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| Lawmakers Meet With Musharraf to Get American Teens Released From Madrassa |
| 2008-07-08 |
| HT to HotAir. Ima thinkrn we don't want these brainwashed tools back. They've spent 4 years getting indoctrinated, but prolly have the social skillz and education of a 2nd grader Two American teenage boys studying for the past four years at a radical madrassa in Karachi, Pakistan, have been unable to leave, a situation that led three Texas lawmakers to meet with Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf to discuss their return, FOX News has learned. Cuz Dad doesn't want them to.. But Musharraf promised Republican Rep. Michael McCaul, and Democratic Reps. Gene Green and Henry Cuellar that the boys will be released soon and sent home. The three congressmen flew to Pakistan last week to discuss military affairs with Pakistani officials. On their way to meet with Musharraf, McCaul told the others about the American boys who were studying at a madrassa, or Islamic religious school, called the Jamia Binoria Institute. Green and Cuellar were unaware of the teens' plight. The boys, identified as Noor Elahi Khan, 17, and Mahboob Elahi Khan, 16, are from the Atlanta area; their parents are both Pakistani. go figure. Dad still here? Keep an eye on him and the boys Noor and Mahboob lived in the U.S. until being sent to Karachi several years ago by their father. Their parents have been fighting over where the boys should be: Their mother wants them back in the United States, while their father wants them to stay in Pakistan. "These American boys should be released immediately," said McCaul in a statement. "Pakistan has a policy to exclude foreigners from these madrassas, including Americans. However, the policy has failed so far." In their July 4 meeting with Musharraf, the Pakistani president assured McCaul that the teens would be let go, as did the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, saying they could be sent home as early as this week. Musharraf told the congressional delegation that he has been trying to close this particular madrassa, according to Green. "There's been a concern about madrassas who teach people how to hate America," said the congressman. that would be...all of them? Within hours of McCaul's meeting with Musharraf, Pakistan's new civilian government announced that it would continue with his madrassas' reform policy — which includes expulsion of foreign students, registration with the federal government, control of funding and standardization of the curriculum, according to McCaul's press release on his negotiations. |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #2 Seriously, the kid's name is Mahboob? Mah boob? MY BOOB? There is no way that kid won't blow something up. |
| Posted by: jds 2008-07-08 16:03 |
| #1 So...do we really want these two back after their "education"? Tell them to go work at Indian Railways... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-07-08 10:44 |