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Lodi and Linguistic Enclaves

Posted By James Fulford On 12 June 2005 @ 10:22 In General, Immigration | Comments Disabled

Daniel Pipes has a roundup of [1] questions about the Lodi, CA Pakistanis who’ve are [2] suspected of terrorism. One of his questions:

Hamid Hayat, 22, arrested on his return from what he admits was a jihadist camp in Pakistan, is an American citizen born in Stockton, California who attended school (though[3] only up to the sixth grade) in the United States. That being the case, why does the Los Angeles Times write that, “Apparently unable to follow the proceedings in English, Hayat [4] listened with the help of an Urdu translator”? Does Lodi contain an Urdu-speaking ghetto? (In the absence of the two imams yesterday, the [5] mosque service was held in Urdu.)

In fact there is an Urdu speaking ghetto in Lodi, (to go with the Spanish speaking one.) there are a lot of linguistic enclaves in modern day America, and the Lodi News-Sentinel reported in [6] 2001 that around [7] 80 percent of Pakistanis in Lodi were not fluent in English.

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URLs in this post:
[1] questions : http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/462
[2] suspected of terrorism.: http://vdare.com/guzzardi/050610_terrorists.htm
[3] only up to the sixth grade: http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/crime/story/13045987p-13891740c.html
[4] listened with the help of an Urdu translator”: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hayat11jun11,1,5607321.story?coll=la-headlines-california
[5] mosque service was held in Urdu: http://www.recordnet.com/daily/news/articles/061105-gn-3.php
[6] 2001: http://www.vdare.com/guzzardi/americanisation.htm
[7] 80 percent of Pakistanis : http://www.lodinews.com/pakistan/html/men.shtml