The Karachi Kids made it all the way to Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
“We are grateful for the leadership of Congressman Michael McCaul in bringing much needed attention to this critical issue of national security,” Imran Raza, the director and executive producer of the documentary “Karachi Kids” told Canada Free Press.
Raza discovered up to 80 American children in a Taliban-backed madrassa in Pakistan.
Due to his efforts, two of the American children were safely returned to Atlanta earlier this week.
The mullah who runs the madrassa exposed in the Raza documentary, boasts that he has up to 78 more American youngsters in his institution.
U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul (R.TX) has introduced legislation seeking an accounting of how many American children are in radical Islamic madrasses in Pakistan. H. Res 1336 encourages “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.”
The legislation was introduced as a direct response to the release of the film the “Karachi Kids, a documentary the former deputy director of counterterrorism at the FBI said also “raised the antennae of the FBI”.
Hundreds of American children have been set to Pakistan to study in madrassas and have not returned home.
American children in the radical Jamia Binoria madrassa in Karachi, Pakistan, tell of beatings and torture suffered at the hands of their instructors.
While the children learn to be terrorists, they are deprived of their right to an impartial formal education, including instruction in math, English, history and other essential subjects.
The “Karachi Kids” documentary follows over a three-year period, the lives of two American boys in the same madrassa, which allowed Osama bin Laden to address its students on the importance of jihad just before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. The documentary chronicles how over time the boys are brainwashed into hating America.
Extremist madrassas like the Jamia Binoria madrassa begin the radicalization of children as young as five years old.
The headmaster comes to the United States once a year and personally recruits American children to enroll in his madrassa.
The Jamia Binoria madrassa is only one of some 20,000 madrassas in operation in today’s Pakistan.
A trailer of the film is available at karachikids.com.
