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600 U.S. Taliban?
IBD Editorials ^ | July 18, 2008
Posted on July 18, 2008 5:07:42 PM PDT by Kaslin
War On Terror: After 9/11, Pakistan promised to close its radical madrassas as part of anti-terror reforms. Now we learn they’re not only still open, but also recruiting and brainwashing American boys.
All told, 600 American children are being indoctrinated into jihad in 22 madrassas across Pakistan. A U.S. filmmaker stumbled on them while tracing the path of the London suicide bombers. He discovered they attended the same radical Islamic schools. A congressional delegation has confirmed his findings.
One particularly radical school in Karachi freely displays a banner at its main gate urging Muslims to join the Taliban. At least 80 Americans are enrolled at Jamia Binoria, an international school. Many of its graduates joined the Taliban and became commanders.
Another jihadist seminary in Pakistan connected to Jamia Binoria brainwashed John Walker Lindh, the American Taliban now serving time for attacking U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.
The mullahs who run these terrorist hatcheries come to America to recruit boys, many of them from Lindh’s home state of California. Jamia Binoria’s headmaster, Mufti Mohammad Naeem, travels to the U.S. each year during Ramadan to meet with Muslim parents — like a college football coach recruiting prospects.
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July 12, 2008, 11:08PM
“RELIGIOUS LEARNING IN PAKISTAN
Antenna up on Islamic schools
U.S. officials wary of possible al-Qaida recruiting”
By STEWART M. POWELL
WASHINGTON —
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Robert Heibel, a former FBI deputy director of counterterrorism, says the “antennae of the FBI have gone up” in response to Pakistani-Americans returning from training at religious schools in Pakistan where they might be exposed to al-Qaida recruiters.
“The FBI would be very interested in all of these people when they return,” Heibel said. “I wouldn’t be surprised to see the bureau do some mass interviews.”
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said al-Qaida and other extremist groups try to recruit “non-traditional (Muslims), who look more Western.”
He added, “It is going on.””
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Whereas numerous acts of terrorism can be linked to certain madrassas, or Islamic schools, in Pakistan, as reported by the Chicago Tribune, the Voice of America, the Heritage Foundation,... (Introduced in House)
HRES 1336 IH
110th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. RES. 1336
Encouraging the United States Secretary of State to work with the Government of Pakistan to secure the return to the United States of all American children being educated in madrassas in Pakistan.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 10, 2008
Mr. MCCAUL of Texas (for himself, Mr. GALLEGLY, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. CANTOR, and Mr. SHUSTER) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
RESOLUTION
Encouraging the United States Secretary of State to work with the Government of Pakistan to secure the return to the United States of all American children being educated in madrassas in Pakistan.
Whereas numerous acts of terrorism can be linked to certain madrassas, or Islamic schools, in Pakistan, as reported by the Chicago Tribune, the Voice of America, the Heritage Foundation, and several other sources;
Whereas Afghanistan’s Taliban movement itself began among students attending radical Pakistani madrassas;
Whereas extremist madrassas begin the radicalization of children as young as five years old;
Whereas radical Pakistani madrassas have been called an `incubator for Jihad’ by Jihad Watch and Eric Ellis of the Bulletin/Newsweek;
Whereas the former Pakistani Government, recognizing the dangers of a new generation of homegrown terrorists, ordered all foreign students in madrassas to return to their homelands;
Whereas hundreds of American children have been sent to Pakistan to study in madrassas and have not returned home;
Whereas American children are being deprived of their right to an impartial formal education, including instruction in math, English, history, and other essential subjects;
Whereas American children in the radical Jamia Binoria madrassa in Karachi, Pakistan, tell of beatings and torture suffered at the hands of their instructors;
Whereas the radical Jamia Binoria madrassa allowed Osama Bin Laden to address its students on the importance of jihad just before the attacks against the United States that occurred on September 11, 2001;
Whereas the radical Jamia Binoria madrassa is, according to Asia Times, the place where Al-Qaeda and the Taliban formed their partnership;
Whereas the recent elections in Pakistan are proof of the Pakistani people’s commitment to true democratic reform;
Whereas the new, democratically elected Government of Pakistan has expressed its willingness to be a responsible and active member of the global community;
Whereas Pakistan has been a committed partner in the global war on terror; and
Whereas it is in the interest of both the Pakistani and United States Governments to continue to work together to combat radical terrorist ideology: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States Secretary of State should work with the Government of Pakistan to immediately identify and return to the United States all American children currently being educated in madrassas in Pakistan.