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.
Engineers! They are just so logical. But most particularly this prof.
I'm amazed that CAIR hasn't launched an all out attack and kept the pressure on.
With the nature of his area of expertise I'm glad he's on our side.
Well, that wasn't real bright of him; of course it would get out. However, he said what we're all thinking. Way to go!
BTTT!
Yeah, I'm a bit surprised that this guy still has a job.
Cause they won't get it any other way. Idiots. Nobody wants to hear it and they don't get it.
BUMP.
Oh, that ought to bring "good will" to their cause, huh?
He's free to say whatever he wants. It was a private email. CAIR has no case. What did the professor say that can be proven untrue? Nothing. Even if it was untrue, he still has a right to speak his mind.
CAIR: Prove his point wrong if you have a leg to stand on.
Snopes.com says this one's true.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/wichman.asp
This professor needs our support, if and when the Dem-lib-weenies come down on his case.
Wow. This is real academic heroism. Speaking out against the politically correct climate that pervades almost all of our Universities. And yes, he'll probably get pushed out.
Kudos to the prof!
Snopesed it and it is TRUE.
WOW!! Finally, we have a professor who speaks the truth about Islam.
I just sent the Professor this short and sweet e-mail....
Greetings Professor,
If, rumors are true and the email I read is in fact your hand, I want to pass along two thumbs up to you!
For one, being bold enough to see the emperor is indeed butt naked, and two, saying something aloud and to the right individuals!
v/r
XXX XXXXX
I hope he gets an over whelming show of support. This may provoke others to follow his lead...
kevkrom, B.S. Computer and Electical Engineering, Purdue '92
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