Rollins student, prof clashed for weeks in religion class

[Heddi]

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/education/school-zone/os-rollins-investigate-free-speech-20170328-story.html

ollins College student who has accused his Muslim professor of religious discrimination has been clashing with his teacher since the semester started, court records show.

Areej Zufari, the professor, was so concerned about the behavior of Marshall Polston, 20, that she filed a “protection against stalking” request against him on Friday in Orange Circuit Court. Rollins has temporarily suspended Polston from school.

The injunction request includes a long email that Polston, a Christian, sent to the professor after he received a failing grade on an essay in the Middle Eastern humanities class.

“Quite frankly the grade you assigned to me exposes your true agenda which is to silence me in class.” the email said. “You’re one of the most incompetent professors I have ever seen in my life.”

In an interview with the Orlando Sentinel on Tuesday, Polston, an international affairs major from Orlando, said he felt like he had been religiously discriminated against and unfairly suspended. He said he disagreed with some of Zufari’s teachings on Christianity from the first day of class.

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Since you’ve decided to carry a blitzkrieg out against me,” he wrote, “I may have to speak up in regards to your extreme bias and not necessarily to the class but to the dean.”

He wrote that he would contact “national media personalities that I’m good friends with” or take legal action.

Zufari was so concerned that she canceled class. Later that evening, a Rollins College associate dean went to let students know there was no class when she noticed Polston, according to an email she wrote Miller.

They struck up a conversation — about his email, his dispute with Zufari, different religions — and he mentioned guns several times, she said.
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[Lordquinton]

1. Dear Christians

You are not being discriminated against, or persecuted. If that's your argument you are wrong.