Posted on 11/17/2005 8:07:42 PM PST by jb6
KRASNODAR, Russia -- Thousands of Muslims from a small ethnic group known as the Meskhetian Turks are fleeing this Black Sea region for the United States. The exodus is caused by what human rights groups call a campaign of persecution sanctioned by local authorities and spearheaded by the Cossacks, a Russian militia that fought for the czars and is being revived.
In the past year, just more than 5,000 Meskhetian Turks have resettled in the United States as refugees, and 4,400 have approval to immigrate, according to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. Another 7,000 have filed applications that U.S. officials are reviewing.
Rustam Zautadze, 35, and his family, Meskhetian Turks who live in southern Russia, are moving to Baltimore as refugees. Zautadze, packs with his wife, Gulmira, 29, son Ibragim, 13, daughter, Fedena, 5, and son Dzumali, 10. jpg
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Here's an old thread with a good article:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/697692/posts
You should email here and see what the requirements are.
http://www.seattlecossacks.com/
You don't even have to leave the U.S.
Judging by the names on the member list, you don't even have to speak Russian.
I have to get my old Tolstoy books down off the shelf. I loved the stories by him about the Cossacks fighting the Tartars.
Good idea.
Seemingly the Mongol horde included those following Shamanistic religions, Buddhists and Nestorian Christians. Pity missionaries didn't convert them all, then the sack of Baghdad and the conquering of Iran and Anatolia could have been followed by conversion.
Turks don't practice female circumcision.
No it did not. Beslan is in North Ossetia. The population is Christian, but not Russian. One small city, Mozdok, is almost exclusively of Russian and Ukrainian ethnic origin, and some of its inhabitants are the descendants of Cossacks. However, Mozdok is pretty much cut off from the rest of north Ossetia.
Well, what can you say? Our leaders treat us like an occupied colony. I'll bet we'll also see tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands from Iraq before this thing is over.
I agree with what ever it is your thinking and it sure ain't positive for America.
Maby they will turn on Putin for being KGB, and get a reformer in power in Russia who will ban all KGB, military and Communist influence in the Russian government.
All we need is more murderous, hate filled monsters.
Turks don't. Are you sure?
They say Egyptians and Saudis don't either. But I know better.
Why not resettle them in the Sunni triangle and if, like the Kurds, they prove to be pro-American, let them into Kurdistan, Turkey or some other Muslim country?==
Because they were expelled once from Uzbekistan in 80th. Meskhetin turks behaived as bandits in Uzbekistan where uzbeks did pogrom on them. SO killed many of them.
Those who was saved by russian troops were relocated on russian terrotory but again they began to behaive as usual.
So now Russia gladly send them out. Accually that people may compete with even chechens.
My, my...that we should get this information from a Russian paper instead of hearing about it from our msm. Oh, yes...they are too busy covering The Perils of Joe Wilson. Just what we need...more militant Muslims in the USA. If the Cossacks don't want them, why should we?
Communist? Maybe you noticed they're less then 15% of the Duma and falling? Or did you miss the last elections. As for KGB, its been dead for 14 years and split into a dozen organizations. As for Reformers, outside the fact that Putin is a reformer (I'm sure you missed all the reforms of the past 5 years) those we called Reformers in Russia here in the US we'd otherwise call leftist democraps or robber barons. But why apply the same standard across the board, double standards are much more fun.
Taras Bulba! Mikhail Sholokov had a three book series [Quiet flows the Don, And the Don Flows To The Sea,} and another I can't remember, about the Cossacks and the end of their culture. Great reading!
Even by you own statement, they are from the same area. You are a fool if you think that terrorist attack is not related with these muslims leaving the area.
That is like saying muslims did not leave the state of New York right after the attack on 911, because of the attack on 911.
Yes I am sure.
Nobody has ever stated Saudis and Egyptians don't practice this custom, but even among Saudis and Egyptians, it is not as widespread as in some North African cultures.
Turkey is a secular state. Despite the fact it has a nominally Muslim party at the helm of government, it even bans headscarves in universities and the workplace.
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