I got this email from my aunt and was frustrated by it. So I check to see if the info was true. What do you think?
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
Indrek Wichman.
Wichman sent an e-mail to the Muslim Students Association.
The e-mail was in response to the students’ protest
of the Danish cartoons
portraying the prophet Muhammad as a terrorist.
The group had complained the cartoons were
‘hate speech’.
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Enter Professor Wichman.
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In his e-mail, he said the following:
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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 1st Amendment -
you are free to leave.
I hope, for God’s sake,
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
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As you can imagine,
the Muslim group at the university did not like this too well.
They are demanding 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 does not believe the good professor
had the right to express his opinion.
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For its part,
the university is standing its ground
in support of Professor Wichman,
saying the e-mail was private,
and they do not intend to publicly condemn his remarks.
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We are in a war.
This political correctness mess is getting old and killing us.
Conversation started by Chantz Hough at 6:19 pm on May 1st, 2009.
