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Text of the Email...
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
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. – C. S. Lewis
Ah, yes, the good ole US, where any fringe group can dictate corporate policy.
Inside each person lives two wolves. One is loyal, kind, respectful, humble and open to the mystery of life. The other is greedy, jealous, hateful, afraid and blind to the wonders of life. They are in battle for your spirit. The one who wins is the one you feed.
Martrae wrote:Ah, yes, the good ole US, where any fringe group can dictate corporate policy.
MSU officials said there's little that can be done to punish Indrek Wichman, 55, a tenured professor of mechanical engineering, because his comments essentially constitute free speech.
The students are still going to force MSU to put the teachers thru 'sensitivity training' and anything else they can get away with demanding.
Inside each person lives two wolves. One is loyal, kind, respectful, humble and open to the mystery of life. The other is greedy, jealous, hateful, afraid and blind to the wonders of life. They are in battle for your spirit. The one who wins is the one you feed.
And any further decision that they would make would be entirely economical. Don't kid yourself, it's not minority agenda's that dictate corporate policy, its money.
Yeah, fear of being sued and losing some so they buckle to anyone with a beef.
Inside each person lives two wolves. One is loyal, kind, respectful, humble and open to the mystery of life. The other is greedy, jealous, hateful, afraid and blind to the wonders of life. They are in battle for your spirit. The one who wins is the one you feed.
Zanchief wrote:If the faculty thought they could get enrolment up they'd be publishing weekly comic strips about Mohamed’s crazy capers.
This has nothing to do with PC sensitivity. It’s all about money.
You're partially right, it is about money. It's about alumni and endowments and not offending anyone that might put cash in their hands. Last thing they want is negative press, so if they have to give those kids blow jobs they'll do it just to keep them from causing a bigger stink than they already have.
Inside each person lives two wolves. One is loyal, kind, respectful, humble and open to the mystery of life. The other is greedy, jealous, hateful, afraid and blind to the wonders of life. They are in battle for your spirit. The one who wins is the one you feed.
Mindia wrote:My Muslim roommate was livid about the comic strips. It's too bad he doesn't understand that Muhammad was just a prophet, and not "Allah."
Your roomate is Muslim? That's sitcom material right there.
He's moving out at the end of the month, thank God. Nobody can stand him. He's a stinky, arrogant prick with terrible personal hygeine. And you're the one who doesn't understand the comic strips, Ginz... big surprise there.
“The more I study science the more I believe in God.” -- Albert Einstein
Tikker wrote:it's a good thing that christians never freak out about fictional texts
They are silly, too. I have a neighbor that's all wigged out about the Harry Potter books. So I asked her if she had read any, her answer "No". So I ask her how does she know what's in them. She heard some weirdo on the radio ranting about them. How can you condemn something on someone else's word, can't you think for yourself and form your own opinions? No answer.
Inside each person lives two wolves. One is loyal, kind, respectful, humble and open to the mystery of life. The other is greedy, jealous, hateful, afraid and blind to the wonders of life. They are in battle for your spirit. The one who wins is the one you feed.