Joe Pitts: “I rise today to share the outrage of the people of Indonesia with my colleagues regarding a case of horror that occurred…”

“I rise today to share the outrage of the people of Indonesia with my colleagues regarding a case of horror that occurred this past weekend. While walking to school on the morning of Saturday, October 29, in Central Sulawesi, three teenage girls were attacked by Islamic extremists. The attackers murdered the young ladies by hacking them with machetes and eventually severing their heads from their bodies. Why this attack? They had done nothing wrong. They were simply teenage girls walking to school. As this horrible tragedy affirms, the Indonesian government must crack down strongly and firmly on these barbaric extremists in Indonesia. Otherwise, these terrifying events will continue. Photos are too graphic to show, but they show a young girl wearing a Princess Diaries t-shirt who will never again have the chance to dream like many little girls do of being a princess. Extremists have robbed her of her dream. I urge the Indonesian government to spare no resource in rooting out these extremist perpetrators and other human rights violators from Indonesian society. ____________________”