[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 6]
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                        THREATS AROUND THE WORLD

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Zinke). Under the Speaker's announced 
policy of January 6, 2015, the Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Gohmert) for 30 minutes.
  Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, there is so much going on these days, and I 
would just like to take up a very important issue that is going on 
right now.
  There was an interview by our President that was discussed in the 
L.A. Times, an article by Christi Parsons and Michael Memoli, and I saw 
part of the interview on television. The headline of this story is 
``Obama Raises Possibility of Allowing U.N. Vote on Palestinian 
Statehood.'' Their subheadline says, ``Obama makes veiled threat about 
Palestinian statehood in an interview.''
  The article says, ``President Obama took a step toward a tougher line 
with Israel in an interview released Tuesday, raising the possibility 
that the U.S. will allow a United Nations vote on issues related to the 
Palestinians if the two sides make no meaningful movement toward 
peace.''
  In an interview with an Israeli television station, Obama noted that 
his administration has ``up until this point'' quashed such efforts at 
the U.N., while insisting that the Israelis and Palestinians must 
negotiate a resolution; but he said it is a challenge for the U.S. to 
keep demanding that the Palestinians negotiate in good faith if no one 
believes the Israelis are doing the same.
  Further down, it says, ``Obama's critical tone toward Netanyahu, 
describing him as someone who is `predisposed' to `think perhaps that 
peace is naive', appeared to return to the tough language that marked 
administration statements earlier this spring around the time of the 
Israeli election. More recently, the White House had seemed to be 
trying to mend fences.'' Well, obviously, that is not the case now.
  I thought it might be important, Mr. Speaker, to take a look at some 
of the comments that have been made by folks who say they are leaders, 
and we know them to be leaders of the Palestinians because Mr. Obama is 
getting some terrible advice.
  I don't know who is advising him. Maybe he is still skipping those 
briefings, and who knows where it is coming from, but somebody needs--
somebody, and I hope, Mr. Speaker, somebody close to the President--to 
start advising him on the position of the Palestinians. They cannot 
make their position more clear.
  Prime Minister Netanyahu stood right here at the second level and 
made the statement, in essence, that, if Israel lays down its arms, 
there is no Israel; if the Palestinians lay down their arms, there will 
be peace.
  They will not do so, and they continue to teach their children about 
how evil and horrible these Jews are, these Israelis are, that they 
need to be wiped off the map. They continue to name streets and 
holidays for those who would kill innocent Israeli children, innocent 
Israeli moms and dads as they sit having coffee. Oh, they think that is 
wonderful; let's make them heroes because they killed innocent 
Israelis.
  Yet this President continues to want to help the Palestinians have a 
big spot in Israel, a massive spot, which Israel has already seen makes 
their nation indefensible, while the President seems not to be getting 
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position: they want to wipe Israel off the map.
  Some quotes, this is from Yasser Arafat, the previous PLO leader. He 
said: ``We plan to eliminate the State of Israel and establish a purely 
Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by 
psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will 
take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.''
  Now, the current Palestinian President has made clear--and his 
statement is: ``We cannot compromise on Jerusalem.'' They are taking 
all of Jerusalem.
  Also, this quote, that they would never recognize a Jewish state. The 
quote is: ``First of all, let me make something clear about the story 
of the Jewish state,'' he told Dream 2 TV on October 23, 2011. He is 
quoted: ``They started talking to me about the Jewish state only 2 
years ago, discussing it with me at every opportunity, every forum I 
went to--Jewish or non-Jewish--asking: `What do you think about the 
Jewish state?' I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I will never 
recognize the Jewishness of the state, or a `Jewish state.'''
  Another quote: ``Hamas kidnapped--or rather, captured--a soldier and 
managed to keep him for 5 years, and that is a good thing.''
  Another quote from President Abbas: ``In a final resolution, we would 
not see the presence of a single Israeli--civilian or soldier--on our 
lands.'' Of course, their lands, they anticipate getting all of Israel. 
They intend to wipe the Israelis off the map.
  ``Whoever wants resistance, whoever wants jihad, the direction for 
jihad is well-known and clear.'' This is Mahmoud Al-Habbash, the 
Palestinian Minister for Religious Affairs. He said, ``Those who send 
young people to Syria or elsewhere to die for a misdirected cause must 
stop and understand that Jerusalem is still waiting. Jerusalem is the 
direction, Jerusalem is the address.''
  Another quote--Hamas, a group designated by the State Department and 
European Union as a foreign terrorist organization. They, of course, 
are well respected in the area the Palestinians are occupying.
  Saeb Erekat, the Palestinian diplomat's chief negotiator, said, 
``Hamas is a Palestinian movement, is not and will never be a terrorist 
organization.'' Well, we know the facts dictate otherwise.
  We keep coming back to this point, Mr. Speaker. As long as the 
leaders of the Palestinians continue to say that terrorist 
organizations are peaceful, in their view, even though they want to 
kill Israelis, wipe them off the map, and as long as they continue to 
say they will never recognize an Israeli state, a Jewish state, they 
will never allow them to exist, they will continue to push to wipe them 
off the map, how in the world can the President of the United States 
act like he is a friend to Israel, yet say we want to accommodate their 
getting a vote that will make Israel indefensible to people that want 
to destroy them?
  Here are some more quotes. The following are excerpts from an 
interview with Hamas MP and cleric Yunis Al-Astal, which aired on Al-
Aqsa TV on May 11 of 2011. He said: ``The Jews are brought in droves to 
Palestine so that the Palestinians--and the Islamic nation behind 
them--will have the honor of annihilating the evil of this gang.''
  ``All the predators, all the birds of prey, all the dangerous 
reptiles and insects, and all the lethal bacteria are far less 
dangerous than the Jews.''
  Here is another: ``In just a few years, all the Zionists and the 
settlers will realize that their arrival in Palestine was for the 
purpose of the great massacre, by means of which Allah wants to relieve 
humanity of their evil.''
  Here is another from this Hamas member and cleric: ``When Palestine 
is liberated and its people return to it, and the entire region, with 
the grace of Allah, will have turned into the United States of Islam, 
the land of Palestine will become the capital of the Islamic Caliphate, 
and all these countries will turn into states within the Caliphate.''
  Another great quote from these wonderful leaders, another leader 
said: ``I swear that if we had a nuke, we'd have used it this very 
morning.''
  Those are the people that the President of the United States thinks 
are being extremely reasonable, and he considers that Netanyahu, in 
wanting to keep a country in which they can live without being wiped 
off the map, is being unreasonable.
  Netanyahu has made very clear, they want peace; but how can they sit 
down with people who will not even acknowledge they have a right to 
exist? That is not a precondition. That is a condition for wiping them 
off the map as a threat to mankind if they are not willing to recognize 
that genocide is inappropriate.
  They are war criminal wannabes. When people make clear that they are 
going to commit murder or genocide, how long do you have to wait before 
it is okay to stop them? Well, the President has made clear it may be 
time to move out of the way so that these Palestinians that want to 
obliterate Israel can have their will.
  One thought came back to mind. Back in my days as a felony judge, 
when you have somebody who is driving a car and people say, ``Hey, we 
just need a ride to this location. Once we get there, we are going to 
murder some people, but we don't need anything from you. We just need a 
ride,'' the person that drove that car, knowing that those people made 
those comments about wanting to kill people when they get to that 
location, they are also guilty of murder.
  I am not accusing anybody. I am raising questions. If the United 
States says, ``Here, Palestinian terrorist groups, we want to provide 
you the vehicle to have a powerful place right in the middle, a huge 
section of Israel. We want to give you that place, and you have made 
clear, we know you have made clear, once you are there, you are going 
to wipe out Israel,'' does that make the United States' leaders that 
facilitate that, does that make them accessories? I am just asking.
  Mr. Speaker, you can advise the Parliamentarian, I am not accusing 
anybody. I am just asking the question.
  The President needs to be advised by somebody that people are 
threatening murder, genocide, and those are not the people whose side 
we should be on trying to accommodate to reach that goal. It is a 
difficult time, and it is a scary time.
  Many of us believe what Scripture says, to whom much is given, of 
them much is required.
  I have mentioned a number of times the elderly West African gentleman 
who advised me when I was over there with Mercy Ships: We were so 
excited when you elected your first Black President, but we have 
continued since then to see America get weaker, and you have got to go 
back to Washington and tell your friends there that, when America gets 
weaker, we suffer.
  Then we see the stories of to whom much is given. This United States 
of America, that our leaders in this administration, according to 
articles, a Catholic Bishop in Nigeria, that this administration is 
saying: We are not going to help you stop Boko Haram, these radical 
Islamists; we are going to let them keep killing innocent Christians, 
kidnapping, and sexually raping, abusing Christian girls. But, if you 
will change your laws and accommodate same sex marriage and pay for 
abortion, then we will be willing to come help.

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  I was advised by some other Members of Congress who got back from a 
trip to East Africa, where they were told by leaders in East African 
nations the same thing that they are being told by the people in this 
administration: Oh, yeah, we will help you with radical Islam, but only 
if you change your laws to violate your strongly held Christian beliefs 
that same-sex marriage is wrong. And also, start providing abortions, 
also violating your strongly held religious beliefs.
  Only if you will violate your Christian beliefs will we be willing to 
come help you. If there is a God as the Bible talks about, there will 
be a price to this Nation for acting in such a way.
  I have a dear friend--I think the world of him--a man named Sean

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Hannity. I don't usually get to see his program live. Again, last night 
in the wee hours I was watching a replay of Sean's program, and he was 
talking about, once again, a terrorist with ties to a mosque in the 
Boston area.
  Of course, I had done some research on this and found research that 
had been done by others. I found an article by Ryan Mauro back from 
December 2013.
  I know when I was questioning the Director of the FBI, Director 
Mueller, before our Judiciary Committee, I was incredulous that the 
Russians, of all people, could advise the United States twice that the 
older Tsarnaev had been radicalized long before he ever killed people 
and maimed people during the Boston Marathon.
  We had been advised twice. When we took no action the first time, 
then they advised the FBI that the older Tsarnaev had been radicalized, 
and you need to check into it. And the best I can find out is the FBI 
interviewed Tsarnaev, and he said he wasn't a terrorist--imagine that--
and they talked to his mother and she said her son was not a terrorist.
  And I challenged him and said, in effect: You didn't even go to the 
Boston mosque where Tsarnaev attended to find out, to investigate if he 
had been radicalized? And he challenged me. He said that wasn't true. I 
said: What part wasn't true? And he said: We did go to the mosque 
there.
  I didn't hear the little tag-on line he put after that until I heard 
a replay. My staff had to say: You apparently didn't hear what he said 
after he said ``We did go to the mosque.'' So I had to listen to the 
replay. What he said: ``We did go to the mosque in our outreach 
program.''
  In the outreach program. We talked about that before. It took years 
before the FBI finally suspended their partnership with CAIR after, 
years before, the FBI had found evidence that was utilized in the Holy 
Land Foundation trial, the largest terrorist prosecution case in 
American history.
  CAIR was named as an unindicted coconspirator. They tried to have 
their name removed from the pleadings, but the Federal judges at the 
district level and at the United States Court of Appeals both said 
there is plenty of evidence to support CAIR being a coconspirator 
supporting terrorism. So no, we are not going to strike their names 
from the pleadings. There were other names that were challenging as 
well.
  So I was surprised it took years for the FBI to decide to suspend 
their outreach program, their partnership with CAIR. And yet, according 
to Director Mueller, they continued that outreach program to that 
mosque.
  But I did challenge him with one final question. I held up these 
documents here, the Articles of Organization. This is with the 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts that they got these Articles of 
Organization. And it is organizing a group called the Islamic Society 
of Boston, which established the mosque in Boston that Tsarnaev 
attended, that the latest terrorist attended.
  My friend, Sean Hannity, was asking the question about this mosque 
because he was shocked, like I was previously, as to why there had not 
been more investigation.
  This article from 2013 pretty well tells the tale: ``Clarion Project: 
Islamic Society of Boston.'' It says:
  ``The Islamic Society of Boston's teachings are largely based on 
Islamists like Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yousef al-Qaradawi 
and Sayyid Qutb, the Brotherhood cleric who influenced Osama bin Laden, 
as reported in 2008 that the Muslim Brotherhood and the Pakistani 
Islamist group Jamaat-e-Islami `are the prominent belief systems. The 
popular web sites used by members, and recommended by mosque leaders, 
are mostly fundamentalist, and rabidly homophobic.'''
  So we already knew that. Osama bin Laden had said that the writings 
of Qutb, particularly the booklet ``Milestones,'' helped radicalized 
him.
  If our FBI training materials had not been purged, as have our 
intelligence training materials and other training materials, if they 
had not been purged of material that CAIR found offensive--CAIR being 
the entity that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and a U.S. District 
Court said there is plenty of evidence to support their being 
coconspirators in terrorism. They found some language offensive and so 
there were--well they classified it. I thought it was ridiculous, and I 
won't say an approximate amount. They found many pages to be offensive 
to them, this coconspirator in terrorism, according to the pleadings in 
the Holy Land Foundation trial, and so they were removed. As one 
intelligence officer told me: We blinded ourselves of the ability to 
see our enemy.
  They don't even know. Our FBI should go into the mosque and talk to 
people there. They should have asked: Well, look, do you know Tsarnaev? 
Was he reading Qutb--well, they call him an Egyptian martyr, but he was 
a terrorist. He promoted terrorism, and he wrote this booklet that has 
helped radicalize people.
  But if you know what radicals believe, then you are able to ask the 
questions and get to the bottom. And so you are not just going to the 
mosque to sit down and pat each other on the back and have some food 
together. You are actually investigating whether somebody is going to 
kill people at the Boston Marathon in the future so you can save their 
lives. But they didn't know enough to do that because they are not 
properly trained anymore because CAIR gets offended when we try to 
properly train them.
  This article goes on and says:
  ``Their writings and teachings were fanatical.''
  This is from Sheikh Ahmed Mansour in 2013. He is talking about the 
Islamic Society of Boston's teachings in the mosque. He said:
  ``The writings and teachings were fanatical. I left and refused to go 
back to pray. I left Egypt to escape the Muslim Brotherhood, but I had 
found it there.''
  The Muslim Brotherhood advises this administration. And for the 
incompetent people that say: ``Well, Gohmert never gives names; he just 
says they advise the President,'' they don't know how many times I have 
given names. Mohamed Elibiary from Plano was on the top advisory group 
for Homeland Security.
  Imam Magid, the president of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society, or 
ADAMS--I am sure John Adams would appreciate that--he was president of 
that. He was part of a group that was named as a coconspirator in the 
terrorist prosecution trial of the Holy Land Foundation. He advised the 
President regularly. He gave him advice, according to the media. He 
gave advice to the President about his speech back in 2011, where the 
President inaccurately said everybody agrees to going back to the pre-
1967 boundaries. No, they didn't.
  If you are Imam Magid, and you are part of what was named as a 
coconspirator in terrorism, maybe you think that, but certainly the 
parties didn't agree to that.
  Anyway, this article goes on:
  ``In 2004, the Islamic Society of Boston Web site had a section 
titled: `40 Recommendations for the Muslim Home.' It said to `hang up 
the whip where the members of the household can see it,' and that 
children are to be `hit' if they refuse to pray once they are 10 years 
old.
  ``The section also said regarding wife beating, `Hitting is not the 
way to discipline; it is not to be resorted to except when all other 
means are exhausted or when it is needed to force someone to do 
obligatory acts of obedience,''' which apparently include of a sexual 
nature.
  The article says:
  ``One of the founders of the Islamic Society of Boston is Abdurrahman 
Alamoudi, who was its first president.''
  I insert here that I asked Director Mueller: Were you aware that 
Alamoudi is the one that started this mosque that Tsarnaev attended? 
And he said: No, he was not. But he sure knew who Alamoudi was. Because 
the FBI gathered the evidence, whether they wanted to or not, that put 
him in prison. Actually, I think the British gathered the evidence that 
was so overwhelming that there wasn't much choice; he had to be 
prosecuted.
  Yes, he had helped the Clinton administration, he had been some help 
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the Bush administration, according to Alamoudi. Anyway, he gets 
arrested out at Dulles Airport and is doing I believe 23 years in 
prison for supporting terrorism.
  But the article points out:
  ``He was convicted on terrorism-related charges in 2004 and has 
admitted to being a secret Muslim Brotherhood operative. He wrote from 
his prison cell, `I am, I hope, still a member of the Muslim 
Brotherhood organization in the USA.' He was last paid a speaking fee 
by the Islamic Society of Boston in 2000, the same year he publicly 
expressed his support for Hamas and Hezbollah.
  ``Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yousef al-Qaradawi has been on 
the ISB board of trustees. Tax filings for 1998-2000 include his name 
under a list of `officers, directors, trustees, and key employees.'
  ``In 2002, Qaradawi helped ISB--the Islamic Society of Boston--
fundraise via videotape because the U.S. would not grant him entry. His 
name also appeared on the Islamic Society of Boston's Web site until 
March 2001. The Islamic Society of Boston originally denied having any 
connection to Qaradawi and later claimed that the inclusion of his name 
on the tax forms was an error.
  ``The ISB has hosted Islamic speakers like Salah Soltan and Yasir 
Qadhi. In March 2010, Imam Abdullah Faarooq said that Aafia Siddiqui, a 
young woman arrested for her al Qaeda ties, was innocent, and 'You must 
grab on to this rope, grab on to the typewriter, grab on to the shovel, 
grab on to the gun and the sword, don't be afraid to step out into this 
world and do your job.'
  ``ISB has donated `thousands' of dollars to the Holy Land Foundation, 
a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity later shut down for financing Hamas. 
It also donated to the Benevolence International Foundation, later 
identified as al Qaeda front.
  ``Imam Sheikh Basyouny Nehela, was has served the Islamic Society of 
Boston for at least 10 years, is also a board member of the Boston 
chapter of the Muslim American society.
  ``In 1994, Hamas fundraiser Mohammed El-Mezain addressed the Muslim 
Arab Youth Association. He spoke after an individual that was 
introduced as a leader of the `Hamas mosque military wing.' An FBI 
report documented the speaker saying: `I have been told to restrict or 
restrain what I say . . . I hope no one is recording me or taking any 
pictures, as none are allowed . . . because I'm going to speak the 
truth to you. It's simple. Finish off the Israelis. Kill them all. 
Exterminate them. No peace ever.'''
  These are the Muslim Brothers that the President gets advice from.
  It is time to stop this organization. It is time to listen to our 
friends in Israel and do not, at all costs, facilitate the destruction 
or the attempted destruction of Israel by our enemies and their 
enemies.
  With that, I yield back the balance of my time.

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