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January
8, 2008
My
Anti-Feminist Fatwa
by Mike S. Adams, Ph.D.
In
2004, Elizabeth Ervin, then-Director of the
UNC-Wilmington Women's Resource Center (WRC) sent a
mass email to some feminists participating in a
discussion on a list serve at Dartmouth College.
Under the subject line "I need some support!" she
complained that a group of feminist speakers coming
to give a talk during Women's History Month
(formerly known as "March") had received death
threats. She suggested I was responsible for the
death threats. Ervin said:
"
I'm tired of having to pay so much
attention to a guy who lies and distorts and smirks
and issues anti-feminist fatwa!"
In response to her accusation that I had
encouraged death threats, another feminist
suggested that letters be sent directly to me
showing support for the WRC. To this, Ervin
responded with the following:
"I want there to be some negative consequence
for him, but as long as he can turn everything into
a column and stir up his readers (and let them do
his dirty work for him), then I'm not sure there
will be."
Here, Ervin backs off her claim that I directly
ordered the death threats. She instead suggested
that I allowed them to be issued on my behalf. In
other words, mine was a sin of omission, not
commission.
Ervin's defamatory accusations are simply
ludicrous for several reasons:
1. Christians do not issue "fatwa." Only members
of the "religion of peace" issue "fatwa."
2. I have not engaged in any act of
violence since March of 1988. When assaulted, I
simply took care of the situation myself without
sending a mass email under the subject line "I need
some support!" While I regret the physical injury
suffered by my attacker, I could not prevent it
because, at the time, I was a liberal and did not
have a gun that would have sent him running before
any altercation occurred.
3. It is unlikely that any death threat was ever
issued in 2004 to any WRC speaker. I suspect
that Ervin made up the entire incident in order to
get attention and funding for the WRC. UNCW has
suffered an epidemic of fake crime stories in
recent years -- fake burglaries, rapes, robberies,
and assaults. Virtually all of them have been
staged by women seeking attention. Many of these
women believe that the ends (feminizing the campus)
justify the means (lying about the persecution of
women).
But fortunately for Ervin and her feminist
support group I have done some research and I've
have actually found a college professor who issued
a real fatwa. Since a) the professor issued the
fatwa against Marxists and, b) most feminists are
Marxists, this should give the ladies on the
Dartmouth College feminist list serve something
productive to do -- as opposed to falsely accusing
non-violent Christians of issuing (or encouraging)
death threats.
Read carefully the following excerpts of an
email sent by Kent State professor Julio Pino to a
Marxist list serve based in Utah:
- Subject: A Fatwa on Louis
- From: Julio Pino: jpino@kent.edu
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:01:37
-0700
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- Woe, excuse me homes, I didn't realize
that to post an opinion on the Marxism List one
needed to print academic credentials first. But
you asked for it. Should you want a complete
record of my publications on Brazil, Marxist
pedagogy, etc, I'll supply that too.
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- Julio Cesar PinoResearch
ArticlesRefereed
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- "Fernando Ortiz, Gilberto Freyre and the
Myth of Mulataje." The Cuba Project, Queen's
College and Graduate school, City University of
New York, 2000.
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- "Caribbean Culture Zones". Encyclopedia
of World Geography. 2000.
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- "Fidel Castro." Cuba. Edited by Louis A.
Perez. The Oryx Press.2000.
-
- "Raúl Castro." Cuba. Edited by
Louis A. Perez. 2000.
-
- "Fidel Castro." 20th-Century World
Leaders.1999.
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- "Fidel Castro." The Sixties in
America.1999.
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- "Bay of Pigs Invasion." Great Events from
History: North American Series. 1997.
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- "The Bay of Pigs Invasion Repulsed."
Censorship. 1997.
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- Ya, suficiente Mi Senor? I get paid to
teach and write for a living. Get
it?
-
- Touche! That means my only recourse is to
issue a fatwa: The Moderator of the "Marxism
List" and all those who willingly help him
conduct it are hereby sentenced to death.
al-Asad Ibn Pino
It should be noted that Julio Pino uses several
names on the internet when spreading his message of
mass murder and violence. Among them are "Al-Assad
Ibn Pino," "Julio Assad Pino," "Julio Cesar Pino,"
and simply "Julio Pino." Further note that the
moderators of the aforementioned Marxist list serve
chose to delete the last few characters of his Kent
State email address, presumably for privacy
reasons. I chose to undelete them because I am
confident that jpino@kent.edu is the only email
address registered to a "Julio Pino" beginning with
the first five characters "jpino" used to author
emails using more than one of the common internet
names for Kent State's Julio Pino.
If I am wrong, feel free to sue me for
defamation, Julio. Your reputation is
worthless.
It is probably about time for my readers to get
back in touch with Kent State's Provost (provost@kent.edu)
to see whether the university still defends Julio
Pino and insists that he uses no university
resources to advocate mass violence.
Hopefully, the ladies on the Dartmouth College
feminist list serve will help me do my "dirty work"
by joining in my mission of working against, not
for, the issuance of death threats by university
professors. I guess you could say "I need some
support!" in fighting real, not manufactured,
threats of violence.
Adams
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Mike
S. Adams was born in Columbus, Mississippi on
October 30, 1964. While a student at Clear Lake
High School in Houston, TX, his team won the state
5A soccer championship. He graduated from C.L.H.S.
in 1983 with a 1.8 GPA. He was ranked 734 among a
class of 740, largely as a result of flunking
English all four years of high school. After
obtaining an Associate's degree in psychology from
San Jacinto College, he moved on to Mississippi
State University where he joined the Sigma Chi
Fraternity. While living in the fraternity house,
his GPA rose to 3.4, allowing him to finish his
B.A., and then to pursue a Master's in Psychology.
In 1990, he turned down a chance to pursue a PhD in
psychology from the University of Georgia, opting
instead to remain at Mississippi State to study
Sociology/Criminology. This decision was made
entirely on the basis of his reluctance to quit his
night job as member of a musical duo. Playing music
in bars and at fraternity parties and weddings
financed his education. He also played for free
beer.
Upon
getting his doctorate in 1993, Adams, then an
atheist and a Democrat, was hired by UNC-Wilmington
to teach in the criminal justice program. A few
years later, Adams abandoned his atheism and also
became a Republican. He also nearly abandoned
teaching when he took a one-year leave of absence
to study law at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1998. After
returning to teach at UNC-Wilmington, Adams won the
Faculty Member of the Year award (issued by the
Office of the Dean of Students) for the second time
in 2000.
After
his involvement in a well publicized free speech
controversy in the wake of the 911 terror attacks,
Adams became a vocal critic of the diversity
movement in academia. After making appearances on
shows like Hannity and Colmes, the O'Reilly Factor,
and Scarborough Country, Adams was asked to write a
column for the Heritage Foundation's
Townhall.com.
Today
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as a teacher and a writer. In his spare time, he
loves spending time with his wife, Krysten. He is
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