Tenure is the worst idea in America.

C'Mon, K.S.U., C'Mon. . .

Send him back to his birthplace, Cuba, and let him work for "Average monthly salary: $17.00 " . . .

. . . paid in Cuban pesos that are worthless and there's nothing to buy with them (U.S. dollars needed to buy a starvation diet of wormy, expired food dumped by other countries).

Let him try to practice and spread his religion there, where police burst into church services and beat people who've spoken out for basic human rights. Or lock him up with his pals in Guantanamo.

Why has this man not been fired yet? As a Kent State alum, I vowed two years ago to not donate a penny of money to the university until they remove Pino. The vow still stands.

Pino is a piece of garbage, sucking off the public teat at the same time denouncing everything American. He wrote a poem glamorizing suicide bombers not too long ago, than backtracked in typical fashion when confronted about it. I hope he loses his job, he is no different than a klansman preaching hatred...just that its not politically correct to criticize his ilk. There's a job waiting for him as a PLO human shield.

@cloverfield: He hasn't been fired because he hasn't been found guilty of anything or broken any rules at KSU. Hope those pennies of yours are being used for something constructive.

I don't agree with his beliefs, but that doesn't mean he should lose his job. Let the authorities sort this one out.

OhioNewsHound...so you'd have no problem with a Klansman or member of the American Nazi Party teaching at Kent State? Please answer honestly, free speech applies to everybody...

Just what Northeast Ohio didn't need: Another embarrassment.

This man should be removed or at least stashed somewhere where he can't spread his hate to impressionable college students.

And we wonder why our public education system is going down the crapper..............with idiots like this teaching our youth. I'm glad my kid goes to OSU. Pulled a few years at KSU after my stint in the Army......could not take the anti-Amercian attitude.....had to change schools.

Kent State is nothing but liberal america at it's worst.

I think the man should stay. But only for the followin' reason.

We keep the liberal looneies as teachers in our public schools. Many have taught their political viewpoint to children much younger than those that attend a college.

As I recall, we read many stories nationwide that involved teacher's teachin' kids how bad Bushyboy and the GOP were. They still do today.

Iff'n we are to oust one, we should oust them all.

I'm not pleased to say I'm an alumni, graduated in 1968 about the time the left wing lunatic fringe was taking over. KSU has sence become a cesspool for these America haters. Tenure must go.

@OhioNewsHound, Grubby said it best. This is a university, not a trucking company. Story fabrication is not a crime, but you'll get fired for doing it if you're a journalist. Referencing weed on Facebook is not a crime, but you'll get fired for doing it if you're a high school teacher.

Students can be removed from enrollment at KSU for making a racist remark to another student, or for cheating on a test or plagiarizing a paper. How is it that a teacher, whose job is to help mold students' minds, can keep his job when using his influence to promote the enemy in a time of war? Pino would have been hung for treason in Lincoln's day.

This is a joke. The ABJ has run the same story for the past 5 years about Dr. Pino. All of you on here bashing him have nothing but these useless articles to fall back on. I had him for a Comparative Third World Revolutions class in the spring of 2006 at KSU. He was one of my favorite professors as an education major at KSU, as was the same for many of the students in our class. Even if students didn't like him, they still respected him. He did a great job of presenting different points of views then had us select of those POVs and write an essay about it (I truly believe this is what lacks in our educational system - the presentation of multiple points of view in history and politcs. Too often we just present the book's point of view). We had individual meetings with him inbetween each essay to go over our rough draft and he was always very helpful and never once tried to slam his thoughts and beliefs on us. Yeah, he cracked some jokes about Bush here and there, but who didn't? The next time the ABJ writes a story about him, I need to see some different information than was in the articles about him in the past 2-3 years. I definitely believe some of the letters to the editor he submitted to the Kent Stater made him somewhat of a target, especially the one about the female suicide bomber. I hope I'm never proven wrong, but I honestly believe this is a witchhunt and nothing will ever be found on Dr. Pino. He has a right to his opinion and as long as his opinions don't intrude on his teachings, Kent State has no reason to get rid of him. The history department and administration backed him when I was there and I believe they still will.

@ksualum07, the second I read the first four words of your entry, I could have stopped reading. I knew you would go on through the remaining 300 words ranting about how you had Pino in class, how he was nice, how he was a great teacher and how the students liked him.

So let me get this straight: the premise of your debate is KSU should keep Pino because students like him? There are a lot of priests out there that congregations liked. A lot of children liked Michael Jackson. And I know several USC fans who liked O.J.

Give me a break. It's not about a witch hunt with this guy. He was submitting entries supporting Jihad to a Jihadist website. He was writing editorials to the Daily Kent Stater supporting Jihad. Again, show me the Klansman or Nazi sympathizer who you will endorse to keep a teaching job.

Imus was fired for doing 1/1,000 of what Pino has, and Imus is paid to entertain! Pino is paid to mold minds. Glad to see he molded yours...

@ Cloverfield

Nope I don't believe KSU should keep him because students like him. I'm sure there are plenty of students that do not like him (especially because of articles like this that connect him to terrorism). There has been no clear cut evidence ever since 2005-2006 when this all broke out in the news. All I am saying is that KSU has no reason to get rid of him...yet. I'm not denying there isn't a possibility, but just because he responds to a couple of articles in the Kent Stater does not mean he is an extremist and is contributing to their cause. Don't you think if this guy was a real threat that they would have linked him to something by now? Seems a bit sluggish of a process to me for him to be as dangerous as these articles make him out to be...

how come you won't answer the Klansman analogy? What's the difference? I already know the answer, one is a fashionable hate group sympathizer, the other not. So if you had a professor that wore klan robes, made cracks about President Obama, but was a nice guy...you would support that? C'mon dude.

Liberal anti-American ideology pushed onto our students, funded with our tax dollars.

You're comparing a Muslim to a Klansman? That analogy is ignorant and absurd - that's why I didn't answer. Islam is a religion, that no matter how Americans view it, is a peaceful religion just as Christianity is. The KKK is a racist hate group that was geared toward white supremacy. So please don't insult me with a dumb analogy like that. Most readers probably think he's spreading propaganda through his classes. Well, I'm here to say he's not. That's it.

@ ksualum07 - Nice twist kid, but that wasn't the comparison ask of y'all.

Y'all bein' a college graduate and all, I better help y'all with this one. The question is:

Should any person that supports a hate group be allowed to teach in a college. Now that group can be the KKK or some radical muslum group.

Religion has nuthin' to do with the question. I believe the word sympathizer was used to clarify the question.

KSU is no more liberal than the man in the moon. They might like to think they are but that's just a bunch of phony hot air.

Comparative Third World revolutions. That sounds like a class that any anti-government anarchist would love to take. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Maybe that's why Pino is still at Kent State.

@ksualum07, Islam is a religion. Jihad is not. The Web site Pino was contributing hate pieces to was not a Muslim Web site. Had it been, no one would have an issue with him. It was a Jihadist Web site. Jihad is Islam's military, anti-American religious "duty." It aims to kill "infidels," which Muslims consider Americans, and all other non-Muslims, to be. Big difference.

Whether there is clear-cut evidence of Pino contributing to terrorism is not the question. Pino is guilty of writing and publishing pro-Jihadist, anti-American, pro-terrorism pieces. So the comparison is a lot closer than you think. If a professor were a klansmen he or she may not be killing or harming non-whites. Many pro-KKK supporters currently cause no physical harm to others. However, they promote an evil agenda, much like that of Pino's.

ksualum07, glad to hear he's not influencing students. I never said anything about being a Muslim, just that he supports a pro-war, suicide bomber blowin' up little kids, group while teaching at Kent State. Nice to see you are so tolerant you don't have a problem with a klansman professor either.

cloverfield said it better than me. My favorite part of all this is Pino is supported by the infidels tax dollars, these types never seem to have a problem with that.

@DavidT

...funded with our tax dollars....

Are you kidding? My tax dollars and yours only contribute 23% of total budget to "public" colleges and universities. The state of Ohio does not place a very high value on higher education.

I had a class with Dr. Pino. A grad class, in fact. At the time, late 90's, he was more an outspoken communist than radical islamist. I see he has changed his tone to the current revolutionary flavor of the month.

To KSUalum, I didn't respect Pino and here's why: he doesn't respect anyone that differs from his more enlightened opinions. His peers don't respect him either. Ask around.

KSU - - GET RID OF PINO NOW!!!!

I'm quite embarassed, as an alumnus of Akron U. (Ohhhhh, excuuuuuuuse me, I mean The University of Akron)to have our nearby friends from Kent State University referred to as if they were somehow to the Left of our own dear alma mater. Kent State has always been, and will always be a home away from home for well-to-do upwardly mobile yuppies. For comparison, look to say Miami or (not quite but close-by) Bowling Green. Now on the other hand, I am proud to say that Akron U. (WHOOPS! -- there I go again!) has throughout its proud history been the one university that could be afforded by the children of the working class who made Akron the great city it is today. I am most proud to say I have fought for the working class ideals I was raised on and which were nurtured at Akron U. (oh, heck, I just can't stop that, can I?). Now the only thing I can't figure out is how it was Kent State that managed to have such a strong chapter of the United Revolutionary Student Brigades. Oh, I guess it was because all us Akron U. (Oh, holy cow, what am I supposed to do with myself?) students were so busy trying to pay our tuition by working for near slave wages at the Acmes and MallWarts that are what our country seems to have degenerated into in the 21st Century. Well, at least we have a president in the White House at last who pays attention to the concerns and interests of we working class American citizens, unlike all the right-wing liberal Dems and moron Republicans who preceded him. In conclusion, I thank the gods that I'm from A-Kron Uh-hia, and done gradwated from da University of Akron -- which is what I understand they now call old Akron U.

Sounds like a witch hunt to me. Leave the man alone. 1/2 the country did NOT vote for bush whereas over 3/4 voted for Obama. Go Dems!

These type of things are exactly why I was as happy as could be to graduate from Kent when I did.

That campus is more liberal, tree hugging, and biased as ever. The overseas professors especially play favorites to the overseas students all the time. They have their own agendas.

Wow. I think Cloverfield said it best. Hate is hate, no matter what color skin you've got and regardless of what color robe you wear to preach in.

Last I heard, the KKK was 'only' trying to preach "white power", just like every other race tries to do. (OOPS. I said "white" and "power" in the same sentence---which isn't allowed) Unfortunately for the KKK, their past filled with hate crimes clings to their robes now and has become synonomous with senseless killing and ignorance.

Much like the Muslim extremists--where their turbans and veils have come to symbolize ignorance, intolerance, terrorism, and hatred to the infidels.

But it really isn't about the cloth they wear, is it? Its about the deeds they do or have done under the premise of "religion". I only wonder if the "Creator" meant to cause Holy Wars and killing over one's religion? I wonder how the Creator would feel today to know that more people have been killed in "His Name" than for any other reason in the history of mankind?

I doubt it was meant to be this way.

If this man is promoting Jihad, he needs to be DEPORTED. Sounds to me that these extremists want to keep him where he's at so they've got someone on the "inside".

Nancy, I think there's more to the story than just "Bush Bashing". If that were a crime, we'd all be deported.

He was an idiot.

Nancy D. Would you please ask your significant other to smack you in the mouth for me, please? BTW, Obongo did not get 3/4 of the vote. You REALLY need to get a little education. You make your type sound a lot more "stupidly" than you already are. BTW - "Stupidly" is an Obamaism. Bright guy, huh?

Nancy,

Shouldn't you be in a line somewhere for your daily Obama handout nd not at the computer desk?

(I know it was mean but I said it anyway)

Pino called Bush a cocaine cowboy huh? Sorry, but that is pretty funny. As far as the other stuff, he obviously isn't the sharpest tool in the shed.

@ KSUALUM07-Islam is a religion of peace? Really? Does not the word "Islam" mean to surrender? Historically, what has happened to societies and people that didn't "surrender" to Islam? Just curious.

does anyone know if this guy really supported the jihad?

if he is, he should be deported not just fired.