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I applaud the professor and pray that all Americans do, too. Now, let's hope Michigan State U. doesn't cave in to the cries of a handful of anti Americans who have the audacity to attack Professor Wichman's remarks.
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 Muslim 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 Muslims 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"
Well! As you can imagine, the Muslim group at the university didn't like
this too well. They're demanding Wichman be reprimanded and mandatory
diversity training for faculty and a seminar on hate and discrimination
for freshman. How nice. But 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.
/"Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going
to die tomorrow."/ - Mahatma Gandhi
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 Muslim 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 Muslims 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"
Well! As you can imagine, the Muslim group at the university didn't like
this too well. They're demanding Wichman be reprimanded and mandatory
diversity training for faculty and a seminar on hate and discrimination
for freshman. How nice. But 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.
/"Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going
to die tomorrow."/ - Mahatma Gandhi
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