Hooray for Michigan State University and Professor Wichman

 

Hi all, thought some of y'all might find this interesting.. (From a friend..)

 

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Hooray for Michigan State University 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
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.

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.