a small dose of reality

When is the announcement of the official pino investigation going to be made public.  There is so much smoke, one has to suspect a fire.  Take a look:

In response to "Jihadist's trail may lead to KSU" (Sunday):

As a wise person once wrote, the U.S. Constitution is not a suicide pact. Our constitutional right to freedom of speech does not extend to speech that undermines the very political system that makes this freedom possible. However, if Professor Julio Pino of Kent State University has his way, we will all be living under Islamic law, and we will no longer enjoy any of the rights we have under our Constitution, including the freedom of speech that Pino has invoked to protect his jihadist writings.

Indeed, KSU should have fired Pino after it found out that he published a poem praising a Palestinian suicide bomber and that he runs a blog that promotes violent jihad and applauds the deaths of U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Instead, the university granted him tenure and said that Pino is entitled to "academic freedom." The simple fact, of course, is that if Pino and his fellow jihadists were to win their war against the West, there would be no academic freedom in universities, since such freedom contradicts Islamic law.

It is a shame and a scandal that the taxpayers of the state of Ohio are being forced to pay the salary of a man who is hiding behind the freedoms granted by the Constitution in order to subvert them.

James Schneider and Mary Schneider Avon Lake

The jihadist story is a chill ing reminder of the hate that surrounds us.

Professor Julio Pino, the self-professed man of "faith" and "Lover of Angels" also calls himself "the most dangerous Muslim in America" and refers to suicide bombers and mass murderers as his heroes. And Kent State University still allows him to teach impressionable students?

The leaders of KSU should be ashamed of themselves for continuing to employ Pino. I can understand the university respecting the First Amendment right to free speech. But the university should take action on two other counts: first, the safety of its students; second, educational integrity. I would not want my children sitting in the classroom of a man who not only celebrated the killing of two innocent civilians, but also wrote a poem about it. A man who celebrates death should not be around students.

But he is also implementing poor historical and pedagogical practices. If you are going to teach about the Middle East conflict, but you only offer the Palestinian viewpoint, you are doing students a disservice by not presenting the case of Israelis.

Teachers must present all sides of a complicated issue and allow students to draw their own conclusions and find their own truths.

Brooke Collier, Moreland Hills

Click HERE to see what Kent Staters are currently saying about pino

Please join the voices of these and hundreds of thousand of other Americans and don't stop until Kent State throws pino out.

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