Muslim students at Michigan State University want engineering professor Indrek Wichman's head after on Feb. 28 he sent an e-mail to the Muslim Students Association imploring Muslims who don't "like the values of the West" to leave the United States.
Wichman sent the e-mail to Islamic students during a discussion about controversial cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammed.
Of course, university officials were shocked at the professor's comments, but admitted there was no action they could take against him because his comments constitute free speech.
Welcome to America, indeed.
Wichman on Monday told the Detroit Free-Press that he regrets using such strong language in what he always though would be a private communication, but he stressed the importance of free speech.
"I believe very strongly in free speech and free expression. It is one of the building blocks of this great republic in which we live. And any attempts to abridge or diminish it are serious matters."
Michelle Malkin has Wichman's e-mail, in its entirety:
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
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