And, the city of Lewiston is helping to pay for it! At an event tomorrow Somalis promote “diversity” and “intermingling” but they are not willing to give up their culture. From the Sun Journal:
LEWISTON — The Multi-Purpose Center on Birch Street welcomes the sixth annual Somali Independence Day Festival to Lewiston at 7 p.m. this Saturday.
The annual celebration offers food, music and dance to commemorate July 1, 1960, the day the country became the Republic of Somalia and gained independence from Britain and Italy. [LOL! That independence worked out real well for Somalia wouldn’t you say!]
Said Mohamud, founder and president of the African Immigrants Association, said he hoped the event would bring together Somalis, Americans and their friends from different cultures to promote diversity. “It’s a better way for Somalis to intermingle with Americans; we hope to support Somali integration to the community without letting go of our language, identity and culture,” he said.
Muslims are becoming a significant portion of the population in Maine and so maybe that explains the state trying to stifle the free speech of a Christian group as we reported yesterday.
According to Mohamud, the festivities will promote and celebrate the Somali population in Lewiston and the 15,000 African immigrants residing in central and southern Maine.
The Somali community organizer says they don’t want to assimilate too much.
Although Mohamud hopes the event will promote community integration, he also hopes it will serve as a reminder to Somalis of the importance of balancing integration with the preservation of Somali culture.
Somali men don’t like their women out and about too much, but I guess for this one event they can come out and mingle.
He added that because many immigrants are single mothers with children, once a year this event allows them the opportunity to get together and be present in the community.
I’m told that Somalis are not promiscuous so when I see mention of a lot of “single” women with children, makes me think they also don’t want to get rid of this important part of Somali culture—polygamy! Is that going on in Lewiston?
Lewiston tax dollars at work! The African Immigrants Association is also most likely funded by taxpayers too!
The Somali Independence Day celebration is sponsored by the city of Lewiston and the African Immigrants Association.
Gotta run, traveling today. Please use our search function for Lewiston to understand how controversial the Somalis are there.
Update June 28th: I’m back! Noting that lots of readers are coming to this post and I forgot to put this information I try to include to give new readers some background:
The US State Department has admitted over 80,000 Somali refugees to the US in the last 25 years and then last year had to suspend family reunification because widespread immigration fraud was revealed through DNA testing.