religious opinions. ---
**Author:** ![Ramira](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ramira/32/344_2.png) [@Ramira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ramira)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-at-christian-college-suspended-for-her-outspoken-support-of-muslims/740651/39 "2015-12-17T07:04:38Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > When people claim Muslims and Christians “worship the same God,” I have to ask…so they’re claiming Muslims worship a God who considered the Jews to be the chosen people? The Islamic tradition, not your stereotypes has always accepted the special place of the Jews from the very start of the revelation. Unlike the Christians it has never in 1400 years been a mainstream doctrine to deny this. And for 1400 years, the Jews and the Muslims agreed that their shared concept of the Taouhid, the unicity of the God is the same. > [@Bricker](#): > > That’s not the description of Allah that Islam generally offers, especially with respect to Jews being God’s Chosen. You are simply \*\*wrong. \*\* Although this is not surprising given the misinformation about the Islam that is propagandized amongst the christians (and amongst them about their own theology relationship with the Jewish religion). > [@Tamerlane](#): > > Christians - _typically_ seem to think Christian and Jews worship the same God, but not Muslims. > > Jews - Orthodox Jews at least typically follow Maimonides and think Muslims and Jews worship the same God, but not Christians ( due to the problem of Trinitarianism which Maimonides considered a theological bridge too far vis-a-vis a unitary God ). > > Muslims - generally think all three worship the same God. It’s actually an article of faith, hence the phrase ‘Peoples of the Book’. It explicitly places Muhammed as the terminal link in a chain starting with Abraham and including Jesus. Muslims just think Christians and Jews are doing it wrong and have garbled the messages of earlier Prophets. Yes. > [@](#): > > The Qur’an does in fact explicitly acknowledge the one time special status of Jews. But that special status was bound up with maintaining a covenant with God and well…rejecting Muhammed in the Islamic view is not exactly in line with maintaining said covenant. This does not mean in the main thinking the Jews lost their special place as the originators of the Taouhid. > [@John\_Mace](#): > > O well, I can’t get behind someone adopting the symbol of gender discrimination by a religion just because that religion happens to be demonized recently. We hear a lot about women choosing to wear hijab, but in too many places it’s not choice, but a way to keep women in line. There is nothing “symbolic of gender discrimination” about the simple hidjab. Too many place is three countries. I do not myself wear it nor like it, but the ignorant statements by non muslim white men about this pretending to be concerned about us is more than tiresome, it is nothing more than their own covering of prejudice or ignorance. Indeed, I become more and more sympathetic to putting on the hidjab myself in the face of the ignorant commentary around it, as the expression of a resistance to this prejudice and the more important discrimination. > [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > That’s the sticking point to me…not whether or not Jews are God’s chosen people. Muslims are monotheists. Christians are polytheists who say they’re monotheists. Shhh… we who have the real Unicity in our belief have to allow for their confusion :^) > [@Ibn\_Warraq](#): > > And Muslims also pray to Saints(which to many people is a form of idolatry) The Salafistes, and the basis of the Tariqas engagement is theologically not the same. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-at-christian-college-suspended-for-her-outspoken-support-of-muslims/740651/40 "2015-12-17T07:29:38Z")
> [@Eva\_Luna](#): > > [Dr. Larycia Hawkins,](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/wheaton-college-suspends-dr-larycia-hawkins-professor-who-vowed-wear-n481001) an associate professor of political science at Wheaton College, a small Christian college in the Chicago suburbs, has been suspended for professing support of Muslims. > > Interestingly, the suspension is ostensibly not for wearing a hijab, but for stating that Christians and Muslims worship the same God, which is apparently [in violation of the college’s “evangelical Statement of Faith.”](http://www.wheaton.edu/Media-Center/Media-Relations/Statements/Wheaton-College-Statement-Regarding-Dr-Hawkins) > > Now I’m just a Jewish agnostic; what do I know? but it seems awfully, oh, wrong to suspend (and, I’m guessing commence termination proceedings) a political science professor who is herself a practicing Christian for supporting another People of the Book. AM I missing something? > > And I am curious to see whether it will fly under Federal and Illinois employment laws. As we have all seen recently, religiously based organizations have been given what I consider to be a terrifying amount of latitude to make decisions about people’s employment that have nothing to do with their professional competence, and everything to do with stamping out dissent. So much for academic freedom. As I so often hear from those on the left who fear freedom of expression. Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences. She got consequenced. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-at-christian-college-suspended-for-her-outspoken-support-of-muslims/740651.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-at-christian-college-suspended-for-her-outspoken-support-of-muslims/740651.md?page=3)