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So it begins. Western pop culture knows exactly what to do with people who can't take a joke. We annihilate their mistaken beliefs with comedy. South Park led the way with its episode earlier this year, daring Comedy Central to air a cartoon of Mohammed. Jay Leno again showed the way last week, when he let us see that it was okay to make fun of radical Islam, with this joke:
Iraq has demanded that Pope Benedict issue an apology for statements he made linking Islam to violence. Well, where did the Pope get that crazy idea, huh? I'm stunned! Well, maybe the apologies will stop the church burnings, and the "Death to the Pope" chants.
And with this billboard (which had to have been network-approved), Comedy Central is saying to Matt and Trey, the creators of South Park, that they'll tolerate jokes about Muslims alongside jokes about everybody else. Once this starts in our pop culture, it will snowball and become unstoppable. Our pop culture entertainers have become expert in this kind of thing over the past several decades of going after every so-called sacred cow that anyone could identify.
Islam won't know what hit it. Reform-minded Muslims will have their eyes opened, and will have ammunition provided to them, in their efforts to bring Islam out of the 7th century, and into the 21st.
This is how we defend our freedom of speech. We don't let anyone tell us what we can and can't say - what we can and can't make a joke about - or what we can and can't publish. If someone doesn't want us to make a joke about something, we make all the jokes about it. And it starts just like this, with little digs.
And sure, in response it may be that from time to time the Islamists will demonstrate their stupidity by rioting, burning their own buildings, killing each other - and maybe even getting a few of us, like the nun who lost her life to radical Islamists earlier this month. But you know what? This is a war, and since the enemy can't fight our armies directly, it's one that in many ways is fought in the media. The radical Islamists are already doing everything they can to kill Westerners. They're going to find something to riot about even if it's a goofy story about flushing a book down toilet. (Consider, as Thomas Sowell put it this week, "the physical absurdity of trying to flush the Koran -- or any other book -- down a toilet.") And they're going to try to do that whether we tell them what boneheads they are or not.
It's up to our government to fight this war, that the radical Islamists have declared on us, militarily and politically, until we win it. And in the meantime, it's up to our media, and to all of us, to keep defending our freedom of speech, by using it.
These Islamists wanted a media war, with their assassinations staged in front of MSM photographers. Now they're going to see what media war really looks like.
Radical Islamists: get ready to laugh, you morons.
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#2Just ask the French how painful our amusement can be. They were all pompous and arrogant until we started laughing at them. Then they started squealing like a stuck Frog, and even asking the government to intercede and make us quit.
You know Abdullah will do the same thing with Bush once Leno and Letterman get on a roll, and more car salesman roll out commercials involving fatwa Friday and jihad sales with free rubber swords for the kiddies.
#3Professor Wichman E-mail
Claim: A Michigan professor sent an e-mail telling Muslim students to leave the country.
Status: True.
Example: [Collected via e-mail, 2006]
Hooray for Michigan State University (The Spartans) and Professor Wichman!!!
Well, what do we have here. Looks like a small case of some people being able to dish it out, but not take it. Let's start at the top. The story begins at Michigan State University with a mechanical engineering professor named Indrek Wichman.
Wichman sent an e-mail to the Muslim Student's Association. The e-mail was in response to the students' protest of the Danish cartoons that portrayed the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist. The group had complained the cartoons were "hate speech."
Enter Professor Wichman. In his e-mail, he said the following:
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Dear Moslem Association:
As a professor of Mechanical Engineering here at MSU I intend 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 churches, the continued persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt, the imposition of Sharia law on non-Muslims, the rapes of Scandinavian 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 counsel you dissatisfied, aggressive, brutal, and uncivilized slave-trading Moslems to be very aware of this as you proceeded with your infantile "protests." If you do not like the values of the West — see the 1st Amendment — 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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Well! As you can imagine, the Muslim group at the university didn't like this too well. They're demanding Wichman be reprimanded and mandatory diversity training for faculty and a seminar on hate and discrimination for freshman. How nice. But now the Michigan chapter of CAIR has jumped into the fray. CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, apparently doesn't believe that the good professor had the right to express his opinion.
For its part, the university is standing its ground. They say the e-mail was private, and they don't intend to publicly condemn his remarks. That will probably change. Wichman says he never intended the e-mail to be made public, and wouldn't have used the same strong language if he'd known it was going to get out.
How's the left going to handle this one? If you're in favor of the freedom of speech, as in the case of Ward Churchill, will the same protections be demanded for Indrek Wichman? I doubt it.
Hey folks, send this to everybody and ask them to do the same and tell them to keep passing it around till the whole country gets it.
We are in a war.
Origins: On 28 February 2006, Professor Indrek Wichman, a tenured professor of mechanical engineering at Michigan State University (MSU), sent the e-mail embedded in the example above to
the Muslim Students' Association of Michigan State University. The message was a response to the Muslim group's having handed out free cocoa during a public awareness event about controversial cartoons that depicted the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist. Wichman's letter prompted the Muslim Students' Association and twelve other student and advocacy groups to call upon the university to officially reprimand the professor.
MSU officials have declined to issue a reprimand, saying Wichman's comments constitute free speech. Terry Denbow, spokesman for MSU, said while Wichman's views in no way represent the university's views, they do not violate the university's antidiscrimination policy. However, Denbow noted, Wichman "was cautioned that any additional commentary ... could constitute the creation of a hostile environment, and that could ... form the basis of a complaint" under the school's antidiscrimination policy.
Wichman told the Detroit News the letter had been intended for a one particular person, not the entirety of the Muslim Students' Association; he had believed the e-mail address he used was that one student's inbox. However, students who lead the association said the e-mail address was part of the group's official Web site.
#4Thanks for this great info on Prof. Wichman, b eazy. I found the link for it on Snopes. Please keep us posted on this if you find out more about it.
#5South park is so violent and racial but you can't say it's not funny!
#6Bill Maher said, that it can not be deemed cowardly to fly a plane into WTC. How much support on his freedom of speech did he receive? Remember?
Someone from the government said about it - "this is not a time for words like these" (quoting freely).
So, the freedom of speech is free only as long as it goes in the "right direction", isn't it?
Yes, that's exactly what the constitutional fathers were thinking as they penned that little check against authoritarianism. Too bad your ilk doesn't believe in the rest of that document.