[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 10284]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          RELIGIOUS CLEANSING

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the Roman Empire was notorious in its 
massacre of Christians 2,000 years ago. Now Christians are once again 
facing deadly persecution. Barbaric terrorist groups like ISIS are 
stalking and attacking Christians wherever they find them. Christians 
are disappearing, and some are fleeing countries like Syria and Iraq, 
home to Christians since the days of early Christianity.
  ISIS boasts of brutally killing and enslaving thousands of 
Christians. There are more and more reports of ISIS sex-trafficking 
young girls that are stolen away from their Christian parents. ISIS 
even posts videos online of their barbaric beheading of Christians.
  Why the hate, kidnapping, and murder? Because Christians will not 
renounce their Christian faith. The world, and the United States in 
particular, needs to denounce the murder of people based on their 
religious beliefs, whether Christians, Jews, or Muslims.
  We cannot accept nor tolerate ISIS' genocide of Christians. Justice 
demands ISIS be held accountable for their crimes of religious 
cleansing.
  And that is just the way it is.

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