Lawmakers Meet With Musharraf To Get American Teens Released From Madrasa
(FOX)
WASHINGTON — Two American teenage boys studying for the past four years at a radical madrasa in Karachi, Pakistan, have been unable to leave, a situation that has led three Texas lawmakers to meet with Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf to discuss their return, FOX News has learned.
The three lawmakers — Republican Rep. Michael McCaul, and Democratic Reps. Gene Green and Henry Cuellar — flew to Pakistan last week to discuss military affairs with Pakistani officials.
However, on their way to meet with Musharraf, McCaul mentioned to the others that these American were studying at a madrasa, or Islamic religious school. Green and Cuellar were unaware of the teens’ plight.
The boys were apparently sent to Pakistan by their Pakistani father. Their mother is American and the teens lived in the U.S. until being sent overseas several years ago. The parents are fighting over where the boys should be. The mother wants them returned to the United States. The father wants them in Pakistan.
The boys are Noor Elahi Khan, 17, and Mahboob Elahi Khan, 16, and are from the Atlanta area where they are constituents of Georgia Rep. Hank Johnson.
Green told FOX News that Musharraf told the congressional delegation that he had been trying to close this particular madrasa.
“Just his body language and words told me he had problems” at this school, said Green.
“There’s been a concern about madrasas who teach people how to hate America,” said Green who noted the radicalized schools are teaching “militant Islam.”
Green said it is not all that rare for lawmakers to get involved in “domestic disputes” between family members in different countries. But the congressman said his personal interjection has usually involved one parent in the U.S. and the other in Mexico.
The fact that the situation deals with one parent from Pakistan “makes it a little more complicated,” said Green. “Sharia law is a little different. It may give preference to the father.”
A Justice Department source told FOX News that Pakistan has revoked the teens’ visas and officials there say they want to send the boys back to the United States.
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moral to this story : american women stop marrying muslims, particularly arabs or pakistanis.
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July 9th, 2008 at 6:40 am