CAIR MN backs student who says she was hurt by instructor showing image of Muhammad

Hamline University senior Aram Wedatalla held back tears as she described how hurt she felt when her art history instructor informed the class she would briefly show a painting of the Prophet Muhammad last semester.

Speaking at a news conference held by the Minneapolis chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the 23-year-old president of the university’s Muslim Student Association said: “I was shocked with a professor who gave me a trigger warning before proceeding to disrespect my religion.”

Wedatalla said she had never in her life seen a painting of the prophet. The event, she said, was “painful, for me, my family, and my community.”