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market, killing four of 19 hostages before French police 
stormed the building and rescued the surviving hostages; 
Whereas President of the Republic of France Francois 
Hollande condemned these events as a terrorist attack on 
the French Republic as a whole and called for a day of 
national mourning to honor the lives of the courageous 
political cartoonists, columnists, police officers, and oth-
ers who were killed and injured; 
Whereas the Republic of France is America’s oldest ally, and 
the people of the United States owe France an eternal 
debt of gratitude for our independence and freedom; 
Whereas the people and Governments of the Republic of 
France and the United States have stood shoulder to 
shoulder throughout history to defend our shared demo-
cratic ideals and values; 
Whereas the people of the Republic of France have always ex-
pressed solidarity with the people of the United States, 
including following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 
2001, which claimed the lives of thousands of innocent ci-
vilians in the United States; 
Whereas United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, to-
gether with the President of the United Nations General 
Assembly and the United Nations Security Council, has 
expressed outrage over these cold-blooded and unjustifi-
able terrorist attacks in Paris; 
Whereas the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopt-
ed by the United Nations General Assembly on December 
10, 1948, holds that ‘‘everyone has the right to freedom 
of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to 
hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive 
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and impart information and ideas through any media and 
regardless of frontiers’’; 
Whereas the show of solidarity from hundreds of thousands 
of people in the Republic of France, the United States, 
and worldwide under the banner ‘‘Je suis Charlie’’ (‘‘I 
am Charlie’’) makes known that the international com-
munity of nations stands together to reaffirm freedom of 
expression and to denounce terrorism; 
Whereas Muslim majority nations around the world, includ-
ing Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, Malaysia, Mo-
rocco, Iran, Lebanon, Indonesia, Bahrain, Morocco, Alge-
ria, and Qatar, and leading institutions such as the Arab 
League, Egypt’s al-Azhar University and the Organiza-
tion of Islamic Cooperation have all condemned and re-
jected these terrorist attacks as contrary to the Islamic 
faith; 
Whereas on Sunday, January 11, 2015, more than 40 world 
leaders and 1,000,000 people gathered to march in Paris 
honoring the victims of the terrorist attacks; 
Whereas the outpouring of support from people around the 
world reveals that an attack on the free press in the Re-
public of France is an attack on human liberties; and 
Whereas the people and Government of the United States 
stand in solidarity with our French allies and renew our 
common support for democracy and freedom, including 
freedom of the press and freedom of religion: Now, there-
fore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) condemns the terrorist attacks and cowardly 
murders at the offices of the French newspaper 
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Charlie Hebdo and kosher market Hyper Cacher in 
Paris; 
(2) expresses its deepest condolences to the 
families of the victims of these attacks and to the 
Republic of France; 
(3) expresses our solidarity with the people of 
the Republic of France and pays tribute to our 
shared values, ideals, and liberties, including the 
freedom of thought and expression and freedom of 
the press; 
(4) recognizes the statements from Muslim ma-
jority nations and leaders across the world that ter-
rorist attacks purportedly conducted in the name of 
Islam such as the attacks in Paris are an affront to 
the Muslim faith; and 
(5) reaffirms our support for the Government 
of France to bring the perpetrators of this violence 
to justice and to prevent future attacks. 
Æ 
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