Month: April 2012

Migrant Tales Literary – Finnish Immigration Service: Biting law ??? ?????

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 Finnish Immigration Service: Biting law   ??? ?????

By Dana

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U migration police the only pain                     U migration police r underhanded

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U migration police are cruel, bring anguish       U migration police are ugly and a predator

?? ??????? ???? ????? ? ????                    ????? ?? ???? ??? ?? ????

U migration police instill darkness                 Illness, fever, yes u r yellow

????? ???? ? ?? ??? ?? ??????                      ??????? ??? ?? ?? ?? ?????

I gave u all money and answered the questions that u wanted       U sent me a NO, ur deceitful

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U made my heart bleed with your NO              U cheated , ur damn sick

??????? ????? ?? ?????                                   ????? ??? ??? ?? ??? ?????

U involved me [in your games], u monster                         Dont u know that there is a God?

??? ???? ?? ???? ? ????????                          ??? ?? ?? ????? ???????

 Ur stare impacts my flesh and bone                Stop the anguish, u have broken my family

?? ? ??? ??????? ?? ?????                              ?? ?????? ?? ??? ?? ?????

U have a family but i am your prisoner                 U r timid,  but  i am brave

?? ???? ????? ?? ???? ?? ???                    ?? ???? ???? ? ???? ??? ????

U r playing with my time, u snake                    U r a scorpion, ur poison bites into me

??? ????? ?? ????? ????                               ????? ??? ?? ?? ??? ????

Ur law is the law of darkness                          Ur thought has not even a particle of wisdom

??? ????? ???? ?? ??????                                 ??? ????? ?? ??? ? ????

Morality is the law of universe                          But ur law is ignorance and a puzzle

?? ?????? ???? ???? ?? ???? ??                         ??? ????? ?? ?? ??? ? ?? ????

Ur Finland may live forever                               But ur law is toxic and ill

The fear that the Somali community in Finland faces is real

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By Enrique Tessieri

I made a call to a Somali friend over the  weekend who told me about a rumor that a young nineteen-year-old countryman had been killed in Helsinki over the weekend. While we could not confirm if the story was true and hope that it is only a rumor it does show the fear that some Somalis live under in this country. 

The Somalis are no small community in Finland. In 2010-11 they were a 6,593-strong community, the fourth-largest in this country, after the Estonians, Russians and Swedes.

Since the Somalis came to Finland as refugees in the early 1990s, very little has been done never mind accomplished to further the acceptance of this community in Finland. The interest of some politicians in the Somalis has been purely for political purposes and the lack of interest of their plight by the media have led to the present unfortunate state of affairs.

Migrant Tales asked almost a year ago if Finland was a safe place to live for non-whites.  If we take a group like the Somalis, there is a big question mark. Moreover, if we put into context the violent deaths that three Muslims faced in a span of about three weeks this year the question mark becomes an even bigger one.

Despite the fears expressed by Muslims and Somalis in Finland, it is unacceptable that the police service has not apparently done enough to assure some visible immigrants that it is safe to walk the streets of a big city like Helsinki and surroundings.  A statement made by a policeman in charge of the death of a Somali youth in Espoo is a case in point in shoddy public relations. He blamed the Somalis for spreading racial hatred with their rumors.

Twenty-five years in the journalism business have taught me that rumors only arise when the message by a government institution or a company is poorly executed or unclear.

We should ask the policeman who blamed the Somalis for spreading rumors if his statement does anything to reassure the Somali community that they have nothing to fear and that the police serves them in the same way as white Finns?

The fear that some Somalis fear in Finland is real. This has been pointed out by a EU study.

“I have become very paranoid in Finland,” said a Somali native, who has lived most of his life in this country. “When the Perussuomalaiset won the election [last year] things got as bad as they did in the early 1990s, when we heard almost every two weeks of some attack against us…In the end of the 1990s things started to get better.”

“I don’t like to go out [these days] because I fear that a complete stranger could attack me,” he continued.  “I am very paranoid.”

YLE poll: The Perussuomalaiset party suffers a new blow in the polls

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By Enrique Tessieri

The many problems of the Perussuomalaiset (PS) party worsened today after a poll published by YLE showed the popularity of the party further slipping by 1.7 percentage points to 14.1%. The biggest party was Kokoomus (22.6%), followed by the Social Democrats (up 1.8% to 19.1%) and the Center Party (16.4%).

The plunge in the polls is quite significant, taking into account that the PS’ popularity once stood as high as 23%. The party won 19.1% of the votes in last year’s election.

Without a doubt it’s been a scandal-rich year for the major tabloids, thanks to the numerous PS racist gaffes, foot-in-mouth displays, declarations of wars against immigrants and the media, members joining neo-Nazi parties, satirically suggesting Holocaust-style armbands to help police in ethnic profiling, decorating cold-blooded killers and recent internal bickering.

In the meantime keep your seatbelts fastened. This is only the first year and we still have three more to go. What kind of a country will Finland look like after four years of the PS in Parliament? Will we recognize it? How much damage will be done to the credibility of our institutions, never mind our international image?

The people who lifted the PS from a minor to a major party last year are now sending it back to where it came from.  There is no sympathy from the major parties, never mind the media, which has grown some teeth after initially treating the PS as some kind of sensation before the election.

Migrant Tales has constantly warned about the PS and the damage it is capable of inflicting on Finland.  Our editorial line, and the fact that we got it right, explain why our blog has seen unprecedented growth in the past year.

Migrant Tales wrote shortly after the election:  “Another factor that spurred the PS to new heights was a watershed statement in March 2010 by Kokoomus chairman Jyrki Katainen, who stated that being critical and debating immigrant issues in this country didn’t make you a racist. After that green light to racism was given, the Social Democratic leadership gave the PS another pat on the back with their infamous saying, maassa maan tavalla.”

Supporting the PS is not just being anti-EU, anti-immigration and anti-establishment but supporting a party that aims to change Finland into something that it isn’t quite sure of.  Some PS MPs want to take it back to the 1950s while others are fascinated by the fascism that mushroomed in the 1930s.

There is no room for dissent in the narrow-minded world of the PS.  All you have to do is repeat patronizingly after every other word fatherland, fatherland and fatherland.

Like Migrant Tales, Sweden got it right a year ago.

Immediately after the PS election victory the New York Times wrote: “In the European news media, particularly in Sweden, the True Finns have come under fire as right-wing racists. Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb and others have defended Mr. Soini from such accusations, though other members of his party hold more radical views on immigration.”

Even Social Democrat Lasse Lehtinen tried to assure Europeans that they have nothing to fear. “Timo Soini is actually a very civilized guy,” he was quoted as saying in the New York Times. “He reads a lot. He thinks a lot.”

If the leaders of the major parties and the majority of Finns had been visible immigrants for a day before the election, then they would have seen Soini and the threat of the PS much more clearly, as they do today.

Finland’s police service: see no, hear no, speak no hate crimes

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By Enrique Tessieri

Migrant Tales reported since the end of January some gruesome violent crimes against Muslims in Finland with the most recent one happening Wednesday. Two of these led directly to the violent deaths of a Somali and Moroccan native, both Finnish citizens.  None of these were hate crimes, according to the police. 

What is a hate crime and why do some visible immigrants disagree flatly with the police’s conclusions?

A Police College of Finland report states the following:  “The traditional definition of hate crime also entails the notion that there is no prior relationship between the offender and the victim. Hate motivation is easier to understand in connection with crimes committed by extremist groups; i.e. in instances where the suspect and victim do not know each other and the suspect’s agenda is to harm the victim on the basis of his or her membership of a specific [ethnic]group.”

And continues: “This traditional definition, however,  is not suitable for describing all crimes committed against minorities that include prejudice against a group. Crimes or harassment can also occur between people who already know one another, and such acts are not always based on one particular hate motivation.”

One matter that sheds a dubious light on the Finnish police is their claim that hate crimes fell  by 15% to 860 cases in 2010 compared with the previous year.

While we don’t have the competence nor the resources like the police to investigate a hate crime, we are members of the community that the police serves.

Even so, the ever-growing discrepancies between some immigrant and visible minority groups versus the police show a distressing trend: lack of credibility.  This can never be a good matter for the police never mind the immigrant community because the effectiveness of the police service hinges on trust.

Trust in the police service can be hindered by many factors. One of these can be the immigrant, who may came from a country where the police are more feared than criminals. In light of this fact the police in Finland must do more work to win over the trust of these groups.

A recent statement by a policeman investigating the death of the adolescent in Espoo show that credibility between the police and the Somali community are significant to say the least.

Instead of reassuring the Somali community that Finland’s streets are safe and that the police are out there to protect them, the police investigator blamed the Somalis for planting racial hatred by spreading false rumors about the murder, according to YLE.

Alan Bruce wrote recently (26.2.2012) on Migrant Tales the following:   ” For far too long many police services have been reactive and cut off from the needs of all they are supposed to serve – through inertia, sloppy standards, poor levels of training or [as in the stated findings of the Macpherson Commission in London] sheer ‘institutional racism.’”

Bruce continued: ” Tackling these problems by a radical program of training, policy and pro-active engagement with [and support for] immigrant communities, ethnic minorities, migrants, women and other minorities is not just protecting the rights of citizens [and non-citizens] but it is also about creating a professional police service that sets standards and proclaims values.”

The tragic deaths and attacks that we have witnessed so far this year should be a wakeup call.  In the present political climate in Finland, matters will unfortunately get worse before they improve.

The police must stop treating crimes against immigrants as routine matters.

Why is the Perussuomalaiset party riling mad at the Finnish media?

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By Enrique Tessieri

You know that there is something wrong whenever a group, never mind a major political party like the Perussuomalaiset (PS), start accusing the media for their problems. This is exactly what Matti Putkonen and MP Jussi Halla-aho did Wednesday on  YLE, when they blamed the media for treating the PS unfairly compared with other parties.

This view was contested by Risto Uimonen, chairman of the Council for Mass Media in Finland and a guest on the show. He said that since the election, when the PS became the third-largest party in Finland, it’s only natural that it has come under greater media scrutiny.

Even though Putkonen, who was convicted of rape in the early 1990s, vows to restore the PS’ good name in the media, it’s pretty clear that any such attempt will end up in failure before it leaves the drawing board.

If we look closely at what Putkonen and Halla-aho said, it’s clear that the party is pretty much in the dark about the watchdog role of the media.  Statements by them and PS MP James Hirvisaari, who has called the media “bloodthirsty hyenas,”  should instead sound alarm bells.

I am certain that if these PS politicians had their way, they’d be the first to curtail press freedom in order that the media would write what they wanted. Putkonen said in a letter to journalists that the media should “serve the fatherland when writing the news.”

Does “serving the fatherland” mean distorting the news and self-censorship when reporting on the PS?

If the PS were fair and had a drop of self-criticism, they’d understand that much of the so-called negative coverage of the party is self-inflicted. Have they forgotten PS MP Teuvo Hakkarainen, sacked PS councilman Tommi Rautio, Ulla Pyysalo, Helena Eronen, Freddy Van Wonterghem and a long, long list of others?

Sad but true. Every month, sometimes every week, we are questionably entertained by some scandal that hits the front pages of the tabloids.

The ignorance and contempt that some PS members have for the media and for freedom of expression in Finland can be seen as well how the party addresses other issue like immigration and cultural diversity.

In their amateurishness and populist anti-democratic wishful thinking, they seek to rewrite history and move the goalposts of  society to fit their intolerant world.

The media is the best insurance that such a thing will never happen.

 

Robert Knox: Rotu on kaikista tärkein

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by Sasu Xinkang Ölander*

Mikä on rotu yksi keskeisimmistä kysymyksistä mitä pitää kysyä. Käsitteenä rotu on hyvin nuori. Termi kehittyi 1600 ja 1700-luvuilla ”uudessa maailmassa”. Jos pitäisi määrittää jokin ideologia, joka olisi täysin eurooppalainen niin se olisi rasismi, nationalismi ja kommunismi. Muut ideologiat ovat enemmän tai vähemmän vain samojen vanhojen uskomuksien uudelleen muotoilua. Mitä muuta kapitalismi on, kuin hieno sana kuvaamaan ahneutta.

Rotu tarkoittaa ryhmää, joka voidaan erottaa pelkästään ulkonäöstään. Kun joku sanoo olevansa jonkin rotuinen, hän viittaa omiin fysiologisiin eroihin vain. Rotu käsitys on tietyssä mielessä vain yksi tapa luokitella ihmisiä eikä sinänsä ole mikään negatiivinen asia. Ihmiset aina luokittelevat toinen toisiaan. Jo silloin kun kävelemme kadulla, luokittelemme ihmisiä.

Tämän luokittelu tavan syntyyn vaikutti pitkälti ”löytöretket”. Kun Eurooppalaiset matkustivat ympäri maapalloa, he huomasivat selviä eroja itsensä ja ”löydettyjen” välillä. Jotta he kykenisivät ymmärtämään maailmaa paremmin, he alkoivat luokitella heidät ulkonäön mukaan. 1735 Carl Von Linnea Systema nature kirjassa määriteltiin ensimmäiset tieteelliset rodut ja näistä oli tuleva modernin rasismin perustus kivi(1).

Car Von Linnea luokitteli ihmiset neljään luokkaan: Europeaus albukse, Americanut rubescensiin, Asiaticu fuscukseen ja Africanut nigeriin. Näihin luokkiin kuului myös sarja personalaisuuden piirteitä. Eurooppalaisia hallitsee laki, amerikkalaisia tavat, aasialaisia mielipiteet ja afrikkalaiset ovat laiskoja. Johann Friedrin Blumenbachia lisäsi kauneuden osaksi rotuluokittelua. Hän katsoi, että kaukasialaiset olisivat kaikista kaunein rotu ihmisiä. Termi kaukasialainen on tullut synonyymi valkoisuudesta Amerikassa.

Heitä seurasi iso joukko filosofeja ja biologeja, jotka lisäilivät tai muuttivat rotuja. Ymmärtääkseen miksi rotu on niin tärkeä käsite, on meidän ymmärrettävä, mikä tarkoitetaan yhden pisaran (One Drop Rule) säännöllä. Sääntö juontaa suoraan Espanjaan ja 1400-lukuun. Kun Espanja oli takaisin vallattu muslimeilta ja kun Navarra ja Kastilia yhdistyi, nousi ongelma siitä mitä pitäisi tehdä muslimeille ja juutalaisille.

Ongelmasta nousi idea että tehdään ero puhtaiden ja saastuneiden välille. Takasin valloituksen aikana ja sen jälkeen tuhannet muslimit ja juutalaiset kääntyivät kristityiksi säästyäkseen vainoilta. Kristitty jolla ei ole muslimi tai juutalaista verta on tosi kristitty. Näin pyrittiin pitämään valta vanhoilla kristityillä.

Tämä idea siirtyi suoraan ”uuteen maailmaan”. Ajatus oli että valkoisten ja mustien ei kuuluisi olla minkäänlaisessa seksuaalisessa yhteydessä. Amerikan kaksoismantereella ajatus otettiin hieman eri tavoin vastaan. Pohjois-Amerikassa yhden pisaran säännöstä pidettiin tiukasti kiinni. Ei ole sattumaa, että vasta 1960-luvuilla seka-avioliitos tulivat laillisiksi. Latinalais-Amerikassa idea otettiin nihkeästi vastaan puhtaasti käytännöllisistä syistä. Espanjasta tulleet olivat enimmäkseen miehiä. Näin ollen heidän oli pakko ottaa Intiaani ja Afrikkalaisia vaimoja. Näistä muodostui populaatio, jota alettiin kutsua mulateiksi.

Rotu hierarkia rakentui tyydyttämään Eurooppalaisten omatuntoa. Hienommin sanottuna rasismi, joka juontuu rotu hierarkiasta, tyydytti Eurooppalaisten kognitiivista dissonanssia. Sen huipulla olivat valkoiset ja pohjalla mustat. Kaikki muut jäivät jonnekin sen välille.

Idea kulminoitui 1800- luvun Robert Knoxsin kuuluisaan fraasiin “race is everything,” eli rotu on kaikesta tärkein. Tärkeä asia mitä pitää muistaa on, että Robert Knox ja hänen kaltaiset tieteelliset rasistit eivät olleet hulluja. Adolf Hitlerin sosiaalidarwinistit olivat aikansa nerokkaimpia ihmisiä. He olivat kaikkialla ihailtuja ja heidän ennustukset värillisten rotujen luonnollisesta tuhosta oli sinfoniaa ympäri Eurooppaa.

Rotu käsitys nousi huonoon huutoon juutalaisten kansanmurhan jälkeen. Nyt tulee kysymys onko juutalaisuus rotu. Useimmat kovan luokan antisemitistit luokittelevat juutalaisuuden roduksi. Kun juutalaisuus oli luokiteltu roduksi, siihen voitiin kohdistaa tieteellisen rasismin menetelmät. Muistettavaa on silti, että Euroopan rotututkijat eivät luokitelleet juutalaisia roduksi. Antisementtiset  rotututkijat olivat oikeissa. Toinen muistettavaa on että samaan aikaan, kun rotututkijat väittelivät juutalaisten asemasta, valkoista rotua alettiin pilkkoa pienempiin alahaaroihin. Näihin alahaaroihin kohdistettiin eugeniikan oppeja, joita Adolf Hitler myöhemmin tulisi ”väärinkäyttämään”.

Kuinka monta rotua on maailmassa? Vastaus on, että niitä on loputtomasti. Rotu luokat tulevat ja menevät. Vaikka termimme vaihtuvat hierarkia on sama. Maailmalla on yhteisymmärrys siitä, että valkoinen on täydellinen. Valkoisuus nähdään maailmanlaajuisesti jonkinlaisena normina. Tämä ajattelu tapa on suoraan tullut Eurooppalaisilta. Tim Wise hienosti sanoi, että hallitakseen sinun on kolonisoitava hallittavien mieli. Tämä on yksi niistä haasteista johon värillisten löydettävä ratkaisu. (2)

Useimmat liberaalit sanovat varmasti, että se oli silloin mutta nyt rotu on kuollut. Tietyssä mielessä rotu on kuollut koska kukaan ei kehtaa sanoa sanaa rotu, etenkin valkoiset. Jos sinä sanot sanan rotu, on hyvin suuri todennäköisyys, että sinut huudetaan rasistiksi. Tämä on sitä värisokeaa rasismia ja poliittista korrektiutta. Toisaalta systeemi on pystyssä. Valkoisuudella on yhä hallitseva asema määrittämään mikä on normaalia ja kaunista. Samat syytökset yhä kaikuvat mitkä lausuttiin sata vuotta sitten.

Jotta asiaa ymmärtäisi paremmin, kannattaa rasismi jakaa kahteen kategoriaan. Ensimmäinen on individualistinen rasismi. Siihen kuuluvat kaikkia rasistiset liikkeet. Suomen Sisu, Skinheadit, Natsit ja heidän kaltaiset rasistit. Monet maahanmuutto kriitikot kuuluvat tähän, ei kaikki tietenkin. Osa maahanmuutto kriitikoista voivat kritisoida maahanmuuttoa ilman rasistisia motiiveja. Näitä vastaan on helppo taistella koska he eivät piilottele rasismia.

Toinen taso on yhteiskunnallinen ja kulttuurillinen taso. Tähän tasoon kuuluu iso nippu normeja, käytäntöjä, uskomuksia ja valtarakenteita joihin yksilö ei voi vaikuttaa. Tämän tason rasismi luo ja vahvistaa hierarkiaa joka asettaa värilliset aina friikki tai eksotiikka tasoon. Kulttuuria on kutsuttu usein vedeksi jossa kala ui. Rasismi on vesi jossa me kaikki uimme, mutta värillisten on välillä tultava maalle ennen, kuin palaa veteen niin kuin Sam Richard asian ilmaisi hienosti.(3)

*Kirjoittaja on 18-vuotias lukiolainen Helsingistä. Hän määrittele itsensä aasialais-suomalaiseksi.

Lähde:

(1)

101.s Kallonmittaajia ja Skinejä.Isaksson, Pekka

(2)

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=Internalized+Racism%3A+A+Definition%2C%22+Women%27s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CDkQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thewtc.org%2FInternalized_Racism.pdf&ei=1wCcT_LRA8bN4QTM0oCqDg&usg=AFQjCNFJDhbJ5sxyOTrEUse26tzjqEp6zQ

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing

(3)

Rotu luento

Migrant Tales Literary: ????? Garibeh (stranger, wanderer)

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?????  Garibeh (stranger, wanderer)

By Dana

????? ????? ?? ?????                                      ??? ?????? ???? ????? ?????

Where r u my sky full of stars                          Where r u Ms. Sun, u sweet darling

??? ?? ???? ????? ????                                      ??? ?? ??????? ??????? ???????

  Where r u my beautiful cute mother        Where oh my kind, my hospitable heart

??? ?? ??? ????? ?????                                               ??? ????? ????? ?????

Where r u oh grape garden of my land             Where beautiful oranges fruiting in spring

 ??? ?? ??? ????? ???? ??                                 ??? ???? ?? ???? ?? ?? ??

Where fragrant Jasmine, my Narcissus flower         Where have u gone Dana, u and everyone

??? ???? ??? ??????? ??                                        ????? ??? ??? ???? ??? ???

Where u gone fatherland, homesickness         Broken this heart of mine, give me ointment, a way

?????? ??? ?????? ??? ???                               ?????? ??? ??? ??? ? ??? ???

Cannot find a door, only walls and stone       Cannot find a way, paths are liquid and tight

?????? ????? ?? ?????                                                ????? ?? ????? ????? ???

I can’t find a pal oh god, key, compassion       not even a baby door, ah

??????? ??? ??? ???? ??                                           ???????? ??? ????? ?? ??

No-one kisses our cheeks                               No-one wants our Dana

?? ????? ?? ???? ?? ?????                                   ?? ???? ???? ?? ??? ?????

No armful, hugs, no mercy, no life                No seal, no thanks, not even a look

 ?? ???? ????? ????? ?????                                        ?? ???? ????? ??? ?????

No color, no essence, gem nor sweet words         No baba,* mother, nor even a message

??? ??? ??? ??? ???? ?? ??? ???           ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ? ?? ??? ???

Oh God it’s hard being in a strange place in another country  it’s all sores, hurt and malevolent

??? ???? ????? ?? ?? ????                                          ????? ???? ????? ?? ????

Come mother, call for me now                         Free me from this eternal sleep of death

 ??? ????? ?????? ?? ?????                                             ??? ????? ??? ?????? ????

Free ur Dana, awaken me

  ??? ???????? ????? ?? ??

Father, I’m here in Helsinki, find me.

*Baba means father in Persian.

Update: Older woman assaulted at Myllypuro metro station in Helsinki

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By Enrique Tessieri

Thanks to a tip off, Migrant Tales correctly reported that the  older woman who was attacked and beaten, allegedly by a group of white Finns, at Myllypuro metro station in Helsinki on Wednesday was a Somali. The woman suffered injuries to the face and was taken to hospital by ambulance.

These types of attacks, now apparently made by young men on older women, are an indication of the violence that some immigrants suffer in Finland.

Migrant Tales earlier reported three deaths of Muslims over a span of about three weeks. A Perussuomalaiset (PS) councilman, Tommi Rautio, boasted on Facebook that he would decorate the white Finnish male who killed the third victim and seriously wounded another before taking his own life in a pizzeria in Oulu.

Migrant Tales believes that attacks of the kind seen in Helsinki are the tip of the iceberg, even though the police reported that hate crimes had fallen by 15% in 2010 compared with the previous year.

The low number of reported hate crimes could be interpreted as a vote of little to no confidence in the police from certain immigrant groups.

Migrant Tales moves to http://migranttales.net on May 17

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By Migrant Tales

I almost fell off my seat when I saw this message on my screen on March 29. The first thought that raced through my mind was that five years of hard work had come to an end. To ensure that nothing similar ever happens to Migrant Tales again, we will be moving to another domain (http://migranttales.net/) during May 15-19.

We  have seen unprecedented growth in traffic this year thanks to our readers. Our aim is a very simple one:  “…to be a voice for those whose views and situation are understood poorly and heard faintly by the media, politicians and public.”

Thank you for your support!

Migrant Tales’ was deactivated for about 13 hours on March 29-30. Some of our enemies were prematurely dancing and celebrating over our grave. To their surprise we were back the following day.

PS anti-immigration wing: “a new [Cadillac] model every year”

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By Enrique Tessieri

Helena Eronen, the parliamentary aide who suggested armbands for foreigners, is what Malcolm X once said about racism and Cadillacs:  “They make a new model every year.”* The Perussuomalaiset (PS) party’s far-right anti-immigration wing led by MP Jussi Halla-aho have a new model: Helena Eronen.

Hirvisaari was fined in December for hate speech, which explains why he chose Eronen as his aide to write and be his ideological alter ego.

Taking into account the outright rejection by the media especially after the election of the Counter-Jihadist writings of Halla-aho, Olli Immonen and Juho Eerola, it’s pretty clear that this group needs a fresh new face, and a new writing style to get across the same anti-immigration message. That person is none other than Eronen.

Even if Eronen claims no political affiliation, she used to advertise her affiliation to the far-right Muutos2011 on her Uusi Suomi blog. Many of her blog entries confirm her anti-immigration views, such as the last one published in Uusi Suomi and headlined, “What on Earth would you do about exotic- [skin-] colored rapists.”

Hirvisaari shines through in the text, and Eronen also mentions MP Olli Immonen, who inquired in Parliament about rapes committed by immigrants.

Eronen fails to share one absolute figure with the reader about how many rape cases have occurred. This is for obvious reasons, because we are talking about tens of cases and not discussing the white Finnish males who commit the lion’s share of rapes in Finland.

At the end of her blog entry she warns that two dailies, Turun Sanomat and Karjalainen of Joensuu, may not quote the text unless they want to pay a 100,000-euro fine. This shows how little Eronen understands and her utter ignorance of the media. It’s a pretty ludicrous warning: how can you write a public blog and forbid someone from quoting you?

We mustn’t forget that PS MPs Hirvisaari, Halla-aho and Immonen – and Eerola herself – are all social media creations.

Noting how much their racist writings and victimization of certain immigrant groups brought them money and a ticket to Parliament, it’s clear that they will not abandon social media as a platform for getting their anti-immigration message across to their followers.

*Thank you Sasu Xinkang Ölander.