18 May 2012

Prof sues over Muslim tiff

....The complaints were filed last fall amid student protests on the Hammond campus, citing comments Eisenstein, a 64-year-old Orthodox Jew, made inside and outside his classroom.

The complaints followed posts on his personal Facebook page questioning the response of moderate Muslims to other Muslims killing Christians in Nigeria, and insulting the prophet Muhammed.

According to the suit, Keon found in February that the remarks cited in complaints filed by two other professors were protected free speech. [www.journalgazette.net] Read more