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| Professor's 'Death to Israel' Rant Sparks Controversy at Kent State | |
| 2011-10-30 | |
| A Kent State University professor allegedly with former ties to a jihadist website shouted "Death to Israel" at a public lecture delivered on the Ohio campus by a former Israeli diplomat. The outburst came during a presentation this week by Ismael Khaldi, a former deputy counsel general at the Israeli consulate in San Francisco. During the question and answer period, KSU history professor Julio Pino launched a series of provocative questions at Khaldi. At some point, the professor shouted "Death to Israel" and then stormed out of the building. The event was first reported by the KSU student news site KentWired. KSU president Lester Lefton, who is Jewish, denounced Pino's outburst, calling it "reprehensible and an embarrassment to our university." At the same time, he defended Pino's free speech rights. Problem with this. If clearly "hate speech" is "free speech", then why is it a criminal offense when used elsewhere? Does Kent State have a "hate speech code"?
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| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #3 In related news, visiting hours for 2009 Kent State alumna Lt. Ashley White Stumpf are this afternoon until 1800 at Marlington HS in Marlboro Twp. Her funeral is at 1100 tomorrow at St. Joe's in Randolph Twp. Stumpf, 24, was assigned to the 230th Brigade Support Battalion, 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team, North Carolina National Guard out of Goldsboro, N.C. Stumpf, who was a member of the cultural support team that works with women and children, was killed 22 Oct 2011 in Kandahar province. Several bombs were detonated near her position, killing her and two other soldiers. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-10-30 16:12 |
| #2 Obviously not a criminal offense at Kent State. From a related blog; One letter from Pino later appeared on a jihadist blog, www. global.war.bloghi.com, to which he told the KSU administration that he had contributed. The website no longer exists under that name. “You attack, and continue to attack, us everywhere,” read both the letter and submission to the website. “The ill done to the Muslim nations must be requited. The Muslim child does not cry alone; the Muslim woman does not cry alone; and the Muslim man is already at your gates.’’ The university fired his department head in 2007 when he allowed Pino to take a fully paid, six-week professional leave to the United Arab Emirates to learn Arabic. The university said John Jameson did not follow university protocol in approving Pino’s travel. Jameson said officials were anxious about further bad publicity about Pino and yanked his title and ordered Pino back to campus in retribution. In 2009, the U.S. Secret Service acknowledged that it was investigating Pino “as an individual who came to our attention who needed to be interviewed.” Resident agent in charge David Lee said then that officials went to Pino’s home in the “ongoing” investigation and declined to elaborate. Why does lifetime tenure exist? |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-10-30 16:02 |
| #1 Controversy, eh? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-10-30 15:59 |