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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; 


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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; 


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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 

1 Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep2 resentatives that the United States Secretary of State 

3 should work with the Government of Pakistan to imme4 diately identify and return to the United States all Amer5 ican children currently being educated in madrassas in 

6 Pakistan. 

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