I just posted Mike Adams’ latest two columns (read first | read second. Our agreement with him calls for an annoying delay in our publication (!), but wouldn’t you know it, in the meantime, it’s been all the talk over at Fox News Channel—including on Bill O’Reilly’s show and Brit Hume’s.
Here’s a story written yesterday at FoxNews.com:
Kent State Professor Gets Threats After Being Linked to Extremist Islamic Web Site
An Ohio history professor who wrote a controversial article about a homicide bomber in 2003 has received threats after a blog linked him to an extremist Islamic Web site.
A column written by Mike Adams posted on Townhall.com
[well OK at ProudToBeCanadian too but we’re lowly canooks]
linked Julio Pino, a Kent State University associate professor of history, to the Jihadist blog.
“We will write ‘Jihad’ across our foreheads, and the stars,” the Web site says. “The angels will carry our message throughout the world.”
Kent State on Thursday distanced itself from the blog.
“We have no evidence that this Web site is authored by Pino – that is not his picture on the site, and it contains no reference to him or to Kent State. In any case, there is no connection between this site and the university,” reads a statement issued by Kent State.
When FOX News called Pino, he refused to confirm or deny that the Web site was his. He also refused to condemn the encouragement of holy war on the site, saying he would not comment on his political views.
But in an interview with FOX News on Thursday, Adams said if Pino really has no affiliation with the blog, he would just come out and say it.
“The suggestion is of course that he has put up another picture there,” Adams said. “Basically a person is not going to go on a Web site and put their picture and do it for a long time. He has been under suspicion and he’s been under focus now for several years.”
Kent State said there have been no complaints registered about Pino’s classroom “conduct or demeanor, by students or other instructors.”
Pino, a Cuban-born Muslim convert, told the Cleveland Plain Dealer he was aware of the Web site and that its comments, articles and information were compiled from many sources. He had no further comment.
Click here to read the Plain Dealer story.
“It would be a very simple matter to come forth and deny it, he can’t do that because the accusations are true,” Adams told FOX News. “He should be arrested and investigated and then we should determine if there is enough evidence to move forward with the trial.”
[…] “It is clearly promoting violence and it goes far beyond free speech into the realm of treason,” Adams said.
In a somewhat related kind of tidbit, a faithful PTBC reader named Maureen sent me an email informing me that good Calgary Sun columnist Licia Corbella (I’ve quoted her here and pointed to her column a dozen times—see search) wrote a column Wednesday in both the Calgary Sun and the Edmonton Sun and the Ottawa Sun and I’m guessing others too, amazingly in the same form and substance as my blog entry a few days earlier (read my Feb 24 entry here, and Corbella’s Feb 28 column at the Calgary Sun here). Ms. Corbella didn’t mention my name or blog entry so maybe she simply happened to have thought of exactly the same thing and and used the same info as me. That happens all the time.
Then, the venerable LifeSite.net picked up the story. Upon a review of the timing between my blog entry and her column, the editors there saw fit to add a link to my web site at the end of their story, crediting me with bringing the topic up, saying: ” ProudToBeCanadian blogger Joel Johannesen first raised the issue of Suzuki’s violating Canadian tax laws Saturday here:
http://proudtobecanadian.ca/6371/ “.
Thanks LifeSite!
UPDATE:
Mike Duffy raised the issue today on CTV’s Newsnet show “Mike Duffy Live” with his guest… David Suzuki! He told Suzuki that “many Conservatives” had raised the issue at a function on Wednesday night in Ottawa, with some commenting that perhaps Revenue Canada should look into his political activities and his charitible status. Suzuki evaded the issue.
PTBC was founded by Mr. Johannesen in 2000.
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