Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Professor Speaks Out

Professor Wichman E-mail
Claim:  
A  Michigan professor sent an  e-mail telling Muslim
students to leave the country.    Status:  True. The story begins at Michigan State University with a
mechanical engineering professor named Indred 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 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 First 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, that 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.