The Professor and The Muslim Student Association.

Hooray for Michigan State University (The Spartans) 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 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.
Hey folks, send this to everybody and ask them to do the same and tell
them to keep passing it around till the whole country gets it.
We are in a war.
Origins: On 28 February 2006, Professor Indrek Wichman, a tenured professor of
mechanical engineering at Michigan State University (MSU), sent the e-mail
embedded in the example above to the Muslim Students' Association of Michigan
State University. The message was a
response to the Muslim group's
having handed out free cocoa during a public awareness event about controversial
cartoons that depicted the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist. Wichman's letter
prompted the Muslim Students' Association and twelve other student and advocacy
groups to call upon the university to officially reprimand the professor.
MSU officials have declined to issue a reprimand, saying Wichman's comments
constitute free speech. Terry Denbow, spokesman for MSU, said while Wichman's
views in no way represent the university's views, they do not violate the university's
antidiscrimination policy. However, Denbow noted, Wichman "was cautioned that any
additional commentary ... could constitute the creation of a hostile environment, and
that could ... form the basis of a complaint" under the school's antidiscrimination
policy.
Wichman told the Detroit News the letter had been intended for a one particular
person, not the entirety of the Muslim Students' Association; he had believed the
e-mail address he used was that one student's inbox. However, students who lead
the association said the e-mail address was part of the group's official Web site.
The professor expressed in interviews that he had regrets about the e-mail: "I used
strong language in a private communication that I would certainly not have used if
this communication would have gone public. ... For the record, I thought it was a
private communication and it was written in haste. I think a very minor thing has been
blown completely out of proportion. I wrote it in 60 seconds. It was not like I sat and
pondered over this thing for days. It was like you talking one night to your wife or
your kids."