Posted on 09/05/2006 5:41:09 AM PDT by concretebob
This is true
Professor Wichman E-mail
Claim: A Michigan professor sent an e-mail telling Muslim students to leave the country
Status: True.
Professor Wichman E-mail
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 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 "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 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 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.
Send this to your friends, and ask them to do the same. Tell them to keep passing it around until the whole country gets it. We are in a war. This political correctness crap is getting old.
Yeah, and so?
Are the libs now going to try to get this guy fired, I wonder? And if so, what for?
Good they can give this guy all the training he needs while they pack up their burkas and leave. Right on, if Chruchill can say what he wants this guy has a right to free speech also!
He has probably been fired by now.
bump
He'll be lucky if the Muslims don't kill him.
Peaceful people that they are and all...
smells like urban legend...
I doubt he'll be fired.
Dr. Indrek Sven Wichman
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
http://www.egr.msu.edu/me/?q=faculty/faculty&action=showperson&personid=343&departmentid=8
Checked on snopes, its true
It certainly has that feel.
Don't know about the letter, but there is such a person at MSU:
http://www.egr.msu.edu/me/?q=faculty/faculty&action=showperson&personid=343&departmentid=8
Wow. What would cause an educated man to decide to stop laying low and quiet, tell it like it is to the miscreants in this country and risk his career at teh University? Good for him. I wish him success.
My Alma Mater, twice over (Poly Sci - 1987, MBA - 1994).
Unfortunately, he's in the minority on that, and nearly all other, campuses in the US. I don't expect him to be at MSU for much longer.
But, for a brief moment, GO SPARTANS!!!
Yep, I just checked it out on Snopes too. Apparently there's another little interesting tidbit: "The message was a response to the Muslim group's having handed out free cocoa during a public awareness event about controversial cartoons that depicted the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist."
Gah, what is with these people having to give free handouts (underwear and Ramen in the case of Michael Moore) to try to get a turnout...
Wichman for President.
Not exactly TELLING them to leave, just informs of an option available to complainers and whiners.
Nope, it is for real. This was in the local press late last year or earlier this year--when the sh!t was hitting the fan over the cartoons. What shocks me to this day is that the powers that be at MooU pretty much refused to get involved in the dispute.
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