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Larycia Hawkins
For wearing a headscarf to show solidarity with Muslims, a professor at Christian college in the United States has been placed on leave. Larycia Hawkins, a Christian and an associate professor of political science at Wheaton College in Chicago, Fox News reported was suspended on Tuesday. Hawkins, however, defended her action, saying it she felt it was important to show solidarity with Muslims who may feel threatened after the terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino in California as well as the call by Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump for Muslims to be blocked from entering the US. Hawkins said, "Theoretical solidarity is not solidarity."
According to the college, Hawkins was not suspended because her desire to wear the headscarf, but rather the explanation she gave as to why she was wearing the headscarf. A statement by the college on Tuesday said, it placed the tenured professor on leave because of statements she made about similarities between Islam and Christianity on social media. The Chicago Tribune reports Hawkins said on social media that Christians and Muslims share the same God, despite some differences between the religion.
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