Jihad Professor at Kent State, Update
Charles Johnson
Thu Mar 1, 2007 at 1:09 pm PST • Views: 538
According to the Beacon Journal, Kent State associate professor Julio “Assad” Pino does not “accept ownership” of the vile jihad-spewing web site that was the subject of this LGF post yesterday.
But he has “provided news stories” to it. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
An Internet story on Wednesday identified a Kent State faculty member as the author of a jihadist news service on the Web.
The Drudge Report story accused Julio “Assad” Pino of posting “Global War” at global-war.bloghi.com. Pino, 46, a Muslim convert and associate professor of history at KSU, did not return phone calls seeking comment.
His department head, John Jameson, defended him as a good teacher and said the allegations in the story appeared to have been blown out of proportion.
He said Pino told him he provided news stories to the Web site but didn’t accept any ownership of it.
The Web site does not name the originator, but a photo of a bearded man there is not of Pino, the description of the originator does not fit Pino and none of the postings on it can be tied to Kent State, Jameson said.
That’s right, the photo at that site is not Pino. It’s Ahmed Ibrahim al-Haznawi, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11.
UPDATE at 3/1/07 2:32:53 pm:
Markedmanner Blog has much more information: Julio Pino teaching Jihad at Kent State.
Frank says: