Wheaton college professor suspended after wearing hijab to show solidarity

[lego 44,165]

They keep changing the title, this was before

 

now

Wheaton College says view of Islam, not hijab, got Christian teacher suspended

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Wheaton College Professor Is Put on Leave After Remarks Supporting Muslims

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Wheaton College, an evangelical Christian institution, has disciplined a professor who put on a head scarf in solidarity with Muslims and said they worship the “same God” as Christians.

The private liberal arts college said in a statement on Tuesday that Larycia Hawkins, an associate professor of political science, had been placed on administrative leave over “significant questions regarding the theological implications” of recent remarks she made about the relationship between Christianity and Islam.

“As they participate in various causes, it is essential that faculty and staff engage in and speak about public issues in ways that faithfully represent the College’s evangelical Statement of Faith,” the statement said.

The college president, Philip G. Ryken, emphasized in a statement on Wednesday that Dr. Hawkins’s words, not her appearance in a scarf, were the issue. He said Wheaton had “no stated position on the wearing of head scarves as a gesture of care and concern for those in Muslim or other religious communities that may face discrimination or persecution.”

The college and Dr. Hawkins could not immediately be reached for comment. But the disciplinary move appeared to be in response to statements she made on Facebook this month that touched on the monotheistic similarities between the religions.

The college said that as a tenured faculty member, she was entitled to a full review over her leave status. It gave no other details on the length of her leave, its effect on her compensation, or whether she was barred from classes or from the campus.

Last Thursday, Dr. Hawkins posted photographs of herself on Facebook in a Muslim head covering, which she vowed to wear at work, in airplanes and at social events during the weeks before Christmas in solidarity with Muslims facing religious discrimination.

“I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, like me, a Christian, are people of the book,” she wrote, in part. “And as Pope Francis stated last week, we worship the same God.”

The next day, Wheaton College said it had received inquiries about remarks on social media by unnamed faculty about the relationship between Christianity and Islam, and their “fundamental differences.”

 

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This woman just said that Christians and Muslims worship the same God and got suspended.

You show solidarity, tolerance and support and they remove you from your job.  

 

[Sylvanas 5,768]

Unfortunate and incredibly racist, but sadly as a private college they have the right to be as awful as they want 

[Dangerous Man 9,245]

I guess they don't want to see a girl behind the burqa.No wonder why these racist kunts didn't buy ARTPOP. 

[2007 5,291]

I don't see why she got suspended since her statements are known facts  

Gurl guess you showed "solidarity" in the wrong place... 

[Morphine Prince 109,655]

WTF. 

[DrewStevens 5,249]

Conservative Christians love to use and defend their "religious freedom" but they are the ones who are always violating it.

[REALITY 80,162]

It's honestly very sad to see how some people on this planet think and act... I mean, suspended after just wearing a hijab? That's crazy. 

[Whispering 18,865]

Private Christian schools and universities can do things like this. They can require all their faculty to be the same religion and to go to church regularly. The school I went to in Jr. High was crazy like this....that's why I got out of that school! 

This doesn't surprise me at all. Private religious institutions set their own rules. 

[Lion Heart 15,041]

>>Wheaton College, an evangelical Christian institution

 

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