Death to Israel.

[abu_tamim]

Al Salamu 'Alaykum.
Kent State Professor Julio Pino shouted Death to Israel at the first Bedu Israeli diplomat. Here is more about Julio Pino and his conversion: Julio Cèsar Pino is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of History at Kent State University, specializing in Latin American History.

Pino was born in Havana in 1960, the year after Fidel Castro’s rebel forces first entered the city during Cuba’s Communist Revolution. In retrospect, Pino states that "the Revolution brought justice" made manifest by "the improvement of the lives of my relatives” and by a host of "positive economic and psychological transformations."

In 1968 Pino and his family moved to Los Angeles, where he attended parochial school. Due to a crisis of faith arising from what he perceived to be Christians’ support for the Vietnam War, Pino in the early 1970s transferred to a public high school and became an agnostic, a position he would retain until finding Islam more than two decades later.

In 1980 Pino enrolled at UCLA, where he majored in history with a specialization in Brazilian studies. “The 1980s posed terrible and challenging tasks for Latinos on campus,” Pino recounts. “Our brothers and sisters in Central America were being butchered by American-trained death-squads daily. Poverty and unemployment inside the United States surged while the rich grew fatter under the presidency of Ronald Reagan.... Quickly, I turned into a cynic, and like many burnt-out politicos, took to drink.”

Disillusioned with Catholicism and Christianity generally, Pino in 2000 became a Muslim after reading The Qur’an on a plane ride. “All religions claim they are more than just a religion but a complete way of life, but only in Islam is this vow fulfilled,” he says.

The incident can be read about here: Shining Blades.