“They assembled on a street near the mosque for a conference organised by hardline religious groups. TV channels reported that leaders of banned extremist groups like Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan and Jaish-e-Mohammed also attended the event.

Several clerics made hard hitting speeches criticising the arrest of former Lal Masjid cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz as well as the government’s plans for reforming madrassas. The seminary students chanted slogans like “Allah-o-Akbar” (God is great).

Clerics said the conference was organised to pay respect to those who died when the army stormed the mosque in the heart of Islamabad after a siege in July last year. Participants demanded the release of Abdul Aziz, the reopening of Jamia Faridia madrassa and rebuilding of Jamia Hafsa madrassa in line with an order issued by the Supreme Court.

Both the madrassas are affiliated to Lal Masjid. Jamia Faridia was closed after the military operation while Jamia Hafsa was razed. Abdul Aziz was arrested at the conclusion of the operation while his brother Abdul Rashid Ghazi was shot dead. Over 100 people were killed in the operation.”

Two of the students who are to be deported are Americans and are the focus of the Karachi Kids documentary, which films their transformation from American teenagers fighting to leave the Jamia Binuria madrassa, into students who have willingly converted to fundamentalist doctrine taught at the Jamia Binuria.

This document reveals the two Americans, Noor Elahi Khan and Mahboob Elahi Khan, have been blacklisted by the government of Pakistan, and can never legally return to the country.

Pakistan is to be commended for its courage to expell these students, as well as the six others studying at the Jamia Binuria madrassa.

The estimated 500 foreign students at all the Pakistani Madrassa should also be expelled and deported from Pakistan — including the 75 to 80 American children at the Jamia Binuria madrassa.

Noor and Mahboob under go a process of indoctrination, captured on film by the Karachi Kids documentary.

It is soul wrenching and saddening to watch.

Karachi Kids shows why it is essential that the two key elements of Pakistan law be upheld and enforced that can be used to deport these foreign students.  First, that all foreign students who have overstayed their visa be forced return to their native country, and secondly, that the edict against foreigners studying in Pakistani madrassas be enforced.

This document may be the start of that process — one which will make the world a much safer place.

Guess who is not happy?  The Binoria Madrassas headmaster Mufti Naeem.  

“A 14-year-old madrasa student has been hospitalised and is in serious condition after being thrashed by his teacher, the teacher?s brother and the teacher?s son.

The issue was a minor one; the student told the cleric?s son not to enter his room with his shoes on. The victim has been identified as Muhammad Zahid, a resident of Muzaffargarh district. The cleric?s brother?s name is Umer and son?s name is Abu Bakar. The victim?s brother, Muhammad Shahid, told Daily Times on Friday that his brother and he studied from Qari Suleman in Umer Farooq Madrassa near Doctor?s Hospital.

He said that the cleric?s son entered his brother?s room with his shoes on, on which his brother asked the cleric?s son to take his shoes off. ?This infuriated Abu Bakar, who beat my brother up. Umer also came in the room and smashed my brother?s head against the wall several times and stamped on his face about a dozen times. They beat him mercilessly. The next day the cleric came to know about the incident and started beating my brother up. He thrashed him as if he were an animal. My brother was seriously shaken up, but could stand straight. He went to Jinnah Hospital, but doctors told him he was okay.?

Jinnah Hospital House Officer Dr Khalid said, ?Muhammad Zahid was brought to hospital by his relatives about a week ago. He ran a high fever. We didn?t know about the beating. We came to know about the incident three days ago. By then Muhammad Zahid?s condition worsened because of the blows to the head and he could not breathe.?

The victim?s father, Muhammad Khan, said he could not afford a good school and therefore was forced to send his children to a madrasa. ?It is my fault that my son is in this condition. I haven?t contacted the police because I know they won?t do anything,? he added.

The Daily Times reports that police in Lahore, Pakistan have recovered a 12-year old boy from a madrassa where he was found in shackles.  Police raised the madrassa and found the child tied in iron chains.  The mother of the child had sought help of local human rights activists for the recovery of her son.

What kind of speeches will be given? “The topics up for debate are ?Dawat wa Tableegh Ki Ehmiyat? (The importance of proselytizing), Jadeed Zerai Iblagh ka Istemal? (How to use the latest forms of mass communication), ?Ikhtlaf-e-Rai aur us ka Ehtram? (Difference of opinion and how to honour it), ?Qatal-e-Nahq, Asbab, Asraat aur Wabbal? (Intentional murder, causes, effects and its curse).”

This is a nice sample of those who are currently instructing American children in Pakistan.

It’s clear that this type of abuse os rampant in the madrassa system. Express India is reporting that “A seven-year-old blind boy was allegedly tortured to death by his teacher in Pakistan’s Punjab province ?for not learning a lesson?.”

Muhammad Atif, who was enrolled at the Qari Latif Madrassa at Vihari in Punjab, was allegedly beaten up by his teacher, Qari Ziauddin, who then tied his feet to a ceiling fan hook.

The boy died after being hung upside down for some time.

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has expressed sorrow and concern over the incident and ordered an inquiry.

Atif’s mother and grandmother noticed torture marks on his body and said his fellow students had told them that he had been locked up in a room.

Atif’s body has been sent for autopsy, police official Muhammad Akram Niazi said, adding police was trying to nab Ziauddin.”

NPR has now reported that between 50,000 and 100,000 Muslims in the United States are polygamists.

You can see in the film the impact this has on the Khan brothers — an apparently they are not alone.