A Kent State University faculty member accused of authoring an anti-American Web site said Thursday he "absolutely" does not support jihad, even though his photo and writings by him appear on the site.
Julio Pino, 46, said he calls the truth as he sees it.
"I am not the issue," he said calmly as he prepared for a class in Afro-Latin American History in KSU's Business Administration building. "The issue is free speech."
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The site also includes a letter that Pino wrote under his name last year to the student-run newspaper the Daily Kent Stater. The same letter on the jihadist Web site is attributed to "Lover of Angels" but does not mention Kent State or Pino.
"You attack, and continue to attack, us everywhere," reads the letter on the Web site and in the student newspaper. "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 Web site attributes three other postings on its speech page to the unidentified Lover of Angels, one of which reads, "Bush, why don't you tell your people that your soldiers are committing suicide, taking drugs and hallucination pills to make them sleep? By God, your dreams will be defeated by our blood and by our bodies."
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Saturday, March 03, 2007
Julio Pinto hides behind 'free speech'
Kent State professor Julio Pinto writes for a jihadi website, global-war.bloghi.com. His picture is also posted online. When called on his radical views, the apparent terror supporter had this to say:
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