How likely a person in a profession is to do something bigoted really isn't what I meam by context. It's about intention and purpose, and about respect. Using offensive things specifically for education, conveyed respectfully, without any intention of hurting people, and giving people a choice to not participate is a different context from a professor saying something racist, even if they are both on a university campus. You seem to think of context only in terms of location, whether it's the West generally or in the university. I don't think you understand my point if that's how you approach this. The discussion between the non-Muslim professor, the non-Muslim students, and the Muslim students, for the purpose of art history and learning about religious iconography, is context as much as what building and what part of the world they are in.
How likely a person in a profession is to do something bigoted really isn't what I meam by context. It's about intention and purpose, and about respect. Using offensive things specifically for education, conveyed respectfully, without any intention of hurting people, and giving people a choice to not participate is a different context from a professor saying something racist, even if they are both on a university campus. You seem to think of context only in terms of location, whether it's the West generally or in the university. I don't think you understand my point if that's how you approach this. The discussion between the non-Muslim professor, the non-Muslim students, and the Muslim students, for the purpose of art history and learning about religious iconography, is context as much as what building and what part of the world they are in.