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| US University Won't Reprimand Professor for Racial Slurs |
| 2006-04-26 |
| Distancing itself from the remarks, the Michigan State University (MSU) said professor Indrek Wichman was exercising his free speech right when describing Muslims as "brutal and uncivilized" and telling Muslim students to return to their "ancestral homelands." "He was cautioned that any additional commentary ... could constitute the creation of a hostile environment, and that could ... form the basis of a complaint," Terry Denbow, a spokesman for MSU, was quoted as saying by Detroit Free Press. He stressed that the remarks, though "very inappropriate," do not violate the university's antidiscrimination policy. In an e-mail to the university’s Muslim Students’ Association (MSA) on February 28, Wichman wrote: "I counsul [sic] you dissatisfied, agressive [sic], brutal, and uncivilized slave-trading Moslems [sic] to be very aware of this as you proceed with your infantile ‘protests.’" He was referring to global protests against Danish cartoons that ridiculed Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). "If you do not like the values of the West--see the 1st Ammendment [sic]--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." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 This from a university prof...so close to Ann Arbor the Berkeley of the mid-west? This guy is toast..he'll be vilified by his lefty bretheren and hung out to dry. Might have to find a real job... |
| Posted by: Warthog 2006-04-26 19:51 |
| #7 Since when is the observation of simple fact "racist." A substantial number of Muslims are, indeed, "brutal and uncivilized." Much of the Muslim world certainly exhibits "dissatisfied, aggressive, brutal" and "slave-trading" behavior in the midst of their often "infantile protests." At least MSU recognizes that there is no basis for accusations of racism. Too bad the MSM cannot refrain from illiberal reassessments when another leftist institution is able to. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-04-26 13:30 |
| #6 This is almost impossible to believe that there is a sane and brave faculty member at a top flight US university. Bravo Prof. Wichman. We need many more of you. Also, thumbs up to MSU for the support. Amazing, being that there is a virtual Muslim outpost there. |
| Posted by: SOP35/Rat 2006-04-26 12:38 |
| #5 "If you do not like the values of the West--see the 1st Ammendment [sic]--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." Thank you professor Wichman. About time someone besides the Ozzies began to take this view. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-04-26 10:41 |
| #4 This conclusively demonstrates that MSU should install a functioning spell checker in their email system (or if they have one, they should teach the faculty how to use it). |
| Posted by: mhw 2006-04-26 09:39 |
| #3 Grom, I thought the same thing, but Muslims are a race according to many MSM reports. |
| Posted by: BA 2006-04-26 09:34 |
| #2 Most will NOT - like US Lefties returning angry and disillusioned from Cold War-era USSR-China, etal.; or post-USSR/Warsaw Pact Russians and East Euros, the majority love the US-Western DemoCapitalist, Materialist, Libertarian lifestyle. Its only a diehard few whom are also politically or media-influential that is fighting for the USA to be as poor and wilfully, permanently regressed as the majority of nations in the pan-Socialist-Commie global universe. OSAMA TO THE CLINTON-LED DEMS > THEY ARE FIGHTING FOR THE WORLD=MASSES TO BE POOR, AND TO STAY POOR FOREVER, NOT UTOPIA, NOT GLOBALISM, OR EVEN UNIVERSAL "PROGRESS"!? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-04-26 02:23 |
| #1 Since when is Muslim a race? |
| Posted by: gromky 2006-04-26 02:19 |