Posted on 07/20/2006 5:24:58 AM PDT by DollyCali
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morning sweetie.. I know you have been busy & I am glad you had a minute to drop in & say hi.. happy to see you!
well, duh, gave the wrong link for Maggie's commentary.. but the regulars here KNOW what I mean.. her step by step analysis complete with little pix.. so sweet & so "maggie"
Thank you Rus! always good to see your cuppa.. and I appreciate you posting it Sunday at the Singles Thread. We NEVER know when someone will be reading & needing.. that is how the Holy Spirit works!
Hi.. didn't get a chance to comment on the boy scout pix & da kid!... smiles!
Glad to be here.
I love John's writings,because he is always right.:)
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Wish I could write as good as John does!
He hit another one out of the park!
Prayers for Israel!
Great toons.
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Oh Meg, that is wonderful. I you developing your own gifs now or "finding" them?
Yes, MEGA prayers for Israel for sure!!!!
received this in email this AM...(wonder if the Mich prof is a FReeper?)
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Hooray for Michigan State University (The Spartans) and Professor Wichman!!!
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 Muslem 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 "whores" 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, many of my colleagues. I counsel you dissatisfied, aggressive, brutal, and uncivilized slave-trading Muslems 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"
Well! As you can imagine, the Muslim group at the university didn't like this too well. They're demanding Wichman be reprimanded and mandatory diversity training for faculty and a seminar on hate and discrimination for freshman. How nice. But now the Michigan 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. They say the e-mail was private, and they don't intend to publicly condemn his remarks. That will probably change. Wichman says he never intended the e-mail to be made public, and wouldn't have used the same strong language 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.
Hey folks, send this to everybody and ask them to do the same and tell them to keep passing it around till the whole country gets it. We are in a war.
What happened to our freedom of speech???
"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business." ~actor Michael J. Fox
Thank you for the ping, and another great thread Dolly.
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