Is this wrong? Or right? If you disagree then tell me why ?

Question

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:
>
> 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 proceed 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.

Answer 1

Well, I'll tell you one thing. Those cartoons of Mohammed are no hate speech compared to what's been done to images of Jesus in the realm of artwork.

I've seen most of the cartoons and none of them are really that "offensive" or in terrible taste, anyway. Far worse things have been done to the sacred figures of nearly every other religion on earth. The cartoons make me think no differently of the Muslim religion or of the prophet Mohammed himself.

The letter, however, was obviously not tactful.

Answer 2

It is immaterial whether I agree or disagree. Just as the Muslim students have the right to loud outrage, so the professor has the right to disagree with them. As much I hate some things that are said in the world, the only reasoned repsponse is the way the professor handled it: with words. If we start by imposing sanctions on the professor, where, oh where, will it end?

Answer 3

Not all Terrorists are Muslims, attacking the Muslims Community is very irresponsible especially by a Professor of the University. There has been Americans Terrorists, i.e--Timothy McVeigh, Eric Rudolph, Ted Kaczynski & Lucas Helder. These Terrorists were not judged by their Race, Religion, or Color of Skin. They were judged by their Terrorists Acts. I totally disagree with the actions of Indrek Wichman.

Answer 4

Well, everyone has a right to their own opinion. The right to free speech doesn't work if your afraid to express your opinion out loud. I don't consider it hate speech.

Answer 5

i agree with the righter, there are many things that are being done because of a picture of mohhamed, while because we allow free speach when people make fun of christ in drawings people are not killed and things of that nature.