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.
/rollseyes
Don't know him, but he's got good taste in beer. Heinekens are best at about 55 degrees, so he may not have been able to enjoy them at their best.
Funny, but that's not "what you said" to me in your initial post. This is:
Unless you are a resident of Michigan and preferably an alum, I don't think spamming the president with email is going to help the professor.
Then, you went on to say:
I thought the objective here was to protect the professor but if you just want to flout your clout, dont let me get in our way. If it makes you feel good, have at it.
You're the buttinski here. My comment to concretebob in post #93, which caused your obnoxious response was:
"You forgot to add that we should contact the Presidednt of Michigan State University and let him/her know that we support and applaud Professor Wichman."
If I want your opinion about who I can write and what I can say, I'll ask. FYI, the objective is to protect the professor and there is no better way to do it than for his superior to hear from the public. Letters from alumns are great, but so are letters from the public since the President of MSU has no way of knowing who will be enrolling there in the future and should care about treating this professor fairly so as not to harm their reputation.
And btw, I've sent many well written letters in my lifetime on behalf of people and/or causes that I support. No one has ever accused me of "flouting my clout." YOU, on the other hand, need to stop flouting your insults.
Hehehe, he's tenured so they can't do shiite.
If it makes YOU feel good fine but dont expect it to make a difference.
The air is obviously thin up there where you sit in your lofty perch barking out what people should and shouldn't do and what to expect or not expect.
You assume that you know better than anyone else and it's gotten old already, so give it a rest.
He's probably looking for one of those FEMA ice trucks!
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