Anyone get the idea that some of our lawmakers are working for the "other side?!"
Posted on 07/25/2004 11:24:09 AM PDT by freedom44
KRASNODAR, Russia, July 24, (IslamOnline.net) - The United States has agreed to grant citizenship to 7,000 Ahiska Muslims who will be settled in Pennsylvania, reported a Russian newspaper on Friday, July 23.
The first 11-strong batch of the Ahiska Muslims, living in the Russian province of Krasnodar, left for Geneva on Thursday, July 22, before flying to Philadelphia, reported Novie Izvestia.
It added that the Muslims would be housed near the grand mosque in Philadelphia.
The paper recalled that Krasnodar governor Alexander Tkachev was notified of the American decision on February 15.
Izvestia said the Russian government does not treat Ahiska Muslims as citizens and has not therefore given them passports or IDs.
An official in Krasnodar administration had told Interfax on Tuesday, July 20, that of the 11,999 Ahiska Muslims living in the region, 4,943 have received Russian citizenship and 744 have embarked on Russian naturalization procedures.
He added that more than 5,000 others have expressed a desire to emigrate to the United States.
Earlier, Chingiz Neiman-zade, chairman of Vatan, a Meskheti Turks association based in Georgia, said the United States had offered to accept the Ahiska Muslims living in Krasnodar as immigrants.
"On February 16, the International Migration Organization began an information program in Krasnodar to explain the terms for the resettlement of the Ahiska Muslims in the U.S.," he told Chicago Tribune on Thursday, July 22.
"The immigrants will be provided with housing and furniture, they will be helped to learn the English language and to complete formalities needed for residence in the US, which is especially important, and have been promised life-long welfare allowances for pensioners and the disabled."
Happiness
Ahiska Muslims were happy with the American offer.
"This decision marks a great change in our life", said Tepeshon Swanidze, leader of the Ahiska Muslim community in Russia.
"We thank the US administration for its humanitarian decision", he added.
Ahiska Muslims , originally hailing from Anatolia, were exiled from their homeland after Russia seized the region of Ahiska following its 1828-1829 war with the Ottoman Empire.
Many Ahiska Muslims were forced to seek refugee in Erzurum in eastern Turkey after being persecuted by the Russian Cesar for supporting the Ottoman Empire.
Facing a similar fate under the notorious Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Ahiska Muslims fled to Uzbekistan in 1944.
One year later, they went to Azerbaijan where they currently reside.
Turkish and Azeri parliamentarians had recently appealed for an international intervention to pressure the Georgian government into allowing the return of Ahiska Muslims.
Ahiska became part of Georgia in 1918.
This is a joke,right?
Right?
"Compassionate conservatism" in action.
The invasion continues...
I sure hope so!
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We're screwed.
I DO NOT understand this drive to balkanize the United States.
We used to be a mealting pot. Today our policies seem to be directed at creating an oil and water strategy.
Moslems will NEVER melt into a mainly Christian culture. You'd think a Christian would understand that.
This has to be a joke. What is IslamOnline.net? I don't believe it.
Oh no way.
Duplicate...you did not even search did you?
I emailed Drudge, he'll find out, that is if hes not scared of the fifth column!!
Anyone get the idea that some of our lawmakers are working for the "other side?!"
"At least their not gay!"
Meanwhile, we lowly natives have been promised that social security will be broke by the time most of us currently paying into it are old enough to collect it.
All of which begs answere to this question: What in the sam hell have the Ahiska Muslims done for the United States to merit this special treatment? Couldn't the oil-rich sparsely settled fellow Muslim country of Saudi Arabia give them visas? Couldn't President Bush with all his oil connections pressure them to take these people and employ them in just a few of the hundreds of thousands of jobs for which Saudi Arabia is currently importing non-Muslim foreign workers?
The Kennedy boys promoted the current insane immigration laws back in the mid 1960s.
I could never understand why the quota for Sri-Lankans was 15,000 and that for Irish was 1500.
If they are turkic, they are cousins to the Azeris and the Turks. The article doesn't explain what is the pressing problem that requires them to be evacuated from Azerbaijan.
But if they can't stay there, wouldn't it make more sense for them to be resettled in Turkey?
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