They may have a crummy football team but we do have character - Go State.
Gary Kropf
'59 Bugeye
aka Thicko 'Grenade' - Trying not to go off in '06
Life's Journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body,
but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting..Holy Shit!! What a
Ride!!"
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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 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 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 and mandatory diversity
training for faculty and a seminar on hate and discrimination for freshman.
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 Professor Ward Churchill, will the same protections
be demanded for Indrek Wichman? I doubt it.
Hey folks, send this to your friends, and ask them to do the same. Tell them
to keep passing it around until the whole country gets it. We are in a war.
This political correctness garbage is getting old!
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