Posted on 02/25/2006 7:10:24 PM PST by Imnotalib
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.
Why don't we also import 7,000 MS-13 immigrants from Latin America while we're at it?
Seven thousand people is not a large number, seven MILLION illegal immigrants IS. Every group that has ever come into this country has essentially gone immediately into a large clump. The Italians, the Irish, the Jews, the Poles, the Germans, so it doesn't worry me that they will all be in one location. That won't last all that long.
You Dare to post that Excerpt as an article post of its own...LOL Not Me
They write about everyday problems, they write about what is happening (things the media never bothers to report). They write about the people and their lives and hopes and problems.
Because they're basicly already here.
When the globalist New World Order political cabal tells us it ends.
The obvious plan is to destroy U.S. sovereignty from within by allowing the flooding of America with certain demographics who don't give a rat's @ss about law or loyalty, borderless "trade" agreements, and slandering all who oppose it as "racist" and "xenophobic."
LOL
You have my sympathy, But not too much of it. Patty Murray and Maria C_ntwell are mine.
Under the new immigration plan being backed by McCain and some loon democrat, they acknowledge that there are 11-13 million illegals in country. The government has NEVER supplied accurate numbers on illegals in country. They have low-balled the numbers every time.
In 1986, Reagan signed an amnesty plan that was to legitimize around one million illegals. 3.5 million wound up applying over the next couple of years.
If the government says there's 11-13 million here, you can rest assured we're looking at more like 22.5.
It's pretty easy to look at 7,000 people and say that isn't many. If it's your neighborhood, it a lot of people. I asked you how you would feel if you wound up situated in the middle of a four square mile area of foreign nationals. You deferred and answer.
Someone is going to wind up like that. More than a few will. It's not right. It's not right that we're picking up the tab either. Foreign nationals should be able to come here in reasonable numbers, if they can support themselves or have a sponser. If they don't, then you and I should not have to do it.
The irony is not lost on me.
Our immigration policy is...INSANE.
We can only blame the man who's running the show -- the Republican President.
never heard of them.
Well afterall D1, we have "Homeland Security" on the job putting everyone at ease./sarc
Policy is established by the Prez.
The more we know, the more irrationally enigmatic this issue gets.
You have a valid point. If Bush had lost, he wouldn't be speaking anywhere.
Careful. The Bushbots will accuse you of being a socialist, protectionist, paleo-con, not to mention a hate-filled, homophobic bigot.
Just consider how cheap these people will be willing to work.
Tasty
We can offer some Chechens also.
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