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Robert Spencer in PJ Media: DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson Speaks at Convention of HAMAS-LINKED Group

Sep 6, 2016 4:52 pm By Robert Spencer

Johnson told the Muslim Brotherhood-founded ISNA of their “quintessentially American” story. My latest in PJ Media:

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It was bad enough that Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson spoke at the annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a group with demonstrable ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.

But what he said made it even worse.

What is ISNA? According to Discover the Networks:

[ISNA] was established in July 1981 by U.S-based members of the Muslim Brotherhood with a background as leaders of the Muslim Students Association (MSA). As author and terrorism expert Steven Emerson puts it, ISNA ‘grew out of the Muslim Students Association, which also was founded by Brotherhood members.’ Indeed, Muslim Brothers would dominate ISNA’s leadership throughout the Society’s early years.

The Investigative Project on Terrorism adds that, in a 2008 court filing, ISNA and its affiliate, the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), did not deny evidence of their ties to Hamas and the Brotherhood, but simply argued that the evidence was old.

Nonetheless, Jeh Johnson chose to speak at ISNA’s convention last Saturday. First, he assured the crowd:

Tonight I will not talk to you about counterterrorism.

Then, the theme of Johnson’s address was that Muslims in the U.S. were unfairly targeted for discrimination and harassment, and that he was on their side. His principal argument that this (unsubstantiated) targeting is unfair? Nothing but his denial of the painfully obvious link between Islam and terrorism:

You have heard us, before multiple audiences of different political stripes, refuse to bend to the political pressure to call terrorism “Islamic” extremism. We know that ISIL, though it claims the banner of Islam, occupies no part of your religion, which is founded on peace.

He knows that? How does he know that?

Having declared that terrorism has nothing to do with Islam, Johnson was able to dismiss concern about Islam in the U.S. as just another manifestation of the ugly prejudice that, he said, had made life difficult for other immigrant groups in the past:

Your story is an American story, told over and over again, generation after generation, of waves of people who struggle for, seek, and will eventually win your share of the American dream. Know the history of this country and you will know that — whether it’s Catholic Americans, Jewish Americans, Mormon Americans, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Japanese Americas, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, or Muslim Americans — this will be true.

Yes, you remember when Catholic Americans, Jewish Americans, Mormon Americans, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Japanese Americas, African Americans, and Hispanic Americans flew those planes into the towers, and bombed the Boston Marathon, and murdered 13 Americans in cold blood at Fort Hood, and four in Chattanooga, 15 in San Bernardino, and 49 in Orlando, and tried to commit mass murder at Garland, and in so many other places.

You remember those global terror organizations made up of Catholics, Jews, Mormons, Irish, etc. committing acts of violence around the globe, and threatening the imminent conquest of the U.S. and the rest of the free world.

The Obama administration’s solicitude flows entirely one way, towards Muslims as victims of discrimination – which, according to the administration’s own hate crime statistics, is a false and inaccurate claim anyway. Meanwhile the jihad advances, as do Islamic supremacist attempts to assert Sharia norms over American norms.

Johnson had nothing to say about such things, or about the unaccountable phenomenon of so many Muslims in the U.S. adhering to the version of Islam that Johnson assures us is un-Islamic.

And then there were Johnson’s fellow speakers.

Among them was Yasir Qadhi, who has taught that Muslims can freely take the lives and property of non-Muslims in jihad:

The life and property of a mushrik [one who worships others besides Allah] holds no value in the state of jihad … which means if they don’t say la illaha illa Allah, their lives and property are halal [can be taken by Muslims].

Dalia Mogahed spoke as well. Obama’s former adviser on Muslim affairs once appeared on a British television show aired by pro-Sharia group Hizb ut-Tahrir, where she said: “Sharia is not well understood and Islam as a faith is not well understood.” How have we misunderstood Islamic law? We have associated it with “maximum criminal punishments” and “laws that … to many people seem unequal to women.” The Western view of Sharia was “oversimplified,” she claimed: most Muslim women worldwide, she said, associate it with “gender justice.”

Another speaker was Tariq Ramadan.

French journalist Caroline Fourest, in her book Brother Tariq, notes that Ramadan is “remaining scrupulously faithful to the strategy mapped out by his grandfather [Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Banna], a strategy of advance stage by stage” toward the imposition of Islamic law in the West. She explains that he invests words like “law” and “democracy” with subtle and carefully crafted new definitions, permitting him to engage in “an apparently inoffensive discourse while remaining faithful to an eminently Islamist message and without having to lie overtly — at least not in his eyes.”

And then there was the celebrated Khizr Khan….

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  1. miriamrove says

    Sep 6, 2016 at 4:55 pm

    He is shameless to say the least. m

    • Angemon says

      Sep 6, 2016 at 8:36 pm

      Like the rest of the Obama administration.

      • Mark Swan says

        Sep 8, 2016 at 3:23 am

        President Obama appoints first Muslim-American to be federal court judge.

        http://www.dw.com/en/obama-appoints-first-muslim-american-to-be-federal-court-judge/a-19532765

  2. Champ says

    Sep 6, 2016 at 5:06 pm

    In the famous words of Donald Trump, “You’re fired!”

    Hey I can dream can’t I …

    TRUMP 4 President!

    • Jay says

      Sep 6, 2016 at 6:45 pm

      LOL!!!!!!!!!!!! Couldn’t have said it better, but in today’s America, it’s more like “you are hired!”

      • Champ says

        Sep 6, 2016 at 11:15 pm

        “…but in today’s America, it’s more like ‘you are hired!’”

        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

        So true, Jay!

  3. LJ Bays says

    Sep 6, 2016 at 5:15 pm

    It is unbelievable that Islam is given a pass as a religion of peace. After my reading of the Quran, the Sira and the Haddith it is clear the origin of this cult was to create religious cover for a murdureous mysoginiatic pedophile Arab. I have money says Johnson has read nothing of Islam source books

  4. Trico (@tricolorro) says

    Sep 6, 2016 at 6:28 pm

    Speaking to a Hamas linked group is just warm up practice for Obama Puppet Jeh Johnson.
    The Criminal Enterprise known as the Obama Administration is going all out to steal this Election from Donald Trump.
    Back in July, DHS Head Jeh Johnson stealthily spoke out and without naming names called Donald Trump a danger to National Security and unqualified to be President.
    “ASubtle Takedown Of Donald Trump By Homeland Security’s Jeh Johnson”
    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/subtle-takedown-donald-trump-homeland-securitys-jeh-johnson/
    –
    Then Jeh Johnson followed that up by recently declaring that the Election may have to be considered “critical infrastructure” and therefore DHS should take over the Election process.
    “Homeland Eyes Special Declaration To Take Charge Of Elections”
    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/homeland-eyes-special-declaration-to-take-charge-of-elections/article/2600592
    –
    After Donald Trump recently declared he believed the Election would be rigged in favor of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama publicly rebutted Trump’s accusation and knowingly or unknowingly revealed how Obama & the DNC are planning to steal the Election.
    Did you catch the reveal?
    –

    • Kay says

      Sep 6, 2016 at 11:28 pm

      No . . .

  5. Shan Lim says

    Sep 6, 2016 at 7:26 pm

    The truth about islam is out there on the internet for anyone with a finger or two of finger-work to spare. This willful blindness and the inability to perceive evil is evidence of the dark power that is inherent in islam which bought their souls, such that to them good is evil and evil good.

    • linnte says

      Sep 6, 2016 at 8:26 pm

      And because information about Islam is so readily available, even free downloadable Qur’an, people who don’t take the time to find out what Islam is, yet still SUPPORT it make me crazy. It’s like voting for a Politician without knowing their platform. Insanity.

  6. underbed cat says

    Sep 6, 2016 at 8:06 pm

    I wonder if J ever gets nervous at Isna meetings after all the baseball cards…..knock knock who’s there.

  7. Gerold says

    Sep 6, 2016 at 8:34 pm

    Off topic, but FakeBook manipulates the Jihad Watch links I post. Rather than expanding to the title, they just accept the link so FB ‘friends’ worry about a virus and don’t click. In future I’ll cut & past the title. Also, another commented that he “was asked by FB if it was what I was looking for.”

    • biff says

      Sep 6, 2016 at 8:58 pm

      People reading Facebook are already lost souls.

      They are living in Zuckerberg’s walled garden of approved ideas and group think.

    • linnte says

      Sep 6, 2016 at 9:02 pm

      The book of Faces has been making it so I cannot “like” a post that concerns Hillary, Islam or Trump. It’s Facebook law that if you don’t “like” a certain persons or groups posts you will eventually stop seeing them. It makes me wonder about how people see MY posts. I don’t get many comments on them lately. 🙁

  8. biff says

    Sep 6, 2016 at 8:51 pm

    Jeh not John?

    Is this like Muhammed, Mohammed Mahammed?

  9. Kay says

    Sep 6, 2016 at 11:02 pm

    Well,
    they have an alternate meaning for “peace” and now also for “justice.”

    Anyone who converses with them–and any journalist worthy of the name–really should ask them to define words.

    The way they twist words is infuriating and scary.

  10. Kay says

    Sep 6, 2016 at 11:04 pm

    I’m wondering what is the “action” they were called to.

  11. Trico (@tricolorro) says

    Sep 6, 2016 at 11:18 pm

    Islam related but off the Jeh Johnson topic. I thought you might enjoy this:
    –
    Trump Supporter and Advisor Lt. General Michael Flynn plays doctor and makes a Medical Diagnosis of Islam:
    “TOP TRUMP MILITARY ADVISOR, Lt. General Michael Flynn, says “Islam is a cancer and not a real religion”
    “Islam is a political ideology,” Flynn said. “It definitely hides behind being a religion.” “This Islamic ideology was something the American Founding Fathers wanted nothing to do with.””
    http://www.barenakedislam.com/2016/09/06/top-trump-military-advisor-lt-general-michael-flynn-says-islam-is-a-cancer-and-not-a-real-religion/
    –

  12. Sam says

    Sep 6, 2016 at 11:31 pm

    Are you sure this guy is Obama in disguise? Because this is exactly what he would say to a Muslim crowd.

    I see he works for Obama. I got it now.

  13. Will Richards says

    Sep 7, 2016 at 2:42 am

    Is this Obama’s game…filling so many senior government posts with blacks with sympathies towards Islam, and a propensity for lying? Thank God that duplicitous black muslim will soon be out of office…I just pray that the mentally ill serial liar Clinton doesn’t replace him, since she should be in prison

    • carol says

      Sep 7, 2016 at 9:24 pm

      Will

      Maybe the BLACK COMMUNITY weren’t paying attention at the DNC when HAITIANS passionately DENOUNCED Bill and Hillary and their Clinton Foundation.

      The details are in a video by Breitbart based upon the book CLINTON CASH: http://www.breitbart.com/clinton-cash-movie/

  14. Michael Copeland says

    Sep 7, 2016 at 4:31 am

    “You have heard us …. refuse to …. call terrorism “Islamic” extremism”.
    Jeh Johnson

    “The Qur’an directly commands us to commit terrorism….”
    Ragab Hilal Hamida,
    Egyptian MP, in the Egyptian Parliament, January 2006.
    http://www.libertygb.org.uk/news/ideology-killing

  15. Baucent says

    Sep 7, 2016 at 5:05 am

    He’s a master of the contemptuous look is our Jeh. The arrogance of the man is breathtaking.

  16. duh swami says

    Sep 7, 2016 at 8:29 am

    J.Edgar Hoover wrote a book called ‘Masters of Deceit’, about communists…
    Masters of Taqiyya is the new version…When the upper crust of gov spouts taqiyya, it is treason in high places…

  17. Kadok says

    Sep 7, 2016 at 9:47 am

    The fact remains the same, while all terrorist may not be muslim, all of the mass shootings that have occurred under Obama have been muslim.

  18. Florida Jim says

    Sep 7, 2016 at 10:43 am

    Jeh Johnson is a slimy lowlife democrat raping blacks along with the other race=baiters and getting rich in the process. He should be shunned.There is not one decent person under Obama they all smell like
    Chicago. I defy you to name one.

  19. Fred says

    Sep 7, 2016 at 6:28 pm

    Jeb Johnson sold his soul to the devil for a cushy job, pension, and benefits.

  20. Airborne869 says

    Sep 7, 2016 at 10:59 pm

    ISLAM IS NOT FOUNDED ON PEACE

    NO WONDER HILLARY IS NOT BE PROSECUTED…

    SEEMS SATAN HAS BLINDED Jeh Johnson

  21. John A. Marre says

    Sep 8, 2016 at 1:00 pm

    Must be part of Obama’s “muslim outreach”

  22. RickMT says

    Sep 8, 2016 at 8:28 pm

    If his wife or one of his children or grandchildren were “banged” by a group of resettlement refugee muslim men (European style), what words of nonsense who this idiot utter? What drives these people? Is it the money, power, or the chance to rub elbows with big league American haters? Oh well, when it’s over, he can follow barrack over the cliff to Mecca.

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