To our Marvelous 12K+ signatories,

I write to provide you with several news updates:

On January 9, FIRE published an article exposing Hamline University's hiding of critical social media posts: https://www.thefire.org/news/hamline-hiding-critical-twitter-facebook-posts-amid-blasphemy-ban-controversy?fbclid=IwAR2vawrn3xoFSMCadMypkkxTuqwLNJnpn4_C9U_nb6IM6cvifrL6AUSGLys

On the same day, I published a short essay taking Dr. López Prater's classroom exercise out to the world: https://theconversation.com/islamic-paintings-of-the-prophet-muhammad-are-an-important-piece-of-history-heres-why-art-historians-teach-them-197277?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=bylinefacebookbutton&fbclid=IwAR3nhpbGY_iN7aX2M8ErLdFNv72MG74K84zsfO4TcFhXef9T2cU27CHWIvs

On January 11, Mehdi Hasan covered the Hamline controversy, stating that "Islamophobia, sadly, is everywhere. But it wasn’t in that art history classroom at Hamline University": https://twitter.com/mehdihasanshow/status/1612989783755689984?s=12&t=08iJh9krfs3Zp6To85m7og&fbclid=IwAR2CEfCICHS4vNO6dL7GNbkKnuqmdAFfIXb62J7468ZjNkgG3umLWzdQXmo

A huge thanks for your support and please do keep sharing our petition.

In awe and appreciation,

Prof. Christiane Gruber, Ph.D.

https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/christianegruber/