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The Thought Police are out in force at MSU, in response to Professor Indrek Wichman's email from last spring. Neither the Muslims on campus nor the MSU officials seem to think it necessary for the Muslim students to address, in some way, in any way, the irrational violence of Cartoon Rage and the fact that the MSA on campus opted to protest the cartoons rather than the riots -- which prompted Wichman's email in the first place. His message was intemperate but raised legitimate questions.
All that matters to MSU officials and the MSA, however, is that this be an occasion to reeducate the MSU students about the connection between Islam and violence. Reeducating the Muslims who commit or condone the violence, or making sure such violent attitudes don't crop up among MSU Muslims, is not on anyone's radar screen.
"Professor's Feb. statement draws MSU response," by Alex Altman in The State News, with thanks to all who sent this in:
MSU officials plan on providing diversity training on Islam-related subjects to interested members of the university in response to an e-mail an MSU professor sent to the Muslim Students' Association, or MSA, in February.The initial request for the training came from the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, after Indrek Wichman, a mechanical engineering professor, wrote an e-mail to the group in response to controversial cartoons that portrayed Muhammad, the prophet and founder of the Islamic religion, as a terrorist.
In the e-mail, Wichman insisted that Muslims should return to their ancestral homeland if they don't "like the values of the West." He also generalized them as "dissatisfied, aggressive, brutal, and uncivilized slave-trading Moslems."
"As a tenured professor who literally can influence the academic future of Muslims, we felt that the statements were inappropriate and can intimidate Muslim students of the engineering school," said CAIR Executive Director Dawud Walid.
Wichman was unavailable for comment Wednesday, but he defended himself in a letter to the editor published in The State News in May.
"My letter addressed the attempts of the MSA to suppress free speech regarding publishing the Muhammed cartoons," he wrote then. "It was not intended to impugn the integrity and decency of all Muslims in the United States."
Posted by Robert at October 6, 2006 6:22 AM
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‘Diversity training’ – mind police who will surely lead us hand in hand into Sharia – ‘Uber alles!. I thought universities were supposed to be bastions of free thought and ideas. These useful, administrative idiots who cater joyfully to each of CAIR’s darkly scheming demands – little do they realize that they will be the first led off to re-education camps by these pious ‘musbot’ police. I am a former Michigan resident and magna cum laude graduate of the University of Michigan and I am ASHAMED of my nativity! Will ‘Dearbornistan’ one day metastasize into ‘Michiganistan’?
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at October 6, 2006 8:15 AM
"Diversity Training." An intolerable racket, always and everywhere.
Posted by: Hugh at October 6, 2006 8:52 AM
The penalty for speaking the truth is to be brainwashed with diversity training. What a joke.
Anyone with half a brain will simply nod in agreement to this BS and move on without believing it (sort of like those who are forced to convert to the peaceful religion). I'm more worried that Wichman loses his job or receives death threats as a result of stating the obvious.
Diversity training, like all forms of PC, belongs in the toilet-the sooner they're flushed away, the better.
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at October 6, 2006 8:55 AM
The professor did the right thing. He can back his statements with selections from the canonical texts of Islam, we all know that. The MSA and CAIR knows it too.
The professor also did it with decorum and didn't make sweeping generalizations about the muslim community, as Mohammed and allah did when talking about najis kuffar aka 'perverted transgressors' aka those who don't submit to Mohammed's agenda.
We need more good people to write letters and to stand and deliver. Besides, he has tenure. He's bulletproof to anything but an angry true believer.
at October 6, 2006 9:32 AM
"we felt that the statements were inappropriate and can intimidate Muslim students of the engineering school,"
I'm sorry, but does that address his accusations? Where do you get off performing diversity training? Do you know where you are? What kind of diversity is present in Islamic lands? Obviously the ones who need training in diversity are you, since you are compelled to control the points of views of our LIBERATED people.
The only the diversity training you should be conducting is in Islamic countries, where your "training" fits well with their tyrannical regimes.
Posted by: ofcourse at October 6, 2006 2:23 PM
CAIR - 1, FREE SPEECH - 0
Islamonazi CAIR Intimidates Yet Another American Business In Dhimmitude
http://www.terrorfreeoil.org/videos/MS092506.php - MSNBC video
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at October 6, 2006 4:04 PM
A Muslim minicab driver refused to take a blind passenger because her guide dog was "unclean".
http://clarityandresolve.com/archives/2006/10/the_antidog_rel.php
How is that for diversity Nazilamists! Go back to scorpion land ungrateful goons.
at October 6, 2006 4:07 PM
Speaking of "sensitivity training" for non-Moslems, get this one about our Air National Guard:
[start of item]
FORT DRUM, N.Y.(AP) Col. Rick Mitchell did three tours of duty in Iraq, flying dozens of patrols and bombing missions over the desert landscape.
Even so, the veteran Air National Guard pilot did a double-take the first time he saw what appeared to be a Muslim cemetery and a mound of ruins on Range 48 at the U.S. Army's Fort Drum in upstate New York.
"It looked just like way it looked over there. It's going to give our pilots some firsthand experience in recognizing and identifying these kinds of sites from the air under fairly realistic conditions," said Mitchell, of Merrimac, N.H., who flies with the 118th Fighter Wing out of Connecticut.
"You don't want to be dropping bombs on cemeteries and mosques, or blow up some important historical site that's been there for thousands of years," said Mitchell. "That's certainly not going to make us any friends."
That's the thinking of archaeologist Laurie Rush, Fort Drum's cultural resources manager.
So with $165,000 in funding from the Department of Defense Legacy Program, Rush and the post's Integrated Training Area Management unit has begun to heighten the cultural sensitivity of the soldiers and pilots who train at Fort Drum, including building mock cemeteries and archaeological ruins and developing a field guide.
"We need to get them trained before the fact, not after the damage is done. This should be part of deployment training for anywhere in the world _ becoming familiar with the region's
cultural heritage," said Rush.
[end of item]
Bombing cemeteries would of course be stupid as would be wasting bombs on archeological sites. BUT, mosques is a different matter. The people so sensitive to the sensitivity of their beloved Moslems have not heard that Moslems boast:
"Minarets are our lances, mosques our barracks."
Spare the mosque and spoil the Moslem as the old saw goes (or is that about something else?)
Posted by: unicorns62000 at October 6, 2006 11:14 PM
What really chaps my jeans is this "making friends" statement by this defender of our freedoms:
"You don't want to be dropping bombs on cemeteries and mosques, or blow up some important historical site that's been there for thousands of years," said Mitchell.
"That's certainly not going to make us any friends."
Are we fighting those who seek to destroy or enslave us or are we out there trying to make "new friends?"
at October 6, 2006 11:28 PM
I note, from the article, that such 'diversity' training is available to "interested members of the University".
I sent a polite email to Professor Wichman, expressing my support of his position.
In it, I referenced Robert's latest book and provided the relevant Amazon.com link:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596980281/ref=pd_rvi_gw_1/002-3262087-6377606?ie=UTF8
The professor's email address, for those who wish to send polite letters of support, is:
wichman@egr.msu.edu
Posted by: PRCS at October 7, 2006 10:16 AM
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