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
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.
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?
Rick J.