Former Wheaton Professor forced to find job elsewhere after standing up against Islamophobia

Christian college by saying Muslims and Christians share the same God will take a new job

The former Wheaton professor who sparked an argument at the Christian college by saying Muslims and Christians share the same God will take a new job — in a position named after a Muslim historical figure.

Larycia Hawkins will be the Abd el-Kader Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University of Virginia, the state university announced.

She snapped a picture of herself wearing a hijab and said she would wear it to support Muslim women. “I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, like me, a Christian, are people of the book,” Hawkins wrote on Facebook. “And as Pope Francis stated last week, we worship the same God.”

Students protested, alumni wrote letters, and faculty members voiced their support for Hawkins.

Eventually, the college said that it would not fire Hawkins, but that they had mutually agreed that she would leave, resulting in her transfer to a job in Charlottesville.