Aram Wedatalla, left, a Hamline University senior, listens as Jaylani Hussein, executive director of the Minnesota chapter of CAIR, speaks during a news conference. Kerem Yücel/Minnesota Public Radio via AP.
A top Muslim civil rights group rejected accusations of Islamophobia swirling around a college professor who was dropped from her job after showing a painting of the prophet Muhammad to her students.
The incident took place last year in an online global art history class taught by Erika López Prater, who was an adjunct professor at Hamline University in Minnesota. Prater told her students the course would touch on religious iconography, including a famed 14th-century painting of Muhammad.
Because depictions of Muhammad are considered taboo by some conservative members of the Islamic faith, López Prater took precautions by warning her students she would be showing the…
