Muslims and Michigan State University

This is a copy of an email I received from a close friend. I share it because snopes.com verified this as true.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/wichman.asp

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.

We are in a war.
This political correctness crap is getting old and killing us.

GO, MICHIGAN STATE


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  • The reason for making little or no waves is I believe either a Hindu message or Confucious. what it refers to is that all actions create waves or distubences and that if we all learned to create little or no waves the world is a better place. It is not refering to exterior but interior actions.
    barney290 09/24/2012 10:51 AM
  • Do Christians take responsibility of all of their nuts? The Crusades,The Inquistion,King James,The Spanish Conquistadors,the American Indian populations,Roman Catholic Church abuse of children and assisting the Nazis. Why do we hold others responsible for something they have nothing to do with? We all no what is wrong but we don't want to take responsibility for our own but want to bnlame others instead. Walk upon the world and create little or no waves is something written a long time ago and it is something we should all strive to do. I don't find a lot of Christian values in much of the hate that I see written here am I missing something?
    barney290 09/23/2012 06:48 PM
  • looking_for_son There are a lot of groups out there that would cause an uproar if something is said about their group. The difference is that right wing nuts, gay people, or Roman Christians don't NORMALLY go out and kill in the name of their group. Muslims want the freedom in their countries like we have here in the United States, but don't want to tolerate anyone or anyone's group that's different from theirs. Try being a gay person, or Roman Catholic in Iran or Pakistan or another Middle Eastern Country and you may wind up with your right (wing) nut shoved down your throat. Actually, it is not the general Muslim population that is causing the problem, it's the leaders of these Muslim countries who promote most of the violence. They are select in the information that they release and only show The United States as a hateful place.
    fenwaydav 09/23/2012 10:17 AM
  • In and of itself, political correctness is not a negative concept. It is a term which denotes language, ideas, policies, and behavior aimed at minimizing social and institutional offense in occupational, gender, racial, cultural, sexual orientation, certain other religions, beliefs or ideologies, disability, and age-related contexts.

    Most of us do not want to offend people based only on who they are. Gay men and lesbian women surely know what this degradation can lead to. Many young men and women have killed themselves over being bullied with hate speech about who they choose to love.

    African Americans have had centuries of insults thrown at them simply because of the color of their skin and the social position they were forced into by slavery. One politically incorrect word (the "N" word) is a good example of a hurtful thing to say. It brings with it all the racial hatred of centuries.

    We all still have the right to use that word and thousands of other hateful words to describe each other, but a more evolved mind reasons NOT to use such words.

    I don't think what Professor Wichman said went against that definition of political correctness. If he had said ALL Muslims are blah, blah, blah. No, he aimed his criticism at a group that was protesting a free speech cartoon. His words are perhaps overly bold and to the point, but they aren't hate speech. I'm glad the University stands behind his words. Hopefully, calmer, more politically correct words will be exchanged from both sides and a teachable moment will be rewarded with changed minds. People don't learn the right lessons in hate-filled atmospheres.
    rjzip 09/22/2012 09:54 PM
  • I totally AGREE with the professor. GO THE FUCK HOME! NO! Rather than being reactive, be proactive and SEND THEM THE FUCK HOME!

    However, I hope he has a healthy amount of money reserves because the cuirrent Justice Department, under what I laughingly call "direction by E. Holter", will be on this man's ass like a short overcoat! Where the hell are the moderate Muslims?
    ilikemeninjocks 09/22/2012 09:41 PM
  • YEA, GO MAN GO. Tell them like it is. They want their rights but think that no one else has any rights .That is unless they are Muslims. They pland on taking over Europe and then America. They ruined their countries and now want to do the same to the rest of the world.
    david69er 09/22/2012 08:13 PM
  • Political correctness is the most effective means of destroying a country since the atom bomb and just what the muslims can use in their attempts to destroy western civilization. It's good to see an academic defend his country.
    Rick J.
    maturemascnyc 09/22/2012 07:42 PM