[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 519]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                BOKO HARAM KILLS IN THE NAME OF RELIGION

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, on Saturday, a 10-year-old girl walked 
into a crowded Nigerian market with a bomb strapped around her body. 
She walked through a metal detector, and the bomb exploded, killing her 
and dozens around her. The device reportedly was controlled by Boko 
Haram terrorists.
  Days earlier, Boko Haram invaded the town of Baga, Nigeria, armed 
with grenades, explosives, and assault rifles. News reports say up to 
2,000 bodies have been found, many of them children and the elderly who 
could not escape.
  Boko Haram means ``Western education is sinful.'' They have inflicted 
genocide in their reign of terror in Nigeria. Their goal is to impose 
shari'a law in that country.
  This al Qaeda-affiliated group of thugs, bandits, and outlaws 
slaughter both Christians and Muslims in the name of religion. 10,000 
people were killed last year in Boko Haram terror. Boko Haram abducted 
200 Nigerian girls and made sex slaves out of them. These girls are 
still missing.
  Mr. Speaker, Boko Haram is not going away. They are part of the 
cancer of radical Islamic terror that has to be eliminated.
  And that is just the way it is.

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