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Lewiston, Maine mayor under fire for comment (Somali Muslim immigrants)
NECN ^ | September 26, 2012 | Amy Sinclair

Posted on 10/07/2012 12:55:20 PM PDT by EveningStar

Historically a city of French Canadian immigrants, Lewiston, Maine is now also home to some 6,000 Somalis, including shop owner and father of five Mohamed Heban, who moved to Lewiston in 2002.

But in a recent BBC documentary, Lewiston's mayor, Boston native Bob Macdonald, sounded less than welcoming.

"When you come here, you accept our culture and leave your culture at the door," he said in the documentary...

(Excerpt) Read more at necn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: assimilation; bobmacdonald; immigrants; immigration; lewiston; maine; muslim; muslims; somali; somalia
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1 posted on 10/07/2012 12:55:36 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Mr. Mayor, don’t back down!


2 posted on 10/07/2012 12:58:42 PM PDT by WellyP (question!)
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To: EveningStar

They’re not here to assimilate, they’re here to occupy and conquer.


3 posted on 10/07/2012 12:58:53 PM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: EveningStar

Some liberal moron (I know... that’s redundant) left a hateful, ignorant comment at the site. Do these people have any idea what is going to happen when Muslims become a major force in a country? Perhaps they should look at what is happening in Europe.


4 posted on 10/07/2012 1:02:15 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX ( The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. ~)
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To: EveningStar

The kids have to play hockey, basketball and baseball.Eff the parents.Allah Fubar.


5 posted on 10/07/2012 1:09:14 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Steely Tom

It all started under CLINTON!

In 1999, at the urging of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), the United States government began preparations to resettle an estimated 12,000 refugees from the Bantu minority ethnic group in Somalia to select cities throughout the United States. Most of the early arrivals in the United States settled in Clarkston, Georgia, a city adjacent to Atlanta. However, they were mostly assigned to low rent, poverty-stricken inner city areas, so many began to look to resettle elsewhere in the U.S.[7]

Word soon spread that Lewiston had a low crime rate, good schools and cheap housing.[8] Somalis subsequently began a secondary migration from other states to the former mill town, and after 2005, many Bantus followed suit.[7]


6 posted on 10/07/2012 1:12:22 PM PDT by WellyP (question!)
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To: EveningStar

I was in Maine at a small beach town that was swarming with African Muslims. The men glared at me as I was not dressed up to Shira standards.

One guy was kind of jacking up the Muzzie strut and glare at me and I shouted at him in a crowd “What the F are you looking at you pervert.” He about died. He was scared to death and ran away.

Feel sorry for Maine towns that got lassoed with that immigration trend. Gross.


7 posted on 10/07/2012 1:13:51 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: EveningStar

We brought the skinnies from blackhawk down here. What possible reason was there for America to import these people who have nothing in common with our culture?
And yes, I agree with the mayor. Leave your culture at home. Remember that it was your culture that made your country unlivable. Bring your music, your food, your literature etc,. And I honestly don’t care who wronged your ancestors, or why, or how badly. Hutus, Vlad the impaler, potato famine, orange order, palestinians, I simply dont care. Not even a little.
If an Armenian and a Turk can’t be next door neighbors and cook some brats, they have no business in this country,,, period.

Oh,, and you have to also understand, we get a crack at your women, thats just the way it is.


8 posted on 10/07/2012 1:15:04 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: EveningStar
Somalis are the Mideast version of gypsies. "Tramps and thieves" just about captures the truth very well. Thanks Cher. Oh, you can add "pirates" of course. Yeah we really need more of these vermin here.
9 posted on 10/07/2012 1:15:20 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: EveningStar
No more pork pies? What is the first ingredient in Frog Canadian cooking, Take one pound of lard....
10 posted on 10/07/2012 1:15:50 PM PDT by Little Bill
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To: EveningStar
But in a recent BBC documentary, Lewiston's mayor, Boston native Bob Macdonald, sounded less than welcoming.

"When you come here, you accept our culture and leave your culture at the door," he said in the documentary...

One reason for the USA's strength over the years is the fact that when immigrants came here, they came to be Americans, forming a "melting pot," NOT to set up satellite offices of their old countries. Of course, the last thing that leftists want is for the USA to be strong, and hate the concept of American Exceptionalism. So of course they work hard to ensure the balkanization of the USA, partly because of the strife it causes, but also to help create a permanent underclass which they'll use to further the destruction of the USA.

Mark

11 posted on 10/07/2012 1:15:57 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Idiot Dem. Baldacci was Gov. while this was happening. What would you expect?


12 posted on 10/07/2012 1:16:42 PM PDT by WellyP (question!)
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To: SaraJohnson
You did good. When they look at me disapprovingly, I just glare right back at them and I will not blink until they break the stare. They get the message.
13 posted on 10/07/2012 1:20:17 PM PDT by Chgogal (WSJ, Coulter, Kristol, Krauthammer, Rove et al., STFU. TY)
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To: SaraJohnson
Feel sorry for Maine towns that got lassoed with that immigration trend.

I would. Except Maine has been a democrat shithole since '92. They are just getting what they have voted for all these years.

14 posted on 10/07/2012 1:22:39 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: SaraJohnson
“What the F are you looking at you pervert.”

Hey Sara, I want to go party with you. Let's go up to Ogunquit, have some lobster and party. LOL

15 posted on 10/07/2012 1:23:47 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: SaraJohnson

Ha, good for you Sara. Show those Muzzies what American women are made of.


16 posted on 10/07/2012 1:28:25 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: DesertRhino
“Oh,, and you have to also understand, we get a crack at your women, thats just the way it is.”

LOL!

Now here is a Red Blooded American Male that the world has come to respect/love.


Your response reminded me of the old British WW2 popular comment,"The trouble with the bloody Yanks is that they are overpaid, oversexed, and over here".

17 posted on 10/07/2012 1:29:24 PM PDT by Chgogal (WSJ, Coulter, Kristol, Krauthammer, Rove et al., STFU. TY)
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To: EveningStar

Somali culture doesn’t even work in Somalia, that is why they come here. If they can’t live without their stone age culture crap they need to leave.


18 posted on 10/07/2012 1:30:16 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: EveningStar

I was making small-talk with a Somali Muslim cab driver once, in Seattle.

I asked him if he missed home and he said he liked the US well enough but that we give women way too much power and that he was going to have to send one of his three wives back to Somalia because she had adopted a “you can’t treat me that way, we’re in America” attitude.

I can honestly say I’ve never wanted to punch a human being more than I wanted to slam that asshole right in the face.


19 posted on 10/07/2012 1:31:33 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Thought Puzzle: Describe Islam without using the phrase "mental disorder" more than four times.)
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To: WellyP

Lewiston is the home of ultra liberal Bates College.

Bates College’s ranking in the 2013 edition of Best Colleges is National Liberal Arts Colleges, 22. Its tuition and fees are $44,300 (2012-13).

http://www.sunjournal.com/node/706668
Many and One Coalition Programs to focus on diversity, justice


20 posted on 10/07/2012 1:38:15 PM PDT by WellyP (question!)
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