'Hundreds' Of US Kids In Pak Madrassas -- Breeding Future Terrorists?

Students of Islamabad's religious seminary Jamia Hafsa, adjacent to the radical Lal Masjid Mosque, listen to their leaders last week demanding reconstruction of their school, which was demolished after a crackdown left 100-plus people dead in Islamabad, Pakistan.

B.K.BANGASH: ASSOCIATED PRESS

From the Times Of India:

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani filmmaker has launched a campaign to secure the release of 78 US teens from a Taliban-backed madrassa in the country.

Imran Raza, who helped secure the release of two US teenagers of Pakistani origin, found up to 80 other such boys and girls in Karachi-based Jamia Binoria madrassa while shooting "Karachi Kids" a documentary on American children in Pakistan's seminaries.

Raza's film focuses on two brothers from Atlanta who were forced to study at Jamia Binoria. When he met them, they wanted to take the "first plane back to America". Three years later, the "brainwashed" boys said the madrassa made them "better human beings".

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From the Houston Chronicle:

Antenna up on Islamic schools -- U.S. officials wary of possible al-Qaida recruiting

WASHINGTON — It's a nightmare scenario that awakens some U.S. intelligence officials at night: Pakistani-American youths will enter the country to carry out terrorist attacks after spending time at radical religious schools and al-Qaida training camps in Pakistan.

Officials say it hasn't happened, and some experts warn against labeling all young Americans who study in Pakistan as potential terrorists.

But the high-profile return home of two U.S.-born Pakistani-American teenagers last week who spent four years at a radical Islamic madrassa in Karachi has focused fresh attention on the potential threat, even though the brothers have no known ties to terrorism.

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My Comment: What is in the minds of the parents. To abandon their young kids to a foreign country and its religious schools. What type of parent would abandon their children this way.