Kent St. Prof. Reportedly Yells ‘Death to Israel’ at Event With Israeli Diplomat

[Spiraling Leopard]

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/kent-st-prof-reportedly-yells-death-to-israel-at-event-with-israeli-diplomat/

A Kent State history professor, who has allegedly been linked to elements of Muslim extremism, reportedly lashed out at a former Israeli diplomat speaking at the university Tuesday night.

The event was co-sponsored by the undergraduate student government and entitled “An Evening with Ishmael Khaldi.” Khaldi spoke in regards to his book, A Shepherd’s Journey, which details his life journey from a small tent in a Bedouin village to the inner-circles of the Israel Foreign Service.  When his speech ended, Khaldi opened the floor to a Q&A, where History Professor Julio Pino rushed to be the first to question Khaldi.

John Milligan of KentWired, an independent student publication,reports that Pino began to question how Khaldi could justify speaking of foreign aid given from Israel to countries like Turkey, when that aid was financed by “blood money that came from the deaths of Palestinian children and babies.” Milligan, a senior majoring in magazine journalism, then captured the the most shocking part of the exchange:

    “The crowd fell into an awkward silence as the two continued to exchange words from across the auditorium.

    ‘It is not respectful to me here,’ Khaldi said.

    Pino responded by saying ‘your government killed people’ and claimed Khaldi was not being respectful to him.

    ‘I do respect you, but you are wrong,’ Khaldi said. ‘It’s a lie.’

    The exchange ended as Pino stormed out of the auditorium shouting ‘Death to Israel!’”

While Pino’s comments may seem shocking, the professor has been linked to these sentiments before. In 2003 Pino wrote an article that some said was “glorifying a suicide bomber,” and in 2009, was reportedly linked “to terrorist activity – such as posting bomb-making instructions on a terrorist website.” Pino admitted to colleagues that he had contributed articles to a website entitled “Global War,“ which describes itself as a ”jihadist news service.” When the controversy first emerged in 2007, Journalism professor Tim Smith, fellow faculty member at the university which is well known for its progressive history, defended Pino’s right to contribute to “Global War.” Telling KentWired:

    “‘Basically, it comes down to the right for people to disagree with government – it’s their right to do so,’ he said. ‘It’s embedded in our Constitution.’”

The Blaze reached out to Professor Pino himself for comment in regards to Tuesday’s altercation, as well as History Department Chair Dr. Kenneth Binda. There has not yet been a response to those inquiries. Kent State Associate Vice President Thomas Neumann told The Blaze that Tuesday night was not an official university event and that Professor Pino, like any other member of the audience, was protected under the First Amendment to ask any question and state his own personal opinons.

“It was not a university event. He does not speak for the university and we do not speak for him,” said Mr.Neumann over the phone Wednesday.

When pressed if the university was concerned if Professor Pino’s comments could alienate students, Mr. Neumann said that the university has already given their comment on the matter.

As he was exiting the event Tuesday night, John Milligan told The Blaze that one person in the crowd yelled “Shame on you!” to Professor Pino.

In phone interview Wednesday, Milligan said that he and “pretty much everyone there” were taken aback by Professor Pino’s rant.

“I had never even heard of him until researching for this story,” said Milligan. “Definitely surprised.”

Milligan told The Blaze that even though Pino is a tenured professor, he would be shocked if there were not some sort of repercussions for Pino’s comments.

Following the altercation, Khaldi remained calm and continued to take questions, telling the crowd “Let’s respect each other; it starts from there.”

Milligan said that following the speaker, students remained in the auditorium, “admonishing the professor’s behavior.”

Once student reportedly said, “I get it’s freedom of speech and all that, but that guy just makes us [the university] look bad.”

Kent State College Republicans President Greg Allison wrote via email:

    “I am appalled by the comments I witnessed this evening made by professor Pino. It is in the best interest of the University as a whole to have a formal and respectable debate on controversial issues, which does not include inflammatory remarks such as these.

    It is with grave concern, that we are employing a professor, Julio Pino, that has endorsed terrorism upon the United States of America, yet receives tenure on our dime!”

Joshua Burton, Chairman of the Ohio College Republican Federation, has urged that Kent State officials investigate the educational practices of “this dangerous professor, to ensure this hateful and violent rhetoric is not being instructed in the courses he teaches.”

Development Director for Hillel at Kent State Char Rapoport Nance, stressed to The Blaze that she was not at the event Tuesday and could not confirm the alleged altercation. However, Nance said of what has been reported; “If there was an outburst or inappropriate comment of that type, it’s a bad thing for the university community, students and world at large if we cannot engage in meaningful conversation without outbursts.

“Campuses are suppose to be a place of civil discourse.”

Nance told The Blaze that since Tuesday night’s event, concerned students have come to the Cohn Jewish Student Center to discuss what happened.

Kent State is a public research university in Kent, Ohio, known for massive student riots in May 1970.

The Jewish civil rights group Shurat HaDin offers a Campus Hotline (718) 907-9258 to report any incidents of anti-Semitism, discrimination, intimidation or harassment on American college or university campuses.

This story was updated with reaction from Kent State Associate Vice President Thomas Neumann, KentWired reporter John Milligan, and Hillel at Kent State Development Director Char Rapoport Nance.

[mord]

Julio Pino is obviously a mestizo convert to Islam   



http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2141   








Pino's Visual Map
 

    Associate professor of Latin American History at Kent State University
    Outspoken apologist for Palestinian terrorism and jihad
    Indoctrinates students in his pro-Castro and pro-Sandinista politics



Julio Cèsar Pino is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of History at Kent State University, specializing in Latin American History.

Pino was born in Havana in 1960, the year after Fidel Castro’s rebel forces first entered the city during Cuba’s Communist Revolution. In retrospect, Pino states that "the Revolution brought justice" made manifest by "the improvement of the lives of my relatives” and by a host of "positive economic and psychological transformations."

In 1968 Pino and his family moved to Los Angeles, where he attended parochial school. Due to a crisis of faith arising from what he perceived to be Christians’ support for the Vietnam War, Pino in the early 1970s transferred to a public high school and became an agnostic, a position he would retain until finding Islam more than two decades later.

In 1980 Pino enrolled at UCLA, where he majored in history with a specialization in Brazilian studies. “The 1980s posed terrible and challenging tasks for Latinos on campus,” Pino recounts. “Our brothers and sisters in Central America were being butchered by American-trained death-squads daily. Poverty and unemployment inside the United States surged while the rich grew fatter under the presidency of Ronald Reagan.... Quickly, I turned into a cynic, and like many burnt-out politicos, took to drink.”

Disillusioned with Catholicism and Christianity generally, Pino in 2000 became a Muslim after reading The Qur’an on a plane ride. “All religions claim they are more than just a religion but a complete way of life, but only in Islam is this vow fulfilled,” he says.

Pino’s Muslim name is Assad Jibril Pino, and he has embraced the most extreme interpretation of his adoptive religion. In 2001 Pino publicly inveighed against what he termed Israel’s “genocide of the Palestinians” -- a remark which, he would later report, made him “subject to defamation, harassment, and even death threats in my office.” Such treatement, he said, was “fairly standard fare for most Muslims in America.”

In an April 2002 guest column for the Kent State campus newspaper, Pino penned an effusive tribute to Ayat al-Akras, a teenage Palestinian suicide bomber who had murdered two Israelis at a Jerusalem supermarket on March 29. In that piece -- titled “Singing out Prayer for a Youth Martyr” -- Pino insisted that Akras was no terrorist but had “died a martyr’s death … in occupied Jerusalem, Palestine.” Pino also derided President Bush as a “numbskull,” and called for boycotts of all Israeli and American products.

In 2005 Pino wrote another controversial letter to his campus newspaper, this time lauding University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill for his “righteous obsession with European and American genocide and terrorism against peoples of color all over the world, from 1492 to 2001.” Pino also claimed that during the Cuban missile crisis, President John F. Kennedy had planned a “genocide against the Cuban people”; that President Bill Clinton had killed “more than 500,000 Iraqi children” via sanctions against Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq; and that “cocaine cowboy” George W. Bush had “added an extra 100,000 corpses to the pile of brown colored [Iraqi] corpses.” Referring to his students at Kent State as his "little jihadists" and his “beloved Taliban,” Pino made it clear that he sought to indoctrinate, not merely educate, the young men and women in his classes. He concluded that “n an America rapidly descending toward Christian fascism, we need more Ward Churchills.”

Pino says that his worldview is animated by his “unfulfilled need to bring social justice to the world.” In the classes he teaches at Kent State, he compels his students to approach the study of Latin American history from the perspective of leftist “Third World” politics, which he identifies with such revolutionaries as Fidel Castro and the communist Sandinista regimes of Central America. Pino blames the political upheavals of Central America wholly on the “daily” butchery of “American-trained death-squads,” and praises the Sandinistas for having “succeeded in building a society free of class exploitation and gender inequality.”

Pino has been known to participate in Internet Usenet groups and to provoke arguments with other readers on such subjects as U.S. foreign policy, Marxism, and pedagogy. In September 2000, for instance, a difference of opinion on a Marxist listserve led Pino to declare a fatwa on the moderator of the “Marxism List,” emphasizing that the latter and all his helpers were “hereby sentenced to death.”

In 2007 Pino was a contributor to the weblog Global War, a self-described “jihadist news service” that provided “battle dispatches, training manuals, and jihad videos to our [Muslim] brothers worldwide.” The now-defunct website regularly called for the mass murder of Jews and American soldiers; it supplied readers with explicit bomb-making instructions; and it declared support for the Taliban and al Qaeda.

One Global War dispatch, presumably written by Pino, was titled “Sister Detonates Herself to Eliminate Shia Traitors.” This piece hailed a female suicide bomber who had killed 41 people as a martyr who “[n]ow ... lies on the Golden Couch of Paradise.”

After having criticized Pino numerous times in print, University of North Carolina professor and Townhall columnist Mike Adams received (on September 11, 2007), from someone claiming to be Pino, an email asserting that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were justified by the Islamic faith. The correspondence read, in part:

    “The martyr is performing an action that is the culmination of a whole life’s struggle, and in turn gives meaning to that life.… All of life is preparation, and striving for, martyrdom…. [T]he Muslim … acknowledges the existence of only two groups of human beings; men of faith -- his Brothers -- and the kaaffir (unbelievers and apostates), those ungrateful and rebellious beings that, like Satan himself, opted for disobedience…. The Muslim is commanded in the Quran to ‘fight oppression and overcome tribulation, until all religion is for Allah.’ This is the true meaning of jihad; daily struggle, in every manner prescribed by Allah and His Messenger…. The martyr has no time for peace … [T]he greatest of all epics is martyrdom. ‘Laa ‘ilaaha ‘illallahu (There is none worthy of worship but Allah) must be on his dying lips that he may enter Paradise. Not by chance did Mohammed Atta’s ‘Instructions for the Final Night’ counsel him [sic] make these his last words before crashing into the World Trade Center. Amen.”

Adams repeatedly contacted Pino’s office at Kent State to ascertain whether or not it was indeed Pino who had sent the email. Pino never responded.

[Daniel Michael ben Avraham]

What a POS!  I wish we could deport his ass to whatever backwater country his family came from.  They can keep him.