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.
The truly important thing regarding this story is that every American citizen would have no trouble believing the jackals in washington have okd this. I dont know if its true or not, but yes, I know they would do such a thing.
The march of the bots will soon ensue. Be prepared to be called racist, xenophobic, anti-muslim, etc etc etc.
The first president bush, brought thousands of iraqi muzzies to the OKC area IIRC......................
We see what happened there.................
You're darn right it isn't funny.
I posted it because I thought it tied into the UAE thing - our goverment is so politically correct that it refuses to even recognize who our enemies are.
We are Constitutionally allowed to discriminate against anyone who isn't a citizen. We don't have to apply any kind of fairness doctrine to those who want to immigrate. Nor do we have to apply it to foreign companies who want to do business here.
Hey, it's only 7,000; it's not like the Entire Island of Puerto Rico.....which collects Social Security and pays no U.S. income tax!
"I'd rather give citizenship to the white farmers of Zimbabwe."
Me too. However, the only pc move is to give these rights to a group that would love to tear down the US as w3e know it.
Hey Dave,
We are already paying for it. Who do you think is footing this part of the plan?
"The immigrants will be provided with ... and have been promised life-long welfare allowances for pensioners and the disabled."
Idiots in Congress one and all! Or are we the idiots for letting them do this?
"Or are we the idiots for letting them do this?"
I'm afraid we only have the political process to change things; I no longer support the RNC, (over Border Security and Income Tax issues). I would think seriously about not re-electing Bush if he WERE elligble, not because he means ill; but because he seems increasingly inept in choosing his advisors and staff. He lets his enemies frame all the issues: like this port bouhaha....
Meanwhile many of the Democrats actualy DO mean ill towards our country......
I'd say most of them, if not all, sympathize with al Qaeda. This country is going crazy.
OMG! This is just sickening! Our ****** government is outta control!
One more example of "compassionate conservatism" as practiced by the completely tone deaf White House. The phrase "stuck on stupid" comes to mind. They don't have enough trouble as it is, just with their completely unacceptable attitude on the illegal alien issue. Now they want to piss us all off even more by importing, at worst, potential Muslim terrorists or, at best, quiet supporters and enablers of Muslim terrorists.
Taking this risk is totally insane. The White House is going to hear plenty on this one, and it won't be applause. I'll be calling my Washington crapweasels first thing Monday morning.
Of all the people we might consider letting into this country, Muslims shouldn't just be at the bottom of the list, they shouldn't be on the list at all.
We should be exporting Muslims, not importing them. And WTF are they moving to the "Great Satan". Words cannot describe how sick of Islam I am. It's a pestilence invented by a false prophet. Early on it was considered a heresy by The Church. Now it's just a 7th century lynch mob
Bumpity bump, I replied on another thread. Cheney can shoot with his finger now?? LOL.
or the Boers
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