Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I rise in support of this bill. The Chinese Communist Party is at war with religious freedom. The CCP treats as threats those organizations and allegiances that it does not control. Members of the CCP and the PLA are required to be atheists and are prohibited from practicing a religion. National law effectively prohibits young people in China from receiving any religious education. Xi Jinping is ramping up his so-called Sinicization of religion and is expressly demanding that religious groups support the control and ideology of the Chinese Communist Party. The consequences for those who refuse to submit are brutal. House-church Protestant Christians, underground Catholics, Tibetan Buddhists, Uyghur Muslims, Falun Gong practitioners, and other people who seek to worship freely are repressed. The State Department's annual religious freedom reports note deaths in police custody. They also state that the PRC ``tortured, physically abused, arrested, disappeared, detained, sentenced to prison, subjected to forced labor and . . . harassed adherents of both registered and unregistered religious groups for activities related to their religious beliefs and practices.'' Both the Trump and Biden administrations have correctly recognized the PRC's brutal crackdown and forced encampment of Uyghur Muslims and other minorities in Xinjiang as a genocide, involving crimes against humanity.…”