Homeland Security Chief Claims Gun Control
is Now “National Security”
BY ALEX NEWMAN
SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/23431-homeland-security-chief-claims-gun-control-is-now-national-security; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
They really are coming for your guns. They really do think you are stupid. And if they get their way, all they will have to do to disarm you is have a bureaucrat put your name on a secret government list. Even while importing huge numbers of Islamic immigrants from countries illegally bombed and destroyed by the Obama administration and its allies, Obama's secretary of homeland security now claims Americans must submit to much more gun control — this time, for “national security” reasons. One of the key demands being pushed is that Americans be deprived of their constitutionally protected gun rights based of a bureaucrat's secret “suspicion,” without even a semblance of due process of law. Supporters of actual national security and the Constitution, though, are speaking out against the Obama administration's dangerous attacks on fundamental liberties.
In an soft-ball interview with CBS, a leading media apologist for the Obama administration and its attacks on liberty, Homeland Security boss Jeh Johnson (shown) leveled a full-blown attack at the U.S. Constitution and the God-given rights enshrined in it. “We have to face the fact that meaningful, responsible gun control has to be part of homeland security as well, given the prospect of homegrown, home-born violent extremism in this country,” Johnson claimed on the "CBS This Morning" program after the terror attack in Orlando, presumably with his armed taxpayer-funded security nearby. “We need to do something to minimize the opportunity for terrorists to get a gun in this country, and this is now something that is critical to homeland security as well as public safety.” That something includes open attacks on fundamental rights.
However, it was unclear why a person willing to violate terrorism and murder laws would be expected by the administration to obey gun-control regulations. Also not made clear was why or how gun control would stop terrorists from acquiring guns any better than it has in the past, here or in other nations. As illustrated horrifically late last year, in fact, gun control does not prevent terrorists from getting guns; it just leaves victims disarmed. The deadly Islamist terrorist attacks in Paris, France, for example, which resulted in more than 500 casualties, were conducted with banned AK-47s. Defenseless citizens, meanwhile, disarmed by some of the most draconian gun control in the world and unable to defend themselves from the gun-wielding attackers, were left to cower and beg for mercy.
The precise scope of the gun control sought by Johnson and the administration was not made clear in the interview. However, among other demands, the “Homeland Security” boss called for Americans to be stripped of their constitutionally protected rights without even a semblance of due process of law. The traditional method of revoking somebody's rights in America has always been criminal charges, followed by either a guilty plea or a jury trial and conviction in a court of law. Johnson, however, suggested it was time for that to change. Under his vision, if a government bureaucrat claims to be suspicious of somebody and puts them on a secret “watch list,” that person would be automatically stripped of their constitutionally protected rights. Ironically, some U.S. lawmakers, including the late anti-gun extremist Senator Ted Kennedy who was stopped from boarding a plane, have faced problems due to the infamous secret “watch” lists.
Certain lawmakers were also pushing for such a scheme. U.S. Senator Christopher Murphy, a far-left Democrat from Connecticut, spent 15 hours blabbering about the need for more infringements on the right to keep and bear arms, due process rights, and more. Apparently it was an effort, potentially stage-managed for public consumption with liberal Republicans, to get Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to defy his previous pledges and the wishes of his constituents to allow a vote on more gun control. In particular, they seek to forcibly disarm people that bureaucrats secretly identify as suspicious in some way, in a closed process that nobody understands. “Amazing that U.S. senators would filibuster in favor of using secret lists, like some authoritarian regime, to deny rights without due process,” commented Representative Justin Amash (R-Mich,), a leading defender of the Constitution and liberty in Congress.
In a message posted on Twitter about the issue, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump did not state a position about denying gun rights to people on secret government lists compiled by out-of-control bureaucracies. “I will be meeting with the NRA, who has endorsed me, about not allowing people on the terrorist watch list, or the no fly list, to buy guns,” Trump said, sparking outrage both among followers who suspected the candidate was considering the scheme, and opponents who viewed the candidate as pro-Second Amendment. Clinton, by contrast, has become a full-blown supporter of denying rights without due process, despite criticism even from some of her allies on the left. Establishment talking heads such as pseudo-conservative Bill O'Reilly joined Clinton on the bandwagon.
Of course, the idea being pushed by exploiting the attack in Orlando is totalitarian to the core. It is also flatly unconstitutional. The Fifth Amendment, for instance, declares that no person shall be “deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Due process, obviously, includes the rights to a jury trial, to confront one's accuser, to present evidence, and more. However, in the age of Obama, due process has been trampled like never before. In fact, today, the Obama administration makes the outlandish claim that it can even execute people around the world without so much as charging them with a crime — something that once would have been immediately identified and prosecuted as murder. Americans can be sure that, once gun rights can be denied based on secret lists, other rights will inevitably follow, as even far-left anti-gun commentators have pointed out.
While the public is being led to believe the “suspicious” people whose rights will be removed without due process are Islamic extremists, there is much more to the story. Consider the fact that the administration has already made abundantly clear, on numerous occasions, that it considers everyday Americans with mainstream political views — views shared by hundreds of millions of people — to be potential terrorists. Among those who have appeared in official government documents listed as extremists and possible terrorists are pro-life activists, returning veterans, opponents of illegal immigration, liberty lovers, Ron Paul supporters, gun-rights supporters, animal-rights activists, hardcore environmentalists, evangelical Christians, Catholics, Orthodox Jews, and more.
And alleged “right-wing extremists,” with the terms largely undefined, are in the cross-hairs like never before, with top Obama officials arguing that they are apparently just as dangerous as ISIS. Earlier this year, speaking at a Homeland Security Advisory Council meeting, member and Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo “reminded the Council that the threat from right-wing extremists domestically is just as real as the threat from Islamic extremism,” according to the official meeting minutes, with another member adding that “online sites in right wing extremist communities” were important. “Secretary Johnson agreed and noted that CVE [the Subcommittee on Combating Violent Extremism], by definition, is not focused solely on one religion.” Indeed, the Obama administration appointed a prominent Muslim Brotherhood operative as a Homeland Security adviser. The administration also launched a domestic terror unit that will target Christians and conservatives.
And there is more to come. Homeland Security boss Johnson claimed in the CBS interview that Obama was “frustrated” by the resistance to his gun-control agenda, but was “determined” to keep pushing. “I thought frankly after Sandy Hook where you have schoolchildren murdered in a classroom that maybe finally this will be the tipping point and we were not able to move the needle in Congress, unfortunately,” Johnson said, sounding disappointed that the effort to exploit dead children for political gain had failed. Ironically, though, Obama's divisive rhetoric threatening the Second Amendment has, as usual, sparked a surge in gun sales, with AR-15s and other weapons flying off the shelves. The trend is so serious that more than a few analysts have referred to Obama as the “world's greatest gun salesman.” The dictator-dominated United Nations also called for “robust gun control” after the attack.
Ironically, perhaps, in light of Johnson's comments, the Islamist accused of massacring people at a homosexual nightclub in Orlando was actually employed by a Homeland Security contractor. Known as G4S, the gigantic “security” company is deeply involved in the Obama department's “illegal alien catch and release” program, in which illegal aliens from countries other than Mexico are caught at the southern border, then reportedly driven north and dropped off in the U.S. interior without so much as paperwork. The threat to national security posed by the DHS program, and others like it, including the release of tens or even hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens with criminal records, is hard to overstate. But as usual, the establishment media and the political class hope to exploit the dangers they have unleashed and the tragedies they enabled to attack your fundamental rights.
Traditionally, as stated clearly in the Second Amendment, a well-armed populace and militia were considered essential to the security of a free state. Under Obama, however, the tables have been flipped. Now, disarming Americans is proclaimed to be essential for national security, supposedly due to the unprecedented influx of Islamic immigrants brought in in recent years who might become radicalized. In truth, however, widespread gun ownership has been shown to reduce violent crime, stop mass shootings, prevent or minimize terror attacks, and more. It also makes the prospect of foreign invasion sound ludicrous — with many tens of millions of Americans armed with hundreds of millions of guns, no military or combination of militaries in the world could hope to subjugate the American people using ground forces. Plus, a mass shooting attack such as the one that occurred in Paris, leaving hundreds of casualties, would be inconceivable in America outside of gun-free zones such as the Orlando nightclub that was attacked.
The Second Amendment is national security. It is also the supreme law of the land. Anyone who says otherwise has no business pretending to serve the American people in government.
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DHS Secretary Sees All Americans As a Threat: “Gun Control Has To Be a Part of Homeland Security”
Flags, firearms and incendiary conversations on social media have given ’cause’ to a government that is out of control and only wants a population that is ready to turn in its guns and be afraid of what the media tells them, not a population that is ready to challenge the unconstitutional actions of its government.
BY MAC SLAVO
SEE: http://freedomoutpost.com/dhs-secretary-sees-all-americans-as-a-threat-gun-control-has-to-be-a-part-of-homeland-security/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
The agency’s source of power has always been fear.
And now is the time to capitalize upon it.
Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson has seized upon the Orlando shooting and is… rather predictably… using the specter of terrorism as a pretext for instituting gun control on a wider scale. (Of course, he isn’t alone.)
Secretary Johnson told CBS News that:
Just days after the massacre in an Orlando nightclub left 49 people dead and 53 wounded, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Tuesday said that gun control is now a critical element of protecting the U.S. homeland and keeping Americans safe.“We have to face the fact that meaningful gun control has to be a part of homeland security,” Johnson said in an interview on “CBS This Morning.” “We need to do something to minimize the opportunity for terrorists to get a gun in this country.”[…]“I thought frankly after Sandy Hook where you have schoolchildren murdered in a classroom that maybe finally this will be the tipping point and we were not able to move the needle in Congress, unfortunately,” Johnson said.
It seems Jeh Johnson thought Sandy Hook would be all that was necessary to reign in gun rights. For him, it is all part of ‘public safety.’
But apparently, the powers-that-be will wait for a bigger and bigger tragedy until something too big to ignore happens, then they can push for their un-American agenda with the opposition pinned down and the rest of the population too afraid to think.
Maybe the Orlando mass murder is that event.
DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson: Passing gun control is now ‘part and parcel of homeland security’
Though quieter than than it has been under past heads, Homeland Security has clearly maintained the twisted view that all Americans are potential terrorists, and that a preemptive police state, complete with surveillance, data mining and social profile trolling is necessary in order to maintain relative peace.
This attitude is noted in recent meetings of the Homeland Security Advisory Committee, discussing in part its community partnership program for Countering Violent Extremism (CVE):
“Secretary Johnson said there is much left to accomplish in this final year of the Administration… Counterterrorism remains a cornerstone mission of the Department. There is a new environment when it comes to the global terrorism threat, which includes not only terrorist-directed attacks, but terrorist-inspired attacks. These threats call for a whole-of-government response, including military, law enforcement, and robust intelligence gathering and sharing efforts. These efforts extend to the private sector as well, and DHS is very active in this arena.”
It is clear that so-called “right-wing extremists” are still a leading concern for Homeland Security and the federal government agencies.
via Breitbart
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.
The Homeland Security Advisory Committee reports:
“Secretary Johnson agreed and noted that CVE, by definition, is not solely focused on one religion. 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.”
Against all logic, the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees immigration and the borders in addition to law enforcement and national security issues, has vowed to ‘give voice to the plight’ of Muslims, rather than focusing on keep out radical and potentially violent members of that group – essentially welcoming another attack.
Instead, ordinary Americans, including those with dissident political views of any kind, are typically regarded as potential threats under Homeland Security watch lists.
Flags, firearms and incendiary conversations on social media have given ’cause’ to a government that is out of control and only wants a population that is ready to turn in its guns and be afraid of what the media tells them, not a population that is ready to challenge the unconstitutional actions of its government.
Changes are coming. Keep your eyes open and encourage those around you to stand up for their rights.
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ABOVE: An ISIS propaganda shows Omar Mateen who killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, with 'Islamic State' blazoned behind him / AP
Homeland Security Report Calls for Rejecting Terms ‘Jihad,’ ’Sharia’
DHS to target millennials in countering Islamist recruitment
BY BILL GERTZ
SEE: http://freebeacon.com/national-security/homeland-security-report-calls-rejecting-terms-jihad-sharia/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
A new Department of Homeland Security report urges rejecting use of Islamic terms such as “jihad” and “sharia” in programs aimed at countering terrorist radicalization among American youth.
The Homeland Security Advisory Council report recommends that the department focus on American milliennials by allocating up to $100 million in new funding. It also urges greater private sector cooperation, including with Muslim communities, to counter what is described as a “new generation of threats to the Homeland related to the threat of violent extremism.”
The funds would be used for hiring experts and new social media programs and technology to influence young people not to join terror groups.
“The department’s CVE efforts are an attempt to protect our nation’s young people from extremists who prey upon the Millennial generation,” the report says.
“The department must reframe the conversation to reflect this reality and design a robust program around the protection of our youth, which must include predator awareness and an understanding of radicalization. In doing so, our citizens will be better equipped for this threat.”
Under the section on terminology, the report calls for rejecting use of an “us versus them” mentality by shunning Islamic language in “Countering Violent Extremism” programs, or CVE, the Obama administration’s euphemism that seeks to avoid references to Islam.
Under a section on recommended actions on terminology, the report says DHS should “reject religiously-charged terminology and problematic positioning by using plain meaning American English.”
Government agencies should employ “American English instead of religious, legal and cultural terms like ‘jihad,’ ‘sharia,’ ‘takfir’ or ‘umma,’” states the June 2016 report by the Council’s countering violent extremism subcommittee.
Jihad is the Islamic concept of holy war that is the primary call to arms for Islamic terrorist groups around the world, including the Islamic State, al Qaeda, and the Muslim Brotherhood. Sharia law is the anti-democratic Islamic supremacist legal code that critics say has prevented U.S. Muslims from assimilating into American society. Takfir is the Arabic term for apostasy, and umma is the word used to describe the entire Muslim community.
The DHS report stated that to avoid a confrontational “us versus them” stance in public efforts to counter Islamic radicalization, government programs should use the term “American Muslim” instead of “Muslim American.”
The limits on counter terrorism terminology outlined in the report are the latest sign of verbal censorship within government imposed by President Obama. The president this week launched into an angry public denunciation of Republican critics of his policy of avoiding use of the expression “radical Islam.”
Obama sought to deny charges that political correctness was behind the policy of not linking Islamic terrorism to its religious roots, and dismissed those who favor highlighting the links as a Republican political ploy.
The comments prompted a backlash from counter terrorism experts who say that failing to publicly link Islamic terrorism to its religious tenets makes it more difficult to counter jihadist ideology.
The terrorist attack Sunday in Orlando was carried out by a radical Muslim, Omar Mateen, who declared loyalty to ISIS during the rampage that killed 49 people at a gay nightclub on Sunday. The FBI said Mateen was “radicalized” through the Internet.
President Obama’s program to counter ISIS came under fire from CIA Director John Brennan during a Senate hearing Thursday.
Some gains are being made in taking back territory controlled by ISIS and limiting its finances, according to Brennan.
“Unfortunately, despite all of our progress against ISIL on the battlefield and in the financial realm, our efforts have not reduced the group’s terrorism capability and global reach,” he said.
“The resources needed for terrorism are very modest, and the group would have to suffer even heavier losses on territory, manpower, and money for its terrorist capacity to decline significantly.”
The DHS report said the average age for foreign fighters joining ISIS is 26, with the Internet “playing a primary or contributing role” in radicalization.
Rep. Mike Pompeo (R., Kansas) a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, criticized the DHS language restrictions.
“The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Interim Report makes the dangerous recommendation that the Obama administration continue to deny the threat that radical Islamic terrorism poses,” Pompeo said.
“Jihadists are the ones who have made this fight ‘us vs. them’ with every violent terrorist attack—from bringing down the World Trade Center towers, killing American soldiers overseas, beheading journalists, or shooting Americans in Orlando,” he added. “DHS’s emphasis here on political correctness is absolutely dangerous and places America and our military at risk.”
In the Senate, Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) said the administration’s failure to properly address radical Islam has made the country less safe.
“Over and over again, we have seen the Obama administration having ample information to stop a terrorist attack, and yet because of the political correctness, because of the ideology of this administration that won’t even say the word ’jihad,’ won’t even say the words ’radical Islamic terrorism,’ they look the other way and the attacks go forward,” Cruz said in a Senate floor speech Thursday.
Sebastian Gorka, a counter terrorism expert, said that banning the jihadist terminology is similar to “Newspeak,” the fictional language used for totalitarian control in George Orwell’s book 1984.
“This is simply outrageous from the perspective of national security,” said Gorka, the Horner chair of military theory at Marine Corps University.
“Banning words that our political elite don’t like is not only a contravention of the First Amendment, it directly endangers the lives of Americans,” he added.
“When the enemy that slaughters our citizens in Orlando, San Bernardino, and Boston calls themselves ‘jihadis’ no one, not even the president, has the right to censor that reality and give them another name.”
Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon official now with the American Enterprise Institute, said the report’s concerns about terminology are hindering counter terrorism efforts.
“If the Obama team and DHS used half the effort they expend debating vocabulary actually advancing strategies to stymie and defeat enemies, America would be safer,” he said.
The report also recommends using former terrorists in “programming and messaging” efforts, including “far right, anti-government, and other extremists groups.” The report also mentions white supremacist, sovereign citizen, and anarchist groups as posing a terror threat but makes no mention of left-wing extremist groups.
The report also calls for a focus on “gender diversity of youth through careful attention to the range of push and pull factors that attract individuals of differing gender.” The gender focus was not further explained.
On the use of social media, “the department must fully understand and leverage social media in its policy and programmatic activities,” the report said.
America’s children, the report says, will grow up in a world of expanding human ingenuity and knowledge. “As that process of human evolution, including the expansion of freedom and liberties across the globe proceeds, our government must remain vigilant, adapt, and evolve to protect them,” the report concludes, adding that “we must do so by demonstrating faith in the American people, in their government, and we must be confident in the power of America’s ideas.”
A DHS spokeswoman had no immediate comment.
Farah Pandith, a Council on Foreign Relations fellow, and chairman of the panel that produced the report, did not return emails seeking comment.
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OBAMA HIRES RACIST
LAILA ALAWA
Muslim who said 9/11 “changed the world for good” is on Homeland Security Advisory Council
BY ROBERT SPENCER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
How by any stretch of anyone’s imagination can Laila Alawa be seen as someone who cares in the slightest degree about “homeland security”? She is quite obviously on the other side, and if we had a sane political and media culture, her presence on the DHS Advisory Council would be a major scandal.
“Syrian Immigrant Who Said 9/11 ‘Changed The World For Good’ Is A Homeland Security Adviser,” by Peter Hasson, Daily Caller, June 13, 2016:______________________________________________________________________One of the sitting members on the Homeland Security Advisory Council’s (HSAC) Subcommittee on Countering Violent Extremism is a 25-year-old immigrant of Syrian heritage who said that the 9/11 attacks “changed the world for good” and has consistently disparaged America, free speech and white people on social media.Laila Alawa was one of just 15 people tapped to serve on the newly-formed HSAC Subcommittee on Countering Violent Extremism in 2015 — the same year she became an American citizen. Just last week, the subcommittee submitted a report to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, recommending that the DHS avoid using Muslim terminology like the words “sharia” and “jihad” when discussing terrorism.Alawa says she immigrated into the U.S. when she was ten years old. Her family had already left Syria by the time she was born. “But I will always be Syrian. I will always be from Syria. I will always be of Syria,” she wrote in November 2015, calling the country her “homeland.”In 2014, Alawa commemorated the September 11 attacks by tweeting that “9/11 changed the world for good, and there’s no other way to say it.”Exactly a year later, she claimed that, after September 11, “Being American meant you were white.”In April 2013, she responded to a tweet from activist Pamela Geller who called the Boston Marathon bombings “jihad” by tweeting: “go fuck yourself.”On September 21 — the day after Secretary of State John Kerry announced that the U.S. would accept 85,000 Syrian refugees in 2016 and 100,000 more in 2017 — Alawa mocked the “Salty white tears all over my newsfeed.”In the Countering Violent Extremism report published last week, Alawa and her fellow subcommittee members recommended that the Department of Homeland Security “adapt to the changing nature of violent extremism itself” by devoting more attention to “anarchists, sovereign citizens, white-supremacists, and others.”The report also recommended that, in order to combat violent extremism, the DHS “Focus on gender diversity of youth through careful attention to the range of push and pull factors that attract individuals of differing gender.”As originally reported by The Daily Caller, the subcommittee Alawa serves on instructed the DHS to begin “using American English instead of religious, legal and cultural terms like ‘jihad,’ ‘sharia,’ ‘takfir‘ or ‘umma‘” when discussing terrorism in order to avoid offending Muslims.Two months before Secretary Johnson created the Subcommittee on Combatting Violent Extremism, Alawa tweeted: “THE US HAS NEVER BEEN A UTOPIA UNLESS YOU WERE A STRAIGHT WHITE MALE THAT OWNED LAND. straight up period go home shut up.”She has previously indicated her belief that only “idiots” believe that “America is the best nation in the world.”In September 2014, a week after saying that “9/11 changed the world for good,” Alawa said that “9/11 is your day to pull out your flag themed clothing, and my day to look behind my back as I walk home.”Alawa is outspoken in her belief that “Islamophobic” rhetoric shouldn’t be allowed.“We are living in a country that deems it ‘freedom of speech’ to spew absolutely hateful ish about Muslims. That’s not freedom of speech,” she tweeted.Less than two weeks after the Boston Bombings, Alawa tweeted: “You can’t say something intolerant and not expect consequences. Not on my watch.” In April 2015, Alawa asked: “How the hell is the shit @PamelaGeller is spewing ‘free speech’? it’s straight up warmongering hate speech. It’s xenophobia.’”…
Racist advises Homeland Security on relations with Islam
BY MARTIN BARILLAS
SEE: http://www.speroforum.com/a/PWNUZHYUIE27/78205-Racist-advises-Homeland-Security-on-relations-with-Islam; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Laila Alawa, who sat on the Homeland Security Advisory Council’s (HSAC) Subcommittee on Countering Violent Extremism, once wrote that 9/11 terrorist attacks “changed the world for good. I just hope we keep having open conversations about our differences.” A week afterwards, according to the Daily Caller, she said, “9/11 is your day to pull out your flag themed clothing, and my day to look behind my back as I walk home.” The 24-year-old Muslim woman has variously denounced the United States, the right to free speech and white people. She emigrated to the United States as a pre-teen.
9/11 changed the world for good, and there's no other way to say it. I just hope we keep having open conversations about our differences.— Laila Alawa (@lulainlife) September 11, 2014
Not long before Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson created the Subcommittee, according to Daily Caller, Alawa wrote on Twitter: “THE US HAS NEVER BEEN A UTOPIA UNLESS YOU WERE A STRAIGHT WHITE MALE THAT OWNED LAND. straight up period go home shut up.” For Alawa, only “idiots” still believe that “America is the best nation in the world.”
Being Muslim in America after 9/11 means giving up your childhood. It means staying extra happy even if you aren't so the feds don't come.— Laila Alawa (@lulainlife) September 11, 2014
Alawa is one of 15 people who serve the HSAC Subcommittee, which was established by the Obama administration in 2015. It was that year that Alawa became a citizen of the United States. Recently, the subcommittee submitted a report to Secretary Johnson that recommended that it cease using Muslim terminology like the words “sharia” and “jihad” when discussing terrorism. Alawa says she has never been actually employed by the Department of Homeland Security. She is founder of The Tempest, a website that bills itself as a mouthpiece for "millenial" young women. A recent article written by Alawa is entitled, "I used to pee when I laughed: this changed everything."
Besides the Homeland Security Advisory Council, DHS has a "Countering Violent Extremism Task Force" which also advises Secretary Johnson. The two bodies are distinct.
Alawa’s ethnic and religious roots are deep. Despite her American citizenship, according to Daily Caller, Alawa wrote in November 2015 “But I will always be Syrian. I will always be from Syria. I will always be of Syria.”
I might be half white, but I'm proud of my differences. I'm Muslim American. That's who I am, nothing more, nothing less. #waronpeace— Laila Alawa (@lulainlife) September 17, 2014
She commemorated the deadly 9/11 attacks in 2014 with a post on Twitter, saying: “9/11 changed the world for good, and there’s no other way to say it.” Then, a year later, she claimed that after September 11, “Being American meant you were white.” When activist Pamela Geller labeled the Boston Marathon bombings as “jihad,” Alawa responded on Twitter: “go f--k yourself.”
I put on the hijab the year 9/11 happened. 9/11's experience of being alienated + scrutinized taught me to keep fighting. #waronpeace— Laila Alawa (@lulainlife) September 17, 2014
Alawa further revealed her racial animosity on September 21 of last year when Secretary of State John Kerry announced that America will take in 185,000 Syrian refugees, when she mocked the “Salty white tears all over my newsfeed.”
I don't need your white woman tears to define my identity. I am a proud Muslim American feminist.#waronpeace— Laila Alawa (@lulainlife) September 17, 2014
In their report to DHS Sec. Johnson, Alawa joined her fellow subcommittee members to recommend that Homeland Security should “adapt to the changing nature of violent extremism itself” by devoting more attention to “anarchists, sovereign citizens, white-supremacists, and others.” Moving on, the Report on Countering Extremism recommended that DHS should “Focus on gender diversity of youth through careful attention to the range of push and pull factors that attract individuals of differing gender.”
In a 2014 tweet, Alawa wrote that while 9/11 was "horrific," Muslim American's "pain" has made them into survivors.
Here's the thing: 9/11 was horrific. But the pain we've been through as Muslim Americans has made us into survivors. #waronpeace— Laila Alawa (@lulainlife) September 17, 2014
DHS should not offend Muslims, the subcommittee wrote, which called on DHS to use “American English instead of religious, legal and cultural terms like ‘jihad,’ ‘sharia,’ ‘takfir‘ or ‘umma‘” when discussing terrorism.
Funny thing about all these white idiots complaining about Diwali on @Snapchat is that POC outnumber them 100 to 1. #YourRacismIsShowing— Laila Alawa (@lulainlife) October 23, 2014
Moreover, Alawa wants to ban “Islamophobic” speech. “We are living in a country that deems it ‘freedom of speech’ to spew absolutely hateful rubbish about Muslims. That’s not freedom of speech,” she wrote.
@lulainlife I'm sure u and I don't agree on many things but I think you've been unfairly targeted based on what I've seen. Have a grest day— Blair Anton (@blairanton) June 16, 2016
In an interview with Spero News, Attorney Jennifer R. Breedon said that groups such as the Council on American Islamic Relations and the Muslim Brotherhood seek to squelch freedom of speech in order to advance Islamic political goals such as shariah.
