Well, I just read Amanda Garrett's article about Dr. Pino and his relationship to the Global War blog.  You can read the article at cleveland.com  It is clear that the info we sent to Amanda has been sanitized and smacks of lawyerese.  Amanda emailed each of us fearing that the paper would be sued for libel and asked if we would be willing to testify about what we knew.  Without hesitation I offered an affirmative response.  However, the flash to bang time between her email requesting that we all verify willingness to testify and close of business Friday, when she handed her article over the paper, was so short that I do not know if she got replies from each of us in time.  Either way, this goes to another issue about the litigious nature of our society when papers refuse to print the truth for fear of being sued.  Since I already posted what I thought should happen to Lover of Angels, I won't go into that again, but suffice it to say that this is not a personal vendetta of any sort.  The fact is that the best weapon we have in any war is information.  Wolves in sheep's clothing are more of a problem than AK-47s.  Only when we see our enemy clearly can we successfully engage.

I titled this post "Why electronic jihad will succeed" because as you will see below, the evidence is clear that Dr. Pino is the author of the Global War blog.  His writing is clearly incindiary and violent and calls on others to join jihad against America.  Not against Bush and the military.  Against America.  This is not a partisan issue.  And yet, apologists crawl out of the woodwork to support Pino's academic freedom and his free speech.  MIke Adams made an excellent point with his latest satire by showing that while we won't tolerate hate speech against African Americans, some will defend Pino's right to dance in the streets of our own country every time a soldier dies or to demand the overthrow of America and support the institution of sharia law.  To those apologists, I say, enjoy your freedoms while you have them, because fascism doesn't play favorites.  And if you refuse to stand up against speech like this, the day will come when you can no longer stand at all.

Okay - back on topic...

Some things need to be clarified:

None of the group who spoke to her fears Dr. Pino.  His committment to his cause can be measured in the nanoseconds it took for him to deny affiliation with his own words at Global War.  He's not going to blow himself up.

What we do fear are the simple minded idiot choir boys who may follow Pino's preaching.  The loose cannons whose numbers all over the world indicate with frequency that they believe beheading is an appropriate response to, oh I don't know, anything.

Further, Amanda's article has a sympathetic feel towards Pino, something we expected from the Plain-Dealer. In all of her biographical descriptions of Pino walking along Brazilian beaches and even her references to his violence supporting poetry, she never actually cites any of the outrageous quotes we provided her.  She cherry picked two quotes from emails - one sympathetic and one ominous but not even remotely close to the disgusting calls for American deaths that were available to her.  That she included the most outrageous of Mike Adams' quotes as a representative of Pino's opponents shows incredible bias. 

The story was so watered down and filled with "they saids" and "it appears" that it read like it was prepared for a middle school textbook so in an effort to clear up the misconceptions, I'm offering an intel dump:

In this post by an 18 year old student named Raisa,  Lover of Angels, the author of Global War, signs his name: Assad.  Since Assad asks about Raisa'a family we can assume they know each other outside of the virtual world.

Raisa, Raisa! Kafka e' o genio que fala as almas perdidas. Luta sem fim! Essa e minha vida agora.
Espero que o livro (qual romance ou conto voce esta lendo?)lhe estimula a' acao absurda. E' a logica que nos destroi.
Voce segue estudando? Como vai sua familia? Eu tenho um mes mais de ensinar, e planes de viajar a' Turquia em Agosto. O Brasil tem que esperar.
Mando abracos e encorojamento
Assad

Comment by Lover of Angels— 2006/04/05 @ 06:34 PM — (Reply)

But that's hardly proof.  There've got to be a lot of guys named Assad who speak Portuguese and Spanish and who planned to visit Turkey and perhaps Brazil last summer.  Lots of them probably idolize terrorists.  How many of them do you think are blogging from Kent State?

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URL : http://elmersbro.bloghi.com/2005/12/14/another-salvo-this-one-in-the-land-of-oz.html#comment-13688

Author : Lover of Angels (jpino@kent.edu) Author URL : http://global-war.bloghi.com/ Sent to : elmersbrother@yahoo.com

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Memo to Oz: (expletive deleted), suck Howard's tiny (expletive deleted), and while your at it, stick your own up yer mother's (expletive deleted).

That's Ohio tax dollars at work, folks.  And speaking of his job, let's see what Global War has to say about the American education system.

The Link

Kuffur Kraziness: Schools Designed to Turn out Dumb Robots

@ 09:59 AM (7 days, 6 hours, 34 minutes ago)

Even if they were cleared up, schools would still suck. Why? Because they were designed to.
It's no secret that the US educational system doesn't do a very good job. Like clockwork, studies show that America's schoolkids lag behind their peers in pretty much every industrialized nation. We hear shocking statistics about the percentage of high-school seniors who can't find the US on an unmarked map of the world or who don't know who Abraham Lincoln was.
Fingers are pointed at various aspects of the schooling system—overcrowded classrooms, lack of funding, teachers who can't pass competency exams in their fields, etc. But these are just secondary problems.

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Given the support Pino has gotten from the administration at Kent State, I'd say this post was uncomfortably accurate. 

Lest Dr. Jameson and others at Kent State be confused and think this is merely leftist rhetoric, Dr. Pino explains, quoting the Koran, why good Muslims cannot be friends with non-believers.

The link.

Why not Take the Kaafir as Friends? 19 Reasons

@ 10:21 AM (15 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes ago)

  1.Accepting their kufr (disbelief) and doubting that it is kufr at all, or refraining from labelling them as kaafirs, or praising their religion. Allaah says about the kufr of the one who accepts them (interpretation of the meaning): “… but such as open their breasts to disbelief…” [al-Nahl 16:106]. Allaah says, making it obligatory to label the kaafirs as such (interpretation of the meaning): “… Whoever disbelieves in Taaghoot [false deities] and believes in Allaah, then he has grasped the most trustworthy handhold that will never break…” [al-Baqarah 2:256]. Allaah says about the munaafiqoon (hypocrites) who prefer the kuffaar to the Muslims (interpretation of the meaning) “… [they] say to the disbelievers that they are better guided as regards the way than the believers (Muslims).” [al-Nisa’ 4:51].

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