Posted on 10/08/2006 10:21:48 PM PDT by epow
Hurray for Michigan State Univ
This is true -- http://www.snopes.com/ 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.
BTTT
I'm inclined to agree. A political death cult with a patina of religiousity (the "principles" of which are easily and permissably reversible for political advantage---No Rock of Ages in Islam, it's built on shifting sand, which may explain why they can't build anything).
Typical Snopes left-wing bias.
Thanks for the Ping. I'm sick and tired of CAIR. They can go pound sand.
Yeah, like that's gonna happen. Don't hold your breath.
The last 13 centuries of Islamic brutality and carnage was just a warm-up for the hell on earth they will inflict on the world if they ever get enough power to enforce Sharia law on all of us.
"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Qur'an should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth"
--Omar Ahmed, Chairman of the Board of CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations), San Ramon Valley Herald, July 1998
All jihadists out!
Let's just hope he has a large and mean dog patrolling his home.
I believe I will keep this courageous man in my prayers.
Actually, more like National Socialism was Islam's retarded little brother.
If Professor Wichman has some evidence of students at MSU buying, selling, or otherwise exchanging slaves, I would be very interested in seeing it.
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.
Perhaps Professor Wichman should see the 1st Amendment himself. Protests, no matter how "infantile" he may find them, are "the values of the West", personally, I think his whiny conflation of Muslim terrorists and Muslim MSU students is an "infantile" premise for his letter.
Please return to your ancestral homelands and build them up yourselves instead of troubling Americans.
I would wage that despite Professor Wichman's protests, most of these students are Americans, even if many of they are the sons and daughters of immigrants (like I suspect he is) and not sons and daughters of Mayflower families.
If we were to truly test peoples' commitment to free speech here, we could note the irony of a white guy telling other people to "return to [their] ancestral homelands [...] instead of troubling Americans" -- on Columbus Day.
I may be mistaken, but the protection of tenure usually applies to research and teaching. Prof. Wichman's letter has nothing to do with Mechanical Engineering. Most leftist professors, however, are in the Humanities and Social Sciences, where politics, research, and teaching are not so clearly separated.
I for on, am getting sick and tired of these muzzholes.
Maybe he should go to the "diversity" training AS LONG AS THE MUSLIMS ARE REQUIRED TO ATTEND ALSO! And make sure it specifically mentions how Christians should not be discriminated against as I know it will already speak of how much muslims have contributed. What a sack of crap! CAIR is an extremist organization that should be hounded by the feds day and night. CAIR is worse than Nazi Skinheads. At least skinheads don't LIE about their violent tendencies.
How can you tell if a muslim is lying? His lips are moving.
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.
Oh, my God, the quarterback is toast! (obscure reference)
Apparently this guy's tenure does protect him as long as he doesn't violate any of the other sacred tenants of liberalism: like speech codes, complimenting women on their appearance, noting that the gay guys on campus talk funny, not offering your parking space to a less deserving minority each morning, etc.
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