[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 6626-6630]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            AMERICAN VALUES

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the Speaker's announced policy of 
January 5, 2011, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gohmert) is recognized 
for 52 minutes as the designee of the majority leader.
  Mr. GOHMERT. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
  We are really blessed here in the Capitol with some of the greatest 
people that work around here and touch the lives of so many. So many 
come from around the country to admire our great national Capitol, and 
the people that work around here touch them one way or another.
  Albert Caswell is one of those great folks. It seems every day we see 
him with wounded warriors, in addition to his regular duties as a tour 
guide. He's taken them through the Capitol, doing poems for them, 
having them signed by Members of Congress, getting them entered in the 
Record, getting them to individual warriors. He just does great work, 
so I'm quite pleased my friend Steve King read that into the Record.
  The truth is, freedom is not free, and we're surrounded by people who 
have given a great deal--given limbs, given so much. I was standing by 
a Gold Star mom in Texas this past week, and I really wasn't sure who 
gave the most. Her son gave everything--gave his life. But his mother 
gave her son.
  We're told by Jesus, Greater love has no one than this, that a man 
lay down his life for his friends.
  This Nation has experienced so much love by people who have laid down 
their lives for their country, but at the same time millions of parents 
have given their children proper teaching to love the things that make 
this country the greatest country in the world. Instill those values in 
their children for them to be willing to show the greatest love that 
anyone can have.
  I do know, from being so close to parents who have given their 
children, that that is an unfathomable love. To care about your country 
and its freedoms so much that you're willing to risk a child's life for 
the good of others, and ultimately give that child for the good of the 
country.

                              {time}  1530

  It is so terribly difficult.
  So we have people on foreign soil who are risking their lives; some 
have given their lives for this country. We have law enforcement. We 
have intelligence agents, agents from all parts of State, local, and 
Federal Government who put their lives at risk every day so we can 
enjoy the freedoms we have. We owe them not to be stupid about the way 
we carry out the government's business and the way in which we protect 
the citizens of this country, the people in this country, from all 
enemies, foreign and domestic.
  Now, we have some very noble patriots that serve at the various 
levels of our Federal entities that are charged with keeping us safe. 
Having visited with Secretary Panetta, who called me a few weeks ago, 
having had multiple conversations with Director Mueller as Director of 
the FBI, so many others in our Federal law enforcement, our Federal 
intelligence, justice, we have a great lot of noble people. But here 
again, we cannot be foolish about the way we go about protecting 
America.
  There are people who have been at war with the United States since 
1979. President Carter hailed the Ayatollah Khomeini as a man of peace 
as he came back from exile and for the first time in so many years gave 
a foothold for radical terrorizing Islam to have a country in Iran. 
Americans soon found out the price of bad judgment in international 
affairs.
  Not too long thereafter, there was an attack against the American 
Embassy in Tehran. I know at Fort Benning, Georgia, where I was, a lot 
of folks were put on alert that it may be necessary for us to go and 
defend this Nation because an attack against a country's embassy is an 
attack against that country. It is an act of war. So there was an act 
of war committed in Iran in 1979, and our response was so benign that 
it is still being used as a recruiting tool by radical Islamists today 
to show how Americans are not very smart, they don't have the stomach 
for a strong fight so we can still prevail.
  We had a benign response in 1983 after the attack on our marines and 
lost around 300 precious marine lives in Beirut. The response was to 
pull them out without a fight.
  So many times we've been attacked in the last 30 years, acts of war, 
and we failed to recognize what they were until 2001 when most of 
America woke up at that point, that there are people who want to 
destroy America. When bin Laden wrote that they had spent around 
$500,000 to train those people and to carry out the mission of crashing 
planes into American buildings to destroy buildings and to kill 
thousands of Americans--apparently they were hoping for more, in the 
range of 50,000 or so to be killed in the Twin Towers. But as bin Laden 
has pointed out, an investment, from their standpoint, the way they saw 
it, of around $500,000 cost America trillions and trillions of dollars. 
And even before he was taken out, it was clear to him that they helped 
put America on track to be bankrupt. From his standpoint, that was a 
tremendous investment. Invest $500,000 in an act of war and cost your 
enemy not only thousands of lives but trillions of dollars, not only in 
damage but in the money spent to try to secure the Nation.
  That's why it is so important that we be smarter about the way our 
money is spent, that we utilize a little bit more discernment, a little 
more wisdom in the way that we take on those who are bent on our 
destruction. They are still there. And the Taliban's strength, as both 
Senator Feinstein and Representative Rogers, the two chairs from the 
Senate and House, respectively, of our Intelligence, our Homeland 
Security--I guess, Intelligence--they understand and they believe the 
Taliban is stronger now than it was before. It is growing in strength. 
We have not been very wise about the way we took on an enemy that wants 
to take this country down.
  Now, there are some who have been a little oversensitive, and it 
seems that some who are our Muslim friends who have been more defensive 
about any questions about radical Islam than they have been about 
condemning the radicals that have hijacked their religion. And it would 
be helpful for those of us who know there are moderate Muslims who just 
want to live in peace, to have their help in condemning radical Islam 
instead of condemning those of us who stand up against and condemn 
radical Islam.
  America, one of our great traits is we don't want to really offend 
people around the world. There have been some ugly Americans over the 
years who give us a bad name, but all in all, Americans are loving, 
caring, forgiving people. And the only nation in the history of the 
world that has ever sent treasure in the form of money and our greatest 
assets, our individuals, to fight and die on behalf of people in 
another nation over which we want no control, we want no territory, we 
just want freedom to reign in the world so we can live in peace and 
help extend that freedom to others around the world.

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  That's why, over the years, as stories have unfolded about high-
handed leaders in other countries who say, We want Americans out; we 
don't like you. And the response has come in some situations, Do you 
want us to remove all of the dead bodies of Americans who gave their 
lives so you could have the freedom to tell us where to go and what to 
do?
  Americans have had a place in history like no other nation.
  Ironically, as one general recently said in conversation, virtually 
every deployment he has had into harm's way, he has been sent there by 
the United States on behalf of Muslims who were being mistreated by 
others, including Christians. So, for some of us it gets a little 
discouraging that our Muslim friends who want to live in peace will not 
take notice of the fact that this country has stood up against tyranny, 
against moderate Muslims around the world, and we continue to do that.

                              {time}  1540

  We are doing that in Afghanistan and we get no credit for that. 
Instead, we get condemned because we want to protect what we have, and 
we get so caught up in political correctness that we're afraid to call 
things as they are.
  Now, I mentioned before, but that line in the ``Patton'' movie may or 
may not have actually been said. But it is a fact for military 
strategists, as Patton looked over the carnage from a battle in which 
his tanks took on the tanks of that incredible German Field Marshal 
Rommel, and reportedly Patton said something like, paraphrasing, 
Rommel, you glorious, childless son--or apparently, son--I read your 
book.
  Going through military science, we were taught that if you want to be 
able to fight effectively on behalf of your country, you have to know 
your enemy. We would prefer we have no enemies. As Christians--those of 
us who are--we're taught to love your neighbor as yourself. Jesus, 
himself, said, when he was asked by a lawyer, What's the most important 
commandment? He said, Love God. The second is like it, Love your 
neighbor. And on those two things, those two laws, hang all the law and 
the prophets.
  The full face of Moses depicted above the door in the center back in 
the gallery is there because he was considered perhaps the greatest 
lawgiver of all time. Of all the lawgivers who have side profiles, 
Moses has the one full face. And if you were to outline the Ten 
Commandments that Moses was used to provide, you could outline them 
under two headings: number one, love God; number two, love each other. 
They all fall under those two commands.
  Since we have a very rich Judeo-Christian heritage here in America, 
for at least the first 130, 140 years of our country's history people 
have been proud to constantly quote the Bible here on the House floor 
as the ultimate authority for reasoning behind good legislation. As one 
goes right out those doors, straight down the halls a matter of feet, 
you come to Statuary Hall. It is the place where the House of 
Representatives met for most of the 1800s. And except for after the 
fire in 1814 that the British set, a fire which was put out by what 
insurance policies would call an act of God, a deluging rain that put 
out the fire, preserved this Capitol's shell so that it didn't implode 
and become a bunch of ruins, right down the hall in Statuary Hall--
formerly, the House of Representatives--for most of the 1800s, it was a 
place of nondenominational Christian worship services.
  I hope one day we'll have a plaque down there so that the 15,000 or 
so people a day that come through can read and understand that the man, 
Thomas Jefferson, who coined the phrase ``separation of church and 
State''--not in the Constitution, as most Americans apparently believe, 
but in a letter to the Danbury Baptists about why, really, we shouldn't 
have an official denomination of the Christian religion--Jefferson 
attended church virtually every Sunday he was in Washington just down 
the hall. They had nondenominational Christian worship services.
  So it is amazing the lack of education that has occurred in recent 
generations so that you can have one of the cable channels--is it BSNBC 
or something like that? They reported that in the past week there was 
some kind of a prayer service in Statuary Hall by a bunch of right-
wingers, when what was actually done was not nearly as stout in 
Christian nature as what Thomas Jefferson used to do as President when 
he attended church down there, and the Speaker's podium was used as the 
pulpit each Sunday for most of the 1800s.
  Most people credit Madison with having more to do with the 
Constitution than anyone else of our Founders. Madison also attended 
church, a nondenominational Christian church, in Statuary Hall--back 
then, the House of Representatives--and he found no affront to the 
Constitution to attend church in the U.S. Capitol. For much of the 
1800s, the largest Christian church in the Nation's capital was here at 
the Capitol in the House of Representatives where they attended church 
each Sunday.
  The Congressional Research Service did some research on material that 
we provided to see what they believed was documented and what wasn't. 
They said Jefferson normally came down Pennsylvania Avenue on horseback 
by himself. One story is of Jefferson coming down Pennsylvania Avenue 
with a big Bible under his arm, and one of the citizens said, Mr. 
President, where are you going? Well, it was Sunday morning, and he 
said, I'm going to church up in the Capitol. He said, Sir, you don't 
believe everything those Christians do up there. And he said, Sir, I am 
the highest elected magistrate in this country. It is imperative that I 
set the proper example.
  So he came to church, and he did not find attending church down in 
the House of Representatives as offending the notion that he dreamed up 
of a separation of church and State--his words.
  He's also the person that coined the phrase having a ``wall of 
separation'' that the Supreme Court has many, many years later 
misconstrued because they didn't know their history, weren't properly 
taught. But Jefferson did not find it an affront to his concept of 
separation of church and State to bring the United States Marine Band 
into the Capitol to play Christian hymns for the Christian worship 
services.
  So what to some cable channel may have been this strange, weird thing 
that happened because they have not been properly educated, to Thomas 
Jefferson, to James Madison was just a matter of propriety and course. 
Certainly, there's nothing wrong with bringing the Marine Band to play 
hymns in the House of Representatives for a nondenominational church 
Christian worship service, because it was nondenominational. They 
weren't putting emphasis on any particular denomination.
  When Randolph, during the 1787 Constitutional Convention, saw that 
things were falling apart and heard this inspirational speech by 
Benjamin Franklin, how Franklin, in his words--we have his words 
because he wrote them down in his own handwriting--said:

       I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the 
     more convincing proofs I see of this truth: God governs in 
     the affairs of man. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the 
     ground without His notice, is it possible an empire could 
     rise without His aid?

  Franklin went on to say:

       We've been assured, sir, in the sacred writing that, unless 
     the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.

  Some of us were taught he was a deist, but in his own words, in his 
own handwriting, the speech that he gave to the other members at the 
Constitutional Convention, he urged them by saying, Firmly believe 
this. He said:

       I also firmly believe without His concurring help, we shall 
     succeed in our political building no better than the builders 
     of Babel.
       We'll be confounded by our local partial interests and we, 
     ourselves, shall become a byword down through the ages.

                              {time}  1550

  Well, Randolph, his proposal, after Franklin, was we basically have 
had so much disagreement, such a spirit of anger in here, I move that 
we all go to church. Here we are, the end of June, we're about to 
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anniversary. I move that we all go to church together, and all of us--
the irony of this, all of us, as part of the Constitutional Convention, 
that are going to give this Nation the Constitution that will one day 
cause the Supreme Court to say we don't think that you can 
constitutionally do what the Founders and the writers of the 
Constitution did, he said, we all ought to go to church together in 
celebration of the anniversary and then come back and pick this up.
  One wrote that there was a new spirit. They all went to the Reformed 
Calvinistic Church. They all went to the same church. They all heard 
the same sermon. And it evoked a spirit of unity and collaboration, 
that although there were differences, they were able to come together 
thereafter and give us the Constitution.
  So it's part of our heritage. And as part of our heritage, we welcome 
people from all faiths, or no faiths. But just because you don't have a 
faith, don't come in and tell us we can't have and enjoy what the 
Founders provided and assured in the First Amendment that we could 
have.
  Don't try to mis-educate any more Supreme Court Justices, so that 
although they're brilliant of intellect, they're ignorant of our 
history and what the Constitution means so they do not really 
understand the freedoms that we were provided and that there is a 
prohibition against our practicing our religion.
  Some have twisted those words, the language, our Constitution, and 
political correctness to the point that it is exposing us to 
unnecessary danger. And although these people that we have in authority 
here in this town mean well, and they all want to see the country do 
well and thrive, we can't be stupid about the way we go around helping 
protect the country.
  So, we have people in America that are more concerned with political 
correctness and more concerned that someone does not get offended while 
we are fighting for our Nation's life, fighting for the Nation's 
existence against powers that want to destroy us. They're concerned we 
might offend somebody, we might offend those who want to kill and 
destroy us, and, what's worse, we might offend someone who is a 
moderate and practices under the name of the same religion of those who 
want to destroy us.
  And just like Patton was pointing out, you can't defend yourself 
unless you know the enemy that wants to destroy you.
  9/12 was a day like I've not experienced in my lifetime. We were 
scared. Americans across the country came together. We prayed. We 
didn't care about political correctness. Courthouse squares around the 
country, we grabbed hands. We did in Tyler, Texas. They did all around 
the country, people holding hands and singing hymns, singing ``Amazing 
Grace,'' singing ``God Bless America,'' people praying for God's 
protection once again, just like Ben Franklin told us we would have to 
have or we would succeed no better than the builders of Babel.
  We came together, and for that day, and for a time thereafter, there 
was no such thing as a hyphenated American. There was no Euro-American, 
there was no African-American, no Asian-American, Native-American. 
There were Americans here in America, and we were concerned about 
having a future for us and our children and, hopefully, their children 
and their children. And we were smart for a short time, and in a 
bipartisan way, this Chamber came together.
  I was on the bench at the time as a judge. I was qualifying a jury 
panel when the Twin Towers were hit. Nobody was concerned about 
hyphenated Americans because we were Americans. And what this Chamber 
did, in coming together with the Senate and saying, You know what? 
Let's study where we went wrong. And a bipartisan commission was put 
together to study, in complete candor, what had gone wrong. How did the 
worst attack against America on its own soil occur without us realizing 
what was coming?
  We had the 9/11 Commission report that came out of that, and the 9/11 
Commission report used words like ``enemy'' 39 times, ``jihad'' 126 
times, ``Muslim'' 145 times because those who wanted to destroy us and 
tried used that term about themselves. That's who they said they were 
before the attack. They used terms in the report 32 times like 
``Islam'' because those who attacked us in the worst attack in our 
history on our soil used that term about themselves.
  And I am very sorry for our moderate Islamic friends who want to live 
in peace with all Americans because they're Americans. And I'm sorry if 
people are offended that those who hated us so much they would bring 
down the World Trade Centers, try to wipe out the Pentagon, try to wipe 
out what some say is the most recognized building in the world, this 
Capitol, I'm sorry if they're offended that those people call 
themselves Muslim. They call themselves Islamists.
  ``Muslim Brotherhood'' was mentioned five times in the 9/11 
Commission report because it was important. There was an interwoven 
nature to what was going on in the attack. They used ``religious,'' 
that word, 65 times. They mentioned ``Hamas'' four times. They 
mentioned ``Hezbollah'' two times. They mentioned ``al Qaeda'' 36 
times. They mentioned ``caliph'' seven times. They mentioned 
``shari'a'' twice.
  But apparently we have leaders who mean well, I know that, who think 
they're protecting America, who are more concerned about not offending 
people who don't want to hurt us than they are about just speaking 
truth. And how can you deal with an enemy unless you're willing to 
recognize them in truth?
  So now, because in the very recent months, the FBI counterterrorism 
lexicon, this effort by our FBI that's going on in the Justice 
Department, it's going on in the Intelligence Department, it's going on 
in the State Department, it's going on in the White House, itself--
they're leading the charge--we don't want to offend anyone.

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  So no longer is an FBI agent who is new, someone who may barely 
remember what occurred on 9/11, allowed to be taught what the enemy who 
attacked us said about themselves. They're not allowed to be taught 
what they said motivated our enemy. How can you deal with your enemy? 
How can you take them on and win that fight and come out victorious 
unless you recognize what motivates them? Because, when you know what 
motivates them, you can predict more likely what they will do next.
  That's why there are novelists in America who do a better job of 
projecting where we will be hit next than our own government 
intelligence agencies, other than our own government FBI. It's why some 
noticed that there was a soldier on al Jazeera who was saying exactly 
what Major Hasan had said: in essence about how, with his being a 
Muslim, if he were sent to a Muslim country where he might accidentally 
kill another Muslim for one of the unrecognized allowances to kill 
another Muslim, then they would have to act up and kill Americans to 
avoid having to risk going to a Muslim country and killing a Muslim.
  The guy is saying basically the same things Hasan did before he 
killed 13 of our precious servicemembers in an act that in our 
political correctness this administration now refers to as ``workplace 
violence.''
  I came to know and love some Pearl Harbor survivors. They had no idea 
that what they experienced at Pearl Harbor, according to the thinking 
of this administration, was an act of workplace violence, where someone 
came into the workplace of all of these civilians and all of these 
soldiers and sailors and marines in Pearl Harbor and killed them in 
their workplace. They didn't understand that because that's not what it 
was--nor was it workplace violence at Fort Hood. It was an act of war 
against our military.
  I am grateful we have Members of the House and Senate who had the 
foresight to file a bill to make sure that they should have Purple 
Hearts, because it was not workplace violence. They died for their 
country. They died

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for freedom. They laid down their lives, which they knew were at risk 
from the moment they took the oath, which is just like all of us who 
have been in the service have taken.
  Political correctness must be set aside so that we can speak candidly 
and truthfully. So, if there really is nothing to fear from the radical 
Islamists who have hijacked the name of a religion away from the mass 
moderate Muslims, it is time for more than just three or four or a 
handful of moderate Muslims to step forward and help us in calling it 
what it is.
  Now, I recognize that, for any Muslim to step forward and condemn 
another Muslim, it is a very, very risky proposition. It's far more 
risky for them to do that than for a considered infidel like me to step 
up and condemn radical jihadist Islamists, because I'm already an 
infidel in their eyes; but moderates know that if they speak out 
publicly they could be targeted for turning on their own religion. 
Among the radicals--crazies--who are trying to highjack the religion, 
they get angrier at a moderate Muslim than they do at an infidel for 
speaking against another Muslim. So it is very risky for a moderate to 
step up and join those of us who want to recognize accurately what our 
enemy is.
  But, in the name of political correctness, not only have we cleansed 
our National Intelligence Strategy, which is becoming a misnomer--how 
can you have intelligence if you're not allowed to recognize your enemy 
for what your enemy calls himself?--our FBI counterterrorism lexicon, 
how it has been cleansed of the terms that those at war with us call 
themselves.
  It is important that we learn from our mistakes because, if we refuse 
to learn from our mistakes, we're going to keep making them. Most 
people have been taught the old adage: ``Those who refuse to learn from 
history are destined to repeat it.'' We should not have to experience 
another major attack on our own soil and the loss of thousands of 
American lives before we have another heartbreaking day like September 
12 of 2001 on which we come together, embrace, and say we're not 
hyphenated Americans--we're Americans. We are one people, and we will 
stand together. We shouldn't have to have more Americans killed as they 
were on 9/11 to bring us together like that.
  But I beg, Mr. Speaker, of my colleagues: Let's help educate our 
Federal Government that it's okay to call people ``radical Islamists'' 
if they have called themselves that and that it's okay to describe 
people in our FBI counterterrorism lexicon and in our intelligence 
materials what the terrorists, themselves, call themselves. It's okay, 
and we won't be mad at each other when we do that.
  What happens when we try to become too politically correct is that we 
have things like the FBI and a wonderful Director who, I believe, 
unintentionally has hurt the FBI by his 5-year up-or-out policy, which 
we now know has cost us thousands and thousands and thousands of years 
of experience by running off our more experienced FBI agents in favor 
of agents in charge, who may go from having 26 years of experience to 
having 5 or 6 years of experience, who may not even have been out of 
college at the time of 9/11 and who are now in charge as the most 
experienced people we have in our offices around the country. That has 
hurt us.
  At the same time, for example, in June of 2002, our FBI Director took 
fire for giving a speech to the American Muslim Council, which the 
Director's spokesman described as ``the most mainstream Muslim group in 
the United States.'' But, at the time of the speech in 2002, the head 
of the American Muslim Council was a man named al-Amoudi, who was 
videotaped in October of 2000 delivering a speech just yards away from 
the White House, proclaiming:

       I have been labeled by the media in New York as being a 
     supporter of Hamas. We are all supporters of Hamas. I wish 
     they'd added that I'm also a supporter of Hezbollah.

  That was also the same year, 2002, that the AMC, the American Muslim 
Council, board adviser and former acting president, Jamil al-Amin, was 
arrested for murdering a Georgia police officer. Al-Amoudi was arrested 
in 2003 in a Libyan assassination plot targeting the Saudi Crown 
Prince, and was later identified by the U.S. Treasury as one of al 
Qaeda's top fund-raisers in the United States.
  At the time of our FBI Director's speech in 2002, al-Amoudi had been 
under investigation by the FBI for almost a decade for funneling money 
between Osama bin Laden and the ``Blind Sheikh.''
  In October of 2003, just days before the ceremony honoring a Detroit 
Muslim leader, Imad Hamad, and bestowing on him the FBI Director's 
award for exceptional public service, the FBI had to contact Hamad and 
tell him he wasn't going to receive the reward.

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  The FBI initially claimed they had decided to give the award to a 
victim of the 9/11 terror attacks, but later an FBI spokesman revealed 
that unflattering information about Hamad had been made public during 
the deportation proceedings for one of his close associates. In fact, 
the INS fought for two decades to deport Hamad for his suspected 
support for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a 
designated terrorist organization by this government. That information 
came to light not due to any checking or vetting by the FBI, but thanks 
to an article published by the New York Post.
  It brings me back to the point about a young soldier after the 13 
military members were killed at Fort Hood by Major Hasan who was on al-
Jazeera saying the same things Hasan did before he went to kill. We had 
people that actually noticed that, but it would have been politically 
incorrect to do anything about it. You know, they say those things. If 
it had not been for a gun dealer in Texas who found this young private 
suspicious, if it had not been for that gun dealer calling in local 
authorities and alerting them, we would have had another Fort Hood 
shooting and lost other precious members of our military. They were 
saved not because of the intelligence community, the FBI 
counterterrorism, or the Homeland Security countering violent 
extremism, because we don't want to use the term jihad or Islamic 
jihad. So it's countering violent extremists. No, none of those picked 
it up. There were people who noticed and reported it, but nothing was 
done because it might be politically incorrect. They risked the lives 
of our precious military in political correctness. If not for the work 
of a gun dealer in Texas and local law enforcement jumping right on top 
of it, we could have lost military members.
  Here are some other examples. Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami 
al-Arian had meetings and conversations with high-ranking officials at 
the Justice Department and the Homeland Security Department despite 
being the subject of FISA wiretap warnings since the early 1990s and 
having his home raided in 1995. He was still having meetings at the 
DOJ, Homeland Security, and having access to our government's inner 
sanctum. As part of a plea agreement, al-Arian admitted to being a part 
of the leadership structure of the terrorist group, and they were 
meeting with him.
  In 2008, our FBI director handed one of his Director's Community 
Leadership Awards to Imam Yahya Hendi, who had testified during al-
Arian's trial as a defense witness. Hendi had served as a moderator 
during a 2000 fundraiser for the Benevolence International Foundation, 
which was shut down in November 2002 by the U.S. Government and 
designated a terrorist organization for its support of al Qaeda and a 
number of other Islamic terrorist groups.
  An FBI agent testified during the Holy Land Foundation trial that 
CAIR was a front for the terrorist group Hamas, and the FBI was 
publicly forced to sever its ties with CAIR. They had all this 
information, and yet they continued to, as their own information says, 
partner with CAIR, though CAIR--they knew we had evidence--was 
partnering with terrorists.
  In September of 2010, known Hamas cleric, Mustapha, who was a part of 
a 6-week FBI Citizen's Academy, was treated to guided tours at the top-
secret National Counterterrorism Center,

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FBI headquarters, and the FBI Academy at Quantico. Mustapha's 
participation in the FBI program came after he was personally named a 
coconspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial and after his 
appointment as a Muslim chaplain to the Illinois State Police had been 
revoked. Illinois had already figured out what he was and what he 
believed before he was given tours of our top-secret National 
Counterterrorism Center.
  Time magazine featured a profile of Mohamed Majid, imam of the All 
Dulles Area Muslim Society--or they call themselves ADAMS for short. 
I'm sure John Adams appreciates that. He is the current president of 
the Islamic Society of North America, which also was a named 
coconspirator to fund terrorism in the Holy Land Foundation trial. And 
both the district court and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals examined 
the record and said there is plenty of evidence here to support their 
being named specifically as supporters of terrorism.
  But in November 2005, Majid was awarded by the FBI for the imam's 
cooperation in the war on terror, claiming, ``Majid regularly tips off 
the Bureau.'' But in a letter to the ADAMS center community the very 
next day, Majid told his mosque Members he did no such thing. Majid 
made clear that he never reported on anyone in the Muslim community and 
that his relationship with the FBI was one-sided, and the outreach 
meetings, ``are solely to create avenues to work with law enforcement 
to preserve our civil liberties and civil rights.'' Majid has met with 
top DOJ officials urging the criminalization of criticism of Islam. 
It's okay to burn a Bible; it's okay to criticize Christianity and 
Judaism; and police allowed people to scream and cuss obscenities about 
God during a prayer at a Tea Party, but it's not okay to be critical of 
these people.
  It's time to wake up. It's time to set political correctness aside. 
And Mr. Speaker, I would ask that this letter, signed by 22,000 
Americans begging us to end political correctness that risks our 
liberty, be made a matter of the Record.
  With that, Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

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