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Title: Minnesota (U.S.) art professor fired for showing art depicting Muhammad
Post by: Anne D. on January 21, 2023, 02:44:52 AM
So this is going on in my neck of the woods:

https://apnews.com/article/colleges-and-universities-minnesota-st-paul-religion-ba1f75e62e6c73eb46117d7f8394b3a4 (https://apnews.com/article/colleges-and-universities-minnesota-st-paul-religion-ba1f75e62e6c73eb46117d7f8394b3a4)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/18/images-prophet-muhammad-university-lecture/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/18/images-prophet-muhammad-university-lecture/)

I hope the professor wins her suit. That her contract was not renewed over this is ridiculous.
Title: Re: Minnesota (U.S.) art professor fired for showing art depicting Muhammad
Post by: Tank on January 21, 2023, 09:09:54 AM
I hope she wins her law suites.
Title: Re: Minnesota (U.S.) art professor fired for showing art depicting Muhammad
Post by: No one on January 21, 2023, 11:04:09 AM
Cry babies and their worthless, cowardly, piece of shit prophet.


mo the pig fucker, is a real fucking milksop.

I hope she wins, and sends the crybaby a bacon pie.
Title: Re: Minnesota (U.S.) art professor fired for showing art depicting Muhammad
Post by: Old Seer on January 21, 2023, 03:43:17 PM
In the US, a person cannot be punished for exercising of a right. There's more to it then this but I'll leave it there.
Title: Re: Minnesota (U.S.) art professor fired for showing art depicting Muhammad
Post by: billy rubin on January 21, 2023, 10:17:48 PM
in america, there is a right to express, and a privilege not to be offended. they are not equal.

it seems that the instructor did everything reasonable to prevent anybody being offended. the person who reported the infraction went out of her way to be offended, by ignoring the warnings and by reversing her apparent acceptance of the presentation.

in america, it is not a right not to be offended. it is a right to be able to express reasonable topic in a public forum.

the instructor was in the right, and the offended complainer was in the wrong, in my opinion.
Title: Re: Minnesota (U.S.) art professor fired for showing art depicting Muhammad
Post by: Dark Lightning on January 21, 2023, 10:36:07 PM
I agree, Billy. The whole business of showing the so-called prophet's likeness being forbidden is a relatively recent phenomenon.
Title: Re: Minnesota (U.S.) art professor fired for showing art depicting Muhammad
Post by: billy rubin on January 21, 2023, 11:40:45 PM
i suspect you can thank the wahabis for that
Title: Re: Minnesota (U.S.) art professor fired for showing art depicting Muhammad
Post by: Icarus on January 22, 2023, 02:53:29 AM
Parts of our world has become both sick and stupid. In Florida my governor and his henchmen have made it a serious violation for a teacher to even mention CRT or any so called WOKE subjects.

So what if a teacher in Minnesota shows a picture of a dude riding a horse into the sky? Religious zealots are among the worst kinds of fascists.
Title: Re: Minnesota (U.S.) art professor fired for showing art depicting Muhammad
Post by: No one on January 22, 2023, 09:25:37 AM
desantis is a pigeonhearted, pea-brained, reprehensible sack of shit!

i sincerely hope his death is extremely slow, and excruciatingly painful.

Fuck anyone who "thinks"* like him.












*-these morons don't actually think, they are just parrots who have an incurable case of verbal diarrhea, coupled with the IQ of a mentally stunted mealworm.


Have i ever mentioned that i fucking hate the hoomans?
Title: Re: Minnesota (U.S.) art professor fired for showing art depicting Muhammad
Post by: Tank on January 22, 2023, 11:43:52 AM
Quote from: billy rubin on January 21, 2023, 10:17:48 PMin america, there is a right to express, and a privilege not to be offended. they are not equal.

it seems that the instructor did everything reasonable to prevent anybody being offended. the person who reported the infraction went out of her way to be offended, by ignoring the warnings and by reversing her apparent acceptance of the presentation.

in america, it is not a right not to be offended. it is a right to be able to express reasonable topic in a public forum.

the instructor was in the right, and the offended complainer was in the wrong, in my opinion.

Well said.
Title: Re: Minnesota (U.S.) art professor fired for showing art depicting Muhammad
Post by: Tank on January 22, 2023, 11:45:44 AM
Quote from: No one on January 22, 2023, 09:25:37 AMdesantis is a pigeonhearted, pea-brained, reprehensible sack of shit!

i sincerely hope his death is extremely slow, and excruciatingly painful.

Fuck anyone who "thinks"* like him.

...

*-these morons don't actually think, they are just parrots who have an incurable case of verbal diarrhea, coupled with the IQ of a mentally stunted mealworm.


Have i ever mentioned that i fucking hate the hoomans?

See there is someone worse that you :)
Title: Re: Minnesota (U.S.) art professor fired for showing art depicting Muhammad
Post by: No one on January 22, 2023, 11:54:28 AM
You are gravely mistaken.

There is nothing worse than me. Absolutely nothing!



Title: Re: Minnesota (U.S.) art professor fired for showing art depicting Muhammad
Post by: Asmodean on January 26, 2023, 09:34:19 AM
We have this situation in NATO now where Turkey is Islam-blocking a Swedish membership because the Swedes did the only right thing and let a dude do with his personal property as he wished, in spite of said property being the Qur'an and the said doing as he wished being burning thereof.

All in all, I think Sweden is far more useful to NATO than Turkey, due to them Swedes being crafty when it comes to making pretty impressive weapon systems, but then Turkey was there first.

I'm not one to burn books, flags or photos for symbolic value, as I find it difficult to buy into such symbols to begin with, but I wonder if maybe we really should burn more Qur'ans - just because we bloody well can.
Title: Re: Minnesota (U.S.) art professor fired for showing art depicting Muhammad
Post by: Bluenose on January 26, 2023, 09:47:17 AM
Freedom of religion includes the right not to be forced to follow any particular religious practice.  It is fine for the Mullahs to say that observant Muslims may not depict images of their prophet.  It is entirely out of order for them to seek to impose that upon non-Muslims.
Title: Re: Minnesota (U.S.) art professor fired for showing art depicting Muhammad
Post by: Asmodean on January 26, 2023, 10:44:50 AM
...And yet...
Title: Re: Minnesota (U.S.) art professor fired for showing art depicting Muhammad
Post by: Tank on January 26, 2023, 11:05:55 AM
I think you'll find that Turkey stopping Sweden joining NATO was what caused the book burning. And Turkey has got the hump about Sweden because they were against Turkey joining the EU.
Title: Re: Minnesota (U.S.) art professor fired for showing art depicting Muhammad
Post by: Asmodean on January 26, 2023, 01:21:44 PM
Also, Sweden has been a bit of a safe harbor for Turkish separatists, terrorists and the like and yes, there is plenty of animosity to go around - to the point where I, for one, am uncertain of how a defencive military alliance including both parties could function, and yet the recent bout of "cold weather" was directly attributed to them pesky Swedes roasting Turkish holy cows - more-or-less literally speaking.

There was a unexplainable Qur'an fire in the Netherlands as well, from what I read - and there be protests in all them unsurprising places. People being injured in protests even.

...It's a book. On fire. Millions more where it came from. It's not like it was endangered or something.