[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 12009-12010]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                PAKISTAN

  (Ms. SPEIER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1

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minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SPEIER. Madam Speaker, late last month, extremist Islamist 
militants attacked two Ahmadiyya mosques in the central Pakistani city 
of Lahore--with guns, grenades and suicide bombs--killing 94 people and 
injuring well over 100. The attackers claimed to be members of the 
Punjab Taliban. The victims are members of a minority Muslim sect, who, 
as a result of their beliefs, have been branded heretics who should be 
killed.
  I urge my colleagues to join with me to condemn this hateful act and 
to express our sincerest condolences to the families of those killed 
and to those still living in fear in Pakistan because of their 
sincerely held beliefs. These cowardly assaults on people of prayer are 
attacks against people of all faiths, and these assaults cannot be 
tolerated.
  It is time to pass House Resolution 764, which expresses the 
importance of interreligious dialogue and the protection of religious 
freedom and related human rights for persons of all faiths and 
nationalities in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

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