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DHS Secretary: To call the Islamic State Islamic would be “dignifying them as occupying...
Jihad Watch ^ | 2/22/15 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 02/22/2015 3:09:53 PM PST by BlatherNaut

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson was reduced to stammering tautologies when George Stephanopoulos asked him why the Administration won’t call the Islamic State Islamic: “Now I have to say, when I travel around the country and meet with Muslim leaders in this country in these engagements that I have, they all tend to say pretty much the same thing, which is that ‘ISIL has hijacked my religion.’ And so, in my view, if we start referring to ISIL as occupying any form of the Islamic theology, we’re pretty much dignifying them as occupying some form of, of that faith, and I know that Muslim leaders in this country, uh, push back hard on that, and it seems to me, it’s, it’s going to a, a, a place where ISIL would very much like us to go, in that we’re dignifying them as occupying some form of Islam. They, they don’t. Islam is about peace and brotherhood. There are 1.6 billion Muslims in this world, and the true Islamic faith has nothing to do with what ISIL represents. And so, to, to start labeling them as ‘Islam’ or as ‘Islamic State’ in any respect, I think gives them far more dignity than they deserve. And so do a lot of Muslims believe that, too, by the way.”

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KEYWORDS: dhs; isis; isisislamic; islam; jehjohnson; kurdistan; peshmerga
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1 posted on 02/22/2015 3:09:53 PM PST by BlatherNaut
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To: BlatherNaut

He’s an expert on moslems.

Works for one.


2 posted on 02/22/2015 3:11:03 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA)
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To: BlatherNaut

This Administration is downright dangerous.


3 posted on 02/22/2015 3:11:46 PM PST by dinodino
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To: BlatherNaut

Jeh Johnson Total Failure At The Job !!!!


4 posted on 02/22/2015 3:12:51 PM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: BlatherNaut

What part of the Koran says Muslims can’t kill people? Oh wait, the Korans says Muslims are supposed to kill people.


5 posted on 02/22/2015 3:13:19 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Rome2000

There’s about 1 1/2 billion Moslems keeping their mouths shut tight about this “hijacking” of their “religion.” Wonder why?


6 posted on 02/22/2015 3:14:19 PM PST by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: BlatherNaut

DHS cares more about ISIS than America.

Today, this Administration refuses to dignify .... America,
and in its stead attacks the Constitution, and
smears the American people who support it, at every turn.

Previously, DHS has left the borders OPEN and allowed
criminals and the incurably infected to enter,
and even INVITING THEM IN SECRETLY and arming them,
and even permitting murderous Islamic terrorists to enter
the USA, even without a single passport !!!!
(e.g. the Boston Atrocity Islamic terrorists
who had already beheaded three in Waltham MA
on the anniversary of 911, and despite more than
three warnings BEFORE the atrocity.)


7 posted on 02/22/2015 3:15:04 PM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Rome2000

But its okay for us to revisit ancient history of the Crusades and what was done in the name of Christ.

Based on this reasoning, since Christianity does not call for wars except under certain circumstances, and since Christianity does not call for inquisitions and witch trials, then no such events in history can be said to have been done in the name of Christianity. Using Obama’s own criteria, he is full of it on this issue.

I suggest that Obama and Jeh Johnson and other liberals get off their high horse.


8 posted on 02/22/2015 3:15:20 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: BlatherNaut

How inconvenient for ISIS to use the word Islam in their name. Their marketing director should have learned from our administration to title things in a PC way in order to fool the Grubers. Something like International State for Goodness and Diversity. ISGAD.... or something.


9 posted on 02/22/2015 3:15:37 PM PST by moodyskeptic (Counter counterculturist)
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To: BlatherNaut

I can’t believe I went to high school with this weanie. He was actually briliant back then.


10 posted on 02/22/2015 3:17:50 PM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: BlatherNaut
Did Calling the Nazis Nazis dignify them? NO IT DIDN'T!
11 posted on 02/22/2015 3:18:37 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else need s said?)
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To: dinodino

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/jeh-johnson-facts-98531.html

Johnson was at the forefront of the push to end the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. He ran a taskforce and co-authored a report that demonstrated the effect of allowing gay men and women to openly serve would cause little disruption, clearing the way for the end of the law.


12 posted on 02/22/2015 3:18:50 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA)
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To: BlatherNaut

There is nothing dignified about isLAM. who do these punk commies in Obamas administration think they are fooling? They’re fooling fewer and fewer people every day.


13 posted on 02/22/2015 3:19:15 PM PST by uncitizen (Obama hates America.)
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To: BlatherNaut

Call a spade a spade and a shovel a shovel.


14 posted on 02/22/2015 3:20:37 PM PST by Iron Munro (Mark Steyn: "fundamentally transformed" is a euphemism for "wrecked beyond repair.")
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To: BlatherNaut

Obama is treating the word Islam like Lord Voldemort (He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named).


15 posted on 02/22/2015 3:20:40 PM PST by Cry if I Wanna (.)
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To: Labyrinthos

Wow you went to high school with Jeh Johnson? Did he always spell Jay as Jeh? From what I heard Jeh spelled that way is an African nickname of some sort.


16 posted on 02/22/2015 3:23:00 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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17 posted on 02/22/2015 3:24:05 PM PST by RedMDer (Keep Free Republic Alive with YOUR Donations!)
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To: BlatherNaut

The Obama administration insists that Islamic terrorists are not real Muslims, yet it gave Osama bin Laden a full Muslim funeral and it runs Gitmo like a madrass.


18 posted on 02/22/2015 3:30:58 PM PST by Dagnabitt
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To: BlatherNaut

This A-hole and those exactly like him are going to create the conditions that lead to a very dramatic attack on our soil with the Islamic State’s “we are Islamic” calling card in their wake. It is imperative that the ISIS launch very hard hitting attacks in the US to reverse the PR campaign by the Obama experts. Also, according to ISIS, a mere attack qualifies as occupying - therefore if they control the “serenity” space they control the land and the people.


19 posted on 02/22/2015 3:32:15 PM PST by Jumper
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To: BlatherNaut

The same old bs is still at Dept of Homeland Security even after lesbo Janet left.


20 posted on 02/22/2015 3:33:30 PM PST by Grampa Dave (When will Sisi, Bibi, King Abdullah & ?, take out Isis in our White House, AG Dept, CIA, & State?)
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