Oh, Puh-leeze! DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson remarks on the Quran's 'quintessentially American values'

Greg P. | 6:46 PM on March 23, 2015

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson was honored by the Muslim Public Affairs Council last week for “for his dedication to and personal investment in engagement with Muslim American communities across the United States” and this happened during his post-award remarks:

“The reading of the #Quran reminded me of 2 things that MLK said a lot, which are quintessentially American values" @DHSgov Sec. Jeh Johnson

— MPAC (@mpac_national) March 23, 2015

DHS secretary Jeh Johnson says reading of Quran reminds him of quintessential American values #mpacempowers pic.twitter.com/fDGLYa26m5

— Nasreen Hosein (@NasreenHosein) March 18, 2015

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." – Martin Luther King, Jr

— MPAC (@mpac_national) March 23, 2015

We wonder what else in the Quran reminds Secretary Johnson of “quintessentially American values”? Specific examples, please.

And check out what else is MPAC is up to. Here’s a photo from their social media workshop on how to combat Islamophobia that shows two tweets on screen pushing phony narratives from the Chapel Hill Shooting:

@Riham_Osman of @mpac_national leads the #SocEntSIL workshop pic.twitter.com/HtijSsm8XV

— DC+Acumen (@dcplusacumen) March 22, 2015

We wonder: Does Secretary Johnson agree that the incident in Chapel Hill reportedly over a parking space is the same as the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris?

And for a little bit of background on the Muslim Public Affairs Council, here’s a great piece Andy McCarthy wrote for NRO back in 2012. An excerpt:

Established in 1988 by followers of the Muslim Brotherhood and admirers of Hezbollah, MPAC styles itself a “moderate, inclusive and forward-thinking organization with a history of fostering a strong Muslim American identity, and combating terrorism and extremism.” In reality, MPAC is yet another Islamist wolf in the “social justice” clothing of the hard Left. Its founders include Hassan Hathout, the former MPAC president who has described himself as “a close disciple” of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna. Hathout’s brother Maher, a senior MPAC adviser, is lavish in his praise of both Hezbollah’s “freedom fighting” and the social-justice pioneering of Hassan al-Turabi, the leader of Sudan’s National Islamic Front — the genocidal junta that gave safe haven to al-Qaeda in the early 1990s while imposing sharia on that war-torn east African nation.