[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 56 (Tuesday, May 7, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H2114]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      SHEIK AL-BURAIK IS NO FRIEND

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, when Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah visited the 
President in Texas recently, he brought a prominent government cleric 
named Sheik Saad Al-Buraik with him in his entourage.
  I would like to share with the House of Representatives some of the 
statements Sheik Al-Buraik has said about America. He says, ``I am 
against America until this life ends, until the day of judgment. I am 
against America even if the stone liquefies. She is the root of all 
evils and wickedness on earth.''
  And what does the Sheik have to say about Jews and Christians? He 
says, ``Don't take the Jews and Christians as allies. Do not have any 
mercy, neither compassion on the Jews, their blood, their money, or 
their flesh.''
  Mr. Speaker, most shocking of all is what he has to say about Jewish 
women. He says to the Palestinians, ``Jewish women are yours to take, 
legitimately. God made them yours. Why don't you enslave their women? 
Why don't you wage jihad? Why don't you pillage them?''
  Sheik Al-Buraik recently hosted a 2-day telethon in Saudi Arabia that 
raised over $100 million to reward the families of Palestinian homicide 
bombers.
  Mr. Speaker, Prince Abdullah says he wants to be part of the peace 
process. Well, we will be ready to listen when he dumps Sheik Al-Buraik 
from his list of friends and advisors.

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