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Kent State University professor under FBI investigation for allegedly recruiting students to join the Islamic State

Jan 20, 2016 8:36 am By Robert Spencer

Aside from possibly recruiting students for the Islamic State, Julio Pino is no different from hundreds of professors all over the country, indoctrinating students to hate America, hate Israel, and welcome the advancing jihad. Actually, those professors are recruiting for the Islamic State themselves, but more indirectly.

Julio Pino

“Kent State University professor under FBI investigation for alleged ties to ISIS,” by Christopher Brennan, New York Daily News, January 20, 2016:

The FBI has been investigating a controversial Ohio professor for alleged involvement with Islamic State terrorists.

Students and colleagues of Kent State History academic Julio Pino have been interviewed after concerns that he could be recruiting pupils to join ISIS, an unnamed FBI agent told student paperKentWired.com.

The associate professor told the site that he does not support Islamic State and has never discussed the group in his classes.

Pino, who is teaching two classes this semester, generally focuses on Latin America and is currently working on a study of African Muslim slaves in Brazil during the 19th century.

He said that he has not been contacted by either the authorities or Kent State about the investigation against him, though an FBI spokeswoman confirmed it to the Daily News….

The Secret Service said in 2009 that it was looking into Pino “as an individual who came to our attention who needed to be interviewed,” according to the Akron Beacon Journal.

Facing another investigation, Pino told Kent Wired, “My current status is that I’m a citizen of the United States with all the rights and obligations that that entails. I follow the law.”

“I advocate that others do as well, and I ask others to respect my freedom of speech as I respect theirs.”

Pino, who has been at Kent State since 1992 and has tenure, previously made headlines nationwide for controversial opinions on the Middle East.

The pro-Palestine professor yelled “Death to Israel” during a speech by former Israeli diplomat Ishmael Khaldi in 2011, which led to public criticism from then-university president Lester Lefton.

In 2002, he wrote a eulogy for a teenage Palestinian suicide bomber published in the student newspaper….

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  1. Tom says

    Jan 20, 2016 at 9:02 am

    Wrong!! He is being investigated for sedition. It is an act of treason to plot, recruit or act in consort with enemies of the United States. We are under attack from Isis and the Muslim states. I am tired of hearing it is a peaceful religion. It is a violent religion and it must be tamed.

  2. Singh the Sikh says

    Jan 20, 2016 at 9:43 am

    Singapore has shown to deal with islamist trash once and for all:

    Singapore deports Bangladeshi Islamists:

    http://www.news.com.au/world/breaking-news/singapore-deports-bangladeshi-islamists/news-story/a9fb002ee379840c7e1aef9721a06952

    • Mike says

      Jan 20, 2016 at 8:03 pm

      Good on ya Singapore.

      A country I have more and more sympathy for, seeing what they have to deal with.

    • Paulina says

      Jan 21, 2016 at 2:50 pm

      I am not surprised at all that Singapore deported them. Singapore always strive for the best; number 1 in math and science, (followed by Hong Kong, S.Korea, Taiwan, and Japan), high GDP per capita, practically no unemployment and corruption. As a non-Muslim from Southeast Asia, I can see that countries like Singapore, Hong Kong, S. Korea, Taiwan, and Japan will not put up with Muslim terrorism and will not be fooled into believing that those healthy Muslim young men with iPhone are refugees. They don’t have the PC mentality. The characters and integrity of these Asian countries leaders remind me of those of our Founding Fathers and Civil War leaders, and I don’t see them in the current Western leaders.

  3. Mark Swan says

    Jan 20, 2016 at 10:04 am

    I wonder if His Mom knows He has her Dress on again…snappy dresser that he is and so bright
    and sharp looking too…no wonder He is a Kent State University professor…nothing but the best
    for our higher education…look how far we have come with progressive thinking…looking good…
    keep up the good work…go boy go.

  4. Rich says

    Jan 20, 2016 at 12:05 pm

    “Tin soldiers and Nixon coming.
    We’re finally on our own.
    This summer I here the drumming.
    Four dead in Ohio.”

    Will Kent State again be the scene of the beginning of the counter-revolution in this country? This time against Islam?

  5. Angemon says

    Jan 20, 2016 at 1:12 pm

    Pino, who is teaching two classes this semester, generally focuses on Latin America and is currently working on a study of African Muslim slaves in Brazil during the 19th century.

    Refreshing how it may be that he’s not talking about slavery in the USA, when discussing Brazil and slavery, African muslim slaves are the first thing that pops into one’s mind, isn’t it? Not African Christian slaves, or African Animist slaves, or even slaves in general. Heck, the enslavement of native Brazilian tribes? Screw that! Let’s just focus on African muslim slaves on 19th century Brazil.

    Anyway, let me guess: he’s praising islam and the Revolt of the Malês while ignoring that slavery was widespread among the native tribes of Brazil long before the Portuguese set foot there. He’s also leaving out who captured those muslim slaves in Africa and sold them to the Brazilian plantation owners.

    “I advocate that others do as well, and I ask others to respect my freedom of speech as I respect theirs.”

    Looking at his clothing and actions, he strikes me as the kind of person who would be found trampling over others to be on the frontline saying “Hate speech is not protected speech!”.

    The pro-Palestine professor yelled “Death to Israel” during a speech by former Israeli diplomat Ishmael Khaldi in 2011, which led to public criticism from then-university president Lester Lefton.

    In 2002, he wrote a eulogy for a teenage Palestinian suicide bomber published in the student newspaper….

    Charming fellow, ain’t he? I wonder if he already gave his shahada to allah?

    • Well Done says

      Jan 21, 2016 at 1:23 am

      Slavery wasn’t just a Brazilian thing before Europeans. North American natives had a nasty habit of raiding neighboring tribes, slaughtering who whomever they felt like, and taking women and children as slaves. Look it up – though it may have been scrubbed in favor of the “noble savage” myth the academic left have been selling.

      • Angemon says

        Jan 21, 2016 at 3:02 pm

        I’m aware of that, Well Done. Scalping was not an European tradition adopted by Amerindians in North America , and the scalp of a woman or children was more valued than the scalp of a man – anyone could kill and scalp a man on the battlefield, but scalping a woman or children meant they’d won the battle and raided their opponent’s camp. I only mentioned Brazil because that’s what Wormtongue over there is working on. I’d bet my last dollar that his work makes slavery look even worse than what it was, blames it on Europeans and Christianity, and praises islam for opposing it.

  6. Solomon says

    Jan 20, 2016 at 1:31 pm

    The pro-Palestine professor yelled “Death to Israel” during a speech by former Israeli diplomat Ishmael Khaldi in 2011

    If Pino had instead yelled “death to Islam” he’d have been fired on the spot. Not even tenure would’ve saved him.

  7. epistemology says

    Jan 20, 2016 at 5:52 pm

    Obviously another terrorist recruiter. I assume he’s a convert to Islam. He looks so stupid and someone like that is professor. He has to be told muzzies were the first ones to enslave people in Africa and there are still black slaves in Mali and Mauritania. Why does nobody see that Arabs are racists? They despise black people.

  8. More Ham Ed says

    Jan 20, 2016 at 6:09 pm

    Hey, it’s

    http://www.thereligionofpeace.com

    doncha’ know.

    The Latest Misunderstandings of Islam.

  9. Mike says

    Jan 20, 2016 at 8:02 pm

    Looks like the gov’t didn’t do a good enough job at Kent State in the ‘Nam days…

  10. abad says

    Jan 20, 2016 at 8:57 pm

    Goodbye to Obama, the king of Quraysh
    Seein’ me and Julio down by the ka’aba

  11. Solomon says

    Jan 20, 2016 at 10:50 pm

    Saw a segment about this piece of camel sh/t on Fox about an hour ago. One thing not mentioned in the Daily News article above is that an independent probe found that Pino recently posted this on Facebook page:

    “Sheik Osama (May Allah be Pleased with Him) was the greatest, and desrves (sic) praise for kicking off this jihad.”

    Pino (a Cuban-born convert to Islam) should not only be fired, he should be imprisoned for inciting jihad.

  12. mortimer says

    Jan 21, 2016 at 12:05 am

    Western elites can’t get a handle on Islam because they RESOLUTELY REFUSE TO INFORM THEMSELVES by reading Islam’s SOURCE TEXTS.

    They would catch onto Pino’s act right away if they had read the Sira and hadiths.

  13. richard courtemanche says

    Jan 21, 2016 at 11:17 am

    Well, stop wasting money bureaucratically! Jail and deport.

  14. Lioness says

    Jan 21, 2016 at 2:21 pm

    Just look at him! Should a professor in the United States university look like this guy, dressed in medieval islamic garb? That says it all. Deport this scum to his original garbage hole where he came from.

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