[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8263]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  SAUDI ARABIAN CROWN PRINCE BLAMING ZIONISM FOR TERRORIST ATTACKS BY 
                                 SAUDIS

  (Mr. LANTOS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah is 
blaming Zionism for recent terrorist attacks by Saudi groups in their 
own country. Zionism, the Crown Prince says, plays on the minds of 
terrorists and corrupts Saudi youth.
  What an outrage. What blatant hypocrisy.
  Mr. Speaker, 2\1/2\ years after the September 11 attacks, Saudi 
Arabia still cannot look in the mirror and face the truth. Its own 
extremist ideology is corroding Saudi society and exporting the damage 
to countless others. How ironic that Abdullah accuses Zionism, whatever 
he intends that word to mean, while the Saudi kingdom inculcates its 
young with hatred of Christians, Jews, and Western Civilization.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge Prince Abdullah to retract his sickening and 
absurd statements, and I call on him to apologize. His real enemy is 
homegrown bigotry, which can only be battled by dragging Saudi Arabia 
into the 21st century.

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