Purdue Professor Who Ripped Muslims on Facebook Is Cleared of Discrimination

The Chronicle of Higher Education
February 28, 2012, 10:17 pm

Purdue University-Calumet has cleared a professor of discrimination and harassment charges filed against him after he used his Facebook page to harshly criticize Muslims and to publish comments many regarded as blasphemous, the Journal and Courier reported. The campus’s Muslim Student Association, faculty members, and students had brought a total of nine discrimination charges against Maurice M. Eisenstein, an associate professor of political science, after he posted the controversial comments in November.

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Religious Accommodation Makes Waves

Inside Higher Ed
November 9, 2010

Colleges strive to create welcoming, inclusive communities for students from every background. But a new effort at George Washington University has scores of critics and supporters abuzz with heated comments that continue to pour in on various blogs and news articles.
At the request of the university’s Muslim Students’ Association, George Washington began offering a once-weekly, female-only swim hour in March. But it only recently turned into an online debate over issues of religious and sexual discrimination and -- though not always explicitly -- racism, spurred by an article in the student newspaper, The GW Hatchet.

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