To our 17K+ signatories,

Today I share with you news of Dr. López Prater's lawsuit against Hamline University. Further information about the lawsuit and Hamline University's  "about-face" can be found in yesterday's New York Times article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/us/hamline-lawsuit-prophet-muhammad-religion.html?fbclid=IwAR3X8kJlwIUISyePVHkgJzJxS4tAK6fBqICVdItkjjifE-QqlMP1DUfs1LI

For further recent contributions to the discussion, see:

1) Wood's incisive piece on the "assumed fragility of Muslims": https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/hamline-university-minnesota-muhammad-academic-freedom/672742/

2) Ibish's argument that outrage over an Islamic painting of Muhammad is itself "Islamophobic": https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/outrage-over-an-image-of-muhammad-is-itself-islamophobia/2023/01/18/509f0f80-973b-11ed-a173-61e055ec24ef_story.html

Thank you for your thunderous support and for continuing to share our petition as widely as possible!

In deep indebtedness,

Prof. Christiane Gruber, Ph.D.

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