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I'm not a local or Federal Government expert by any means, but ran accross this article and was shocked to say the least.. can some of our resident experts determine of this is true or not.. and if so, how could this possibly be a law if it was never proposed or voted upon by the tax payers of Michigan?
BE AFRAID
I actually called the Michigan Dept. of Human Services, and yes, option 3 is Arabic! I went to the website for them in the link below and sure enough, on the right side of the page, there is an application for food assistance PDF file in English, Spanish and Arabic! I opened the file to see for myself and it’s there alright. Have we gone completely nuts!!?... Muslim men are allowed to have as many as 4 wives. Many Muslims have immigrated into the U.S. and brought their 2-3-or 4 wives with them, but the U.S. does not allow multi marriages, so the man lists one wife as his, and signs the other 2 or 3 up as extended family on welfare and other free Government programs!
So now in Michigan when you call the Public Assistance office you are told to “Press 1 for English. Press 2 for Spanish, or Press 3 for Arabic”! Here is the number 1-888-678-8914. Every time you add a new language to an American program it requires an additional number of persons fluent in that language to process those persons who refuse to learn English in order to live here at an additional cost to the taxpayer! Why are we even allowing persons to immigrate here who cannot provide for themselves, and putting them in our welfare system? Press 3 for Arabic. This is quite alarming!!! This seems to have happened clandestinely, for, as far as I know, no public announcement, or opportunity to vote on this was offered to the American people. They're just adopting an official stance, and very likely using tax-payer money for it, in various capacities, without public knowledge or approval. The following link takes you into the State of Michigan Public Assistance page, (as in Food Stamps etc). You won't have to scroll far before you see the assistance-letters options for...(get this).....English, Spanish, and ARABIC !!! When did the ARABIC option sneak into our culture? Will we soon have to listen to our governmental offices, stores, and other venues offer us the option of "pressing 3 for ARABIC?"
After getting to this site, click on the "forms" button then click on assistance application then click DHS 1171AR to get an application in Arabic!
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 11:45 am
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 11:47 am
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OMG the Muslims are gonna get us all!
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 11:53 am
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Dude, Dearborn is in Michigan.
Here's a little info about Dearborn's demographics:
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The city's population includes 40,000 Arab Americans. Ethnic Arabs own many shops and businesses, offering services in both English and Arabic. In the 2010 census, Arab Americans comprised 40% of Dearborn's population; many have been in the city for several generations. The city has the largest proportion of Arab Americans in the United States. Dearborn is a center of Maltese American settlement, from the Mediterranean island of Malta, primarily due to the auto industry and the exodus of numbers of some original Maltese who settled in Corktown. The first Arab immigrants came in the early-to-mid-20th century to work in the automotive industry and were chiefly Lebanese Christians (Syriac-Maronites). Other immigrants from the Mideast in the early twentieth century included a large Armenian-American community, who are Christian. Assyrians/Chaldeans/Syriacs have also immigrated to the area. Since then, Arab immigrants from Yemen, Iraq and the Palestinian territories, most of whom are Muslim, have joined them. Lebanese Americans are still the most numerous group. The Arab Muslim community has built the Islamic Center of America, the largest mosque in North America, and the Dearborn Mosque. More Iraqi refugees have come, fleeing the continued war in their country since 2003. Warren Avenue has the commercial center of the Arab-American community. The Arab American National Museum is located in Dearborn.
Your original post confuses "Muslim" with "Arab," although many of the immigrants who have come to Dearborn are of the Muslim faith.
As for the fact that there are government documents made available in multiple languages, the US government does that, as do pretty much all the state governments. Michigan does not have an "official" language, along with about 20 other states.
Alaska publishes voting information in at least 5 Native American languages.
In New Mexico, laws are published in both English and Spanish.
Not sure I understand why someone might get all hot under the collar when a government attempts to accommodate its citizenry.
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 12:02 pm
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I don't know Michigan or it's laws. I do believe that Michigan does have a very high populace of Muslim residents. In truth, when you legally immigrate, you need to have either a sponsor or have a job lined up to show you aren't going to be going onto the public system when you get here. As with all laws, I'm sure there are holes that allow for some to abuse it, but the language issue is a question of the right to equal access. Just because someone doesn't speak English fluently doesn't change their right to access to government agencies.
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 12:29 pm
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but.... but.... ARABIC!!!
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 12:42 pm
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Zebulon Dak wrote:
but.... but.... ARABIC!!!
turban-wearing bastards tryna take our jobs and bring their Sharia law in here. Obama's takin our guns and there's a war on Christmas. EWE-ESS-AY!!!
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Zebulon Dak wrote:
but.... but.... ARABIC!!!
Come on, Zeb. Don't blow up over this.
It's not that explosive an issue.
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 12:57 pm
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volsunghawk wrote:
Zebulon Dak wrote:
but.... but.... ARABIC!!!
Come on, Zeb. Don't blow up over this.
It's not that explosive an issue.
Reported to the FBI.
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 12:58 pm
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Doesn't Washington have a bunch of shit in Thai? Man, I don't trust those Thai bastards!!!!
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 2:02 pm
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I've always wondered why English isn't the official language of not only us, but the UK and Australia.
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 2:14 pm
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SeAhAwKeR4life wrote:
In ol' Alabammy we speek Inglush!
BAHAAAAAAAA!!!! Fuck THAT guy!!
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 2:15 pm
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I just lost 5 IQ points reading the OP. I don't have many more to spare...
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 4:03 pm
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as i stated not an expert, didn't know if it was true or not... i didn't write the article.
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 4:07 pm
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hawker84 wrote:
as i stated not an expert, didn't know if it was true or not... i didn't write the article.
That's not the point.
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Zebulon Dak
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 4:28 pm
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hawker84 wrote:
as i stated not an expert, didn't know if it was true or not... i didn't write the article.
Oh. Well Alhamdulillah that your bigotry is only sincere if the article is true. الحمد لله
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 4:50 pm
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oh and
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 4:54 pm
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Wait, that's an article? Not your words? Who wrote the article? Do you have a link? I think I'm confused.
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 5:11 pm
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that article was emailed to me at work, i copied and posted it here.. no i didn't write it..
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