July 25, 2004
THE EXCEPTIONAL NATION:
US Offers Citizenship To 7000 Ahiska Muslims: Several Ahiska Muslims packing to leave for the US (Damir Ahmed, July24, 2004, IslamOnline.net)
The United States has agreed to grant citizenship to 7, 000Ahiska Muslims who will be settled in Pennsylvania, reported a Russian newspaper on Friday, July23 .Posted by Orrin Judd at July 25, 2004 10:47 AMThe first 11 -strong batch of the Ahiska Muslims, living in the Russian province of Krasnodar, left for Geneva on Thursday, July22 , before flying to Philadelphia, reported Novie Izvestia. [...]
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 February16 , 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, July22 .
"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."
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.
"Citizenship" is almost certainly wrong.
Posted by: David Cohen at July 25, 2004 12:58 PMSplendid !
We're almost there, now we just need to offer American citizenship to 110 million Mexicans.
David:
Because they'll actually be resident aliens, because they won't assimilate, or because their kids won't assimilate ?
Posted by: Michael Herdegen at July 25, 2004 1:25 PM"have been promised life-long welfare allowances for pensioners and the disabled"
They'll assimilate, just fine, with Mexicans, African-americans. I'm sure they will fit perfectly as a permanent pissed-off minority. (need to get my calculator..maybe majority).
Posted by: h-man at July 25, 2004 2:02 PMLenin was right. We are ready to sell the rope that is to be used to hang us.
Did anybody bother to ask if these guys think our civilization is immoral and deserves to be destroyed? That's their religion, and it appears they are coming in based on nothing more than that.
Posted by: Harry Eagar at July 26, 2004 12:11 AMGiving the Mongols the red carpet treatment!
Sheer lunacy.
The American Nation is dead.
Posted by: J.H. at July 26, 2004 10:49 AMNations aren't worth much, societies matter.
Posted by: oj at July 26, 2004 10:56 AMA few questions:
Where the hell is Krasnodar?
What did they do to piss off the Russians?
How many more are there?