July 9, 2007 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S8761 bargaining provisions which I have tors of the plots in Great Britain were bound together by common ideology, committed to drop, as has the Speaker. doctors, not individuals radicalized by comes in various stripes, including al- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- unemployment or poverty-stricken Qaida, responsible for 9/11 and which pore. Is there objection? slums. These plots certainly were not may have inspired the recent terror Without objection, it is so ordered. the result of British policy. They un- plots in Great Britain; Iran’s radical Mr. REID. Mr. President, finally, folded on the very day that Gordon regime, whose leader promises to ‘‘wipe again, I want the record spread with Brown, a critic of Britain’s roles in the Israel off the map’’ and envisions a how much I appreciate this. I know the 2003 invasion of Iraq, took office. Nor ‘‘world without America,’’ and which is families of 9/11 appreciate Democrats did they have anything to do with speeding toward the development of and Republicans coming together and American policy. From what we know nuclear weapons; the Wahabbism of agreeing to complete this legislation, of the individuals involved, it appears Saudi Arabia, which is funding radical which we will complete very quickly. the motivation was the same as all of ideology in mosques and madrassas all The bill (H.R. 1), as amended, was the other acts of terrorism in the name over the world, including here at home; read the third time and passed. of militant Islam. groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, This radical doctrine had its roots in f which cloaks its radical ideology in a the early 20th century and gained mo- new veneer of tolerance while its ac- WAR ON TERROR mentum through the writings of rad- tivities support terrorist groups like The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- ical Islamists such as Sayyid Qutb in Hamas and many others. pore. The Senator from Arizona is rec- the 1950s and 1960s, long before the Iraq But state-sponsored testing of the ognized. war. It has everything to do with the United States and the West is also in Mr. KYL. Mr. President, most of the hatred of our values, our freedoms, all full force. Iran is testing our resolve in activity with regard to the terrorist that we stand for, and we see the ha- Iraq where it is using its Revolutionary plot in Great Britain occurred while we tred in attacks that go back several Guard and its terrorist client, Hezbol- were on our breaks back home. I want- decades. lah, to train and arm those who are ed to briefly discuss that today. Review them: The 1979 takeover of fighting our soldiers. Iran is testing It seems to me that the terror plots our Embassy in Tehran; the 1983 the resolve of U.S. and NATO forces in in Great Britain must serve as a wake- Hezbollah bombing of the Marine bar- Afghanistan where it is providing sup- up call to those of us in the United racks in Beirut; the 1993 bombing of port to al-Qaida. Syria is testing our States who perhaps have been too com- the World Trade Center; the 1996 bomb- resolve in Lebanon, where it is assassi- placent about the terrorist threat. ing of Khobar Towers; the 1998 Em- nating anti-Syrian officeholders while These plots remind us of the dangers bassy bombings in Kenya and Tan- serving as a conduit for the weapons we really face each and every day, and zania; the 2000 attack on the USS Cole; that are rearming Hezbollah. Hamas is we need to employ all possible intel- September 11, 2001, and all of the at- testing our resolve in Gaza where it ligence and follow-up action in order to tacks since then, including Beslan, Ma- launched a successful coup against the stop the attacks and roll back these drid, London, and elsewhere. In every Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud terrorist groups. case, the rationale was the same—ad- Abbas. Third, successful American response The war against terrorists and on the vancement of the radical ideology of depends on resolve and support of the radical ideologies that drive terrorism militant Islam; a perversion of the American people. We must understand will go on and is going to go on for a faith, to be sure, but based on their the nature of our enemy and its ide- long time, and attacks will not occur concept of the faith nonetheless. ology, confronting them head-on, with every day. So we have to remain reso- The sheer evil of the acts and the full confidence in the rightness of our lute in the face of this long-term perpetrators shocks our souls, espe- cially because it is allegedly grounded cause. This is not a matter of moral threat, never allowing temporary in religion. People trained as doctors— relativism. We must not allow our- respites from violence to tempt us into those who are supposed to value and selves to be gagged by faux political thinking the terrorists have stopped preserve life—were at the center of the correctness. We can say that these ter- recruiting and plotting. plot in Great Britain to destroy inno- rorists were bound together and moti- Abroad we must confront the chal- cent life. vated by a hateful ideology grounded in lenges not just of terrorist networks We in the West, who believe in reason their interpretation of Islam without but of states like Iran and Syria that and rationality, have trouble compre- condemning any other Muslims. We provide funds and equipment for the hending the mentality of radical Islam must not embrace groups who tell us terrorists. At home we have to have and those who subscribe to it. But we they stand for peace without renounc- adequate intelligence to find, monitor, need to understand it, to call it what it ing violence in the name of Islam. We and disrupt terrorist cells that could is, and not too shrink from this hon- must not reward evil with retreat from strike at any time. It requires vigi- esty because the terrorists and their any of the battlefields where the fight lance and cooperation among many en- sympathizers hide behind a great reli- is raging, including Iraq and Afghani- forcement entities and, importantly, gion. Importantly, we must not seek to stan. And we must be willing to sup- the support of the American people. rationalize and explain the views and port intelligence and enforcement ac- Against this threat, to say ‘‘out of the behavior of our enemies through tivities, including incarcerating those sight, out of mind’’ can have no place. our values and experiences. Militant who have plotted against or attacked Now, the first point I would like to Islam seeks not to change our policies us. make today is that as the plot in Great but to destroy our very way of life and As we celebrate the success of pro- Britain revealed, this is not about replace it with a Taliban-like society tecting our homeland since 9/11 and grievances. This is about ideology. ruled by Sharia law and its enforcers. preventing loss of life from the at- There are those at home who are Militant Islam has declared war on the tempted attacks in Great Britain, let members of what is called the Blame West—be very clear about it. It is fun- our words and actions prove that we America First crowd, which was a term damentally at odds with freedom, with have not forgotten the resolve that we coined by my friend, the late Ambas- democracy, with the inherent human- displayed six years ago today, and let sador Jeane Kirkpatrick, who say the ity of the individual, with critical us not fall into the temptation of blam- Islamists hate us because of what we thinking, and rational decisionmaking, ing ourselves for the actions of those do. They allegedly hate us because we not to mention all other religious be- who, inspired by hatred, have declared don’t do enough to fight poverty, be- liefs. war on us. It is not grievances which cause of the Israeli-Palestinian con- While it might be fueled by griev- have spawned this hatred and these at- flict, because of Iraq, or because of the ances, it is not caused by the West but, tacks but, rather, the hateful ideology latest Danish cartoon, or whatever. Of rather, by the very backwardness and of militant Islam. course, this is nonsense. ideological rigidity that they would I ask unanimous consent to have The radical ideology that spawns this impose on others. printed at this point in the record a terrorism has nothing to do with such The second point is this: We should New York Post op-ed by Irshad Manji, grievances or poverty. The perpetra- be clear that militant Islam, though dated July 9, 2007.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 05:03 Jul 10, 2007 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 0637 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09JY6.014 S09JYPT1 hmoore on PRODPC68 with HMSENATE S8762 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE July 9, 2007 There being no objection, the mate- buildings and behead the prime minister. become clear this week that there is rial was ordered to be printed in the They called their campaign ‘‘Operation growing and bipartisan interest in the RECORD, as follows: Badr,’’ a reference to the Battle of Badr, the Senate to set a specific deadline to first decisive military triumph achieved by [From the New York Post, July 8, 2007] force the Iraqis to make the decisions the Prophet Mohammed. Clearly, the To- for themselves about how they will ISLAM’S PROBLEM ronto 17 drew inspiration from religious his- govern their Nation. (By Irshad Manji) tory. So what I want to do is talk for a few Last week, two very different Brits had For people with big hearts and good will, this has to be uncomfortable to hear. But minutes about health care—something their say about the latest terrorist plots in I know the President pro tempore of their country. Prime Minister Gordon Brown they can take solace that the law-and-order told the nation that ‘‘we have got to sepa- types have a hard time with it, too. After the Senate has a great passion about as rate those great moderate members of our rounding up the Toronto suspects, police well, and certainly folks are talking community from a few extremists who wish held a press conference and didn’t once men- about today—because the need to fix to practice violence and inflict maximum tion Islam or Muslims. At their second press health care is so great. Of course, many loss of life in the interests of a perversion of conference, police boasted about avoiding have flocked to the Michael Moore their religion.’’ By contrast, a former those words. movie as well, generating additional jihadist from Manchester wrote that the If the guardians of public safety intended their silence to be a form of sensitivity, they debate about this issue. ‘‘real engine of our violence’’ is ‘‘Islamic the- The first matter on the health care ology.’’ instead accomplished a form of artistry, airbrushing the role that religion plays in agenda to come up is going to be the Months ago, this young man informed me Children’s Health Insurance Program. that as a militant he raised most of his war the violence carried out under its banner. chest not from obscenely rich Saudis, but They’re in fine company: Moderate Mus- In my view, passing a strong program from middle-class Muslim dentists living in lims do the same. for kids is about erasing a moral blot the United Kingdom. There’s sobering lesson While the vast majority of Muslims aren’t on our Nation. It is unconscionable here for the new prime minister. extremists, a more important distinction that millions of kids, youngsters in So far, those arrested in connection to the must start being made—the distinction be- Rhode Island and Oregon and across car bombs are, by and large, medical profes- tween moderate Muslims and reform-minded the country, go to bed at night without sionals. The seeming paradox of the privi- ones. Moderate Muslims denounce violence in the name of Islam—but deny that Islam good, quality, affordable health care. leged seeking to avenge grievance has many In a country as rich and strong as ours, champions of compassion scratching their has anything to do with it. as the majority leader, Senator REID, heads. Aren’t Muslim martyrs supposed to be By their denial, moderates abandon the poor, disenfranchised, and resentful about ground of theological interpretation to those noted earlier this afternoon, clearly we both? with malignant intentions—effectively tell- can do this, and we can do it in a bipar- We should have been stripped of that ing would-be terrorists that they can get tisan way. breezy simplification by now. The 9/11 hi- away with abuses of power because main- The Senate Finance Committee is jackers came from means. Mohamed Atta, stream Muslims won’t challenge the fanatics not going to pass a children’s health their ringleader, earned an engineering de- with bold, competing interpretations. program that becomes a Trojan horse To do so would be to admit that religion is gree. He then moved to the West, pursuing for government-run health care. That his post-graduate studies in Germany. No a factor. Moderate Muslims can’t go there. Reform-minded Muslims say it’s time to is not going to happen in the Senate servile goat-herder, that one. admit that Islam’s scripture and history are Finance Committee. The Senate Fi- In 2003, I interviewed Mohammad Al Hindi, being exploited. They argue for re-interpre- nance Committee is going to work in a the political leader of Islamic Jihad in Gaza. tation precisely to put the would-be terror- A physician himself, Dr. Al Hindi explained bipartisan way under the leadership of ists on notice that their monopoly is over. the difference between suicide and mar- Senator BAUCUS, working with Senator Re-interpreting doesn’t mean re-writing. It tyrdom. ‘‘Suicide is done out of despair,’’ the GRASSLEY and Senator ROCKEFELLER means re-thinking words and practices that good doctor diagnosed. ‘‘But most of our and Senator HATCH, and I am very already exist—removing them from a sev- martyrs today were very successful in their enth-century tribal time warp and intro- hopeful that there will be bipartisan earthly lives.’’ ducing them to a twenty first-century plu- agreement over the next few days that In short, it’s not what the material world targets the desperately needy young- fails to deliver that drives suicide bombers. ralistic context. Un-Islamic? God no. The Koran contains sters in our country and is responsibly It’s something else. And, time and again, the three times as many verses calling on Mus- very people committing these acts have ar- funded. I am hopeful that will come to- lims to think, analyze, and reflect than pas- ticulated what that something else is: their gether this week, and members of the sages that dictate what’s absolutely right or religion. Senate Finance Committee will be Consider Mohammad Sidique Khan, the wrong. In that sense, reform minded Muslims working throughout the week on a bi- teaching assistant who master minded the are as authentic as moderates, and quite pos- partisan basis to bring that about. July 7, 2005 transit bombings in London. sibly more constructive. But it is also very clear, in my view, In a taped testimony, Khan railed against The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- that the State Children’s Health Insur- British foreign policy. But before bringing up pore. The Senator from Oregon is rec- ance Program was not created to solve Western imperialism, he emphasized that ognized. our Nation’s health care crisis. In fact, ‘‘Islam is our religion’’ and ‘‘the Prophet is f I think when we get on the floor debat- our role model.’’ Khan gave priority to God, not to Iraq. HEALTH CARE ing the children’s health program, the Senate will see and the country will Now take Mohammed Bouyeri, the Dutch- Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, like all born Moroccan Muslim who murdered Am- see that this debate illustrates how sterdam film director Theo van Gogh. of us in the Senate, I have just come broken our health care system is. We Bouyeri pumped several bullets into van back from a great week in Oregon. We are clearly spending enough money; we Gogh’s body. Knowing that multiple shots own the summer. It is just wonderful are just not spending it in the right would finish off his victim, why didn’t to be home during these warm days and places. Bouyeri stop there? Why did he pull out a cool nights. Other parts of the country For example, for the amount of blade to decapitate van Gogh? may have beautiful months other times money we are spending this year, our Again, we must confront religious sym- in the year, but nobody can beat an Or- country could go out and hire a doctor bolism. The blade is an implement associ- egon summer. ated with 7th-century tribal conflict. Wield- for every seven families in the United ing it as a sword becomes a tribute to the I want to talk a little bit about what States and pay that doctor $200,000 a founding moment of Islam. Even the note I heard as I moved around the State. year to care for seven families. When- stabbed into van Gogh’s corpse, although What I heard again and again is that ever I bring this up with the physi- written in Dutch, had the unmistakable folks at home want the Senate to cians, they always say: Ron, where do I rhythms of Arabic poetry . change course in Iraq, and they want go to get my seven families? So, clear- Let’s credit Bouyeri with honesty: At his us to fix health care. We are going to ly, we are spending enough money, and trial he proudly acknowledged acting from start on the first item today in a few we are going to use the dollars even ‘‘religious conviction.’’ minutes when we go to the Defense au- Despite integrating Muslims far more more efficiently, as the Senator from adroitly than most of Europe, North Amer- thorization bill. I believe very strongly Rhode Island brings us his very con- ica isn’t immune. Last year in Toronto, po- that we don’t support our courageous structive proposals as they relate to lice nabbed 17 young Muslim men allegedly troops in Iraq by forcing them to ref- better use of health information tech- plotting to blow up Canada’s parliament eree a civil war there. I think it will nology.

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