Legislation IntroducedPosted by Evan on July 13th, 2008
Legislation regarding American children in radical Islamic madrassas has been inreoduced in the House of Representatives, the Houston Chronicle reports.
Rep. Mike McCaul (R-TX)Â dubbing Pakistan’s radical Islamic madrassas “jihadist seminaries,” proposed a resolution in Congress calling on the State Department to work with Pakistan to ‘immediately identify and return to the United States all American children currently being educated at madrassas in Pakistan.”
“These madrassas are creating a new breed of terrorist,” McCaul wrote colleagues, “American citizens or citizens of countries who have open travel policies with America that can enter our country, work in our businesses, live next door, and teach our children with no questions asked; similar to the London bombers.”
Nine of McCaul’s Republican colleagues in the House from eight states joined him in sponsoring the measure.
McCaul also asked the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the House Homeland Security Committee to convene hearings on the potential threat. The committee chairmen have yet to respond.
“I will continue with this investigation to see how many more Americans are over there, how many have come back and where they are now,” McCaul said.