Doesn't Gruss Gott just mean "Greet God" in German? Surely Gruss' name is fake.
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Michael Dinowitz < [email protected]> wrote: > > My question was a general one and did not ask anything about race, > religion, > or whatever. Do we check up on people after they become citizens? > The article goes directly to the question of immigrants acceptance of their > new countries values and requirements. I should have put in an article > about > people coming to America and refusing to learn English, but then I'll get > hit for being biased against Spanish speakers (which people usually think > of > in that respect). > > You want me to use Orthodox Jews. OK, I'm against some groups only learning > Yiddish and no English. This is America and the language used is English. > Get with the program. But these are not immigrants so the comparison fails. > And yes, I'd post the article on other groups as well with the same > question > IF the group in question had members who were a threat to this country. (I > know, I know, every group has threatening members) The article said some > Afghan immigrants had these ideals. If some Bosnian immigrants had these > ideals I'd be concerned. > > My mother used to work as a secretary at a home attendants agency and she > would be all upset about Russian immigrants abusing the system and getting > onto social security immediately. I'm not sure how true that was but we > always hear tales of immigrants abusing the system. I'm sure we check if > these tales are true in some regard, but is there a formal mechanism that > checks immigrants as immigrants? I expect not but others may know more. > > As a totally unrelated thing, my brother is married to a Bukhari so I did a > search on them (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukharan_Jews). I then did a > search on my brother and got this - > http://www.grusslife.org/files/GrussConnectionSpring04.pdf > So Gruss is connected to me through my brother. ;) > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Larry Lyons <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > >Here's an interesting story that links into all of the controversies. > > >Immigration, profiling, Muslims, you name it. I just have one question > to > > >ask - When we accept immigrants into the country, do we ever check up on > > >them after the fact or is it just a check at the door? > > > > > >http://www.newsweek.com/id/189241/page/1 > > > > As an immigrant, I had to go through a lot of hoops just to get my green > > card. Moreover, the US has very different immigration requirements than > > England. > > > > That said, why the continuing jihad against the followers of Islam? Would > > you have posted the article if it were about Orthodox Jews, or for that > > matter Irish Catholics, Serbian Bosnians, South African Zulus, Tibetans > or > > for that matter Canadian immigrants to the US. > > > > No offense, but you've really been going on in a very negative way about > > Muslims for some time, and its been getting a lot worse lately. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:292059 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
