Johnson has said this before, on more than one occasion. And despite manifesting an abysmal ignorance of the contents of the Qur’an, Johnson claims to have read it, and that it reminds him of quintessential American values. More proof that he hasn’t really read it.
Graham’s point is excellent: “Even more disturbing (and once again, watch the video for yourself), Johnson says he can’t call Islamic terror ‘Islamic terror’ out of deference to American Muslims because they won’t cooperate with homeland security efforts if he does. So the head of DHS believes American Muslims will stand by and watch their fellow Americans die in bomb blasts over a vocabulary dispute?
“DHS Chief: Don’t Call it ‘Islamic Extremism’ Because it Doesn’t Have Anything to Do With Islam,” by Michael Graham, The Weekly Standard, August 2, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
Department of Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson says that the Islamic State wants to be viewed as Islamic, but they aren’t.
During an interview at the Aspen Security Forum, the interviewer asks if Johnson and DHS are missing the religious dimension of the terrorism we face by denying that it’s inspired by Islam. “I couldn’t disagree more,” Johnson says.
Disagree with what?
Even if you buy Johnson’s intellectually feeble claim that the Koran-quoting, Allah-praising, Halal-keeping members of Islamic State have “no connection to Islam,” they certainly believe they do. Denying a connection between al Qaeda and Islam would be like denying any connection between the Christian Identity movement and Christianity. The typical Christian understands that, which is why they don’t object.
Even more disturbing (and once again, watch the video for yourself), Johnson says he can’t call Islamic terror “Islamic terror” out of deference to American Muslims because they won’t cooperate with homeland security efforts if he does. So the head of DHS believes American Muslims will stand by and watch their fellow Americans die in bomb blasts over a vocabulary dispute?…
Judy Miller says
And Johnson has no interest in Homeland Security.
umbra says
J.J., head of the new department of homeland stupidity?
john spielman says
JEH JOHNSON reminds me of Homer Simpson -DOH!
umbra says
That would a little harsh on homer, for while he is a fumbling fool, he somehow sets things right in the end.
Huck Folder says
:…he can’t call Islamic terror ‘Islamic terror’ out of deference to American Muslims because they won’t cooperate with homeland security efforts if he does.”
How about the NINETY EIGHT PERCENT indigenous Americans (that excludes worshipers of mo and their umma) don’t buy your cheap-shot taqiyya – Jeh Johnson? While you’re touching your toes and brown-nosing moslem butt for all you’re worth (an empty acorn shell) you’re flipping the bird to that vast majority.
EYESOPEN says
What does he care about that? Besides, he takes his orders from the HmIC (Head muzlim In Charge).
cyberhackster says
cyberhackster —- Another blathering Obamaite
Shane says
He’s lying, just as Obama is lying. The left has decided to protect Islam from any criticism.
Jaladhi says
The Obama parrots repeat what they are taught!! LOL>>>.
Papa Whiskey says
… Johnson says he can’t call Islamic terror ‘Islamic terror’ out of deference to American Muslims because they won’t cooperate with homeland security efforts if he does. So the head of DHS believes American Muslims will stand by and watch their fellow Americans die in bomb blasts over a vocabulary dispute?
Muslims in America will definitely stand by — because there is no such thing as an “American Muslim.” Consider the remarks made in a speech at Columbia University on Sept. 18, 2008 by then Secretary General of the OIC Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu:
The Muslim Ummah, means the ‘community of the faithful’. It is a unique bond that has no similar example under any other political or religious system in the world. It is a belonging to ideals which bring Muslims together in an eternal brotherhood lock which transcends all other consideration of allegiance or loyalties or barriers of nationhood, ethnicity, geography or language.
Jack says
Very well stated PW and true. I began warning people about this Fascist Ideology back when if I said we would have a Muslim in a key position like this Liar in the video in the federal government I would have been laughed at, what I warned people about has come true, now it will get worse much worse. This is Stealth Jihad. Most Americans non-Muslim never heard of Stealth Jihad much less understands it. The Liar in the video Jeh Johnson understands it, that’s a type of it, spread lies and help their Violent Jihadists in Secret ways. Make no mistake our children will have to deal with this enemy of Freedom. When one considers that all Muslims must participate in a form of Jihad such as done in secret as in Stealth Jihad, it makes Moderate Muslims a Oxymoron and it is. Old Jeh supports the Muslim Brotherhood the evil group Obama tried to set up in Egypt but the Egyptian military and some others were too smart for them. Muslims have almost fourteen hundred years of ISIS like atrocities against the innocent and this Muslim Freak expects us to believe his lies that Islam is a good religion.
PRCS says
I imagine you’ve heard news “personalities” and the current crop of Republican presidential candidates as they discuss “radical Islam/Islamists”, “extremism”, “radicalization”,
“homegrown terrorists”, etc.?
Unless and until they slip up, and use accurate terminology, we don’t know if they’re stupid or just parroting the company/political line.
Until courageous folks with a media presence tell them–on air (at a debate for example)–that they’re confusing a written ideology with the desire and ability of individual Muslims to either comply–or not where that’s possible.
Johnson is attempting to convince the interviewer that Muslims in America (remember that idiotic program “All American Muslims”) know more about Islam than, say, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi.
I was on a conference call with Senator Graham last Friday and asked him to explain the difference between “radical Islam” and written, Orthodox Islam.
His response was pretty much the same as good ole’ Jeh’s.
Firebug says
Yeah, this idiot thinks he knows more about Islam than Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi PhD.
mortimer says
Koran 8.60 – “Terrorize them.” (Arabic – ‘Turhibunna’)
duh_swami says
Well, Joe Biden could tell him a thing or two about the religion that doesn’t really exist…You want to know about true American values, read the Quran…I did that and my appreciation of the American way of life increased a lot…There’s nothing like reading the Quran to stimulate patriotism and a love for America.
Jack says
I have studied this Fascist Ideology in depth, when their numbers become sufficient in their host country they become highly political, making it a Fascist Highly Political Ideology. For almost 1400 years Islamist have committed continuous ISIS like atrocities on the innocent, checkout the countries that weren’t always Islamic dominated and you’ll find that these fools turned what were formerly decent countries to live in into Islamic Hell-Holes. The birth rates of Muslims in America are something like Muslims 8 non Muslims 2 this alone shows what’s it’s going to be like for non-Muslims in this country and that doesn’t take into consideration the numbers being converted and those coming here by the millions, yet we have church groups such as the Catholics and Lutherans lobbying for more Muslims to come here while they aren’t helping the thousands of Christians being slaughtered in Islamic countries. God said He would pick their delusions for those who didn’t want to accept His Truth, this is the only logical explanation for the actions of so many foolish people in this country today.
Andrew Lore says
Exactly right! When they get to about 20% they start their demands for separate government within their host governments…and then the violent extreme side starts becoming a daily theme.
mortimer says
Jack’s right on target! “For almost 1400 years Islamists have committed continuous ISIS-like atrocities”.
Johnson needs to read that statement dozens of times until it sinks it. Your statement is massively true and accurately reflects Islamic history from its very start.
Johnson should read ONE book on Islamic history: maybe the truth of normative Islamic terrorism will sink in.
Jaladhi says
Test!
Matthieu Baudin says
It’s a cheap lie to claim to have read the Quoran when you’ve done nothing of the sort. To think that Johnson then has the hide to prattle on, trying to take the moral high ground, when in effect he’s an ignorant pretender leading us nowhere.
mortimer says
He obviously hasn’t read the Koran with any understanding…perhaps he read a ‘selection’ of Koran verses. The Koran has hatred on practically every page. 64% of the Koran is hate speech: Allah hates the kafirs and Muslims are commissioned to fight and kill them. (The Arabic root ‘q-t-l’ means both ‘fight and kill’.)
Johnson needs to learn just one Arabic word ‘q-t-l’ and then read all the Koranic verses that contain that root.
ich says
Jesus was not just some prophet or a “moral teacher”.
Moral teachers do not lie.
He claimed to be God. So if hes not-he was a liar or a nutjob,
I believe he was God and I also believe Islam is pure evil.
Muhammed has an abysmal record.
You can see the fruits in the angry faces of Islam.
They barely smile !!
Jack says
They have nothing to smile about, when they look at a non Muslim all they see is an object, something they feel far superior to. This is truly a religion of hate, yet the foolish Christians claim we worship the same God. Even Muhammad believed that the entity that he met in that cave was Satan or a Demon, according to Arab records his wife and families members had him to believe it was an angel from God, no way this was a message from God, the difference between Islam and Christianity is like day and night, because Islam is Darkness. Islamists fits the Apostle John’s definition of antichrists, they claim Jesus was just a prophet and they claim it’s blasphemous to claim God had a son. Ask yourself a question what Biblical character hates God’s people; Jews and Christians it’s Satan these are the people the Islamists hate with a vengeance, The Iranian Ayatollahs and other Muslim clerics have stated many times what must be done for a world Caliphate: Kill all the Jews, Take Jerusalem and Wipe out Christianity by any means necessary and they have the nerve to claim it’s a religion of peace.
Edward says
Islam is a political/religious ideology; that ideology is fundamentally based on concepts that the Koran is the prime purveyor of Islam that envisions survival (Jihad) for its adherents. The DHS chief: “Don’t call it Islamic extremism, it has nothing to do with Islam”, which is sheer bunk! Its gobbledygook crap is said to derail the thoughts of morally clear thinking people.
Here is an excerpt from a website that has compiled 164 Jihad Verses from the Koran that is enthusing the concept of survival in an evil manner. An evil act is written on Koran 9:111 that positively makes a connection to the so called “religion of peace” and Islam’s Jihad movement. The Jihad movement is intertwined in the Koran. Islam’s survival is very much depended on the Jihad movement concept…PERIOD!
Peaceful Islam has been “Islamic extremism” since its inception 1400 years ago, unless the Koran has been abrogated heavily to make it a more hawkish/evil religion during prevailing years.
http://www.answering-islam.org/Quran/Themes/jihad_passages.html
164 Jihad Verses in the Koran
Koran 9:111 …”they fight in Allah’s way, so they slay and are slain…”
Angemon says
Is he a closet convert or what? What’s his major malfunction?
Know Thy Enemy says
I don’t think Jeh is a convert. He is simply parroting the political line. However, he is correct to state that Muslims (stealth jihadis) will not cooperate with homeland security efforts if they percieve that Islam is being maligned.
We (the counter-jihadis) need to acquaint ourselves with the mindset of ‘peaceful’ Muslims. They are taught that the most important thing in the world is Islam. When Muslims are strong, they are to spread Islam and impose it on others. When they are not strong then too they are to spread Islam via whatever means feasible. When Islam is under threat, they MUST protect Islam by whatever means feasible.
In all three above mentioned situations, Muslims must make sure that Islam’s image is maintained as “good”, and they must do whatever it takes to achieve that. If it means denying every single thing written in the Quran then they must do even that! It is ok to lie even to other Muslims if that will improve Islam’s image in their eyes. Of course when lies fail to work, then threats of violence, peer pressure, and shaming are employed. Bottomline: Islam must stay safe, and it must eventually win.
Hence we would not go wrong if we remember the following regarding what Muslims (including the ‘peaceful’ ones) consider to be most important- 1) Islam, 2) protection of Islam, and 3) Islam’s image. Nothing and no one is more important, not even the lives of other Muslims are more important no matter how pious they are. Heck even the lives of their mothers is not more important than Islam and its image.
‘Peaceful’ Muslims are aware that in today’s world, terrorism is frowned upon, and that most people are suspicious about the connection between jihad and terrorism. So how to protect Islam’s image? By denying that terrorism has anything to do with Islam or its concept of Jihad, and even by agreeing to cooperate with our anti-terror efforts, but on a condition– that we too deny any links between Islam and terrorism and help maintain the good image of Islam! If we fail to do so, Muslims will refuse to cooperate and will go one step further- they will accuse us of not wanting ‘peaceful’ Muslims to cooperate.
I hope the above gives an understanding of one of the primary reasons why our ‘leaders’ just plain deny Islam having any connection to anything bad, and why they repeat the “Islam is a great religion” mantra. It is all part of maintaining Islam’s ‘good’ image. Few of them have any clue that that they are only playing into Muslims’ hands.
underbed cat says
Muslim president begets, muslim CIA director, begets muslim Homeland Security, begets muslim senator, begets muslim congressmen, begets muslim assistants, begets muslim mayors, begets muslim ….. doctors, begets muslim students, begets muslim student associations, begets Boston bombings,begets Fort Hood, begets, warehouse workers, begets mosque building, begets, interfaith outreach, begets muslim protests, begets muslim professors, begets muslim studies, begets muslim police chiefs, begets muslim bridge builders, begets muslim airport security, begets muslim pilots begets missing planes, begets muslim teachers, begets, carbon studies,begets carbon tax, begets restrictions on U.S. oil production,begets no oil production,(except in muslim countries),begets Islamic Sharia law, begets ISIS, I just had the worst dream….but don’t worry Islam have nothing to do with muslims…..and Christians had nothing to do with Crusades….
mortimer says
Dear UC, The Crusades were a response to the jihad against Christendom after half of Christian countries had been invaded, all shipping on the Mediterranean was harassed by Muslim pirates and both Rome and Constantinople were under constant attack from jihadists. Whenever Muslims were victorious over Christians, they made piles of heads. While the Crusaders were often undisciplined mobs (rather than professional soldiers), most of the million casualties from all the Crusades were due to illnesses. However, jihad has resulted in 270 million deaths and there are presently dozens of jihad deaths every day.
You need to learn more about history.
underbed cat says
Dear Mortimer, I do understand, ” the Crusades were a response to the jihad against Christendom after half of Christian countries had been invaded”, ….and “were under constant attack from jihadists”. The last line was a sarcastic response due to the many denials of those who say there is no connection ….sort of both wrong.
I agree, I need to learn more on history.
mortimer says
MAGICAL Ayatollah Johnson, renowned INSTANT scholar of Islam, informs Muslims about what they REALLY believe about Islam…without reading a single book about the JIHAD DOCTRINE. Wow!
He should continue this trend by pontificating to Americans about EVERY TOPIC HE HAS NOT STUDIED! Nuclear physics, brain surgery, Russian verbs, cetacean morphology, Sumerian architecture.
We breathlessly await his next INSTANT revelations based on his of superior intellect which is greater than that of all Mohammedan scholars COMBINED!
Why learn anything, when you have MAGICAL Ayatollah Johnson?
Teresat says
This is treason, folks.
Zammana says
…and yet the President feels justified in calling the Crusaders “Christians.” No they weren’t – from all accounts, they were not acting anything like Christ – . On the other hand, ISIS is behaving very much like Muhammad…
Shmooviyet says
Will these people -Jeh J. and his like-minded ilk in politics and media- EVER realize that a great many people just aren’t buying this load anymore, regardless of how hard they shovel it? Those who’ve actually read the koran are often the ones who will tell the inconvenient and brutal truths about the book, and the ideo-religion in general.
Seems you can detect if someone from this gang has really read the thing, by listening to what THEY claim they got from it. (Unless of course, they have read and agree…)
vox populi says
what is he waiting to go to Raqqa to teach isis what “real islam” is, then ?
and why then, if the slandering of islam is such a potential offense to all muslim, do muslim tolerate it so easily, UNLESS it happens in US, UK or EU ?
duh_swami says
It’s an insult to Mahoundiahns for kuffar who have studied the subject, to tell them what their religion is and is not…but it’s a lot more insulting for kuffar who have never cracked a book to do it…Most of these kuffar like Jeh, don’t even know Mahound’s mothers name was Hillary. The discriminating Mahoundian has only two choices…anger or laughter at these stupid infidels..
dbd says
Google up the DHS organizational chart. The scope, reach, and power of DHS is awesome…and frightening. Customs, border protection, citizenship, immigration, coast guard, FEMA, the secret service, and transportation security, all fall under Jeh J’s scope and authority.
Additionally, as Sec of DHS, he has a support staff of over 15 sub-departments (directorates) which seem to touch on very nearly every facet of United States sovereignty, security, and law enforcement.
Muslim immigration to the U.S. is clearly encouraged by Obama, and Jeh J is his most powerful tool to facilitate this stealth immigration. I say stealth, because most Americans don’t have a clue that this is happening.
Muslim immigration to the U.S. is promoted by those to whom it is a money making business, by those who think that it is the only humane thing to do, and by those who simply hate this country and would be perfectly content to see it weakened and morphed into a second Malmo.
The American Muslim Community, by its very definition and belief, does not and will not assimilate. It is a petri dish which spawns murderers who butcher us in our homes, in our places of work, our soldiers in their billets, and our children in their homes and schools.
Simple math. More Muslims, more depredations. Jeh J answers only to Obama, and is contemptuous of congressional oversight. What to do?
Beth says
More proof that he hasn’t really read it.
That makes him a liar. Or, if he has read it, – then he is worse than a liar. Either way, – he has blood on his hands. With his support (and that of so many others) – Islam is spreading and so will the bloodshed. In my eyes, – that makes him a murderer. Even worse than a murderer – when I think about what the Beslan school children went through.
MikeT says
The essential point here is that the violence perpetrated in the name of islam is [ital.] islamic fundamentalism. That is a more apt label, and drives to the heart of the matter.
Davegreybeard says
@duh_swami
“…You want to know about true American values, read the Quran…I did that and my appreciation of the American way of life increased a lot…There’s nothing like reading the Quran to stimulate patriotism and a love for America.”
I found it to be so as well. Kind of strange actually.
Makes you think God really does have a sense of humor.
I found it also increased my appreciation of Jesus Christ.
Though, not so much of our current crop of Christians, unfortunately.
I think more Christians should read the Quran.
Tan says
Yes! More Christians, Muslims, & others should read the Qur’an to discover the devilish and double-face (taqiyya) of the Islamic ideology. It’s a religion of war (Sura 9:5; Sura 9:29), not a religion of Peace.
Kasey says
What sort of an ignorant goose is this guy? The more he appeases the Muslim population the more they will demand, and if they don’t then get what they want, certainly will become more aggressive to American culture.
Luciano says
Johnson is another political hack of the Obama administration. He is ignorant and an ideologue. The sooner that he and this administration is put out to pasture the better America will be.
albert says
Islam is nothing if not terrorism, the Koran has passages invoking terror, Muhammad spoke of spreading terror, Islamoterrorism is the result of believing in Allah ( the moon demon ) and following the example of the murderous paedophile.