On the recordJanuary 20, 2015
I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of this resolution. The resolution condemns the terrorist attack in France carried out by Islamist extremists earlier this month. On January 7, two armed gunmen entered the offices of Charlie Hebdo, the satirical magazine in Paris, and, in a brutal, premeditated attack, killed 12 people and injured 11 others. The following day, as we watched this play out on international media, their associate, Amedy Coulibaly, shot and killed a female police officer, and in the following days with the Kouachi brothers on the run, Coulibaly targeted a kosher supermarket where he shot and killed four Jewish shoppers and took multiple hostages. Later that day, courageous French police officers stormed the supermarket, killed the attacker, and freed the hostages. There are no words that we can speak today, I think, that will comfort the families and the friends of the 17 people murdered in those terrorist attacks. The victims included cartoonists and maintenance workers, police officers, grocery shoppers, Christians, Jews, and Muslims. {time} 1415 There are no words strong enough to condemn these terrorists and their radical jihadist ideology. The Charlie Hebdo offices were attacked because their cartoons offended.…
