The following document is the Emancipation Proclamation, made by President Lincoln on September 22, 1862. The Emancipation Proclamation granted freedom to the slaves in the Confederate States if the States did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863.
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There are many other reasons having to do with the specifics of Muslim immigration; for example, thousands of former soldiers of the Iraqi army who defected were settled in the United States. Birth rates for immigrant Muslims start very high, then drop as they Westernize. There was even one case of a French Muslim seeking asylum in the United States. 2  Islamism. 3  Members of the Ahmadi sect fled Pakistan when their faith was deemed not Islamic in 1974, as did many other Muslims running from the Islamist (or Islamic fundamentalist) dictatorship of General Zia ul-Haq.