The consequences of reckless immigration policies are here. My latest in PJ Media:
The migrant violence that is becoming a feature of daily life in Sweden, Germany, France and elsewhere in Europe is now coming to the United States. Did we think we would be immune?
Maine’s Sun Journal reported last week that a “melee” broke out near Kennedy Park in Lewiston, Maine, initiated by “at least two dozen teenagers, preteens and adults.” This mob was made up of Somali Muslim migrants: News Center Maine reports: “[A]ccording to family members, the fight was between white and Somali members of the Lewiston community.” Our immigration chickens are, as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright would say, home to roost.
The Sun Journal reported that the incident began when “gunfire from BB and pellet guns erupted from the open windows of a black car driving north on Bates Street.” Lewiston resident Nicholas Vinciguerra and friends “confronted the youths in the car and asked them why they had shot at them. Suddenly, the three men were surrounded by roughly 30 people swinging sticks, baseball bats, and other weapons, Vinciguerra said. ‘You could see they were swinging for the fences,’ he said.”
“They had bats and sticks and rocks and steel pipes,” said one eyewitness. “They had everything. They were just coming in by the dozens. There were maybe 30 of them and eight of us. It was just a brawl. A bloodbath.” One of the victims, a 38-year-old man named Donald Giusti, died of his injuries.
One Lewiston resident noted that there had been other incidents, but nothing had been done: “It’s like the police are scared. But they need to put a stop to it or there are going to be riots.”
Said Vinciguerra: “I just want my town to be the way it used to be, where you could go out your door and go for a walk at 9 o’clock at night and not have to worry.”
That peace is unlikely to return to Lewiston anytime soon. In response to the unrest, Lewiston Mayor Shane Bouchard is full of the usual politically correct doubletalk:
Kennedy Park is a large common space in the middle of some of the poorest census tracts in the Northeast. When you have large, diverse groups of people in the same place you are bound to have incidents. Lewiston is no different in that respect than any other medium to large city, except that Lewiston’s violent crime rate is one of the lowest in Maine.
It’s not going to stay low for much longer.
But Bouchard is full of hope. Referring to the new Somali Muslim migrant residents of Lewiston in the most delicate and indirect manner possible, he said: “Our community resource officers are reaching out to the leaders in our new Mainer community. While we are fighting a cultural barrier, outreach to these groups has been successful in the past, and we are hopeful we can make some progress.”
Yes, outreach to the Muslim community will fix it. So many have placed so much hope on this outreach — not just in Lewiston, Maine, but all across the country, as well as in Canada and Western Europe.
If they had a better knowledge of history, they might not be so sanguine. In my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, the first and only comprehensive history of fourteen centuries of jihad worldwide, I prove definitively that that there has never been a period since the beginning of Islam that was characterized by large-scale peaceful coexistence between Muslims and non-Muslims, living together in harmony as equals. There was no time when mainstream and dominant Islamic authorities taught the equality of non-Muslims with Muslims, or the obsolescence of jihad warfare. There was no Era of Good Feeling, no Golden Age of Tolerance, no Paradise of Proto-Multiculturalism. There has always been, with virtually no interruption, jihad.
For years now, the U.S. has been importing entire communities from jihadi hotspots such as Somalia and Iraq, and placing them in middle-sized American cities such as Lewiston, Maine, certain that “diversity” will triumph. But will it? How can we be so sure, when, as I demonstrate in The History of Jihad, there are simply no historical precedents for the kind of society that the Left is trying to build in the West by means of mass Muslim migration?…
Read the rest here.
Rob Crawford says
Maine is a Constitutional carry state. Seems like the problem can be cleared up quickly.
gordon miller says
right.
Carol the 1st says
What’s noticeable in the article is that there is no attempt at all to IDENTIFY the occupants of the car.(though we can deduce they are hostile muslims). And yet the crowd of Somalis (with even a muslima swinging a baseball bat around) were immediately ready to chase after the men who chased down the car. This appeared to be a clear set-up, it was PREMEDITATED, and a man is dead because of it and these swarming adolescents should pay severely.
balam says
Muslims can never co-exist with Non-Muslims ever. The Islamic history is full of Intolerance and violence of Muslims against unbelievers.To know Islam ,one has to live n a Muslim majority country which is like living in a pit of SNAKES,some more poisonous than others. It is the INDOCTRINATION of Muslims from early childhood which turns them INTOLERANT ZOMBIES.Sir.Winston Churchill wrote that Islam in a Muslim was like RABIES in a dog .Could the civilized West afford too many of them roaming amongst them?
Sons of Liberty says
Exactly, balam ! If you follow Jihad Watch or Barnabas Aid ,….you will see how Christians and Jews are treated in Muslim dominant countries ! It is like living in a pit of snakes never knowing WHEN you will be attacked. I still remember the images of the Christian men kneeling in orange death suits about to be beheaded along the Mediterranean because THEY weren’t allowed to find jobs in Egypt to support their families and had to go to Libya to find work and RAN INTO ISIS. Rather than deny their faith in Christ and become Muslim they suffered their fate because they HAD NO MONEY to PAY THE JIZYA ! The guy above in the report who said I want my town( Lewiston )to be like it was,….it NEVER will be now ,…thanks to OBAMA and the US State Department PLANTING Somali Muslims in his town virtually WITHOUT local citizen knowledge . DITTO , Nashville, TN , the Twin Cities , MN and other small communities across America. It’s all detailed in Stealth Invasion , by Leo Hohmann.
Hari Singh says
So true! Muslims are programmed by the Koran to fight the unbelievers whether by violence or by Emigrating and bringing their religion with them.Every Muslim authority says that immigration is part of jihad.
Browndog says
Brought here by the Catholic Charities of Maine.
Emilie Green says
The RCC here in the USA bears are lot of the responsibility for visiting this nightmare on us. They’re in it for the money and to change us according to their lights, not the lights of Jesus,
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/06/illegal_immigration_and_the_catholic_establishment.html
gravenimage says
Lutheran Charities have also brought many Somali Muslims into Minnesota.
penelope says
the so-called immigrant charities are in ONLY for the money. muslims of any flavor will NEVER assimilate; they do not know how and it isnt in their dna; get them out of you can and for sure stop them from coming in. our country does need their kind as they are only here to create havoc. Wake up folks; obama gave them a free ride; that is over.
gravenimage says
I think a lot of these people really believe they are helping “needy refugees”–they do not understand the threat of Islam.
Japetto Danatelli says
What is an average person like me supposed to think when he sees all this muslim-related subversion and violence on the news and internet? head-chopping, rape of kids, surly enclaves, FGM, forced marriages, daily terrorism, ISIS, sharia infiltration, acid in the face, antisemitism and homophobia, persecution of Jews and Christians… and it’s getting worse here in America every damn day. I guess I’m supposed to just shrug my shoulders and say, “Oh well, that’s life,” that’s what the appeasing left would have me do. Don’t talk about it, don’t care, don’t deal with the facts, just keep on smiling through all the jihad terror until that glorious day when we all live in multicultural submission to islam. And what ever you do, don’t say a word about their precious religion! god forbid we should object to murder and bigotry against unbelievers! And I’m totally convinced that’s what’s behind most of this hate and violence, it’s the negative influence their politically motivated religion has on their minds. Anyone who was raised in a religious family knows the power of ones faith to affect their thinking, it wraps around the brain like a theological octopus usually for life. If it’s Christianity or Judaism or Wicca or Hinduism, for example, then you’ll probably end up fairly normal with a measure of compassion and love in your hearts. With islam we’re finding out first hand the outcome is much more grim, we see the fruits of that sick paradigm every day in muslims’ ugly behavior against us. Islam is chock-full of hatred and violence against non-muslims, it glorifies violence as a sacred duty! Muslims are the “best of peoples,” but we are “perverts” or “descendants of apes and pigs,” that’s what their god teaches. When you are raised to believe you’re better than everyone else and that violence is the answer to unbelief then inevitably violence and bigotry will result.
If we tolerate islam then we tolerate the deadly intolerance it promotes. This isn’t a fad, they’ve been doing this for 1400 years. It’s time the apologists and appeasers accept the facts, multiculturalism is impossible with islam. You can’t live peaceably with people who consider it their divine mission to enslave, extort, or kill, everyone else. If they want to live with us then they can change for us. Get rid of that violence in your phony “religion” and swear your undying allegiance to our laws and constitution. Otherwise get out and stay out.
gravenimage says
Fine post.
Sons of Liberty says
According to Pew Research , 60% of Muslims in America below the age of 30 BELIEVE that Sharia law should be the law of the land in America !!! The Muslim Student Association is obviously doing their part and OF COURSE the Marxist left WOULD LOVE to do away with THE US CONSTITUTION ! Yet our State Department CONTINUES BRINGING IN MUSLIM refugees. We are going the way of Europe !
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
The Greek says
First off, there is only one religion. Orthodox Christianity. It is a MEEK Christian’s job (something 95% of people do not know anything about) and calling to protect Christianity, its churches, icons, history and people buy killing those that threaten or do Christians harm – hence The Crusades. It is a MEEK Christians job to speak up and fight, even if it means his/hers life. mohamhead plagerised Christianity – that makes it false and a LIE.
CASE CLOSED, THE END!!!!!.
gravenimage says
The Crusades were not launched by Orthodox Christians, but by Catholics.
And saying that all Christians who are not Orthodox are false Christians is pretty ugly–you are claiming that Robert Spencer himself is not a real Christian.
Sons of Liberty says
+ 1
gravenimage says
Thank you, Sons of Liberty.
We *all* need to stand together against the threat of Islam.
Ginny says
Amen!
jusswonderin' says
They’d swear allegience, not meaning a word of it – it’s called ‘taqqiya’!
Diane Harvey says
Find Muslims, find trouble. It’s the same all over the world. No matter when in time in the last 1400 years, not matter where in the world. Islam is the source.
“It’s like the [Lewiston] police are scared. But they need to put a stop to it or there are going to be riots.”
Not, “going to be.” You had a riot last week. And the police are scared; they’ve obviously taken lessons from the UK police on how to back down in the face of Muslims. (I was going to say “angry Muslims,” but that’s unnecessary; they’re always angry.)
In short order Lewiston will be Luton.
Rob Crawford says
Know Islam, No Peace.
No Islam, Know Peace.
MFritz says
Wherever there are Somalis (or Sudanese) the shithole will follow.
utis says
Da mayor sez, “When you have large, diverse groups of people in the same place you are bound to have incidents. ” Wait a minute. I thought diversity brought joy, peace, rainbows and unicorns. Get your act together, Comrade Mayor. Your analysis is worthy of a nineteenth-century urban bureaucrat. I thought 21st-century social “scientists” and urban “engineers” were competent at managing “diversity” and “change.” All these decades and our local leaders are useless. Time for new leaders.
somehistory says
He was hoping no one would notice that he was bringing in the idea of “diversity” as a reason for the mobbing season.
LR says
Right, “Diversity makes us stronger”…Ooops, guess the Somali immigrants didn’t get the memo…
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Wise words:
When you bring half of Calcutta here, you don’t help Calcutta. You make ‘here’ like Calcutta.
That neigbourhood has become a Somali refugee camp.
MFritz says
The quote is from Peter Scholl-Latour.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Scholl-Latour
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Thanks MFritz. My German is almost nonexistent. I’m told it is even more pithy in the original German than in its English translation. I love this quote; it says it all.
(“Wer halb Kalkutta aufnimmt, rettet nicht Kalkutta, sondern wird selbst Kalkutta.”)
Did I get it right?
Ginny says
In the German you will not be “like” Calcutta, will “be” Calcutta. Schluß!
somehistory says
Sure, mr mayor. Blame it all on “poor” people.
Poor people are not the cause of this mob violence and the death of a man.
islam is the cause. moslims got together in a car, while others got together in a mob, with the idea they would take over the park, by first …shooting at the people already in the park, which caused these ones to want to know “why” they were being shot with pellets and BB’s.
Expecting their victims to want to know why and to want it to stop, the greater mob was waiting nearby to pounce on the victims with sticks, bats, rocks, bricks, metal pipes and to do serious bodily harm.
But according to the mayor, it’s “poor” people that have created the problem he hopes to solve by “outreach” to the “diverse” community.
Blaming the poor doesn’t solve the problem and neither will outreach to the moslims. They want the park and the city to belong to them and no one else…because they just know they are special..
Sons of Liberty says
+ 1 Exactly ! The Muslims set this attack up it didn’t happen by mere coincidence that a MOB with bats and bars would be waiting in the shadows.
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Muslim Migrant Violence Comes to Maine
…………………
Yes–Muslim mobs are now *beating Americans to death* in the streets. But how many here have heard about this?
Sons of Liberty says
None ,…. if they are watching the main stream media ! They are MORE CONCERNED about the little illegal children in cages by the Third Reich Homeland Security Department ! Children sent THROUGH dangerous and violent Mexico BY THEIR PARENTS ,…BUT WITH birth control …KNOWING that their little girls will be raped and abused along the way by the CARTEL SMUGGLERS . JUST so they can get their SORRY ASSES INTO THE ..United States by way of CHAIN MIGRATION ! THOSE PARENTS are JUST the sort of kind intelligent people WE WANT IN THE USA ! They are JUST as despicable as the Muslims.
Sons of Liberty says
Sorry about the Third Reich insertion but that is what one of our former CIA Directors posted on TWITTER ! Can you believe we had a moron like that RUNNING THE CIA !
Ginny says
He’s right.
infidel says
It has and always will be the Islamic way of doing extreme provocation of the Khafir and then rouse the Khafir to retaliatory violence and then play victim…
Frank Thiboutot says
See this 30 sec. feel good puff piece video clip on the Lewiston H.S. soccer team and the book, “One Goal”, that may become a Netflix series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkUfAQW3Ksg
It might be a stretch, but are some of the players simply gesturing that “We’re #1” (esp. #5) or is it the “Musabbiha” (unity of Allah) hand sign that is used by ISIS and other jihadists?
Mockingjay says
The mayor speaks the truth (without intending to) :
`When you have large, diverse groups of people in the same place you are bound to have incidents.`
Oh I see. – but `diversity` is still a good thing, and something to be encouraged,
– right?
gravenimage says
Good point, Mockingjay.
Joanne says
Whenever you have diverse communities, there will be incidents? Okay, so can we finally admit that diversity is not a good thing?
Multiculturalism = when you have less and less in common with more and more people.
One question, though. I have a friend who is a Christian from Jordan. She loves Jordan and has many Muslim friends. Her father was actually a cabinet member in the Jordanian government at some point in the past. What is Jordan doing right that other Muslim countries are not?
gravenimage says
Jordan is still pretty bad:
“Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Palestinian territories are among most dangerous places on earth for Christians”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/01/egypt-jordan-syria-and-palestinian-territories-are-among-most-dangerous-places-on-earth-for-christians