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US Security Chief C0mpares Anti-Muslim Remarks to Red Scare
Al Arabiya ^ | Thursday, 7 April 2016

Posted on 04/06/2016 3:17:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The US domestic security chief on Wednesday compared current anti-Muslim sentiment to the anti-communist “Red Scare” of the 1940s and ‘50s, suggesting that divisive statements by Republican presidential candidates are to blame.

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, who is black, noted that his grandfather was forced to testify in front of the House of Representatives in 1949.

“He had to, in the height of the Red Scare, to deny he was a member of the communist party, and went on to give an impassioned statement about how American negroes are patriotic,” Johnson said at a conference in Washington about countering violent extremism.

(Excerpt) Read more at english.alarabiya.net ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: malcolmx; redscare
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To: nickcarraway

A better comparison is to the Red Scare of 1920, when bombs were blowing people up, labor unions were becoming radicalized as communists infiltrated them, and the IWW was trying to shut down the country with strikes. This crap was real and ongoing, just as jihad is today.

McCarthy was right, but since the communist infiltration was mostly hidden, the Red Scare then is not similar to the overt terrorism of today.


21 posted on 04/06/2016 3:40:49 PM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: PghBaldy

They have made AMAZING inroads...with the help of the GUTLESS GOPe!

We’re So Screwed.


22 posted on 04/06/2016 3:42:00 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: ifinnegan

In the state of GA, the oath of office by state law for just about everyone, including local officials, still includes the assertion that the oath taker is not a member of the Communist Party.

I like that.


23 posted on 04/06/2016 3:43:46 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: ifinnegan

A tiny fraction of one percent of American adults were called to testify during the “Red Scare” (as he calls it). What had his grandfather been doing to give the impression that he was a Communist? They weren’t hauling people in off the street at random to testify.


24 posted on 04/06/2016 3:43:47 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: nickcarraway
To my knowledge, the "Reds" never hijacked airplanes and flew them into American buildings. So while paranoia may have played a role in the Red Scare, the hatred of muslimes is perfectly justifiable.

What is NOT justifiable is the ludicrous lengths its apologists will go to to try to make its mayhem seem normal.

25 posted on 04/06/2016 3:44:11 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: nickcarraway

They are playing the race card already. Geez.


26 posted on 04/06/2016 3:46:22 PM PDT by McGruff (The Republican elite would rather see Hillary Clinton president than Donald Trump.)
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To: Diogenesis
Another one with commie ancestry.


27 posted on 04/06/2016 3:47:14 PM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: nickcarraway

Stalin and Mao were “Reds” and they made Hitler look like a piker.


28 posted on 04/06/2016 3:48:17 PM PDT by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: SkyDancer

Not, of course, unless you are shooting them in the back of their heads as they stood at the top of the stairs in a gulag, as described in ‘The Gulag Archipelago’.

But I know what you meant.


29 posted on 04/06/2016 3:48:48 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: soycd

Jeh Johnson is indeed a moron. He only got to become Head of Homeland Security because...well, we all know why; it was the only qualification he needed as far as Obama was concerned.


30 posted on 04/06/2016 3:51:05 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“We’re So Screwed.”

Sadly, you are right.


31 posted on 04/06/2016 3:54:58 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Verginius Rufus

I assume his grandfather was a Marxist, as Jeh is.


32 posted on 04/06/2016 3:56:41 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: ought-six

When islam is finally relegated to the dustbin of history will we get back to legitimate points of arguments.

allah, mocraphead and other mythical rapist crap is evil to be defeated.


33 posted on 04/06/2016 3:57:21 PM PDT by soycd
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To: ought-six

I know I am. I know we are.

I’ve been preparing for a Decade, now. ;)


34 posted on 04/06/2016 4:02:52 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: nickcarraway

So he’s saying the threat is legitimate.


35 posted on 04/06/2016 4:12:59 PM PDT by Crucial (At the heart all leftists is the fear that the truth is bigger than themselves.)
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To: nickcarraway

“”noted that his grandfather was forced to testify in front of the House of Representatives in 1949.””

And exactly what brought his grandfather to the attention of the panel? His race? Or some fact conveniently left out? When we’ve been fed such garbage over the past 7 years, how are we ever going to believe any person who uses race baiting for every injustice they feel they have suffered since the day they were born. They could have the most legitimate reason and I still wouldn’t believe them.

The Republican candidates for the presidency are NOT TO BLAME for this belief - it comes from the murdering savages whose handiwork we experienced first hand on 9/11/01...and the bodies left around the world by these same savages.


36 posted on 04/06/2016 4:25:29 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Diogenesis

I think Johnson has forgotten this day so do us all a favor and email these pictures to him to refresh his memory. Ask him for his comments too...The Republican candidates for president were at fault for this? Expect a “yes” answer from anyone connected to this administration!


37 posted on 04/06/2016 4:27:22 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: nickcarraway

Anyone who has read up on the second Red Scare knows that it was very real. That the commies had infiltrated the government especially the State Department, Hollywood and academia. They got knocked back a little but came back stronger than ever in the 60s.


38 posted on 04/06/2016 4:30:14 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: fella

Maybe he thought no one would check on his remarks and why he made them:

http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/homeland-security-chief-jeh-johnson-another-obama-red-diaper-baby/

He likened the current climate of “fear, suspicions and prejudice” against Muslim immigrants to the Red scare and McCarthyism his grandfather, Charles S. Johnson, lived under in the 1940s and 1950s.

In 1949, Johnson, a sociologist and president of predominantly black Fisk University, was dragged before the House Un-American Activities Committee and “asked to deny if he is or ever has been a member of the Communist Party.”

The panel had good cause to investigate. Communists hadn’t just infiltrated Fisk as professors, but Johnson had readily hired them, including Giovanni “Ross” Lomanitz, a known communist operative.

Even after Lomanitz’s communist loyalties were exposed, Johnson spoke out on his behalf. Johnson then hired and defended yet another communist, math professor Lee Lorch. Johnson initially refused to fire him, but relented under withering criticism.

There was also the issue of Johnson’s own membership in communist fronts such as the National Sharecroppers Fund.


39 posted on 04/06/2016 4:37:28 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Thank You Rush
The National Sharecroppers' Fund that Charles S. Johnson was involved with was reputed to be a Communist front. Hard to say if that was true or not.

There were clear ties to the Socialist party, but that wasn't illegal. The Sharecroppers' Union was run by Communists, but that was a different outfit.

Johnson's uncle BTW was Dr. Kenneth Edelin who was involved in a controversial abortion case in the 1970s.

40 posted on 04/06/2016 4:40:09 PM PDT by x
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