Franklin Graham, the president and CEO of Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, has chastised Wheaton College, an evangelical Christian college, for abandoning its plans to fire a Muslim professor who insisted that Christians and Muslims “worship the same God.” The Muslim political science professor, Dr. Larycia Hawkins, was suspended in December for her comments, which also included the fact that she would wear the hijab to work at Wheaton College.
Wheaton College’s Faculty Council, which acts as interlocutor for the college administration and faculty, voted unanimously to prevent the school from firing Hawkins. The College replied that the school was following “established protocol,” issuing the following statement:
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