Michigan State University!

United States
April 18, 2007 11:04am CST
Tells Muslims to Leave Country... Michigan State University! Well, what do we have here? Looks like a small case of some people being able to dish it out, but not take it. Let's start at the top. The story begins at Michigan State University with a mechanical engineering professor named Indrek Wichman. Wichman sent an e-mail to the Muslim Student's Association. The e-mail was in response to the students' protest of the Danish cartoons that portrayed the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist. The group had complained the cartoons were "hate speech." Enter Professor Wichman. In his e-mail, he said the following: Dear Moslem Association:As a professor of Mechanical Engineering here at MSU I intend to protest your protest. I am offended not by cartoons, but by more mundane things like beheadings of civilians, cowardly attacks on public buildings, suicide murders, murders of Catholic priests (the latest in Turkey), burnings of Christian churches, the continued persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt, the imposition of Sharia law on non-Muslims, the rapes of Scandinavian girls and women (called by other less flattering names in your culture), the murder of film directors in Holland, and the rioting and looting in Paris France. This is what offends me, a soft-spoken person and academic, and many, many of my colleagues. I counsel your dissatisfied, aggressive, brutal, and uncivilized slave-trading Moslems to be very aware of this as you proceed with your infantile "protests."If you do not like the values of the West - see the 1st Amendment - you are free to leave. I hope for God's sake that most of you choose that option. Please return to your ancestral homelands and build them up yourselves instead of troubling Americans. Cordially,I. S. Wichman Professor of Mechanical Engineering As you can imagine, the Muslim group at the university didn't like this too well. They're demanding that Wichman be reprimanded and mandatory diversity training for faculty and a seminar on hate and discrimination for freshman. Now the chapter of CAIR has jumped into the fray. CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, apparently doesn't believe that the good professor had the right to express his opinion. For its part, the university is standing its ground, saying the e-mail was private, and they don't intend to publicly condemn his remarks. That will probably change. Wichman says he never intended for his e-mail to be made public, and wouldn't have used the same strong lang uage if he'd known it was going to get out. How's the left going to handle this one? If you're in favor of the freedom of speech, as in the case of Ward Churchill, will the same protections be demanded for Indrek Wichman? I doubt it. We are in a war. This political correctness crap is getting old and killing us.
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@judyt00 (3496)
• Canada
18 Apr 07
How very sad, and how very true, it is sad that the muslims cannot accept another's view of what is going on and very sad that what the professor can be proved. and its true that he will probably be cencured for his opinion, whicn apparently he isn't allowed to hold, since he is not Muslim in America. I think its time people started responding in kind to muslim actions. Not murder, of course, because that is barbaric and civilized countries just don'tallow that
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• United States
18 Apr 07
thank you we do agree on this!
@estherlou (5015)
• United States
19 Apr 07
I say bravo to the professor! Too bad it was made public, but hopefully the university will continue to stand behind him. Not allowed under freedom of speech? Man oh man! We continute to bend over backwards for the minority religious rights...what about the rest of us? Everything he stated was the absolute truth.
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18 Apr 07
i think i better say no comment on this one...
2 people like this
• United States
18 Apr 07
i wont i agree with the good professor !