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[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1336 Introduced in House (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.

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                    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

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                               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.
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