Sign the petition to stop taxpayer employment of a terrorist sympathizer.

Colleges and universities, like the institutions of free press and free speech, are supposed to carry out their "need to know" functions in a responsible manner. Practically everyone would agree that the basic purpose of a college or university is to create new knowledge and teach both old and new knowledge. Few would also disagree that academic freedom might be an appropriate tool for accomplishing that purpose. However, sometimes the exercise of intellectual dissent under the guise of academic freedom is misguided and just plain wrong. For example :
Lover of Angels, apparently known to some as Dr. Julio C. Pino, Professor of Kent State University has attracted the gaze of anti-terrorist activists. While LOA hasn't shown anything but reasonable deference in his comments on this blog, (much obliged, Dr.) he has definitely used his own blog, a school computer to author the site global-war, as a stump for pro-islamofascism. His anti-American writings have many readers incensed and determined to see him removed from his post as a professor at a public university in Ohio. For a look at the petition making its way around the country, click here.

In one post, he prays for a hurricane of fire "to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their infidel dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire"

His poetry includes descriptions of the sailors who were bombed on the USS Cole. "The heads, arms, legs and other limbs of the bodies of the infidels flew like dust particles into outer space."

And if that doesn't give enough cause for alarm, he republishes previously released terror manual excerpts in his post, "How can I train myself for Jihad?"

For more information about LOA and his online antics, please peruse write-ups on the following sites:
Elmer's Brother
A Small Dose of Reality
Conservative Central
Movin Out, Moving On
Always on Watch
Sixth Column
Democracy Frontline
Infidel Bloggers Alliance

Most terrorists are surely aware of how easy it is to usurp, hijack, or exploit an academic infrastructure. Terrorists frequently benefit or receive value from academic debates over who is a "freedom fighter." Terrorists realize very clearly that academic freedom allows radical dissent which breeds intellectual support, and that this is a process they can count on. Professors who use the Internet to propagate their ideas are part of an additional problem, since terrorism is directly or indirectly supported this way.
What we need is for all professors to take seriously the 1940 American Association of University Presidents' Statement of Principles, which cautions them "not to introduce into their teaching controversial matter which has no relation to their subject" and to "remember that the public may judge their profession and their institution by their utterances."

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I tried to trackback and it appeared to work properly but doesn't show up here when I refresh the page. Maybe it will show up later.

There it is. :-)

I left a trackback that shows in the trackbacks popup but not in the main post body. ... ???

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No joy with trackbacks or comments. Will this one take?

The PAO Conversation

refreshed several times...Link shows in "trackbacks" but didn't appear on the open post... hmmm

You are linked to open post by:
Title:
Hamas Approval: Iran’s Energy & Bombs
URL:
http://mensa-barbie.blogspot.com/2006/04/hamas-approval-irans-energy-bombs.html
Excerpt:
VIDEO-link: Anwar Raja - PFLP Rep in Lebanon-"My brother, the Iranian representative sitting here, let me tell you that we, the Palestinian people, are in favor of Iran having a nuclear bomb, not just energy for peaceful purposes!"

Thanks :)