Posted on 06/15/2016 3:02:45 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
One month after the San Bernardino terrorist attack that left 14 innocent people dead, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told advisors that right wing extremists pose just as much of a threat to the country as Islamic extremists.
Johnson made the comments during the Homeland Security Advisory Council’s (HSAC) January meeting. City of Austin Mayor Art Acevedo, whom Johnson appointed to HSAC, shifted the discussion to the threat of right-wing extremists, according to the official meeting minutes.
“Member Acevedo reminded the Council that the threat from right-wing extremists domestically is just as real as the threat from Islamic extremism,” the minutes state.
Another council member, Cardinal Point Strategies CEO Paul Goldenberg, joined the chorus.
“Member Goldenberg seconded Member Acevedo’s remarks and noted the importance of online sites in right wing extremist communities, not only in America but worldwide,” the minutes state.
The meeting was also attended by the co-chairs of HSAC’s Subcommittee on Combating Violent Extremism.
As originally reported by The Daily Caller on Monday, a report published by that subcommittee last week urged DHS to avoid using the words “sharia” and “jihad” (among others) when discussing terrorism, in order to avoid offending Muslims.
At the meeting in January, Subcommittee Co-Chair Adnan Kifayat “emphasized that the report will be respectful of the communities it seeks to engage with, and will take into account those communities specific needs.”
As originally reported by TheDC, one of the current sitting members on the subcommittee is a 25-year-old Syrian immigrant who has consistently disparaged America, free speech and white people on social media. That member, Laila Alawa, also publicly stated that the September 11 attacks “changed the world for good.”
A sobering thought.
Trump throws a big wrench into this plan.
Republicans in Congress should be calling for his resignation.
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You must be joking.
In a sane world, these people would be impeached.
Acevedo is the same police chief who asked Austinites to make SWAT calls on gun owners. WTF is Acevedo doing in Texas, he is more in tune with Minnecraponus.
Jeh, Jeh, Jeh - sounds stupid.
Did they run of letters?
Maybe, but he works for a muslim.
He is following orders.
TREASON - continuous, in-your-face, agenda-driven, agency-abetted, representative-enabled, media-complict, court-sanctioned, ongoing…
This has been Leftist orthodoxy for a while now.
They’d send us all to camps if they could. Arm up appropriately.
He’s not stupid, he’s evil. He’s not ignorant, he’s lying. He’s doesn’t want to prevent terrorism, he wants to kill patriots.
He’s not stupid, he’s evil. He’s not ignorant, he’s lying. He’s doesn’t want to prevent terrorism, he wants to kill patriots.
Following his MUSLIM TERRORIST BOSS!!!
Think the same could be said for Muslim extremists in this country?
He, and those who talk like him, need to start adding statistical facts to substantiate their delusions...
BINGO!!! But now Obama has embedded them into the government as CIVIL SERVICE HIRES, and we all know you can NEVER get rid of one of those!! WE ARE DOOMED!
Exactly.
Sounds Canadian, eh!
and there my FRiends is the reason a ban on scary rifles from terrorists becomes a big problem. Who decides who is a terrorist?
DHS and continued attacks on the Constitutional Republic is a much, much bigger threat.
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