Your say: KSU professor accused of promoting Jihad
Should the Kent State professor be fired if he made pro-Jihad comments in class?
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Thursday, March 01, 2007
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Put him 0n a slow boat to Somalia.
He should be removed from the classroom and fired now.
I think he should be investigated by the university and held accountable for his statements. I myself am I college student (not at KSU) and I would personally walk out of his classroom and never come back. He needs to at least face serious punishment.
Professor Jihad should be fired AND deported... to the 3rd world muslim hell hole of his choice.
Yes, as a citizen of Ohio ormer veteran and a taxpayer to his paycheck he should be fired. Why would we keep someone who promotes car bombings and anything against Americans.
Fire him, get him out of the school
that is teaching our children,
then get him out of the country.
His employment should be terminated immediately, if he wants to promote Jihad he can do that in his home country.
If KSU doesn't have the courage to get rid of this man, then college applicants should choose another college. This is rampant at many colleges; the only way it will stop is by American citizens spending their college dollars elsewhere.
The man's tenure should be revoked, and he should be up on charges of treason during wartime, and he should be sent out of this country. There is no place for supporting death of the innocent.
The right of free speach has its limits and responsibilities, and its consequences when abused.
If he thinks the Jihad is so great, then he should go back there where they live so he can be near them, not us. Good-bye KSU professor. You need to go now.
HE SHOULD NOT ONLY BE FIRED, HE SHOULD LWAVE THIS COUNTRY WITH THOSE REMARKS. THIS IS SOMEONE WHO IS TEACHING OUR CHILDREN?
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGEOUS .USING OUR TAX MONEY TO PROMOTE ANTI AMERICAN ACTIVITIES .THIS PERSON SHOULD BE PROSECUTED FOR PROMOTING JIHAD . WHATS THIS COUNTRY GOING TO .SHAME ON US.
You can read what i have to say about this at my blog here:
http://markedmanner.blogspot.com/2007/02/julio-pino-teaching-jihad-at-kent-state.html
I find all of this very troubling and I hope someone is looking into it
The taxpayer supported school claims to have no connection with the Jihadist Website. This is entirely false and misleading. The link they have is the professor. Sometimes you don't see the trees because of the forest?
Lannes Lambert
Painesville, Ohio
He should be fired from Kent State. Free speech has its limits when it involves the safety of Americans. The classroom is not a pulpit.
If Dr. Pino has the right to encourage and support treason within the United States at one of our foremost universities, and that university chooses to allow him to create treason within their campus, then we, as Americans, have the right to withdraw our children from that university, protest that university's stand on Muslims and Jihadists and hold those in office accountable for treason.
Thinl about it.
First and foremost, is this man a US citizen? Yes we enjoy the right of freedom of speach in this country as US Citizens, but to promote an enemy of the US in window displays and to make writings on webpages is truely an act of treason. He is in a position to poison the minds of young people in a school of higher education. Education that hard working Americans are providing out of pocket for their children.
Deport him immediately.
Fire those who hired and support him.
Counsel those who have been infected by his hate speech.
First of all, of all the choices to hire a prof, why would my college hire such a person out of all the people that could have been top candiates for the job? This just seems silly to me? I have six years under my belt from this college, this embrasses me to the extreme. I now know why I will never attend this university again. This is bad karma, not to mention the killings on May 4th. I believe He has affiliations with the Jihad and should be fired. And KSU needs a total overhaul. Get rid of everyone on the board over there. Start fresh with new members to the entire staff. Let's do it right this time. So many really good fresh faces to choose from now. It's a new century and a new world order. Let us start to act like one.
Muslims claim that they are in a state of war with the entire Western civilization. Anyone in America promoting pro-jihadi views should be removed from ANY educational institutions, and if they are foreginers they should also be deported. Whether they espouse such in the classroom or outside the classroom. If he hates America so much and loves muslims as to promote hatred of America, then he should move to a muslim nation, unless he is here to hurt us, as he put it "muslims are at the gate..."
Let's imagine a professor espouses slavery of blacks through blogs and other means, do you think a university would keep such a person? Unfortunately it is OK to spread hatred of America, although it was the AMERICAN soldiers who saved the lives of millions of muslims in Bosnia...
The bottom line, the INS should also check into this man's background if he is foregin-born.
I think he should be invited to leave Kent State and the country. Advocating the overthrow of our country was NOT protected speech when I was in school and studied our constitution and government. We are in serious danger from within our country. When are we going to wake up and understand that our political correctness is going to be the downfall of our country? At what point do we understand that there is a difference between tolerance and cowardice. We are in danger of becoming a country of cowards. We have people entering our country illegally and yet we are told that we cannot profile our enemies. Congress is struggling to allow illegals to become citizens. That is sending the whole world the message that we are too weak to enforce our own laws. Rome fell from within, are we headed in that direction?
My problem with this professor is that he is being paid with my tax dollars to teach a subject not to advocate for an enemy withwhom we are engaged in a war. He does not have the right to maintain a website which advocates these postions because he is "teaching" in a tax funded State University. He does not have this free speech right anymore than he could advocated for Hitler during WW2. Jan Swetel Painesville
I feel he should be fired,deported AND blocked from ever returning to the United States!
I do not like the fact that as a resident of Ohio, I am paying his wages.
I'm sick of these so called "religion of peace" monsters. Let him go preach his message to the freedom loving muslim countries, oh thats right there isn't any.
FIRE HIM NOW!! Do not use my tax dollars and "make me hold this snake to my breast." This country needs to learn to protect itself; we're always oh so nice to everyone even if they hate our guts. Send him back to whatever place will claim him.
Get rid of him now!!!!!! My daughter recently applied to Kent and she WILL NOT go there if he is still allowed to teach!! Also, my son is an Army Ranger in Iraq and is fighting the likes of him over there so get rid of this Professor Jihad, NOW!!!!
I feel he should be not only fired but immediatly deported to his country. I don't feel with his support of jhad we have any room for him in our country. He is interpreting the first ammendment for his own sick use. What are we gonna do America wait until someone blows up one of our schools and then say oh gee we should have done a background check on him. I am tired of people coming to our country and trying to change our customs and our way of life and taking our freedoms and trying to make them into something so anti-American.
freedom of speech does not mean advocating the murder of American Citizens. This Professor Jihad should be fired, and sent to Gitmo.
WAKE UP AMERICA. The only people taking away your freedoms are the radical Muslims.
This man should have been fired after his first outrageous comments. Now not only should he be fired, but every one in the University that has been protecting him should be fired also. I am an alumi from KSU, and I am ashamed to tell anhyone. The fact that he is a professor at KSU is all that is needed to link KSU with his opinion. If he is not fired, I will ask that all Federal and State monies for scholarships and research be taken back.
If this guy is Anti-American let him go back to the place he came from. Why the hell do we have to keep him here when he dislikes us?
Yes he should be fired. He is paid by state taxes to teach the students not to indoctrinate them with his pro-jihad belief. Somehow the college adminaistration has forgotten 911 and that we are at WAR with the people he is supporting and praising as heroes on the web site.
He should also be reported to Home Land Security for investigation.
DO NOT FORCE THIS MAN TO REMAIN IN OUR FACIST LAND. SEND HIM HOME WHERE HE HAD IT SO MUCH BETTER.
This professor should be discharged immediatly and his information turned over to Homeland Security. I find it deeply disturbing that this man is on the payroll of a state run university. I think that your report tonight was week...please give this story the attention that it deserves!
HA HA. It appears someone has hacked the web site. When you go to global-war.bloghi.com you get automatically re-directed to http://defendamerica.mil/.
This sounds like a news story! Some of y'all journalists should investigate it!
I think he should be fierd my brother was in that class and I don't want something to happen to him if someone were to walk in and start something with the professer. Kent should get rid of him NOW!!!
He should be tried for treason. The 1st amendment does not include disloyalty to our country.
He should be tried for treason. He is disloyal to our country. This is NOT protedted by the 1st amendment.
He should be fired from his job. He says that it is another professor who is anti-American ---Well, who is this other professor?
We have enough people speaking against the USA without having college professors spouting anti-Americanisms.
Bill
The problem is he was expressing his views in the classroom, that how students found the jihad website. The university would be doing the right thing by firing him. It is a sad commentary on the state university system if this man keeps his job.
Our household agrees with "Anonymous @6:32" who stated Deport him immediately, Fire those who hired and support him and counsel those who have been infected by his hate speech.
Why wasn't he terminated the first time this was brought to the attention of the university?'s administration I certainly will NOT send my children to KSU if this is the behavior of the faculty and administration!
Joyce said:
Kent State isn't connected to him??
What are all of those pictures and documents in the hallway?
He needs to be sensored and released from his professorship!
Treason IF! he is a citizen.
Deportation is also a good word.
How many other words apply to this farsical man?
This guy is hiding behind "Freedom of Speech". He is harrasing our students - he should be removed immediately from the Country for being a traitor or a spy. It is not only his "comments", but look at the pictures outside his office and the whole environment he is creating. The people of Jihad HATE US AMERICANS! He can TEACH about it- but DON'T PREACH ABOUT IT!! This one has me pretty upset! People wake up! Why do we put up with this stuff - we are all too complacent - letting people hide behind "Freedom of Speech"!!
Americans must stand up just as the Iraqis must stand up. Those of us who want peace and freedom are capable of expecting these precious gifts of others..no matter where we live! As a Christian American Mother - the mother of a soldier on his 2nd tour in Iraq and the mother of a college student - and a grandmother, I ask Americans to use common sense, but stand up for peace and freedom. It takes strength and common sense ..just like the Heroes serving around the world.
Kent State is supporting the terrorists if they don't fire that traitor!!
Gary of Canal Fulton
I think he should be fired. He can certainly influence his students. There's no difference than if he was a Klu Klux Klansman with pictures of hooded klansmen outside his classroom. Would that be okay? The man is affiliated with anti-america groups and supporting them financially with money he's making from living and working in the same country that he hates. Kent State would be doing every student a disservice to allow this man to continue to teach there.
Four of our Kent State students were murdered for
just being on a campus which was expressing an unpopular anti-war viewpoint. The majority of these comments seem to approve of that "Love it or leave it " attitude. They simply do not want to hear both sides of an issue. No wonder we have a liar and an uneducated man leading this nation into another quagmire. Hundreds of thousands of Iraq citizens have died because the avg US voter doesn't realize what is taking place in Iraq or in Palestine.
I watched when he was interviewed on TV. He was very evasive when answering questions. Others have been investigated for less. He should be relieved of his classes untill this matter is cleard up. It would not be the first time that some one used the constituticn to mask wrong doing.
I'm all for his freedom of speach . . . let him express his views in the Middle East and replace him in the Kent State classroom!
Pino should be fired immediately and deported preferably wearing a tar and feather coat
I am a graduate student at Kent and I can not express the depth of my disappointment in the University for tolerating this. I am embarassed and outraged. Does anyone think that the founding fathers of our country would have tolerated this kind of hatred and anti-americanism, and then allow such a person to teach in a public school?
he should be put on trial and hanged along with the entire democrat leadership and some republicans who say and do far worse than this wannabe. wake up people! your elected officials are doing way more damage then this clown!!
Just the sight of the pictures posted outside his classroom were, to say the least, reprehensible. Why the university permits that is beyond reason. He should be fired and then tried for treason.
He should be fired immediately and deported! And those in the administration at Kent State who knew he was doing this and looked the other way, should also be fired! We're sick & tired of this stuff going on in our country!!
"Only in America" --- When are we going to wake up! I am truly concerned about what is happening in our country and am not sure what to do about it. This man does not deserve to be in the United States.
Joyce in Rocky River.
I believe a full investigation of KSU is in order, perhaps even close it down. It's no secret this school has a rep for anti-american hatred. Oh, and send the hodgie to Guantanomo Bay.
This isn't just a matter of his indoctrinating students. He is launching an electronic jihad via his kent.edu account and on university servers. That's how we found out who he was. Tax payers are funding it.
if you don't like my beloved country, get the hell out and take your hatred with you. we have enough problems without people like that adding to them.
You have to be kidding right... I just saw your story and pino's response... summary execution would be a good start with his attitude. It boggles my mind that KSU has not fired him on the spot and the gov't has not taken him into custody. The idea that even partial tax dollars pay this guy and he is free to do that just shows this country can not win. Our fathers and grandfathers must be rolling over in thier graves.
I support his first amendment rights to disagree with US policies. Many of us disagree with our government's choices. But, he takes it to an inappropriate level when he advocates killing innocent people through "jihad."
Plus, I know that there have been complaints about him from other faculty and students from his classses about his personal politics and behavior in class.
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Chuck
i think the situation should be handled right away. Us students shouldn't have to put up with him. He needs to leave our University!!!!
What happened to freedom of speech?
People's hatred and ignorance comes out in times like these. Instead of embracing the protections afforded by the U.S Constitution. It's clear that this professor is protected by the U.S Constitution and his opinions should also be protected.The people that do the most damage are those who trample upon our Constitutional rights not those who exercise them.
Worse than his actions is the appologetic, head in the sand, liberal bias shown by the university. This seems to be common at most colleges across the country. Just look at how the general public feels about this, yet the colleges remain way of out sync, because somehow they have a superposition. The public funds much of their institutional cost, yet public opinion is somehow not valued or given much consideration. It makes me believe that college administrations truly believe they are much smarter and wiser than the rest of us; they are willing to shove their own agenda down the throats of our children.
My daughter has been a student at Kent State for 2 years now. I am so upset with Kent State not taking action, they had to know what was going on in his class room before this report was aired. My daughter will complete her year but will not be returning if this man is not taken out immediately. What is wrong with you Kent State Administrators?
I did a search using this guys name and found comments that go back at least to last year. What is up with the university, homeland security and everyone that has known about this guy but did not do enough to get someones attention until now?! I hope to hell this guy gets arrested, prosecuted and incarcerated as he does not deserve to walk among the citizens of this country. Kent State should be investigated as to why this guy is still there they had to be aware of his activities1 And Homeland security should hire that ROTC student to run there operation in Ohio he seems to be the only one with guts to speak up and bring attention to this pigs ass.
First: college should never be just a place where one merely memorizes bland facts, but somewhere one learns to think critically. In top colleges, students are exposed to the widest possible variety of views.
Second: A true test of democracy is the difficult and often distasteful duty of every citizen to uphold the CONSTITUTIONAL right of free speech. For democracy to prosper, free speech cannot be restricted just to those with whom we agree. It must include people whose views and opinions we personally abhor.
When Americans start forcing others [including the KSU professor, Sen. McCain, Sen. Obama, Howard Stern, the KKK, abortion protesters et al] from being able to freely present their own opinions and views we may very well find ourselves losing other rights as well future personal and societal gains.
I recall the outcry against Dr. Martin Luther King Jr because of his radical and 'disgusting' speeches about equality and justice for every person, regardless of race, creed or color. Many called for his 'deportation back to Africa with the rest of his kind'. (see other postings)
Dr. King was assassinated for the crime of exercising his right to free speech.
Finally, if people will think back, the first man who spoke out openly for jihad in our country was George Walker Bush. In a speech he called for a crusade against the Islamic 'criminals'. Crusade and Jihad both have the same meaning: holy war...the ultimate oxymoron.
He should have been fired years ago for his terrorist views. The colleges and universities of this country need to be cleansed of this type of scum once and for all and Kent State would be a good place to start.
It's not simply a matter of him indoctrinating students, his on-line activites were exposed because he was logging in from a kent.edu account and using Kent State Servers. He is waging his electronic Jihad on the taxpayers dime. He is posting all of this murderous and treasonous, yes treasonous activity on KENT State property, KENT State money, and our taxpayer dollars.
This professor should be fired. If Kent State refuses to fire him then they should have their funding cut until they do.
Why is it that those who profess the virtues of free speech and make inflammatory and/or hateful speeches or writings, get so upset when anyone else exercises their right of free speech to challenge those who make inflammatory and/or hateful speeches or writings?
For how long Americans and Americans government continue to be naïve? Those people want to dominate America. They said it and they working hard on it. They are part of Mahmoud Naiad train. They should be stopped and removed before they prevent us from our great freedom. They marry and remarry and marry many wives under tables. They have so many children to increase their number. It is one of their goals. What are we waiting for?
Do we believe that they are honest until they destroy us?
One Muslim said to me, "We smile on your face and stap you from the back. We enjoy your taz money and grants. we marry your women and get green cards then we kick them out or follow us. we will be the majority and dominate America to be Islamic state"
so what are we waiting for?
He should be fired and deported. I just discovered another bad apple jihadi professor at Dalton State in Georgia. His name is: Hassan El-Najjar. His website: aljazeerainfo.net
Check him out, too. These people are all over the place.
I am in shock. I have three kids attending Kent State. He should have never been been given tenure. The university should demand his resignation. Homeland Security and the FBi should be called in to investigate.
Fire and deport. Another bad apple pro jihad prof at Dalton State in Georgia--Hassan El-Najjar. His website- aljazeerainfo.net
I am shocked! I have four kids attending Kent State. And Kent gave him tenure, and the things he wrote in the Stater????
Kent should demand his resignation. Kent should apoligize to the people of Ohio and to the parents and students of Kent State.
Then, Homeland Security and the FBI should take over.
KSU is not upholding academic freedom by protecting someone who advocates violence and terrorism against Americans. It is a crime to advocate murder.
KSU is upholding the non-existent right to make criminal threats, and the non-existent right to commit treason.
This Pino is a real piece of work. By not only giving moral and verbal support to global jihad, but by refusing to recant his beliefs that such acts are justified, he has clearly demonstrated himself as an enemy of freedom, democracy, Western Culture, and America. Whether or not he is a naturalized citizen is irrelevant at this point. I invite you to take a look at US Code Title 18, Part I, Chapter 115 (Treason, Sedition, and Subversive Activities) http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sup_01_18_10_I_20_115.html
The good professor is a near perfect match for nearly every one of these charges. And the simple fact that he has the stones to call critics of his hate speech un-American is out right infuriating. Open discourse against the nation which has provided you the right to free speech is hypocrisy of the highest magnitude. That in of it self leaves him unworthy of ANY of the rights and privileges afforded to real American citizens.
The following is contact information for the KSU history department. Its time for all of you armchair patriots out there to take some form of action and openly express your contempt to these clowns at Kent State. Whoever signs his paycheck should be made to sign their own resignation.
Campus Address
305 and 321 Bowman Hall
Postal Address
Department of History
305 Bowman Hall
P.O. Box 5190
Kent State University
Kent, OH 44242-0001 USA
Telephone
330.672.2882
Fax
330.672.2943
E-Mail
history@kent.edu
In parting I ask you to ponder these two questions. 1) This is where the path of our nation is leading us? 2) This is the character of the men we trust to educate those who are going to inherit the reins of our country? Contact Kent State. Demand the removal of this evil man before he can do any further harm.
I don't agree but what happened to freedom of speech people?
I don't agree with this guy but what about Freedom of speech?
For how long Americans and Americans government continue to be naïve? Those people want to dominate America. They said it and they working hard on it. They are part of Mahmoud Naiad train. They should be stopped and removed before they prevent us from our great freedom. They marry and remarry and marry many wives under tables. They have so many children to increase their number. It is one of their goals. What are we waiting for?
Do we believe that they are honest until they destroy us?
I was a student in his classroom and as I was in his class I noticed he was a very intelligent indiviual. But there were comments sometimes said in the classroom that made me feel uncomfortable as a young female student living in this country that concentrates so much on racial discrimination. I feel that this story needs to be looked into a lot more with a lot more of HIS input instead of him dodging the media. I just think if he is so proud of this and that why can he not discuss it openly...just a thought.
If KSU administrators haven't heard any complaints about his classroom behavior, it's because they have their fingers in their ears.
I find their cowardice almost as contemptible as the jihadi professor's hatefulness.
IF HE STUDIES AND READS AND BELIEVES THE KORAN, WE SHOULD CUT HIS HEAD OFF JUST LIKE HIS KORAN TEACHES HIM TO DO TO US. GET HIM, BEFORE HE GETS US. WAKE UP AMERICA. WE CANNOT ALLOW THE ENEMY TO WORK FROM WITHIN.
I HAVE TRIED TO LEAVE SEVERAL COMMENTS, BUT APPARENTLY THE BLOG AUTHOR DOES NOT APPROVE. LET HIM STAY HERE AND THRIVE. HE CAN SAY WHATEVER HE WANTS. HE IS A GOOD AMERICAN.
I HAVE TRIED TO LEAVE A COMMENT BUT YOU WILL NOT TAKE IT.
He is Cuban-born and should be sent back on an air mattress. Fidel and Raul will show him what "free speech" means if he decides to call them or their soldiers "butchers", or if he incites citizens to "join the muslim resistance".
I would like to encourage you all to please sign this petition.
http://www.petitiononline.com/drpino/petition.html
The petition is good however the governor is Ted Strickland. Jerry, who makes the comment about the students who were killed at kent state, you need to read Brigette Gabreil's book "Because They Hate". This will open anyone's eyes as to what is coming. If you think this country is so bad, LEAVE!!! As far as j.pino, he should be brought up on treason charges. Kent state better open their eyes because I for one am going to make sure everyone who has kids at this university will know what is going on and my friends who planned on their kids going here will be made aware to seek other schools for them to attend!!!
Where are the other news media to cover this story? I plan to send letters to all board members at Kent State, the governor, senators, congressmen, state representatives and also local newspaper. I can't believe the school is closing their ears, covering their eyes and not speaking. Kind of reminds me of certain animals who did this. Wake up Kent State. I have alot of friends who "planned" to send their child to your schoool but maybe not now!!!
The university should quit being weak and playing it safe. They should fire him for being involved in treason. If nothing is done it will embolden other jihadists to flock to KSU. I guess the administration feels doing nothing would really help Kent's reputation of being a safe place for an education.
Its Kent State, what do you expect?
Can't Read, Can't Write, Kent State
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