Part of CAIR's (its DC headquarters is pictured) modus operandi is to use lawyers to harass and at least attempt to silence critics who bring up legitimate concerns about Muslim extremism.
Four months ago Dr. Indrek Wichman of Michigan State University found out about CAIR's tactics after sending this e-mail in response to a Muslim student group holding a protest against the Danish Muhammad cartoons:
Dear Moslem (Student's) Association:
As a professor of Mechanical Engineering here at MSU, I intend to protest your protest.
I am offended not by cartoons, but by .... beheadings of civilians, cowardly attacks on public buildings, suicide murders, murders of Catholic priests (the latest in Turkey!), burnings of Christian churches, the continued ..... persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt ..., imposition of Sharia law on non-Muslims ..., the rapes of Scandinavian girls, the .... murder of film directors in Holland, .... and the rioting and looting in Paris, France...etc......
If you do not like the values of the West - see the 1st Amendment - you are free to leave. Please return to your ancestral homelands and build them up yourselves instead of troubling Americans.
Cordially, I. S. Wichman
Perry Flippin, editor emeritus of the San Angelo (Texas) Standard-Times, contacted Dr. Wichman and wrote a follow up story on Wichman's ordeal that appears in today's edition of the paper:
The professor told me that the Muslim students sent his e-mail to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), who sent lawyers to Michigan State at least four times. They, along with the MSA, demanded that Wichman be reprimanded and ordered to undergo diversity training, as well as attend a seminar on hate and discrimination.
The university defended the professor, saying the e-mail was private, and they don't intend to publicly condemn his remarks.
CAIR then took the matter public and sought to make an example of Wichman. They issued a news release and published the private e-mail, accusing him of hate, discrimination and intolerance.
This story has a happy ending. The professor didn't cave in, nor did Michigan State (are you reading this, DePaul?), and the public has come out to support Wichman, whose parents left their native Estonia after the Soviet takeover there.
From the same article:
Once the e-mail became public, thousands of people wrote to commend him for his candor and his stance. Even today, e-mails still come at the rate of 15 a day. More than 99 percent of the letters, Wichman told me, are supportive. Many come from prominent academics, businessmen, lawyers, doctors and others.
Related post: CAIR-Chicago recommended that DePaul fire Klocek
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