[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 97 (Tuesday, June 12, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H5077]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      CELEBRATING RAMADAN MUBARAK

  (Mr. ROTHFUS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROTHFUS. Mr. Speaker, as the month of Ramadan comes to a close 
this week, I rise to wish the Muslim residents of Pennsylvania's 12th 
Congressional District Ramadan Mubarak.
  Over the last several years, I have appreciated the opportunity to 
break fast at an iftar with a number of these residents, including a 
recent iftar at the Muslim Association of Greater Pittsburgh.
  Ramadan is a holy month for reflection and celebration for those in 
the Muslim faith. Ramadan also offers an opportunity for all Americans 
to celebrate the tapestry of the people that makes up our Nation and 
our Bill of Rights that recognizes as the first of our freedoms the 
free exercise of religion.
  Mindful of the violence that affects those practicing their faith in 
other lands here, I think particularly of the more than 100 Afghan 
soldiers the Taliban killed last year at a mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif, or 
the 14 Afghan Muslims killed when a mosque was bombed in Khost 
recently. Let us reassert that no one should ever be killed for their 
faith. May this month of Ramadan be the beginning of a new effort to 
achieve a lasting peace in troubled lands.

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