A Michigan professor sent an e-mail telling Muslim students to leave the country

email | Indrek Wichman

[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.

[concretebob]

That does have a firmer ring to it.
Thank YOU!!!!!!!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

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.

Sounds like an engineer.

[concretebob]

DC PW PING

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

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.

sooo...we are allowing spam email to be used as posts on freerepublic? Can I post a nigerian email thats says you all won a million dollars, as well?

[Old Student]

"I just emailed this to three female friends of mine who are continuously spamming me with this sort of stuff.
It will be nationwide by nightfall, lol."

It must be your fault my business-class DSL is now so slow! Your friends are clogging the Internet! This must STOP! (After this goes worldwide, anyway. Until then, I can tolerate it, as I'm supposed to be doing homework and getting ready for my classes at OU... Conservative professors are to be treasured!)

[MHGinTN]

Can we e-mail this spot-on clear thinking Engineering Professor? I, for one, want to commend him personally for his message offered so much more peacefully than I would have written it. If enough people in this nation 'storm the ramparts of leftist academia, to defend speech from a Professor who agrees with our thoughts', perhaps the liberals paddling the democrat's boat around in their favored septic tank will begin to get the message.

[concretebob]

OK, I work with engineers, be nice.
They have a style of transmitting information which, while saying something is how it should be, doesn't really make them responsible for the outcome.
It's called "loss-prevention".
I practise it every day.

Drives me up a wall.

[concretebob]

This isn't spam.
I was the single recipient.
Where my engineer got it remains a mystery.
But you know how engineers are.

[sit-rep]

Get a life...

[concretebob]

Hopefully, DW's efforts have directed him to our site and he is reading this as we speak.
I assume you can find his contact info at the university's website.

[dennisw]

You can email. Put in a friendly subject line

[concretebob]

midst...
don't cha hate it when a word looks stupid spelled correctly?

[<1/1,000,000th%]

I have engineers in the family and work with dozens of the creatures.

Generally, they already know everything and behave as if everything works the way they think it should.

I love them anyway. ;)

[concretebob]

A follow-up to my previous post.
My tagline is a good example of "engineerspeak"
While not directly advocating anarchy or violence against anarchists, I am "implying" that a state of anarchy would be a good way of getting rid of the anarchists.
You, as the reader, can "infer" that is what I meant, or you may "infer" that I meant we could do anything we wanted.

[concretebob]

Me too.
Most of the engineers I work with are geo-technical and civil.
They take a ton of responsibility for the conditions of building sites prior to, during, and after construction.
Most of them are anal to the point of insanity, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
And the group I work with are some of the finest people I have ever partied with.
UVA and VATECH grads.
Things get real interesting during bball season.
And several of them read FR on a daily basis.

[MHGinTN]

Naw, but you can kiss Nagin's smarmy butt all you like in LA.

[ItsForTheChildren]

We did not expect something like this, especially from a tenured Michigan State University professor."

And Hezbollah didn't expect Israel to go to war. Not a very perceptive bunch, are they?

[Plutarch]

Something about a Spartan holding the line against attackers from Southwest Asia that I like here.

Hopefully it will turn out better for Prof. Wichman than it did for Leonidas.

[Preachin']

"smells like urban legend..."


According to snopes it true:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/wichman.asp

[concretebob]

I just emailed the professor to show my support for his email, and asked him to notify me if MSU decides to take any action against him. I offered to try to drum up some support for him here on FR if needed, and invited him to take a look at this thread.

I just did the same thing.
Lets all tell this man how much we appreciate his courage and intelligence.