Florida xelqi Guantanamo Uyghurlirini kutuwelishqa hazirlandi -Welcome awaits Uyghurs

[Uyghur News]

TALLAHASSEE
Welcome awaits Muslims from China held at Guantánamo
Tallahassee is preparing to receive and look after three men on an improbable journey from Guantánamo Bay -- and Tora Bora.


Lawyers for the 17 have said they would identify the three with the best English skills and settle the rest in the Washington area, which has the largest concentration of Uighurs in the United States -- about 1,000.

PLEDGE OF AID

The Tallahassee Plan presented to Urbina's court also includes a commitment to buy them a used car, once they get licenses, and pay for their insurance.

Not everyone in town is as accepting. Copeland came to work the day the news broke to a local woman leaving ''Are you nuts?'' on his answering machine.

The unlikely offer to take in the Uighurs started with Spriggs, who served a stint as mayor in the 1980s and learned about the Uighurs while filing suit on behalf of two Afghans at Guantánamo.

Unlike those two, who have since been sent back to their native Afghanistan, the Uighurs couldn't go home. China considered them hooligan separatists who had fled the country illegally, and the State Department calculated they faced certain persecution if they returned.

Yet, U.S. diplomats couldn't find a third country to resettle them. Some have since been resettled in Albania and Sweden.

Spriggs told the story to Bakhashwin, who had helped with some Arabic-English translation on a Guantánamo case. They both felt certain that Tallahassee could take three. And that started with community education.

Tallahassee's imam, an African-American Christian convert to Islam from Philadelphia, has now embraced the idea that he will serve as spiritual leader for three men who spent years in U.S. custody and soon will need to settle into U.S. society.

''Look at the good that can come from it,'' said Harris, 30. ``This can be an opportunity to show a lot of non-Muslims the real religion of Islam.''

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[Uyghur News]

Welcome awaits Muslims from China held at Guantánamo
BY CAROL ROSENBERG
The Rev. Brant Copeland never heard of a Uighur before Guantánamo. Neither had Imam Naeem Harris, this city's Muslim spiritual leader. Nor had Rabbi Jack Romberg.

Now the men have forged a community effort to settle three of the 17 Uighurs -- men from a Muslim minority in China -- whom a federal judge ruled were held for years in a legal limbo while mislabeled as enemies at the prison camps at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

At first blush, this southern capital city of 160,000 seems an unlikely destination for war-on-terror detainees from a faraway place: Spanish moss clings to centuries-old oak trees. The soundtrack at the airport plinks, Give Me That Old Time Religion.

The city has only two mosques, and not a single Uighur (pronounced WEE-gurr).

Still, people here are preparing to embrace the Uighurs, men who fled northwestern China in the '90s. Restaurant kitchen jobs have been found, and an apartment awaits, along with healthcare and volunteers to carpool the men.

In doing so, the community plunged itself into a court battle between lawyers for the men who were captured by U.S. allies fleeing Tora Bora, Afghanistan, in 2001 and the Bush administration, which is fighting a judge's order to release the men. An appeals court temporarily blocked the release last week.

''The executive branch has made a determination that these individuals . . . should not be admitted to the United States,'' said Dean Boyd, a national security spokesman at the Department of Justice.

Boyd noted that, at Guantánamo, the men ''admitted receiving weapons training at military training camps'' in Afghanistan.

U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina ruled for teams of U.S. lawyers who filed unlawful detention lawsuits. In a historic ruling, Urbina told the government Oct. 7 that unless a third country agrees to resettle them safely, the men must be brought to the United States. It was the first time a judge has ordered the release of a war-on-terror detainee onto U.S. soil.

The Uighurs have for years claimed through their lawyers that they admire American democracy and their dispute is with China.

They claimed they fled communist repression in Xinjiang, where Uighur insurgents have for years resisted Beijing's rule. Those who admitted having trained with AK-47s in Afghanistan said they sought only Uighur autonomy in their homeland.

FINDING SYMPATHY

Meantime, activists in town are siding with the Uighurs. They liken their plight to that of the Tibetans, without the benefit of a celebrity like the Dalai Lama to tell their story.

Members of the Tallahassee network deny they are thumbing their noses at China, which labels the Uighurs of Guantánamo ''terrorists'' and wants them back.

Nor is the interfaith community making an anti-government statement about U.S. detention policy, says Copeland, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Tallahassee. He told his 175-year-old congregation the story of the Uighurs in a sermon in September.

''It's a pro-Jesus statement,'' Copeland says. ``Regardless of one's political opinion, these are folks who were caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, and they have been so unjustly imprisoned for seven years.

``This issue cuts across all the political agendas. It's a pro-compassion statement. And a pro-Mohammed statement and a pro-Moses statement.''

Civil rights attorney Kent Spriggs argues that their effort blends charity and capitalism by tapping into Leon County's diversity.

A Saudi member of the Islamic Center of Tallahassee -- a massage therapist by profession -- is heading up the host community.

He told the Uighurs' story to a Turkish-American businessman, who has guaranteed them jobs at his Italian restaurant chain.

A Pakistani-American located a rental apartment within walking distance of Tallahassee's main mosque.

And at the Lafayette Presbyterian Church, the Rev. John Lown speaks with a lilting southern accent as he explains how he'll model the absorption program after his '90s experience with the Northern Virginia Council of Churches resettling Bosnians and Ukrainians.

At Copeland's church, members are channeling its relief experience from Hurricane Katrina to collect donations. So far, $9,200 have been raised.

''We're going to show the people of Tallahassee and Florida when people of faith come together for the community good what happens,'' say Salah Bakhashwin, 48, a longtime capital resident who spread the word through the city's 3,000-member Muslim community.

Bakhashwin left his native Saudi for America at age 17, and declares himself weary of a ''guilt-by-association'' atmosphere toward Muslims that followed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Adds Romberg, rabbi at the Reform movement's Temple Israel: ``If indeed these people are found to be harmless, it's only just that we find a way to take them in, get them on their feet and up and running as people who function in the community.''

The goal: a community embrace of housing, healthcare, jobs, language training, even cellphones linking them to 24/7 community volunteers to make them self-sufficient in three months.

Lawyers for the 17 have said they would identify the three with the best English skills and settle the rest in the Washington area, which has the largest concentration of Uighurs in the United States -- about 1,000.

PLEDGE OF AID

The Tallahassee Plan presented to Urbina's court also includes a commitment to buy them a used car, once they get licenses, and pay for their insurance.

Not everyone in town is as accepting. Copeland came to work the day the news broke to a local woman leaving ''Are you nuts?'' on his answering machine.

The unlikely offer to take in the Uighurs started with Spriggs, who served a stint as mayor in the 1980s and learned about the Uighurs while filing suit on behalf of two Afghans at Guantánamo.

Unlike those two, who have since been sent back to their native Afghanistan, the Uighurs couldn't go home. China considered them hooligan separatists who had fled the country illegally, and the State Department calculated they faced certain persecution if they returned.

Yet, U.S. diplomats couldn't find a third country to resettle them. Some have since been resettled in Albania and Sweden.

Spriggs told the story to Bakhashwin, who had helped with some Arabic-English translation on a Guantánamo case. They both felt certain that Tallahassee could take three. And that started with community education.

Tallahassee's imam, an African-American Christian convert to Islam from Philadelphia, has now embraced the idea that he will serve as spiritual leader for three men who spent years in U.S. custody and soon will need to settle into U.S. society.

''Look at the good that can come from it,'' said Harris, 30. ``This can be an opportunity to show a lot of non-Muslims the real religion of Islam.''


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Inshaallah, Inshaallah, Inshaallah!


TALLAHASSEE
Welcome awaits Muslims from China held at Guantánamo
Tallahassee is preparing to receive and look after three men on an improbable journey from Guantánamo Bay -- and Tora Bora.


Lawyers for the 17 have said they would identify the three with the best English skills and settle the rest in the Washington area, which has the largest concentration of Uighurs in the United States -- about 1,000.

PLEDGE OF AID

The Tallahassee Plan presented to Urbina's court also includes a commitment to buy them a used car, once they get licenses, and pay for their insurance.

Not everyone in town is as accepting. Copeland came to work the day the news broke to a local woman leaving ''Are you nuts?'' on his answering machine.

The unlikely offer to take in the Uighurs started with Spriggs, who served a stint as mayor in the 1980s and learned about the Uighurs while filing suit on behalf of two Afghans at Guantánamo.

Unlike those two, who have since been sent back to their native Afghanistan, the Uighurs couldn't go home. China considered them hooligan separatists who had fled the country illegally, and the State Department calculated they faced certain persecution if they returned.

Yet, U.S. diplomats couldn't find a third country to resettle them. Some have since been resettled in Albania and Sweden.

Spriggs told the story to Bakhashwin, who had helped with some Arabic-English translation on a Guantánamo case. They both felt certain that Tallahassee could take three. And that started with community education.

Tallahassee's imam, an African-American Christian convert to Islam from Philadelphia, has now embraced the idea that he will serve as spiritual leader for three men who spent years in U.S. custody and soon will need to settle into U.S. society.

''Look at the good that can come from it,'' said Harris, 30. ``This can be an opportunity to show a lot of non-Muslims the real religion of Islam.''

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[Rushan]

23 – yekshenbe normal waqitta
Romanliqlar 13 : 8 – 14
7 – sintabir 2008 - yili

Siler uyghurlarni anglap baqqanmu? Eger jawawinglar “ yaq “ bolsa meyuslenmenglar. Aldimizdiki bir nechche heftige kelgiche menmu anglap baqmighan idim.

Uyghurlar bolsa zhonggoning gherbi shimaligha jaylashqan hazir shinjang dep atilidighan rayonida yashawatqan bir itinik millet bolup bu rayon sherqide mongghuliye, shomalida rusiye, gherbide Afghanistan, Qirghizistan, Pakistan we Hindistanlar bilen chigralinidu. Bu uyghurlar doliti nolusta shalang orunlashqan bolup yurti asasen chol bayawan we taghlarni oz ichige alidu. Shundaq diyishke boliduki kopchilik Amirikiliklar hergiz anglap baqmighan.

Uyghurlar turkik tilida sozlishidu we ularning hemmisi digudek 13 – esirdin tartip sun’I musulmanlardur. Xuddi ularning xoshnisi bolghan Tibetliklerge oxshashla uyghurlarmu on nechchiligen yillardin itirawen Zhonggo hukumitining qolida zulumgha uchrap kelmekte likin uyghurlarning Tibetliklerdek Dalay Lamagha oxshash derdini xelgharagha anglitidighan dinni dahisi bolmighachqa ularning dewasi dunya miqyasida kuchluk diqqet itiwargha irishelmigen.

Amirika tashqi ishlar ministirligi bolsa uyghurlarni resmi halda oz dinni itiqati seweplik doletning ziyankeshligige uchrighuchi milletler tizimligige kirguzgen we bu nuqta zhonggo we Amirika munasiwitide dawamliq ighizgha ilinip kelmekte.

Nowette men bu dinni nutqumda jamaet bilimliri tetqiqat netijisini emes belki uyghurlar toghriliq ozem bilidighan nersilerning hemmisi iytip ottum. Emdi men silerning bir nechche uyghurlar bilen tonushushinglarni teklip qilimen hich bolmighanda xiyalinglarda. Ularning her birining azraq oxshimighan serguzeshtiliri bar biraq men ozemning ular toghrisida ugen’gen omumi ehwalini chushendurup birimen.

Emdi kalindaringlarni 2001 – yilgha qayturup turup korunglar. Zhonggoning zulmidin qichip chiqqan bir turkum Uyghur erliri afghanistanda yeni tiximu iniq qilipiytqanda tore bore taghlirigha jaylashqan musafirlar lagirida panahliniwatqan idi. Ehwaldin qarighanda 2001 – yili 11 – sintabirda ular hayatida anglap baqmighan yiraqtiki yat sheherler bolghan Niw York we Washin’gtonlarda ayropilanlar dunya soda merkizi we pintagan’gha urulghanda ular yenila ene shu musafirlar lagirida oz hayati uchun panahliniwatqan idi.
Undin kiyin nimilerning bolghanlighidin hemmimizning xeweri bar.

Tirrorizimga qarshi urush ilan qilindi.
Afghanistangha hujum bashlandi.
Tore bore tagh baghriliri we gharliri Osama Bin Ladinni yoqutush uchun bombardiman qilindi.

Bu hikayimizdiki erler bolsa qarlargha qaplan’ghan choqqilardin kisip otup Pakistangha kilidu. Bir qisim yerlik qebililer ularni qarshi ilip qorsughigha tamaqlarni birip andin ulargha wapasizliq qilidu. Amirika Osama Bin Ladinning ittipaqdashliri we egshkuchiliri uchun atighan 5000 dollar pulgha irishish uchun ularni herbi kuchlirige tapshurup biridu. Biraq bu yerdiki mesile bolsa u uyghurlar hayatida Osama Bin Ladinni anglapmu baqmighan.

23 nefer Uyghur erliri mana bu qiltaqqa chushken we andin kiyin bashlirigha xalta kiydurulup, put qoligha kishenler silinip Amirikaning Guwantanamo, Kubadiki turmisige uchurulup ilip kitilgen.

Bu bolsa 7 yilning aldidiki waqe. Ene shundin itiwaren ular yenila ashu jayda. Ular tirroristlar emes. Ular bolsa xata orunda xata waqitta mewjut bolup qalghan musafirlar. Ular bir chaghlarda bizge diyilgendek Guwantanamodiki tutqunlarning hemmisi “ yamanlarning yamanliri “ emes. Ular bolsa biz injilda koridighan ” eng izilghan kishiler “ dur.

Nowette u Guwantanamoda yenila 17 uyghur er tutup turulmaqta. Mining silerge ularning kechurmishlirini qisqiche sozlep birishimning sewewi aldimizdiki 10 – ayning bishida Washin’gtondiki fidiral sotchisi ularning qoyup birilishini yaki kipillik bilen waqitliq Amirikagha ilip kilinishi uchun buyruq chushurishi mumkin. Eger mundaq bolup qalsa bu uyghurlarning barar yiri yoq. Xitay qaytish mumkin emestur. Xelgharadiki doletler bolsa uyghurlargha sahipxanliq qilghanlighidin xitayning gheziwi kilip qilishidin qorqup ularni qobul qilishqa jur’et qilalmaywatidu.

Ozlugidin ularning heqsiz adwukatlighini qiliwatqan adwukatlar bolsa amirikadiki jamaetchiliktin bu uyghurlargha yardem qilip ulargha yashash uchun jay, hayatini qamdash uchun xizmet tipiship birip ularning uzun yilliq turmide tutup turulghandin kiyin ozlirini tengshep, yingi hayat bashlishi uchun ulargha tigishliq her qaysi jehetlerdiki yardemlerde bolishini umit qiliwatidu.

Ulargha yardemde boliwatqan adwukatlar ichidin bireylen nechche heftining aldida mendin otundi. U kishi manga “ mining sizdin sorishimning sewewi men bashqilardin tallaxessidiki birinchi pidespiteriyan chirkawsining mushundaq yardemge ihtiyajliq bolghanlargha yardem qilidighanlighini anglighan idim, eger bu pirogrammada yardem qilishni xalisingiz yaxshi bolatti “ didi.

Men bularni oylap kordum. Men 1979 – yili filorida shitati ulum jazasini eslige kelturgende jonning matem murasimi uchun orun hajet bolghanda bizning chirkawning jon sipenkilik ailisige qilghan yardemlirimizni oylidim. Men El salwadordiki kochmenlerning muqeddes heftimizde oz wetinining dewayini anglitish uchun, chirkawimiz ichide tolup yatqanliqlirini oylidim. Men 3 yilning aldida dingiz quyuni Katrina we ritalardin qichip sersan bolghan witnamliq aililerge qochaq achqanlighimizni oylidim. Bizning ashxanilirimizda itilgen ashu kajun tamaqlirini oylidim.

Uningdinmu mohimi qandaq qilip Tallaxesi jamaetchiligi 700 katrima ziyankeshligige uchrighuchilirigha quchaq achqanlighini eslidim. Hemde Xiristiyan dindarliri, Israiliye timpolining kishiliri we ikki yerlik meschidning biri bolghan el nahl meschididiki imamlar birge olturup qandaq qilip qizil kiris merkizide turiwatqan kishilerge yardem qilishni pilanlighanlirimizni eslidim. Tallaxesi dinni etiqat organidikiler bilen kishilerge yardem qilish toghrisida qilishqan paranglirimni oylidim.

Men mana bularni tefsili oylap kallamda hemmini birlikke kelturup andin u kishige “ shundaq, biz Tallaxesidiki dinni jamaet bu yardemge teyyar “ dep jawap berdim.

Otkenki bir qanche kunlerde ishlar tiz tereqqi qilishqa bashlidi. Men dinni ministirliktiki dost aghinilirimge bu ehwalni chushendurup tordin xet iwettim. Her qitimda men xet sandughumqa qarisam “ elbette, biz yardemge tayyar “ digen jawap xetlerni tapshurup iliwatimen. Biz burun shomali Virjiniyada 3 yil kochmenlerni yerleshturush xizmiti bilen shughullan’ghan, bir yerlik pedespitiriyan chirkaw xadimi bilenmu sozlishiwatimiz. U bu ishta mutexessis iken. U kishi bizge qandaq orunlashturushlarni korsitip yardemde bolmaqchi.

Hazir mana biz bu yerde xudagha choqunup yighilghan waqtimizda, yerlik meschidning bashqurghuchilirimu mana bu mesililerni sozlishiwatidu. Biz yerlik musulmanlar jamaetchiligige “ Eger siler yiteklisenglar, Tallaxesidiki bashqa dindiki jamaetchilik silerge yardemde bolimiz. Biz bu yolda siler bilen birge shundaqla biz hemdemde egishimiz “

Men bu bir dinni nutuq dep otken idim. Bugunki gizitte romanliqlar toghrisida bir tehrir ilahi bisilghan iken. Men bu nutuqni yiziwatqanqinimda bizning dinni kelimelirimizdin towendikilerni isimde aldim.

“ Bir biringlarni yaxshi korushtin bashqa hichkishige hich nersige qerizdar bolma. Bir birini yaxshi korush kuyunush qanunni ijra qilghanliq bolidu. Qatilliq qilma, oghurluq qilma, buzuqchiliq qilma. Xulasilighanda xolum xoshnangni ozengni yaxshi korgendek yaxshi korgin “

Xiristiyanlar uchun “ xoshna “ digen sozning menasi lughette emes belki hikayide sherhiyelinidu. Siler bu hikayini yaxshi bilisiler. U bolsa Samaritan heqqidiki qisse. Bu qissede xoshna peqetla yiqin etrapta yashighan birlirini korsetmeydu belki yol boyidiki jiralardin Jirikogha yardem qilghin dep qolini sun’ghanlar, yeni hazirqi qizil kirist kochmenler merkizidikiler hettaki Guwantanamodiki yardemge ihtiyajliq bolghanlarni korsitidu.

Bu xildiki yardem kop hallarda bezi turluk chigralardin halqip otushni telep qilidu. Mana bu bolsa xiristiyanlar orip aditide xoshnadarchiliqning menasi. Yehudiler we musulmanlarning oxshimighan orip adetliri bar. Likim men ishinimenki eger men silerge iytip bergen bugunki bu sozlirimni ular anglighan bolsa ularmu mana mushundaq xulasige kelgen bolatti.

Bir wetenperwer belkim bizning dolitimiz bu kishilerge nahayiti nomussizlarche muamilide boldi. Biz ulargha yardem qilishtek toghra ish bilen, dolitimizning sheripini eslige kelturush we qoghdishimiz lazim diyishi mumkin. Bir dindar olima bolsa ular zor derijiliq heqsizliqke uchridi diyishi mumkin. Bir Xiristiyan muriti bolsa wetenperwer we dinni olimaning her ikkilisining diginige qoshulishi mumkin biraq nigizige kelgende bu kishiler bolsa bizning xoshnilirimiz, Isa bizni xoshnilirimizni yaxshi korushke chaqiridu.

Uyghurlarning hikayisi bolsa tixi tamamlanmidi. Tallexesidiki jamaetchilik bu yolda kiyinki qedemlerni pilanlaydu. Ular uchun dua qilayli.

Birent Koplend
Birinchi pirespediriyan chirkawsining popi
Tallaxesi Filorida

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thanks allah, thanks amercian peoples kinds

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Tehi mushu Ramazan heytining 3-yaki tortunji kunliri idi,hoshnam Erep mening oyumge baliliri bilen heytlap kirdi, hetta yene bir Erep hoshnam ozi balilar doktori bu hoshnam bilen bille heytlap kiridi,

Men u ikki hoshnamgha mundaq didim. :" her kim ozining menpe,etini oylaydu, kishiler hem, dewletler hem, misal qilip eytaylik, 50 aile tehminen 200 kishilik bir Sherqi Turkistanlik kochmen gurup panaliq tilep Pelestinge yerleshse,? yene eyni 50 ailelik 200 kishilik bir gurup Sherqi Turkistanliq tamning keynige yani Israilgha yerleshse, ishininglarki bu ikki guruptin Pelestinge yerleshken guruptikilerdin halighanini Qizil Hitay hokimiti qayturup bergin dise Pelestin hokumeti yaki qayturup beridu, yaki her qandaq siyasi erkinligini tosup qoyudu,qongungni ghit qisip yasha deydu.

Amma Israilgha yerleshkenler Allahning eng esheddi dushmenliri bolghan Qizil hitay hokimitige qarshi eng erkin azade siyasi hereket qilalaydu, we hergizmu Israil hokumetining ularni Qizil hitay hokumetige qayturup berishidin endishe qilmaydu, didim.Doktor hoshnam bu gepimni angqirdi, amma heliqi normal Erep hoshnam heyranu-hangtang bolup qetipla qaldi.hapa bolay dise tehi biz hoshna, nime diyishini bilelmey qapighi turugluk chiqip ketti.

Chunki ularche bolsa mushu Erep we Yehudilar urushiwatqan 60 nechche yildin beri maddi we manewi yardemlirini bashta Ereplerdin we Islam alemidin hich ayimighan Qizil hitay hokumeti we hitay helqi elbetteki Erep we islam dushmeni bolghan Israildin jiq yahshi we adil we rehimdil idi.


IHTIYARI MUHBIR : MEKKE

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Filoridadiki Tallaxesi helqining rohidin nahayiti tesirlindim we bizdek 1000 yilliq islam tarihigha ige japakesh milletning beshigha kün chüshkende pütün dunyadiki shunche musumlan döletlerning arisidin birersing shu makansiz 17 qerindishimizni elishqa jür'et qilalmighanliqigha nahayiti echinimen. Barliq dini "qerindashlirimiz" ning hemmisi digüdek hitayning ghalchisi bulup qalghan bu dunyada. Bizning tarihmizdiki teleysizlikimiz del mana mushu noqtida ! Kimler bizning dostimiz we düshminimiz, buni chuqum bilishimiz kirek !

Yaxisun INSANLIQ !
Thanks for Tallaxesi !

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It is really moving that Americans from Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities are all reaching out their helping hands to total strangers. This is the true American spirit that I know and cherish. However, I believe those men will be more at home and better off among the Uyghur community in DC. They need more than just material help, they need emmotional and social support from their countrymen. We Uyghurs have a strong social and cultural bond that connects us tightly no matter where we are regardless of our economical, religious and educational background. We need each other's company just as bread and butter. No other communities can offer that special bond that can help them heal their wounds and adjust to the life in a strange land. The Uyghur community in DC can offer a sense of a little "motherland" in a foreign land. They need all the help they can get. It is true that Uyghur community in DC is relatively small and new, but I am sure they will be able to quickly absorb these men into their community.