There has recently been a big upheaval at Tufts University in Massachusetts over some material in the student newspaper about Islam. In response to an "Islamic awareness week" that presented Islam in a favourable light only, some students ran a strictly factual article in the newspaper listing some of the more unsavory quotations from the Koran etc. The idea was to balance the story about Islam.
But that produced a huge outcry and the students have been condemned by the university for it. Truth is no defence at Tufts, it seems.
There is such a lot going on that I will not try to summarize it further. The Volokhs are all over it and the latest on their site at the time of writing is here. FIRE reproduces what the students wrote.
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