The flaw in the special snowflakes plan is they will need a male relative to escort them. Update to this previous story.
Via Chicago Tribune:
The student who inspired a Wheaton College professor to don a hijab in solidarity with Muslims has gotten about a dozen students to wear the traditional Muslim headscarf on their flights home for Christmas.
Karly Bothman, 20, of Eugene, Ore., said the lessons she learned this fall from Larycia Hawkins, the political science professor suspended this week for saying Muslims and Christians have the same God, have inspired her to fight for the rights of those who are oppressed, including refugees and her Muslim neighbors.
The movement is not necessarily an attempt to show solidarity with Hawkins, Bothman said, but to bolster the original purpose of the professor’s symbolic gesture.
“There are a few of us just trying to carry out what Dr. Hawkins started and what her intent in doing this was,” Bothman said. “It’s trying to refocus what she was trying to carry out in the pursuit of justice for our Muslim neighbors.”
On Dec. 10, Hawkins, a tenured political science professor, announced on Facebook she would don the hijab to show support for Muslims who have been under scrutiny since mass shootings in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif.
“I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, like me, a Christian, are people of the book,” she wrote in her Facebook post. “And as Pope Francis stated last week, we worship the same God.”
Though the college did not take a position on her wearing the hijab, some evangelical Christians said her statement should have spelled out what makes Christianity distinct from Islam. Not doing so put her in conflict with the statement of faith that all Wheaton faculty must sign and live out, they said.
Hawkins, 43, said she affirms the college’s statement of faith and was simply reiterating that there is common ground among the monotheistic Abrahamic faiths, which many theologians have said for centuries.
The suspension, effective immediately and expected to last through the spring semester, sparked protests on the campus from students, calling for Hawkins’ reinstatement and an apology from the college.
Hawkins decided to wear the hijab after Bothman asked for advice last week on how to encourage other college women to respectfully wear hijabs on their flights home for the holiday.