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US Offers Citizenship To 7000 Ahiska Muslims
Islam Online ^ | July 24, 2005 | Damir Ahmed

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Russia; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 2stupid4words; 4what; ahiska; ahiskamuslims; border; immigrantlist; islam; jihadinamerica; muslim; muslims; ohgoodie; peace; religion; russia; terror; terrorist; why; whywhywhy
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To: Strategerist

You must have really looked hard.

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2004/04/227e652d-0515-4449-beb1-4c861a659136.html


61 posted on 02/25/2006 7:40:19 PM PST by DoughtyOne (If you don't want to be lumped in with those who commit violence in your name, take steps to end it.)
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To: Cicero

"but it's absolutely typical of the State Department."

That it is.


62 posted on 02/25/2006 7:40:21 PM PST by moehoward
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To: RouxStir; Imnotalib
"Perhaps we should add "none of the above" as a selection in the voting booth, in which case no one would hold the office."

We tried that before. It was called the Carter Administration.

63 posted on 02/25/2006 7:41:21 PM PST by NicknamedBob (Islamists say we shouldn't make a mockery of religion -- funny, that's the problem I have with them!)
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To: Strategerist

Another link...

http://www.churchworldservice.org/service/Fall05/hlturks.html


64 posted on 02/25/2006 7:42:15 PM PST by DoughtyOne (If you don't want to be lumped in with those who commit violence in your name, take steps to end it.)
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To: DoughtyOne
You must have really looked hard

It's hard to look when you have your nose up in the air

65 posted on 02/25/2006 7:42:19 PM PST by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: Imnotalib
I don't think I've ever said this before and I can't imagine I'll ever say this again, but this is one time I wish Papa Joe Stalin had finished the job.

This CANNOT be true.
66 posted on 02/25/2006 7:43:13 PM PST by farmer18th
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To: Strategerist

Another...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/17/AR2005111702014.html


67 posted on 02/25/2006 7:43:34 PM PST by DoughtyOne (If you don't want to be lumped in with those who commit violence in your name, take steps to end it.)
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To: Imnotalib
"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."

My folks are CITIZENS of the United States of America. They have paid taxes all their lives, and they NEVER received housing and furniture or life-long welfare allowances. They can hardly afford health insurance. This totally fries me. This govt. is sucking the life blood out of it's good people.

Oh yes, and be sure to position them right next to their favorite Wahabbi mosque so they can really learn to bite the hand that feeds them.

I feel sick.

68 posted on 02/25/2006 7:43:51 PM PST by BigFinn
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To: Imnotalib
"International Migration Organization "

If we don't shut this POC Organization down and stop our Govt from this crap we can all kiss our butts goodbye. This is all ludicrous. I have never seen such an outward in your face from our Govt bureaucrats as the Dubai deal and this constant influx of Muslims. This is so disgusting. Especially for our armed forces.
69 posted on 02/25/2006 7:44:08 PM PST by Sweetjustusnow (Oust the IslamoCommies here and abroad.)
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To: Imnotalib

Don't we have a bunch of Christians in South East Asia still in refugee camps that helped us during Vietnam that we haven't granted citizenship yet to?


70 posted on 02/25/2006 7:44:10 PM PST by bahblahbah
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To: DoughtyOne; Cicero
Kind of like those lovely Muslims from Somalia that were resettled in Lewiston, ME and Atlanta, GA.

I have no problem granting political asylum to genuine dissidents-who aren't Islamic terrorists, or former members of the Ton-ton-Macoute-or to refugees like the "Lost Boys," from Sudan, or Cuban/Vietnamese/Laotian exiles.

Christians who are persecuted, and those who are threatened by the iron fist of Communism deserve a fair hearing, at the very least.

But why on earth are we importing people who will not only be a tax on our resources, but who have values that are completely incompatible with those that most Americans share?

It doesn't make any sense.

71 posted on 02/25/2006 7:44:12 PM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham ("The moment that someone wants to forbid caricatures, that is the moment we publish them.")
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To: DoughtyOne

Thanks D1.


72 posted on 02/25/2006 7:45:13 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Imnotalib
The United States has agreed

Nobody asked me....anybody ask you?

Jorge Akbar!

73 posted on 02/25/2006 7:45:24 PM PST by joesnuffy (A camel once bit our sister..but we knew just what to do...we gathered rocks and squashed her!)
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To: Kolokotronis
How can anyone continue to support the Bush government?

You don't understand. Russia has been a "staunch ally" in the war on terror and to show what good friends we are we have to take in their Muslim terrorists. If you hold your breath for longer than four minutes, it gets easier to understand.
74 posted on 02/25/2006 7:45:35 PM PST by farmer18th
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To: DoughtyOne
I don't see anyone here that wants this to be true.

Of COURSE people want this to be true...So they can feel self-righteous and important in their outrage.

Psychology is complicated and people consciously or subconsciously root for a lot of things that they'd deny if asked directly...because they enjoy being outraged, because they derive such immense pleasure from being able to say "I told you so"...etc.

WillIe Green, Paul Craig Roberts, Pat Buchanan, and Lou Dobbs, I'm sure, deep down, are rooting for the worst Economic Depression in the history of the US.

Jesse Jackson probably wakes up every morning hoping some white rednecks dragged a black guy to death behind their pickup truck the night before.

In late 1999 and early 2000 a great many people were hoping for Y2K Apocalypse.

A great many people are pretty clearly hoping for a Muslim terrorist attack by terrorists that crossed the border from Mexico.

There's no other rational explanation why people like yourself blindly and uncritically believe a story from two years ago with the most ridiculously unreliable sourcing outside of the Weekly World News.

75 posted on 02/25/2006 7:45:56 PM PST by Strategerist
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To: Imnotalib

WTF?


76 posted on 02/25/2006 7:46:08 PM PST by Redbob
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To: Strategerist

another...

http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/newstext/engnews/id/636514.html


77 posted on 02/25/2006 7:46:21 PM PST by DoughtyOne (If you don't want to be lumped in with those who commit violence in your name, take steps to end it.)
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To: Hildy

When Europe expels their Muslims, I bet they will be granted refuge here.


78 posted on 02/25/2006 7:47:07 PM PST by Eighth Street (Who do you hate more? Muslims who want to kill you or the Libs who want to sell you out to them?)
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To: bahblahbah
Yes.

http://www.amerasianusa.org/

http://www.usabound.org/clark_amerasians_denied_philippine_passport.htm

http://www.oggham.com/cambodia/archives/birth_families/000746.html

79 posted on 02/25/2006 7:48:41 PM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham ("The moment that someone wants to forbid caricatures, that is the moment we publish them.")
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To: Imnotalib

Hey. Just curious. How did you come across that and why did you post it at this time?


80 posted on 02/25/2006 7:49:04 PM PST by blogblogginaway (..)
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