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April 25, 2006

US: Michigan Professor In Row With Islamic Students

The Muslim Students' Association at Michigan State University is getting its explosive belts in a twist to demand that Dr Indrek Sven Wichman (pictured) a professor at the University be disciplined for an e-mail that he sent on 28 February when complaining about the MSA's protests about the Danish cartoons of the "prophet" Mohammed. This is the e-mail, unexpurgated, replete with typo errors:

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

Well he was not exactly praising them, and the comments about "slave-trading" would be offensive, if the issues of UAE child camel jockeys and the forcing of foreign maids into prostitution in Saudi Arabia were not actual cases of modern-day slavery. Not to mention that young girls are sold in markets in Pakistan. So why the fuss?

According to the Lansing State Journal, the odious group, many of whose founding members have been convicted on terrorism-related charges, the Council on American Islamic Relations has decided to step into the arena and mount a public campaign. After their recent notorious support for Islamic Jihad financier, professor Sami al-Arian, CAIR seems now to be looking to re-establish the myth that it promotes tolerance and acceptance. Which it does, but only if you happen to be one of their supporters.

MSA President, Farhan Abdul Azeez, has said that the e-mail was unacceptable from a senior member of a faculty, "especially considering Michigan State's commitment to trying to be inclusive and welcoming and diverse."

Professor Wichman has not been formally disciplined, but according to Terry Denbow, vice-president for University Relations, he has been warned against making "any future communication along these lines." Denbow said the e-mail expressed views "highly inappropriate, antithetical to the institution's values and positions and policies and, to me personally, worthy of an apology."

An investigation by the university found that the e-mail did not constitute a "threat to the integrity of the learning environment."

Late yesterday, Satish Upda, acting dean of MSU's College of Engineering said that Wichman only spoke for himself.

The student's association president went straight to the university authorities the day after receiving the e-mail, and instead of leaving it as an internal university issue, brought senior representatives of CAIR to meetings with university administrators. The MSA president and Dawud Walid, who is executive director of CAIR's Michigan branch, claimed they made the e-mail public because the university had not given them the satisfaction (i.e. draconian punishments) they required.

Dawud Walid said: "They should send out an official statement to the public distancing themselves from these types of statements and confirm for us that they did, in fact, do a formal investigation and that there is going to be some kind of disciplinary action against Dr. Wichman."

It is interesting that CAIR now decides that it is personally involved in the university's internal affairs. But what can one expect from an organisation built on lies and speeches demanding for the US to be subjugated under the rule of Islam?. Omar Ahmed, a co-founder of the group stated: "Those who stay in America should be open to society without melting, keeping Mosques open so anyone can come and learn about Islam. If you choose to live here, you have a responsibility to deliver the message of Islam ... Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."

According to Freepress.com, Walid has said of the incident, in typically emotive CAIR-speak: "It was upsetting, yet sad....It's scary when you think about the power that this gentleman has." Not half as scary as the situation in the US if CAIR ever had the power over federal affairs as they would wish to have.

CAIR have published a statement on Official Wire, in which they quote Dawud Walid as saying: "It is unconscionable for a professor to use his university email account to foster a hostile learning environment for Muslim students. The university needs to take appropriate disciplinary action in this case to demonstrate through its actions that anti-Muslim bigotry will not be tolerated on campus."

What everyone should remember is that the Muslim Students Association were using their educational position to protest against freedom of speech, and inviting foreign politics into what is, essentially, a place of learning. CAIR should respect this, but judging from their history of involvement with terrorism, they cannot give two hoots about other people's freedoms.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at April 25, 2006 9:40 AM

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