Source: The Guardian
A tenured professor at a Christian college in suburban Chicago who was suspended for saying Christians and Muslims worship the same God has said she has no plans to resign.
Larycia Hawkins, an associate professor of political science at Wheaton college, said she wouldn’t accept an offer by officials to teach again, which was contingent on her agreeing to revoke her tenure for at least two years.
The 43-year-old professor, who has been with the evangelical college for nine years, announced earlier this month that she would wear a hijab as a demonstration of “human solidarity” with Muslims, in the wake of the recent mass shooting in San Bernardino, which authorities said was inspired by Islamist terrorists.
Hawkins said the decision was made as part of her Christian advent worship and has prompted “pushback almost exclusively from other Christians”.
“I stand in human solidarity with my Muslim neighbor because we are formed of the same primordial clay, descendants of the same cradle of humankind,” she posted on Facebook.
As a result of her comments, the college placed Hawkins on administrative leave. On Tuesday, Wheaton said it would “give more time to explore significant questions regarding the theological implications of her recent public statements, including, but not limited to those indicating the relationship of Christianity to Islam”.
Despite Wheaton’s suggestion on Tuesday that Hawkins requested terms of separation, the professor said she has never brought up resigning from the college.
Categories: America, Christianity, The Muslim Times
It’s a Black. Supposedly Christian or not, Blacks are enamored of Islam because they feel it is a non-White and anti-White religion. Wheaton should just terminate it.