Abdulrahman Bindamnan, an OLPD doctoral student in Comparative and International Development Education, has published an op/ed in the Star Tribune in response to the recent controversy at Hamline University in St. Paul, where an adjunct professor was dismissed after showing a 14th-century depiction of Muhammad.
“Classroom discussions should not be regulated according to a particular strand in the religion,” argues Bindanman, who goes on in the piece to suggest that “a better way of handling the controversy at Hamline would be to arrange a discussion on the question of prophetic caricatures.”
Bindanman, who fled to the United States from Yemen, points out that “I came here to learn how to become a scholar who independently investigates subjects fraught with moral ambiguity.”
