PROFESSOR WICHMAN

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> Professor Wichman's E-mail
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> Claim: A Michigan professor sent an e-mail telling Muslim students
to
>leave the country.
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>Status: True.
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>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:
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>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.
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>
>Cordially, I. S. Wichman
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>Professor of Mechanical Engineering
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>
>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 oinion.
>
>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.
>
>
>Hey folks, send this to your friends, and ask them to do the same.
Tell
>them to keep passing it around until the whol country gets it. We are
in a
>war. This political correctness is getting old