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| Michigan professor sends an e-mail to Muslim Student Assoc. |
| 2006-08-11 |
| 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 proceeded 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. |
| Posted by:Yosemite Sam |
| #6 Beoserker: can you give the link to the website that contains a lot of videos from Palestine such as this? I've lost it and it's a good one. |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2006-08-11 23:59 |
| #5 Besoeker - could only watch half of it - I'd hit it - I mean the reporter, in more ways than one. Sick f*^*s |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-08-11 23:13 |
| #4 Besoeker, That was sick. But what can you do with those who have no qualms about child sacrifice? |
| Posted by: Xenophon 2006-08-11 22:40 |
| #3 Isn't this an old story from earlier this year? It's good to see that the professor hasn't lost his job over this email. It's probably because engineering still relies on, well, verifiable facts, as opposed to liberal arts' touchy-feely deconstructionism crap. |
| Posted by: Swamp Blondie 2006-08-11 16:23 |
| #2 It's unfortunate that Prof. Wichman has to back-pedal the way he did. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2006-08-11 14:34 |
| #1 Here is what they teach their 3 year olds: www.fierj.org.br/vd/3yroldgirl.wmv |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-08-11 12:34 |