Firstly, who cares what Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has to say about Islam or anything else. I mean, he is the secretary so why listen to a guy who makes copies and coffee for the office?
Okay, alright, just a little humor (very little) to begin a difficult article; actually the word secretary derived from the fact that secretaries kept the secrets.
Jeh Jonson made the Sunday news show rounds on February 22, 2015 AD in order to act as an Islam apologist and to beg for money.
John Roberts sat in for Chris Wallace on FOX News Sunday and noted that “the president’s executive action on immigration is holding up a bill in Congress that would keep the Department of Homeland Security funded past next Friday, the 27th.”
Johnson stated that some are extending “defunding our executive actions to my entire Homeland Security budget…But you should not tie that to the funding for the third largest department of our government…we need a fully funded Department of Homeland Security…there are some who want to defund our executive actions…let’s get on with funding the Department of Homeland Security.” Well, you get the picture.
So, how does he plan of heading the department which is in such desperate need of even more of our money?
The most disturbing thing he presented was a window into his mind. He is either a straight up deceiver who has, in turn, been straight up deceived himself or he is literally a very, very, very simple low laying fruit sort of “thinker.” What is all this about? He spoke for himself in stating the following within the context of, Barack Obama being “criticized from a number of different fronts, for not calling this a battle against Islamic extremism. Why won’t he acknowledge that we are fighting Islamic extremists?”
Here is some of the back and forth:
JOHNSON: Well, first of all, from my perspective, whether it’s referred to as Islamic extremism or violent extremism, what it comes down to is ISIL is a terrorist organization that represents a serious potential threat to our homeland which have to be addressed militarily and through a whole of government approach, which is why homeland security these days is so important, law enforcement here in this country, our countering violent extremism efforts in this country. We had a summit about that this week.
So, it is a dangerous terrorist organization that has to be dealt with —
ROBERTS: But is this —
JOHNSON: — from my perspective.
ROBERTS: — not a religious ideology —
(CROSSTALK)
Now, note the terms I will emphasis for emphasis:
JOHNSON: Well, let me say this. In our engagements around the country, I do a lot of these myself — in Muslim communities, Islamic cultural centers, in places like Minneapolis, Boston, L.A., Chicago, Columbus, Ohio, the thing I hear from leaders in the Muslim community in this country is, “ISIL is attempting to hijack my religion. Our religion is about peace and brotherhood and ISIL is attempting to hijack that from us.” And they resent that.
Most victims of ISIL are, in fact, Muslims.
So it seems to me that to refer to ISIL as occupying any part of the Islamic theology is playing on a — a battlefield that they would like us to be on. I think that to call them — to call them some form of Islam gives the group more dignity than it deserves, frankly…that’s what I’m hearing from the Muslim community in this country…to call them Islamic, to call them any form of Islamic gives them too much dignity, in my view, and in the view of a lot of Muslims around the world.
Just for the sake of accuracy, here are similar talking points parroted by Jeh Johnson on Meet the Press:
I’ve done a number of these engagements myself in Minneapolis; Boston; L.A.; Columbus, Ohio; Chicago. When I meet with Muslim community leaders, they all pretty much tell me the same thing, which is that, “ISIL is attempting to hijack my religion. Islam is about peace. And ISIL is attempting to hijack our religion, what we’re about.”
And, so, to me, to call it Islamic extremism dignifies ISIL and gives them space in Islamic religion that they don’t deserve, and I don’t believe Muslim leaders think they deserve. And, so, ISIL is a very dangerous terrorist organization that represents a serious potential threat to our homeland. We’ve got to respond militarily. We’ve got to respond through law enforcement. Frankly, I’m more concerned about how we respond in our counterterrorism efforts than which two words we call it.
And, of course, Chuck Todd follows up with another line he has been told to say, “Your department runs out of funding at the end of the week, on the 27th of February…”
You get the picture? He takes comfortable tax payer funded working vacations around “the country…this country” a not the Middle East and goes to Muslim communities and Islamic cultural where he hears from leaders in the Muslim community. He does not go to university departments or other research based organization and does not hear from those with opposing views.
So, Westernized Muslims living in the safety, comfort and liberty of the USA tell him that Islam (as a whole and for the past one and a half millennia) “is about peace and brotherhood” and thus it is so—period. Forget that many Muslims came to the USA to escape militant Muslim regimes, forget that they are making such claims because they believe them to be true or, they are watering down facts on purpose or, they are hiding real intentions or, seeking to drive attention away from themselves or—whatever the case may be.
The real point is that he simply believes whatever Westernized Muslims tell him within the USA and, by golly, he believes it so it must be true.
Interestingly, Roberts was very specific in asking:
The president has, on occasion, Mr. Secretary, seemed to have drawn — seemed to draw a moral equivalence between what ISIS is doing in the 21st century and what Christians did 1,000 years ago when they were fighting Muslim armies. What’s the relevance of making that comparison?
Jeh Jonson simply disregarded the point and the question and stuck to preapproved prescribed talking points de jour:
Well, look, again, from my homeland security perspective, we’ve got to deal with this terrorist organization, which is the most prominent on the world stage right now, which is one of the reasons, frankly, why the Department of Homeland Security needs a budget by the end of this week. I hope you’re going to ask me about that.
Right, right, right, give us money and this will all go away.
And while we are talking about money, money money; John Roberts stated:
At the summit that you had at the White House…Marie Harf, State Department spokeswoman, was roundly criticized for saying at the beginning of the week, quote, “We can’t kill our way out of this war. We need to go after the root causes that lead people to join these groups — lack of opportunity and jobs among them.”
Here’s what the Navy SEAL who shot Usama bin Laden had to say about that.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ROB O’NEILL, FORMER U.S. NAVY SEAL: They get paid to cut off heads, to crucify children, to sell slaves and to cut off heads. And I don’t think that, you know, a change in career path is what’s going to stop them.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
How do they say it in common parlance? Oh yes, “BOOM!!!”
Lastly, the fact is that we are often encourages do have great societal conversations and yet, all we get is preaching from the White House down and the lap dog media following right along with universities and poop-culture following right along.
No one wants to have a very difficult conversation which is that this is not watered down Westernized Islam against hijacked militant Islam but what do the Qur’an or Koran (Islam’s scriptures), the Hadith (Islam’s traditions about Muhammad) and Islam’s history demonstrate?
Well, the bottom line is that Muhammad’s life and the Qur’an / Koran have two main divisions.
During the early Medina period, Muhammad did not have much wealth or many followers. He was persecuted, did not have the upper hand and thus, preached peace and brotherhood.
During the early Mecca period, Muhammad had much wealth (due to raiding) and many followers. He became a persecutor, got the upper hand and thus, preached conquering and oppression.
The Islamic dilemma is known as the doctrine of abrogation which means that, quite logically, the latter supposed revelations annul the previous supposed revelations.
Thus, watered down Western Muslims are appealing to the Median period when they claim that Islam is about peace and brotherhood (since they do not, in places such as the USA, have the upper hand) and ignore the Mecca period.
As far as Islam’s history of violence here is a respected and quick reference. The Encyclopedia of Wars (New York: Facts on File, 2005 AD) was compiled by nine history professors who specifically conducted research for the text for a decade in order to chronicle 1,763 wars.
The survey of wars covers a time span from 8000 BC to 2003 AD. From over 10,000 years of war 123 wars, which is 6.98 percent, are considered to have been religious wars and here is the key: half of those involved Islam.
Thus, within what is said to be a 10,000 year span, Islam (which is only 1,500 years old) has managed to rack up half of all religious wars (and this does not account for individual terrorist attacks).
The only way that you could make such factual statements anywhere within mainstream media would be with an introduction of “Now, here is a hateful bigot who thinks that all Muslims are terrorists—after the statement, we will give you their home address.”
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