In Qarsherskiy, people speak many different languages. The official languages of Qarsherskiy include: Russian, Persian, Arabic, Urdu, English, Turkish, Kurdish, and Qarshkī language. 

Not all ethnic Qarsherskiyan people live in Qarsherskiy and not all Qarsherskiyan people are part of the ethnic Qarsherskiyan group. Ethnic Qarsherskiyans make up 94% of Qarsherskiy’s population and there are more ethnic Qarsherskiyans outside Qarsherskiy than within Qarsherskiy’s borders. While Qarsherskiy has 1,947 people and not all are ethnic Qarsherskiyans, Southeastern Virginia has an estimated 3,661 ethnic Qarsherskiyan people as of 2023. 

In the 1500s the first Muslims arrived on the Virginia Peninsula. By the 1760s, future Governor of Virginia and U.S. President Thomas Jefferson bought an English translation of the Quran while studying law. At the time, Muslims were known as "Mahometans," in Virginia and an estimated 20 percent of enslaved Africans were Muslim. Three years after the end of the Revolutionary War, Thomas Jefferson's 1779 "Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom", was passed by the Virginia General Assembly and became law in 1786. The new law guaranteed freedom of religion to people of all religious faiths, including Muslims. Research indicates that some of Mount Vernon's enslaved workers in Virginia were practicing Muslims and adhered to Islamic tradition.[see source] By the time slavery was abolished, many freed and escaped Black Muslims on the Virginia Peninsula formed what is today called the Proto-Qarsherskiyan people group by intermixing with Muslims from immigrant backgrounds who came from Asia, Africa, and Europe as well as Native American converts. Beginning in the 20th century, Muslims have been a rapidly growing religious group throughout the state through immigration and remain a "major driver of Virginia's religious diversity."[source 1][source 2] By the 1950s, some Muslims in Virginia became affiliated with the Nation of Islam, a Black-oriented form of Islam.[source 1] Virginia has had many Muslim service members and veterans. By the 1970s, a cohort of the first Muslim cadets graduated from the Virginia Military Institute.[source 1] In the late 1970s, U.S. Marine Douglas Burpee was accepted into the Officers Candidates' School in Quantico, Virginia. By the end of his military service, Colonel Burpee was the highest-ranking Muslim in the U.S. Marine Corps.[source 1] In 1991 the idea of a non-hostile Islamic State in North America for the community now known as Proto-Qarsherskiyans took root. The movement failed but in 2019 notebooks from an unknown date detailing the movement were found hidden inside walls of homes in Ohio being renovated and were given to local Muslims who grew inspired and revived the movement. On 28 March 2023, the Islamic Sultanate of Qarsherskiy declared independence from the USA and became an unrecognized microstate, and the descendants of the Proto-Qarsherskiyans were named ethnic Qarsherskiyans after Qarsherskiy and their ancestors obtained the term Proto-Qarsherskiyans because of this.

In 2023, many Qarsherskiyans on the Virginia Peninsula are outraged after a Newport News police officer allowed his wife to harass a group of Muslims at a table in a bar and call them the “terrorist table,” eluding to the stereotype that all Muslims are terrorists because of the 9/11 attacks over 2 decades before. When politely confronted, he made death threats and showed his gun and committed murder.

https://www.pilotonline.com/2023/07/11/will-releasing-documents-in-newport-news-case-compromise-process-for-investigating-police-complaints/

This is part of the ongoing cultural genocide against ethnic Qarsherskiyans which is used by the government of Qarsherskiy as another reason why Qarsherskiy should be an independent country. The Qarsherskiyan Cultural Genocide is perpetrated by both the Left and the Right and isn’t a physical genocide but is more of an erasure of the history, culture, and the Qarshkī language of the ethnic Qarsherskiyan people. While cultural genocides aren’t usually involving mass killings like physical genocides, it has caused a few unjust deaths of Qarsherskiyan and other Muslim people in the region of South East Virginia, the Lake Erie Coast, and the Appalachian mountains of West Virginia and Maryland, where the Qarsherskiyan people live in highest concentrations.