THERE ARE RADICAL ISLAMISTS WHO WANT TO DESTROY OUR WAY OF LIFE; Congressional Record Vol. 163, No. 42 (House of Representatives - March 10, 2017)
Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, I want to revisit an important issue. It seems that what
some of us were trying to point out for 8 years under the Obama
administration fell on deaf ears, that there really are radical
Islamists who want to destroy our way of life in the United States, who
look at us as infidels, and not just Christians, Jews, secularists, and others, but even Muslims who do not adapt and accept the radical Islamic ways.
That works to the advantage of some because we have seen for 8 years CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated groups, groups that were listed as co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation trialback in 2008, where the named defendants were convicted of many counts, and they were supporting terrorism. They have ties all over the United States and they have ties to people who constantly had access to President Obama's White House, the State Department, and so many other areas.
We saw time and time again the Obama administration looking the other way as serious matters arose involving radical Islamists, both in the United States and abroad.
But this administration didn't want to point out that there are
radical Islamists, that they are part of Islam, that many of them are experts in Islam, like Baghdadi, who heads up the Islamic State. He has a Ph.D. in Islamic studies, so it is kind of difficult to say that he has nothing to do with Islam when that is the basis for everything he said and did. BAGHDADI
Mr. Speaker, we brought this up, but it is important to take note
that this body–there were no Republicans that hired them, but Imran Awan seemed to be the ring leader, Abid Awan, Jamal Awan, Hina Alvi, Natalia Sova, each making $160,000-plus from the House of Representatives. The Awan brothers are of Pakistani descent. I am told the leader is now back in Pakistan while they are being investigated, but their immigration status appears unclear right now. They had been
hired as IT specialists, computer specialists, to help some of my
Democratic friends with their computer systems. And as suspicious activity continued to mount over the last 12 years, it was dismissed.
And I am reading from an article that Luke Rosiak… I'm reading from an article that Luke Rosiak, March 8, of the Daily Caller wrote:
It was dismissed because these five individuals were being
unfairly picked on because they are Muslim….
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