EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Lane Community College has pulled the plug on a noncredit winter course called “What is Islam?” because an Islamic group accused the instructor of bias.
President Mary Spilde told The Register-Guard the college decided to take extra care after an alleged bomb plot in Portland and an arson at a Corvallis mosque.
No one had signed up for the course offered by Eugene resident Barry Sommer. The Council on American-Islamic Relations sent a letter to the college Friday accusing Sommer of promoting anti-Muslim bigotry.
Sommer says he has nothing against Muslims but does have concerns about how Islam is defined by its leaders and how some people respond.
