The Mentality of Politics, Free Speech and Protest

A mechanical engineering professor named Indrek Wichman at Michigan State University sent an e-mail to the Muslim Student's Association. The students were protesting the Danish cartoons that portrayed the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist. The e-mail was sent in response to the demonstration.

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 and are demanding that Wichman be reprimanded. Wichman says he never intended the e-mail to be made public. Apparently, the Michigan chapter of CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) is voicing their opinion and apparently do not believe that the professor has a right to express his opinion.

Fortunately, the university is standing its ground. Their contention is the e-mail was private and do not intend to publicly condemn his remarks. But with all the heat, this too may change. We’ve seen entire universities stifle conservative protest and instead green-lighting anti-status quo, anti-life, anti-American agendas.