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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 22 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 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 the university impose
mandatory diversity training for faculty and mandate a seminar on hate and
discrimination for all freshmen. Now the local 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 in support of Professor
Wichman, saying the e-mail was private, and they don't intend to publicly
condemn his remarks. That will probably change.
Wichman says he never intended for his 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.