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The Danish cartoon controversy has hit the shores of the United States, this time at the campus of Michigan State University.  Fox News tells about a group of Muslim students who were on campus protesting the cartoons saying they constituted hate speech not free speech.  That was when one of MSU’s mechanical engineering professors, Indrek Wichman, sent an email to the student group defending the cartoon’s publication.

Wichman, 50, wrote that he was protesting their protest and said he was not offended by cartoons but rather Muslims who commit suicide bombings, behead civilians, attack public buildings, burn Christian churches, kill Catholic priests in Turkey, rape Scandinavian girls and riot in France.

Wichman referred to Muslims as “dissatisfied, aggressive, brutal, and uncivilized slave-trading Moslems” and the protests as “infantile” in the e-mail. “If you do not like the values of the West . . . you are free to leave. I hope for God’s sake that most of you choose that option.”

Not surprisingly the Islamic group turned their attentions on the professor calling for the university to at the very least give him a reprimand.  They said they were offended by the Wichman’s insensitive email.  In fact they want the entire staff at MSU to undergo sensitivity training.  Even CAIR has come on board denouncing the professor.

The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) today called on Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing to take “appropriate disciplinary action” against a professor who sent an Islamophobic e-mail to Muslim students.

What a laugh.  Maybe we should demand sensitivity training for the terrorists in Saudi Arabia, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and…. wherever else they are hiding for killing people, for beheading people, for raping women and children, and for blowing up things.  Yeah, right.  That will work.

Wichman should be applauded for his email.  He is right.  The Metro Detroit Free Press says that so far the administration of Michigan State has refused to cave in to the students saying that the professor email is covered under free speech.  But the university advised Wichman not to speak out anymore on the issue since it “could constitute the creation of a hostile environment.”  MSU is also calling on the engineering professor to apologize for his remarks though they do not demand it.  Wichman on the other hand stoutly defends his email.

I believe very strongly in free speech and free expression. It is one of the building blocks of this great republic in which we live. And any attempts to abridge or diminish it are serious matters.”

Absolutely.

Note to Islamic group at Michigan State, GROW UP!

Here is the entire text of the email Professor Wichman sent to the Muslim association protesting the cartoons from the Metro Detroit Free Press. (Copied as is with errors)

Dear Moslem Association: As a professor of Mechanical Engineering here at MSU I intened 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 chirches, the continued persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt, the imposition of Sharia law on non-Muslims, the rapes of Scandinavain 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 counsul you dissatisfied, agressive, brutal, and uncivilized slave-trading Moslems 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 Ammendment — 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

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