Christ on a Bike!
From this article, here
DUBAI: A university in the United Arab Emirates has fired an administrator for supporting a professor sacked for distributing copies of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad to her students, a colleague said today.
The colleague, who declined to be named, said Briton Andrew Hearst was fired at the same time as US professor Claudia Kiburz, who had tried to start a debate on the inflammatory cartoons with her students.
That's Zayed University, where my wife was teaching, and I was employed in the Library for a time. Both of those people are known to me - very well, in fact.
I'm speechless. I have a hard time believing Andrew just "dismissed" the students' complaints, but that's what you get when it's however many students speaking against one administrator in a case like this.
Yes, I think we left Dubai at the right time.
DUBAI: A university in the United Arab Emirates has fired an administrator for supporting a professor sacked for distributing copies of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad to her students, a colleague said today.
The colleague, who declined to be named, said Briton Andrew Hearst was fired at the same time as US professor Claudia Kiburz, who had tried to start a debate on the inflammatory cartoons with her students.
That's Zayed University, where my wife was teaching, and I was employed in the Library for a time. Both of those people are known to me - very well, in fact.
I'm speechless. I have a hard time believing Andrew just "dismissed" the students' complaints, but that's what you get when it's however many students speaking against one administrator in a case like this.
Yes, I think we left Dubai at the right time.
posted by J. Edward Tremlett at 7:51 AM
1 Comments:
thanks for your kind thoughts. : )
Claudia's doing okay, and is getting the time she needs to close her affairs in Dubai and head back to the states.
I think that only shows how wrong the university was. If they were convinced that she blasphemed Islam, she should have been on a plane for home within 24 hours. But they're giving her time to pack...?
Good luck with your studies, stay independent, and tell Ramza and Huda in the Library that I said "Hi" : D
J
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