An professor at an Illinois Christian college was placed on leave Tuesday after wearing a headscarf to show solidarity with Muslims.

Larycia Hawkins, who is a Christian and an associate professor of political science at Wheaton College in suburban Chicago, said Wednesday that her actions were demonstrations of her own faith. Hawkins began wearing a hijab to counter what she called the “vitriolic” rhetoric against Muslims in recent weeks.

"In the spirit of Advent, my actions were motivated by a desire to live out my faith. Period," Hawkins said Wednesday at a news conference at a Chicago church. Advent is the season leading up to Christmas.

Hawkins said she felt it was important to show solidarity with Muslims who may feel threatened after the terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif., as well as GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s calling to block Muslims from entering the U.S.

"Theoretical solidarity is not solidarity," the tenured faculty member said.


The college said in a statement Tuesday that it placed her on leave because of statements she made on social media about similarities between Islam and Christianity.

"In response to significant questions regarding the theological implications of statements that Associate Professor of Political Science Dr. Larycia Hawkins has made about the relationship of Christianity to Islam, Wheaton College has placed her on administrative leave, pending the full review to which she is entitled as a tenured faculty member," the statement read.

In its written statement the college said it had "no stated position" on the wearing of headscarves as a gesture of care and concern. But it also said that "overtures of Christian friendship must be enacted with theological clarity as well as compassion."

The school insists that Hawkins' suspension doesn’t reflect on her desire to wear the headscarf, but rather the explanation she gave as to why she was wearing the headscarf.

The Chicago Tribune reports Hawkins said on social media that Christians and Muslims share the same God, despite some differences between the religion.

“I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, like me, a Christian, are people of the book,” Hawkins wrote on Friday. “And [as] Pope Francis stated last week, we worship the same God.”

While Hawkins had received some support from her colleagues, Danny Burk, a biblical studies professor at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. told the newspaper that Hawkins didn’t clarify her statement well enough and claimed she denied Christian teachings.

“We’re people of the book, but our books are very different. They’re witnessing to two different ways of salvation. The Bible is witnessing to Jesus Christ, the son of God. That’s unique of all the world religions, and that uniqueness was what I thought was missing from what she said,” Burk added.

Hawkins' suspension will last through the spring semester and sparked protests on the Wheaton College campus from students who called for her reinstatement, according to the Tribune. Christian leaders also supported Hawkins at a news conference Wednesday.

Hawkins also told the news conference "I affirm the creeds of the church," and added that she hopes for an amicable resolution with the college.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/17/christian-college-places-professor-on-leave-after-comparing-christianity-islam/?intcmp=hpbt3

More people have died in the name of "religion" than any other cause on the planet....

It is the object of wars, the witch hunts, the crusades, the inquisition, the devastation of civilizations (OK..... gold, oil, and resources mostly but under the guise of "bringing" religion)), and so many other conflicts.... including ISIS

People will defend their religion more readily than they will defend our constitution and bill of rights (obviously!)

Amazing since it is just another form of control over them..... but that's just my opinion and not meant to offend. It works for some.

Not every Muslim is evil.

The teacher chose the wrong time,
and the wrong place, to make her
religious/political statement.

this holds good with any other "Holy Book" that might be used to swear an Oath,or maybe the time has come to dispense with that all-together!

Mostly to protect her since the students then thought it would be okay to stone her to death when she showed up the next day in a skirt.

The kids were reported as saying "we too wish to stand in solidarity with our future muslim overlords, or friends, or whatever p.c. thing you want to hear, so we thought we'd bastardize something we heard in the news and use it at school."


Instead of the guy holding the bible for the swearer to place their hand on there should be a tall pile of books.
The bible, the quran, the book of mormon, some hare krishna pamphlets, a book on living zen, some buddhism scrolls, dawkins god delusion, darwins origin of species, a vhs copy of an inconvenient truth, tanakh, rubbings from the chauvet cave, an aztec calendar, a picture of their children and mother or her grave, a 100 dollar bill, and they have to wear a viking helmet and japanese no mask.

Without the symbols lending weight or authority to what they're swearing to, it's meaningless.

Anyone can just stand up there and recite empty lies.

I wouldn't want that to ever happen.

Virginia HS Students Pen Allegiance to Allah - Through Calligraphy
Augusta County parents are outraged over assignments to write the Muslim creed of faith and have girls don an Islamic-style headscarf.

Thu, December 17, 2015

http://m.clarionproject.org/sites/default/files/Shahadah-HP.gif/

Clarion Project http://m.clarionproject.org/news/virginia-hs-teaches-allegiance-allah-through-calligraphy /

: "By The Numbers - The Untold Story of Muslim Opinion & Demographics"
http://youtu.be/pSPvnFDDQHk/ 14:34 sec.
CAIR is listed on American Government documents as a terrorist group.


Wake up an smell the coffee & the indoctrination

She and her solidarity should be shown the door.

" her religious/political statement "

*Which is NOT a Christian one , anyone can say or claim they are. Including a Muslim.
Believe me.. She is NOT *
She abused her power by pushing Islam on the students.
If she had the students writing the Torah in Hebrew or the the Holy Bible in Ancient Greek, people would be psychotic. And tearing the school down brick by brick.

We have a separation of Church & State. So the same goes for Temple & State & Mosque & State.

She should out on her a@@ .

The main problem she has, is she's not IN a State sponsored, non-religious school. She works for a Christian Religious school. Hence rules of religious freedom, freedom of expression and so on, don't apply.

This is the same as if an employee in a Microsoft store, started wearing Apple promotional t-shirts at work. They would be fired, or told to change clothes, and the courts would support them, if it came to that.

Wrong time / wrong place, was a polite way to say
that the nutty professor should be sent packin'.

I'm not a crass basterd all of the time.
Just *most* of the time.

I wish still did witch hunts, then maybe my ex wife would get tried and burned at the stake!

EVERY Muslim is evil. There is no such thing as a peaceful Muslim. Islam is a religion of evil.

I posted a thread on that very topic last week.

Not every Muslim is evil. True, but what I see is, the bad muslims want to kill us and the good muslims don't want to kill us (yet). In the mean time the bad muslims are happy to kill the good muslims as well as anyone else. What should be happening, is the good muslims should be killing the bad muslims until there are very few muslims left, good or bad. And then we should kill the ones that are left and live in peace.

Your belief that "Every Muslim is evil" is a hateful statement and needs to be condemned by every person who has any sense of justice and integrity.Failure to do so is tacit acceptance of the hate that is implicit in your statement.Every second this statement is allowed to stand unopposed is an indictment of every person who reads it and fails to oppose it.
Your statement that Islam is a religion of evil may be debatable and if so proven would put it in the in the same category as your beliefs would put you.
My own personal and considered opinion.

i read it and i agree with Frankk...........OPPOSED..

thats why it's America, you can believe what you want, and others can believe what they want... to say someone has no sense of justice and integrity is meaningless on your part because -
A. because you do not know the person...
B. everyone sense of justice is different
C. just because you don't agree with a person does not mean anything other than you don't agree... we could sit here and weigh out right and wrongs, but in the end it's meaningless... you know every muslim is not "evil", but does it really matter? they think everyone that is not muslim is an infidel, and they act on that belief where 99.99999% of Americans don't act on anything....

thats why it's America, you can believe what you want, and others can believe what they want... to say someone has no sense of justice and integrity is meaningless on your part because -
A. because you do not know the person...
B. everyone sense of justice is different
C. just because you don't agree with a person does not mean anything other than you don't agree... we could sit here and weigh out right and wrongs, but in the end it's meaningless... you know every muslim is not "evil", but does it really matter? they think everyone that is not muslim is an infidel, and they act on that belief where 99.99999% of Americans don't act on anything....


I have no problem with people believing what they want as long as their belief does not impinge on me.
I do not need to know a person to know that what they say is unjustified.
Everyone's sense of justice on on a wide range of topics may be different but we are discussing a specific issue and even though consensus may not be the way to determine what is just or unjust I doubt if the majority of people will condemn All muslims.The injustice of this statement is what I object to.
Yes it does matter,it is not meaningless to me when someone condemns someone who is innocent.I may not be able to do much about it other than voice my dissent.I believe most honorable people feel a sense of injustice when innocent people are condemned regardless of their creed, or ethnicity.
By definition anyone who is not a Muslim is an infidel,just as anyone who is not a Christian is a non Christian,although originally the infidel was a Muslim.These are merely religious tags,they do not define the owner of the tag.The passivity of 99.99999% of Americans in supporting what is right or condemning what is wrong is their choice.My choice in this instance is to condemn what I see as wrong and to ask others who find the statement offensive to express their opinion.Looks like wishful thinking on my part judging by the lack of support apart from Argo who had the courage to also express his opinion.You have also spoken up for what you believe and I respect you for expressing that opinion without being offensive.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/saturday-people-sunday-people/article/518121

this quote by a Mid-easterner made on another site sums up the Islam Position very nice!

<<<Who is this Kool Aid drinking fool? He should learn his history about the muslims. Try being a christian or any other religion in any Muslim country. That is a quick way to get a haircut down to ur neck. <<<<(end Quote)

what I gleaned from the article

' Illinois Christian college'

and

'suspension'



I dont know what she signed in ways of her employment at this college, but the indication is it is run on some type of religious principles, just like a catholic school not supporting open homosexuality

although I agree with her intent and support of muslims , it only matters what terms she agreed to in her contract,and a review is the right move to clear that up,,,