Date: 2014-11-14
Speaker: LYNN WESTMORELAND (republican)
Chamber: H

reviewed some materials. TRENT FRANKS looked at some of the materials. But we were concerned because CAIR. this named coconspirator in supplying and helping terrorism. as a front group for the Muslim Brotherhood. we were surprised that CAIR had such powerful inroads into the FBI. enough to the point that they could demand to have the training materials for the FBI reviewed and had them purged of things that they. as apparently a front group for the Muslim Brotherhood. found offensive. As named coconspirators in funding terrorism. they were offended. So a massive number of pages that radical Islamists might find offensive. that people who wanted to kill Americans might be offended by. were purged from our training materials. The State Department apparently purged materials. The intelligence community purged materials. And. as one intelligence officer told me. we have blinded ourselves of the ability to see our enemy. So. Mr. Speaker. it breaks my heart. grieves me deeply when innocent Muslims are maltreated. killed. tortured. It is a grievous violation of human rights. But in the same way. the things that have been done and are growing and spreading in numbers never before seen in human history. of Christians being persecuted around the world. as America basically remains silent. But today. being the 100th anniversary of the caliphs public fatwa. demanding the murder. killing of Christians in 1914 by the last Islamic caliph. also is the first day in our history when the National Cathedral. run by the Presbyterian church. conceded to the named coconspirators in funding terrorism. their demands to have prayers today on this 100th anniversary of the fatwa that caused the deaths of countless Christians. especially Armenian Christians. as depicted in this blownup photograph from the newspaper. as depicted in this drawing that we have blurred. depicting what was actually seen along the road as massive numbers of young Christian girls were raped and crucified. We dont want a holy war. No Christian should ever go to some kind of holy war. But for heavens sake. when there is an international group about which moderate Muslim leaders in the Middle East have said to me: The Muslim Brotherhood is your enemy. they have been behind every attack that has occurred onto America and Americans. they have been behind the killing of Americans all over the Middle East and the worldwhy do you keep helping the Muslim Brotherhood? When the largest uprising in the history of the world occurred over a year ago in Egypt. when moderate Muslims. Christians. even the Coptic Christian Pope. secularists. over 30 million came to the streets of Egypt and said. we dont want radical Islam controlling our country. it was a day of historic proportions. Never before had there been a crowd of that size gathered. Even when 20 million came out or when the estimated 33 million came out. they demanded the same thing. It was not a military coup. as CNN and this administration tried to paint. It was the largest uprising in the history of the world. in Egypt. And the Egyptians. instead of being called stupid. foolish by this administration and some media. they should have been congratulated. We should have rushed to their assistance. And. instead. this administration said. Unless you put Muslim Brother Morsi back in power. then we are not going to help you. The Apache helicopters that were coming. that you use to keep the Suez Canal open. that you use to fight terrorism in the Sinai. that help Israel. we are not going to send them. You are not going to be able to keep the Suez Canal and the Sinai terrorism down until you put the Muslim Brothers back in charge. Many in the media made a big deal about the Christian churches being burned and about Jews and Christians being persecuted. tortured. and killed. and. for some unbelievable reason. tried to blame it on those who ousted the Muslim Brothers. And anybody that will do any modicum of research in Egypt will understand. it was the Muslim Brothers that burned the churches. that killed Christians and Jews there. It was not the government. It was not the military. The military. under General elSisi. was doing everything it could to stop it. I talked to a former CIA operative in the Middle East last year who said that he had talked to a guy who said. Morsi. President Morsi. had tried to contract through him to have General elSisi murdered. I asked our Embassy personnel if they had heard of anything like that. They said they had not. In our meeting with General elSisi. I asked him directly. "Did you have evidence when you arrested President Morsi that he was trying to hire someone to kill you?" He beat around the bush twice and ultimately answered. "Yes. we did." Yet we even had even Republicans go to Cairo and say. "Put back the Muslim Brothers." And I met the brilliant gentlemanMuslim. seemed to be a very fine manthat was put in charge of the committee to draft a new constitution because the constitution the United States helped and this administration helped Egypt to get that led to the Muslim Brotherhood control of the country had no provision for impeachment. So as Muslim Brother President Morsi began to usurp power. kind of in the same vein. and Noriega and other dictators who get elected and then start grabbing power. he was doing it in Egypt. There was no provision for impeachment. There was nothing they could do except what they did. go to the street in the tens of millions. demand his removal and. in the largest uprising. cause the removal of an unconstitutionally acting President. and he was removed. thank goodness. I was thrilled earlier this year when I think it was over 90 percent of the Egyptian voters voted to ratify the new constitution for Egypt. I really wished that all of the American media could have grasped the significance of what happened. That constitution actually included provisions that required the Egyptian Government under the constitution to rebuild and replace the churches or synagogues that had been damaged or destroyed by the Muslim Brotherhood. They felt so badly for what the Muslim Brotherhood had done to the Christians and Jews that they put it in their constitution that they had to be repaired and replaced. That should have been a big day for freedom. and most of the American media missed it entirely. Well. they are also missing today. As the left often wants to domaybe they want to vilify me. You can try to rewrite history. but you cant change what has happened in the past. and what happened 100 years ago today. the first day. November 14. that the National Cathedral. run by the Presbyterian Church. has allowed Muslim prayers by named coconspirators in the terrorist funding trial to come lead prayers in this Christian cathedral. I thank God that the massive majority of Muslims. including some of my Muslim friends in the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan. they dont want radical Islamists controlling anything. They dont want to be at war with Americans. They dont want to kill Americans. Thank God for that. But it is sheer lunacy not to recognize how important anniversaries are to radical Islamists. to the Muslim Brotherhood. to those who would kill and persecute and wipe out Jews and. as they say. wipe the Great Satan America off the map and the Little Satan Israel off the map. It is lunacy not to recognize the way these radical Islamists feel. We can live at peace with moderate Muslims. When I visited Nigeria not long ago to mourn with the Africans23 mothers who had had their daughters kidnapped. brutalized every day still in Boko Haram. radical Islamist controlled. it was a beautiful thing. Nigeria. until the radicals got involved. had Muslims and Christians living peacefully together. Meeting a government official. a devout Christian. who had in his wedding party one of his best friends in the world who was a Muslim. it is a thing of beauty to see people with different backgrounds and beliefs living at peace together. But until the American media. until a majority of Americans realize there really are radical Islamists that think that the fatwa that was declared by the last Islamic caliph of the Ottoman Empire 100 years ago today was a great thing. then this country remains at great risk. It is bad enough that we have enemies publicly saying they want to wipe us off the map. destroy our freedom of worship. free speech. the freedoms we hold dear and love. but to be blind that they want to destroy us is negligence. reckless indifference that can cost a countrys freedom. Mr. Speaker. today is a big day. I hope Americans will wake up and understand the Muslim Brotherhood is not our friend. They want us all to be living. if we live at all. as Muslims or to pay the fine that acknowledges that we are subjugating ourselves to radical Islam. People have got to wake up. This country is at risk. Mr. Speaker. with prayerful regard to the masses of young Christians who were kidnapped. raped. crucified as a result of that fatwa issued 100 years ago today. I hope that we will not be so blind that we could allow this movement to continue to grow as it has grown and grown. Some say a good way to avoid destructive forces overtaking civilized society is to watch Israelthat Israel could be looked at as the worlds miners canary. as miners used to take canaries into mine shafts. They knew canaries were more sensitive to poison gas. so if they saw a canary getting in trouble. falling. then they knew they better get out of the mine because it was very. very dangerous. When we see Israel being attacked. our best friend in the Middle East being attacked. when we see antiSemitism. hatred for Jews. hatred for Israelis growing in Europe. of all placesI never thought that would happen again after Hitlerbut it is growing again around Europe. It is growing on American campuses. These young. wonderful. brilliant students who have been miseducated to think that they need to get involved in antiSemitism on their campuses in America will hopefully wake up and realize they have been played by people that are not about freedom. It is time for America to wake up. Because today. as an anniversary of what happened 100 years ago. is a really big deal for those who want to destroy our way of life and our lives if we are Christians. With that. Mr. Speaker. I yield back the balance of my time.