[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12402]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               CONDEMNING THE IRANIAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

  (Mr. ROSKAM asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROSKAM. Mr. Speaker, on display in Jerusalem at the Yad Vashem 
museum, the Holocaust museum, amidst all the pain and suffering and 
murder and turmoil, are German schoolbooks from the 1930s that display 
an attitude that was getting pumped into young Germans through their 
educational system. And as fearful and as loathsome as that is, there 
is the same thing that's happening in Iran today.
  The Iranian educational system has excerpts that suggest that 
martyrdom is praiseworthy, and it urges children to welcome it. It is 
laced with anti-Semitism, anti-Israeli sentiment, and anti-Western 
sentiment.
  I'm introducing a resolution today that condemns that, calls upon us 
to focus on it, and urges the administration to consider that as it 
interacts with Iran, particularly on these sanctions. I urge my 
colleagues to join me.

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