The Chronicle: http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/02/2006021504n.htm
An American professor teaching in the United Arab Emirates was fired last week after she showed her students caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that have infuriated Muslims around the world, local newspapers reported.
Claudia Kiburz, who taught English at Zayed University, a women’s institution in Dubai, shared the cartoons with her students as part of a class discussion about freedom of expression, the news reports said.
The cartoons originally appeared in a Danish newspaper last September, and they have since sparked violent demonstrations in many parts of the Muslim world. On Tuesday two people were killed in Lahore, Pakistan, during a protest against the cartoons, the Associated Press reported. In Islamabad, Pakistan, meanwhile, a crowd of more than 1,000 people, mostly students, broke into an enclave housing a number of embassies, but no one was injured, the AP said.
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