Lahti is the latest city to prohibit the niqab and burka

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Since March, hysteria has struck some municipalities in Finland. Even if it is not in the government program, the far-right anti-immigration Peruuomalaiset (PS)* have done their best to fuel anti-Muslim racism as the April 2027 general election nears.

One of the questions that the Finnish media, in particular the tabloids, which are responsible for reinforcing and spreading xenophobia and anti-Muslim racism, leads with a provocative headline: Lahti prohibits the burka at comprehensive schools.

The burka, which covers the face of a woman?

Should we be surprised that the initiative came from the council members of the PS?

Writes Ilta-Sanomat: “No widespread practice of covering the face has been observed in schools in Lahti. According to the initiators of the proposal, the issue concerns safety in the school environment.”

Read the original story here.

One of the characteristics of the ban is not only its mixed message, but the fact that at Finnish comprehensive schools, there is no widespread use of the niqab and buka, which is nonexistent. All of the initiatives to ban such clothing have come from the PS.

Even if it is clear that the PS are campaigning on their racism, the qustion that should concern us is why Swedish People’s Party Education Minister Anders Adlecreutz has not stood up for the Muslim pupils at schools but allowed such bans to spread? Caving into PS pressure, Adlecreutz approved the removal of Salam, a textbook used to teach Islam to comprehensive school pupils.

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Finland’s tabloids Iltalehti and Ilta-Sanomat are the pits

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Sanewashing: the act or practice, especially in the media, of trying to make actions seem sane and normal when they are not.

Tabloids like Iltalehti and Ilta-Sanomat are the worst sanewashers and help to further spread racism and tear teeth off the media.

We haven’t seen this recently but historically tbloids have been the first to strike at migrants and minorities.

A billboard by Ilta-Sanomat that claims “10,000 illegal refugees” will come to Finland this year. As everyone know, there is no such thing as an “illegal” refugee.

There are many stories that the tabloids have brought to public attention to make life more difficult for disadvantaged minorities. One of these reporters is Mika Koskinen, whose demonization of migrants and minorities has found fertile ground thanks to the government of Prime Minister Petteri Orpo.

Below, is an interview where he paints with a single brush all refugees during the hysteria of the Oulu sexual assault cases. He is quick to lambast refugees and turning a blind eye to pedophilia of white Finns.

See the video interview (in Finnish) here.

He was recently responsible for getting Salam, a schoolbook for Muslim children taken off the shelf because it taught the wrong things about Islam.

Timo Haapala’s question during a presidential debate is a bad example of how tabloid journalists suck up to prejudiced expectations. Haapala asked the presidential candidate if they would do away with dual citizenship of Russians.

Only Jutta Urpilainen (Social Democratic Party) and Li Anderson (Left Alliance) were opposed to such a plan.

Riikka Purra’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde mask

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“When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate.”

Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu, the anti-apartheid activist who won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, warns that we risk becoming what we hate if we allow our hatred to get the best of us. If there is one party in Finland whose hatred has converted it to something toxic and pathological, that party is none other than the Perussuomalaiset (PS)*.

The PS and its politicians, like Riikka Purra, act like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. On the one hand, they may make reasonable statements and then go off the wall with their usual xenophobia.

At a recent party convention in Helsinki, Purra said: “I don’t want left-wing and Center Party-led ‘red-brown’ governments at the helm of our country; I don’t want massive tax hikes; and I don’t want the government’s top priority to be recognizing Palestine—as Vice Chair (Nasima) Razmyar just outlined.”

Apart from threatening to take away social welfare for people who have lived here for less than ten years, she made it a point with Interior Minister Mari Rantanen that white Finns will not have to change anything when more foreigners move to the country.

Blow is an example of the PS’ Mr Hyde mask.

Interior Minister Mari Rantanen (left) and Finance Minister Rikka Purra stated that Muslims should be kicked out of Finland. “Finland and Finnishness are based on Christian values,” said Rantanen. Purra considered Islam an “aggressive” culture that is preying on Finns’ tolerance, friendliness, and kindness. “But Finns must not give up their language, culture, values, nothing to such groups.” Facebook

One of the best monitors of Islamophobia in Finland and Europe is the European Islamophobia Report.

Finland’s central figures in the Islamophobia network:


“PS continues to be one of the most important platforms of Finland’s Islamophobic
network. All of the elected 46 MPs (out of a total of 216) of the Finns Party based
their campaign on anti-Muslim and xenophobic themes. PS ministers like Riikka
Purra (Finance), Mari Rantanen (Interior), Wille Rydman (former Economic Affairs),
Leena Meri (Justice), Ville Tavio (Foreign Trade), and Jussi Halla-aho (Speaker of Parliament) have all spread the Great Replacement theory with little to no consequences.
Tavio and the government have gone as far as to link development aid to accepting
deportees. MEP Sebastian Tynkkynen, who has three ethnic agitation convictions,
and MP Kaisa Garedew both want Islam to be banned in Finland. Halla-aho, who
was convicted in 2012 of ethnic agitation and of breaching the sanctity of religion,
pressed charges against a comedian and deputy Helsinki councilor for calling him “a
fascist.”

Double standards

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If you listen to European policiticans like Kaja Kallas and Ursula von der Leyen, fingers are always pointing to Russia but hardly ever to Israel, which is a rogue state like the United States committing war crimes and genocide in region like Gaza.

The complacency of the European Union and its see-no-problem is leading to terrible matters. If the EU were more assertive against Israel, would it had been emboldened to attack Iran?

The European Union is a sad joke when it comes to human rights and upholding international law. It’s only defense is blaming Russia for war crimes while turning a blind eye on Israel and the US.

Perussuomalaiset: Uusi logo, sama vanha juttu

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Perussuomalaiset julkistivat uuden logonsa, joka, rehellisesti sanottuna, näyttää kopioilta äärioikeistolaisen Ruotsidemokraattien logosta.

Puolue näyttää olevan huolissaan siitä, että se häviää kokonaan seuraavissa eduskuntavaaleissa huhtikuussa 2027, ja on siksi valinnut voikukan osoittamaan puolueen sitkeyttä.

Kukasta huolimatta Perussuomalaiset on vihamielinen puolue, joka samaistuu Trumpin Amerikkaan.

Riittää, kun katsot puoluetta, niin huomaat, että se on ja pysyy Suomen pahimpana esimerkkinä.

Perussuoamalaisten uusi logo ja Ruotisin Demokratin logo.

Taco Trump

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TACO= Trump Always Chckens Out

Before we dive into the story, ever heard of “TACO trade,” which sheds light on the massive corruption of insider trading of buying stocks on the cheap and selling them when their value rises.

Shame on the mainstream media and the face of the Trump regime on the farce that he is fictionalizing to end the illegal war that reeks of war crimes. Trump looks like a desperate flailing man trying to wiggle himself out of a mess that he alone created with his war-crime partner Benjamin Netanyahu.

Why is Trump tacoing? The US and world economy, like the Titanic, are about to hit the iceberg. It is for this reason he must change course, end the war.

Apart from murdering children as happened in Minab at the outset of hostilities, Trump is threatening Tehran to accept his new “peace” plan or face the fury of the bomb “at a much higher level and intensity than it was before.”

Apart from the US becoming a terrorist state, which it has always been, it will be interesting to watch how Transatlantic relations evolve if the present conflict ends or turns into a forever war.

The Minab attack was a ghastly war crime.

Leigh R. Tate, Commander, and Jeffrey E. York, Executive Officer of the USS Sprunitz, ordered three Tomahawk missiles to be fired, killing innocent children at the Minab School, accordging to NBC News.

Apart from the loss of lives and declaring a pointless war based on lies, the biggest casualty is US credibility, especially Trump’s and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Who believes them? Terheran’s news has become more credible. That is how much the war has cost us.

Many of us will be watching the latest on ending the war with a very big grain of salt, understanding that most of the news coming out of Washington are alternative facts.

Reija Härkönen: Osaako Simulan pimu hakeutua oikeaan kainaloon?

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Ruutikankaan ampumaradalta kajahtaa taas. Keulakuvana toimiva Ruutikangas Oy:n hallituksen puheenjohtaja ja hallituspuolueen kansanedustaja Jenna Simula ei ole vieläkään saanut rataa toimimaan. Ampumaratalupa on nyt haettu Ruutikangas Oy:n nimiin, kun sen aiemmin hankkinut radan pääomistaja Oulun Seudun Ampumaurheilukeskus luopui hommasta. Ruutikangas Oy kun vaatii ampumaseuroilta nyt satoja tuhansia euroja entisten kymmenien tuhansien sijaan. Ajatella, että tuo hellän äidillisesti katsova Jenna mestariampuja ei ole saanutkaan herroja heltymään. On kai taas pumpattava rahaa Eduskunnasta.

Simulan mukaan ”tavoite kuitenkin on, että perustoiminta pyörii rahoituksen osalta omillaan”. Kuinka niin tavoite – eikö tuollainen ampumarata olekaan liiketoimintaa, jonka rakentaminen ja rahoitus on alun alkaen laskettu siltä pohjalta, että toiminta on kannattavaa yritystoimintaa eikä Eduskunnan tarvitse vuodesta toiseen lapioida rahaa Ruutikankaan joutomaalle? Kaikki on kesken, vaikka useat seurat kuulemma kyselevät mahdollisuuksista ryhtyä hommaa rahoittamaan.

Puolustusvoimiakin on näköjään pyöritelty. Simulan mukaan Ruutikankaasta halutaan myös puolustusalan julkinen kehityksen, tutkimuksen ja testauksen paikka ja radalla on jo järjestetty droonintorjuntapäivät. Toivottavasti Suomen puolustus ei kuitenkaan ole tai tule olemaan millään lailla riippuvainen fasististen hallitustahojen ja harrastelijoiden keskeneräisistä ampumaradoista. Puolustus on Suomen demokratian yhteinen asia.

Hävettää eduskunnan puolesta. Suomessa on kovat ajat ja hallitus leikkaa köyhiltä minkä kerkeää. Samaan aikaan joululahjaksi annetaan vuodesta toiseen suurpotteja ampumaharrastukseen ja homoseksuaalien kiusaamiseen. Köyhien joulujuhlassa ruoka loppuu kesken.

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Länsi-Savo: Tiukennukset eivät aina kannusta kotoutumista

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Perussuomalaisten kansanedustaja Jaana Strandman puolustaa hallituksen maahanmuuttopolitiikan kiristämistä, mutta ei tuo esiin mitään uutta. On valitettavaa, että jotkut lainsäätäjät yhä uskovat maahanmuuttajien pääsevän Suomessa liian helpolla ja tulevan tänne lähinnä hyödyntämään sosiaaliturvajärjestelmäämme.

Tätä käsitystä vahvistaa myös Strandmanin mielipidekirjoituksen otsikko, jossa hän väittää, että kansalaisuus tulee olla ansaittu. Antaako tämä ymmärtää, että maahanmuuttajat saavat kansalaisuuden liian helposti?

Lue alkuperäinen juttu täästä.

Kansalaisuus on merkittävä asia, koska se toimii väylänä täysivaltaiseksi yhteiskunnan jäseneksi. Se tuo mukanaan muun muassa äänioikeuden ja mahdollisuuden osallistua päätöksentekoon.

Kansalaisuuslaki oli aikoinaan suorastaan syrjivä. Maa, joka antoi naisille äänioikeuden jo vuonna 1906, kielsi pitkään naisilta oikeuden siirtää kansalaisuus lapsilleen. Kesti 66 vuotta itsenäisyyden jälkeen, vuoteen 1984 asti, ennen kuin naisille myönnettiin sama oikeus kuin miehille siirtää kansalaisuus jälkeläisilleen.

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Migrant Tales Literary: Fotos y pensamientos de Ezequiel Caldeiro

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Ezequiel Caldeiro es mi primo de Buenos Aires, Argentina, al que le gusta fotografiar a la gente en la calle. Para quienes no conocen Buenos Aires, suele tomar fotos los domingos en el barrio de San Telmo, una zona pintoresca y tradicional que parece una máquina del tiempo capaz de transportarte a otras épocas.

Ezequiel utiliza una cámara Nikon DC7500. Dice que a la gente no suele importarle que les haga fotos.

Le pedí que eligiera seis de sus últimas fotos que más le gustar.

Además, Ezequiel también vende pensamientos.

A Ezequiel le gustó esta foto por la imagen en el fondo.

Aparte del cabello de la mujer, el aro le da un toque mágico.

Ezequiel dice que le gusta el contraste del hombre con el chico.

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Incompetent war and time to part

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THIS STORY HAS BEEN UPDATED

Even if we know that US President Donald Trump and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took us on an illegal and unpopular war against Iran, the incompetence that shines is so great that the US president does not even know how to stop the war.

A war that was supposed to decapitate the Iranian government causing its instant end never happened. The war would not end in day, weeks and possibly in months.

Trump’s erratic behavioir has an impact on military morale.

And think of it. Here we are helping to feed a man’s ego while he takes down the whole world with him. More concerning are the different politicians who allow this type of reckless behavior to persist. In Finland, one of these politicians is Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen, a rubber stamp.

One of the messengers of Trump’s new world order is Secretary of State Marco Rubio. By shaking Rubio’s hand, Valtonen is saying with a smile on her face that countries like Cuba and regions like Latin America fall under the US. And then she cries about Russian aggression. The hypocrisy is overwhelming. Read full story here.

President Trump’s behavior and decisions are deeply concerning. Is he mentally fit? Do you believe that if he goes far enough, like give the green light to nuclear wepons, he may be overthrown in a coup?

Too radical of an idea?

Who would have ever thought that the White House would be inhabited by such a president.

I have a suggestion for Finland: Leave NATO and put on notice our ties with the United States and Israel.