Uzbek community in New York wary of being tied to Islamic extremism
NEW YORK - Sukhrob Sobirov was 20 when he left Uzbekistan with his parents and sister in 2009 and immigrated to the U.S. through a visa lottery program.
The family relied on relatives at first but eventually settled into life in Brooklyn. Sobirov learned English, got a job managing his uncle's restaurant and married and had a daughter with another immigrant from Uzbekistan.
His U.S. beginnings are typical among the thousands of Muslim immigrants who have arrived from the former Soviet republic over the last
