Another academic controversy?

[sr171soars]

That's because liberals believe in free speech only for liberals.

A lot of truth to that statement...

I have seen far too many liberals get away with making stupid and inflammatory statements. Different standards are being held for them than to those of conservative bent...

 

[ITPjohn]

Where's the university policy posted? I didn't see it. Is it linked?

Reba,

I found a link with more info. Here's an excerpt.
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Professor Wichman E-mail

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.

 

[Reba]

Reba,

I found a link with more info. Here's an excerpt.
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Professor Wichman E-mail

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.

Thank you!

 

[fyborg]

This is pretty strong! I got it from a friend in TX. I think that the good professor is entitled to his opinions. Since this was a private e-mail and not something from a class, he should be able to speak his mind without any trouble from the school.
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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"

That paragraph got the professor in trouble. This is why there's an unsend button at the top of the toolbar!

 

[Reba]

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....

This is a good website to find out about CAIR:

*Anti-CAIR* Defending America from The Council on American-Islamic Relations

 

[Wokamuka]

Wahhabism

Here is the original e-mail:

Atlas Shrugs: Michigan State: Dar al-Harb or Dar al-Islam?
Dear Moslem Association: As a professor of Mechanical Engineering here at MSU I intened 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 chirches, the continued persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt, the imposition of Sharia law on non-Muslims, the rapes of Scandinavain 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 counsul you dissatisfied, agressive, 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 Ammendment -- 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

Background information on Muslim Students Association:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID={165DDBB3-B0AD-4782-8E8C-4028F1941B5C}

However, before the MSA demands anything, let’s look at some of its history.

* In 2003, the MSA of Penn State invited the chairman of a racist and anti-Semitic organization, the Populist Party, to speak at events celebrating "Islam Awareness Week".
* In 2002, during a protest in front of the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles, former MSA president Ahmed Shama shouted, "Victory to Islam! Death to the Jews!..."
* Prior to the Islamic terrorist attacks of 9-11, the MSA formally assisted the Holy Land Foundation, Global Relief, and the Benevolence Foundation in fundraising. Following the attacks, all three so-called "charities" were ordered closed. The reaction of the MSA? "How three of the nation's largest Muslim charities could be made inoperable at the peak of the giving season of Ramadan seemed unbelievable." Never mind that these three groups were providing funds to Islamic terrorist groups.

My View
The way I took the letter was (paraphrasing the Bible) "How can you remove the splinter in your brother's eye if you have a log in your own." It's almost as if the Moslems demand a treatment they do not give to their own. It also seems that the Moslems demand free speech but censure others.