Jihad at KSU

An anti-Semitic situation occurred at Kent State on October 25,while Ishmael Khaldi, a Bedouin-Muslim Israeli, former diplomat and current advisor to Israel's Foreign Minister, was speaking about life in Israel from a Bedouin-Muslim perspective. Against all rules of procedure, tenured professor Julio César Pino first distributed literature to students and guests, advocating the boycott of Israel, and then challenged the speaker with propagandist lies and hate speech, shouting "Death to Israel."

Such behavior is not only unethical, but completely unacceptable by an instructor employed at any institution of learning. He advocated hate and death to the Jewish people. Imagine if someone were to yell death to Arabs and Muslims, or a word against Allah? CAIR would be at the door, with their accusations of Islamophobia, while inciting the Muslim Student Union to riot, carry signs, and even act out against attending Jewish students, as has already occurred at the University of California. Oddly, Associate Vice President Thomas Neumann called this freedom of speech, never considering the possibility of riots, dangers, and the kind of spontaneous reactions that are already known to Kent State. I checked Pino's background and lear4ned that he is an associate professor of Latin American History at KSU, who indoctrinates his students in his pro-Castro and pro-Sandinista politics and is an outspoken apologist for Palestinian terrorism and jihad. Honoring Castro's revolution in Cuba, Pino was an avowed Communist, accepting of totalitarianism. At UCLA, he blamed the United States for the poverty and deaths of Latinos. After a "crisis in faith," he became an alcoholic, left Christianity and, in his new persona Assad Jibril Pino, embraced the most extreme aspects of the world's most violent religions/cultures--Islam, on the face of this planet. In their war to conquer the west, Islamic jihad (holy war) is changing the face of Europe and America, and using many methods to delegitimize and annihilate Israel.

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Even if his behavior were controlled, it is mind-boggling that he could have been considered a trustworthy instructor of history and government at a US institution. Islamists consider Israel the "Little Satan" and America, the "Big Satan," and, inasmuch as he has already been outspoken about our country, I suspected his views and teachings of America were seditious, as well. Did school management ever sit in on his classes to determine what he was teaching to innocent students, children of parents who support democracy and paid to have Kent be responsible for what entered their young and impressionable minds? The answer could well be "yes," inasmuch as Pino had admitted his ties to a terrorist website that promoted anti-Semitic violence and genocide of the Jewish People. As guest columnist for the campus newspaper in 2002, Pino submitted a martyr's tribute to Ayat al-Akras, a teenage Palestinian suicide bomber who had murdered two Israelis at a Jerusalem supermarket on March 29. He insulted President Bush and called for boycotts of Israeli and American products. In 2005, Pino wrote a letter in praise of the University of Colorado's professor Ward Churchill, a member of Weather Underground, 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 President John F. Kennedy planned the genocide against the Cuban people during the 1962 Cuban Crisis; that President Bill Clinton killed "more than 500,000 Iraqi children," and that George W. Bush was responsible for the death of 100,000 in retaliation against Saddam Hussein. He refers to his KSU students as "little jihadists" and his "beloved Taliban," and there can be no doubt that his intent is to indoctrinate, not merely educate, his students to the Communist revolutionary activities of Fidel Castro and the Sandinista regimes. Yet despite his known activities over the years, the "professor" maintains his post. John Jameson, professor and chair of the history department, acknowledged that Pino contributes articles to "Global War, a self-described jihadist news service. Journalism professor Tom Smith defends Pino's right to disagree with our government, but when do we understand and acknowledge that tolerance of intolerance is not tolerance at all, but complicity in the commitment of evil and annihilation of our culture. What does it take to grasp that our tolerance could turn to anarchy? Pino violated several employee codes of conduct, by

• failing to maintain a professional demeanor and integrity;
• deceitfully distributing anti-democratic political material;
• by acting discourteously and disrespectfully to the visiting speaker, and possibly scaring any Jewish students and faculty in attendance; and
• indulging in discrimination, disrespecting the differences of people, ideas, and opinions.

Contrary to the operational procedures, his behavior was not the exercise of free expression or speech, but a way of fomenting hate and uprising by students who were influenced, perhaps brainwashed, to sympathize with his teachings. Campuses of the University of California have already experienced rioting, resulting in injury to some students. The school's acceptance of this level of instructor bodes a physical danger to the students, and a threat to our nation. Mild criticism and calling this the exercise of free speech allows the recognition of evil, and an acceptance of the evolution of speech into provoking and instigating action. As an American citizen who treasures our republic and our Constitution, I demand Pino be immediately dismissed from all current and future positions, and that the University conduct a thorough investigation into those who were condoning and/or supportive of this treacherous, jihadist professor, for there was obviously a very serious error in judgment when Pino and those in agreement with him were hired.