YAF Chairman Kyle Bristow scrubs press release from blog sites

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Kyle Bristow has scrubbed a press release about a Feb. 26 speech by MSU professor Wichman. YAFWatch and MichiganMessenger.com are working this story, but in order to prevent the press release from being lost in cyberland, we are presenting it as it appeared on SpartanSpectator.Blogspot.Com, as well as on the Michigan Conservative Dossier, BConservatives.blogspot.com. Bristow posted the press release to both blogs.

Immediate Release:
February 4, 2008

For More Information:
Kyle Bristow
Chairman,
MSU Young Americans for Freedom
yaf@msu.edu

MSU-YAF to Host Professor Indrek Wichman

Wichman to Speak on how Muslims Desire to Deny People Right to Free Speech

East Lansing, Mich. – Michigan State University Professor Indrek Wichman, who made international news in February of 2006 when he sent an email to the Michigan State University Muslim Student Alliance (MSA) to tell them to either embrace Western values or to return to their "ancestral homelands" instead of "troubling Americans," will be speaking on the issue of how Muslims desire to deny non-Muslims their God-given right to free speech. The email was sent at a time when MSA was waging a campaign against the Danish cartoons that depicted Mohammad as a terrorist.

Though the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) demanded that the professor be fired, the MSU administration refused to punish the professor other than by issuing him a stern warning.

The Michigan State University Young Americans for Freedom (MSU-YAF), a registered student organization at MSU, is hosting the speech by Professor Wichman at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan on Tuesday, February 26, at 7 p.m. The Center is located at 28123 Orchard Lake Road, and can be called at 248-553-2400 ext. 10. The event is free and is open to the public. Co-Sponsors of the event include Rayna and Natalio Kogan, Don and Rae Sharfman, and the Jewish Institute of National Security Affairs (JINSA).

This educational event is being held in remembrance of the first World Trade Center bombings, which occurred on February 26, 1993. Six people were killed and 1,042 were injured.

Kyle Bristow, the chairman of MSU-YAF, said, "Professor Indrek Wichman defended Western culture and freedom when he sent the Muslims Student Association his email in 2006. He only said what most Americans think, but are too afraid to say."

Bristow added that "it is an honor to host a speech by a freedom-fighter."

Professor Wichman's email to the MSA is as follows:

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

YAF is a conservative, non-partisan political group that was founded on September 11, 1960. Former members include President Ronald Reagan, Congressman Tom Tancredo, Vice Presidents Dick Cheney and Dan Quayle, and actor John Wayne. National YAF's website can be seen at www.yaf.com, and MSU-YAF's website can be seen athttp://www.msu.edu/~yaf.