[Vision2020] About Time!

[Sunil Ramalingam]

Here's a link to the Urban Legends page about this email:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/wichman.asp

So the Muslim group hands out hot chocolate at a public event, and this guy 
calls them 'dissatisfied, aggressive, brutal, and uncivilized slave-trading 
Moslems.'

Oh, wait, he says he just meant to say that to one of them.  Well, that 
makes it better.

Sunil


>From: "rvrcowboy" <rvrcowboy at clearwire.net>
>To: "Vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: [Vision2020] About Time!
>Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:29:07 -0700
>
>About Time!This is just another example of one side having to play by the 
>rules while the other side is allowed total freedom to dominate.  Another 
>example of why the Geneva Conventions can't be applied to terrorists, 
>representing no rule of law, no country and no conscience of their 
>murderous acts.
>
>Dick S.
>
>
>   About Time!
> >
> >
> >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 complai ned 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 "######" 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 th e 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 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 crap is getting old!


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