Subject: Fw: Professor Wichman
Free speech means speech.
Bob Zannelli
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:16:47 +0000
Urban Legends says that this is true. I believe that most Americans
feel like Professor Wichman.
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for Michigan State University (The Spartans) andProfessor Wichman!!!
Well, what do we have here ... Looks like a small case of somepeople being
able to dish it out, but not take it. Let's start atthe beginning.
The story begins at Michigan State University with amechanical engineering
professor named Indrek Wichman. Wichman sentan e-mail to the Muslim
Student's Association. The e-mail was inresponse 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
ProfessorWichman. 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 likebeheadings 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
CopticChristians in Egypt, the imposition of Sharia law on non-Muslims,
the rapesof 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
diss atisfied, 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 much. They're demanding
Wichman be reprimanded, 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. Hey folks,
send this to everybody and ask them to do the same and tell them to keep
passing it around till the whole country gets it. We are in a war. (And
this political correctness crap is getting old)