Dear President Fayneese S. Miller,
As professors who teach subjects related to Islam, Muslim culture, and the Islamic world, we write to respectfully express our disagreement with your statement that respect for Muslim students “should have superseded academic freedom” (“The Academic-Freedom Controversy That Won’t Die,” The Chronicle, January 13). Some of us are practicing Muslims while others are secular Muslims, people from different religious backgrounds, or outright atheists. What unites us is our interest in Islamic theology, history, sociology, anthropology, art, mysticism, and poetry.
