[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14147]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 SERIOUS CHALLENGES IN THE MIDDLE EAST

  (Mr. ROHRABACHER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROHRABACHER. Mr. Speaker, my colleague from Texas outlined for us 
today the serious challenges that we face in the Middle East. We have a 
challenge that is of a historic nature where a significant number of 
Islamic extremists are taking control of territories; and they plan to 
use that control as a means to terrorize large segments of the world's 
population, including the people of the United States of America.
  If we are to defeat this, this evil force that beheads journalists, 
stones women to death, and persecutes people of other faiths, we must 
make sure that we reach out to people within the Muslim community as 
well. We must make sure that moderate Muslims know that we are on their 
side, and when they side with us that we will stick with them.
  As we speak today, as I speak on this floor, a man who sided with the 
United States of America in order to bring justice to those Americans 
killed by radical Islamists on 9/11, this man, Dr. Afridi, languishes 
in a prison in Pakistan. If we expect other people to stand with us, we 
cannot forget Dr. Afridi. We must remember him, and we must save him as 
he saved us.

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