[Vision2020] About Time!

[rvrcowboy]

And here's a link that tells a little more about the protest of the Muslim
group.  I believe we have all heard the ballyhoo created in the Muslm
communities across the country and around the world over the Danish
cartoons.  I, for one believe there is more to this story than just a group
of friendly Muslim students passing out hot chocolate at a public event.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22267

Dick S.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sunil Ramalingam" <sunilramalingam at hotmail.com>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] About Time!


> 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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