This story may have an unhappy ending for Karen Murdock, an adjunct professor at Century College in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. Like DePaul's Thomas Klocek, who also didn't have tenure, Murdock is in trouble for offending Muslim sensibilities. For the PC police at Century, placing the Danish Mohammed cartoons behind a curtain with a warning sign wasn't good enough for them.
From a FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, press release:
The uproar over cartoons of the prophet Mohammed may be fading in some places, but not at Century College in Minnesota. After repeatedly encountering censorship of her display of the cartoons on a hallway bulletin board, Professor Karen Murdock finally posted them behind a curtain so that passers-by would not be offended. Yet even after assuring Murdock and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) that free speech is valued at Century, administrators allowed censors to tear down the hidden cartoons and insisted that she not put them back up.
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