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Month: July 2012

Father is ur flower

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Dana

Father has root in your memories. Father has contact with you, in your

genes. He is there as a gift for you, for always, for he loves you and wants to be with you forever. So you are never alone, even when he dies.

                                               Family is best, Father is dearest.
Father is the way you were brought to this world. You were nothing. You could not come by yourself, NO!, but, Father thought about you, wished for you. God heard, and one day you opened your eyes in this world. Father gave you this chance to be alive and to taste life. Don’t forget it-Don’t.

Now he is waiting for your kindness. He needs your hug, your kisses on his cheeks. Don’t lose this beautiful time. He is your father. He is yourself. Father is holy word. Holy gift for you. Be aware before it is too late.

Love u Baba for always

 

 

 

What happens when you dilute a term like racism?

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Migrant Tales

Ignorance is a crucial factor that still holds Finland back from tackling effectively a social ill like racism. If it’s not seen as an issue, very little will be done to challenge it. 

Add to the latter the fact that even some of our elected representatives in parliament don’t know the difference between racism and discrimination, and the issue becomes clear.

Reijo Tossavainan, a Perussuomalaiset (PS) MP, wrote the following comment on Pekka Siikala’s blog entry: “I don’t accept racism. Not even age racism (ikärasismia).”

The comment by Tossavainen not only offers us a glimpse of the elected official’s knowledge of racism, but how his ignorance plays down the problem.

Diluting a term like racism to mean something else is like using water in liquor bottles “so no one knows you drank some.” Soure: Allenate’s photostream.

It’s clear that a lot is lost when you water down a term like racism and redefine it as “age racism.” It’s like taking the term Holocaust and applying to something minor than the systematic murder of six million Jews in World War 2. Diluting the meaning of the term to mean something else is synonymous to denying or playing down what Nazi Germany did to the Jews.

The same applies to the term racism. If we use it differently, like in “age racism,” we deny the history and suffering of other ethnic groups like blacks in the U.S., Somalis and other minorities in Finland.

If an MP doesn’t get what racism is, how can you expect him to fight such a social ill?

Tossavainen is not alone in Finland. There are other politicians from other parties who believe that there is such a thing as “age racism.”

Sad but true.

Let’s play fill in the blanks with with far-right Finnish MP James Hirvisaari

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Migrant Tales

When reading the thoughts of far-right politicians like Perussuomalaiset (PS) party MP James Hirvisaari, one of the most vocal white-Finnish-power advocates in this country, one should look for the visible or invisible but in his writing. Migrant Tales fished one today from Facebook.

The PS MP writes: ”Some ‘humanitarians’ are driven by naive utopian ideology: [they claim] ‘let’s do away with borders and mix national groups so we can end all wars…‘ [Here it is: But] I believe that a strong and healthy society can withstand weaknesses and diversity but let’s not make these two matters the norm. Fashionable liberalism can make art from shit in all areas of life.”

That’s not all. A person on the Facebook thread claims that “multiculturalism is a death knell  to all [white] Europeans” and “we are now at war.”

At war against whom? Against their stupidity or is it a desperate attempt to lure voters to a sinking political ship called the PS?

Finland will host municipal elections on October 28.

If you have problems grasping how far below the belt Hirvisaaari hits with his far-right thoughts, one way of understanding them is by removing key words from his writings such as “Muslim” or “Islam” and replacing them with “Finn” or “Christian.”

Here is a small example of how I’ve refilled the blanks in one of his recent blog entries:

Hirvisaari writes: When I criticize Islam, I criticize those who hate Jews, humiliate women in many ways…

Refilling the blanks: When I criticize Christians, I criticize those who hate Muslims, Finnish men who humiliate women by killing their wives and children before taking their own lives…

While Hirvisaari lacks the grey matter to be in the same ideological hate league as David Duke, his views on ethnicity are very similar to those of the former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard. The big difference between the two is geography: Duke lives in Louisiana and Hirvisaari is from Asikkala, Finland.

What does PS MP James Hirvisaari think about white power and the Ku Klux Klan?

Like Hirvisaari, Duke denies that he is a racist. Instead he likes to think of himself as a “racial realist.”

Contrarily, Hirvisaari sees himself as a ”white Finnish ethnic realist,” who is saving white Finns and Europeans from multiculturalism,  a political ideology or immigration policy according to him that permits too many blacks and Muslims to live in Europe.

Migrants’ Rights Network: The battle on family migration will be a long one, but we can win

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Migrant Tales

By Ruth Grove-White

Every now and again there are changes to the immigration rules which even writers for the Daily Mail voice their objections to. The new rules on family migration to the UK, which came into force on Monday, represent a major assault on family life for Brits and migrants alike. Campaigners now need to work on bringing political opposition to the rules out from behind closed doors.

Monday’s changes to the family migration rules are significant: the UK now ranks among the toughest of Western democracies on family reunification policies.

Among other changes, the government has introduced a new income requirement of £18,600 per year for people who wish to bring a foreign partner to live with them in the UK. This means an estimated 47% of the UK working population would not qualify to bring their overseas spouse or partner here in the future.

The Home Office estimates up to 18,500 people every year will be prevented from coming to join family members here as a result. This may be helpful in inching the government towards lower net migration levels, but will be devastating for the families who are kept apart as a result.

Although the family migration changes have been politically controversial, much opposition has been confined to back rooms in Whitehall rather than aired in public. Press reports earlier this year hinted at internal battles between Lib Dems and Conservatives on family migration, with children and families minister Sarah Teather rumoured to be particularly resistant to tough rule changes.

Although these issues were officially resolved, behind closed doors there is reportedly still opposition among some Lib Dem MPs to the new rules.

Labour has also found itself in a tangled position over the family migration changes. Despite vocal opposition to the family rules among key players such as front bencher Kate Green MP and home affairs committee chair Keith Vaz MP, the Labour front bench has not yet expressed a clear position against these rules.

Still in the midst of a policy review, there has seemingly been reluctance to wade into a debate that could result in Labour once again being painted as soft on immigration. But never say never. What is certain is that the fight for family rights will continue and it has the scope to build political support.

Now that the family migration rules have come into force there will be growing evidence about their negative impacts, with particular problems anticipated for young couples, Asian families, and in parts of the UK with low average incomes.

Families who are affected can help to overturn these rules in the future by writing to their MPs, joining campaigns and building solidarity with others who are affected.

If the evidence can be amassed, Monday’s changes potentially offer up a future political opportunity: to speak out on an immigration issue that will affect thousands of Brits as well as migrants in the UK. And as the next general election draws nearer we hope to see quiet support develop into concerted political leadership, that points the UK in a different direction on family migration.

This article first appeared on the Left Foot Forward website on 11th July 2012.

Read original story here.

This piece was reprinted by Migrant Tales with permission.


Kysymys vailla vastausta: keitä ovat perussuomalaiset?

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Migrant Tales

Yksi mielenkiintoinen kysymys joka nousi esiin perussuomalaisista viime vuoden historiallisen vaalivoiton jälkeen oli keitä he ovat? Yli vuosi vaaleista ja kysymys on yhä  vailla vastausta: keitä he perussuomalaiset ovat?   

Jos esitämme kysymyksen suoraan perussuomalaisille, vastaus saattaa olla yhtä sekava ja ristiriitainen kuin puolue itse.

Riippumatta puolueen jäsenistön monimuotoisesta ideologisesta taustasta, voidaan kysyä kuinka on mahdollista että äärioikeistolainen poliitikko kuten kansanedustaja Jussi Halla-aho ja puolueen puheenjohtaja Timo Soini voivat istua saman pöydän ääressä? Mikä yhdistää molemmat poliittisesti?

Olisiko reilua sanoa, että perussuomalaiset ovat oikeistolainen populistinen puolue, jossa on ripaus äärioikeistolaista nationalismia? Olisiko paras kuvaus puolueesta seuraava: se on EU-, maahanmuutto-, islam-, homo- ja näkyvien vähemmistöjen oikeuksien vastainen puolue?

Jos tarkastelemme perussuomalaisten läheiset poliittiset sukulaiset Pohjoismaissa, sieltä löydämme islamivastaisen Tanskan kansanpuolueen, Ruotsin demokraatit sekä Edistyspuolue Norjasta.

Kaikkia yllämainittuja yhdistää kolme tärkeää asiaa: Ne ovat EU-vastaisia, maahanmuuttovastaisia  ja erityisesti islamvastaisia.

Perussuomalaisten ainoa europarlamentaarikko, Sampo Terho, kuuluu euroskeptiseen poliittiseen ryhmään EFD:n. Suurin osa EFD:n europarlamentaarikoista tulevat UK Independence Party:sta (10), joka haluaa että Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta irtautuu EU:sta, ja ksenofobinen Lega Nord (9).

Perussuomalaisten kansanedustajien mielipiteet poikkeavat selvästi muiden puolueiden kansanedustajien mielipiteistä YLE:n vaalikoneen mukaan:

  • 100% näkee, että EU-maiden ei tulee auttaa taloudelliseen ahdinkoon joutunutta jäsenvaltioita (Eu-vastainen).
  • 97% sanoo ettei Suomi tarvitse lisää maahanmuuttajia (maahanmuuttovastainen). Mm. kansanedustajat Olli Immonen ja James Hirvisaari uskoo, että suuri uhka Euroopalle on islam (islamvastainen).
  • 82% vastustavat homo- ja lesboparien nk. sukupuolineutraalia avioliittoa (homo- ja vähemmistöoikeuksien vastainen).
  • 97% pelkää moraalin ja perinteisten arvojen heikentyvän Suomessa (kohti Impivaaraan).
  • 83% katsoo, että Suomen pitää vähentää kehitysmaiden auttamista (Impivaara meille ja teille).

Asia on enemmän kuin selvä. Perussuomalaiset ovat EU-, maahanmuutto, islam-, homo- sekä vähemmistöoikeuksien vastainen puolue jolla on kytköksiä äärioikeistolaisiin.

 Uusi Suomi

A question begs an answer: Who are the Perussuomalaiset?

Posted on July 15, 2012 by Migrant Tales

The million-dollar question after the Perussuomalaiset (PS) party’s historic election victory was what kind of party had entered the Finnish political stage. After over a year in parliament and numerous scandals that have rocked the PS, a question still begs an answer: Who are they?

If you seek an answer directly from the party, the response you’ll likely get is as convoluted as the PS itself. Great lengths will be taken to point out what they’re not.

This shouldn’t surprise us considering that the PS’ political fuel comes from near-constant whining and scapegoating.

The historic election success of the PS was by and large based on hit-and-run tactics like scapegoating and denial.

Irrespective of its hodgepodge nature, how is it possible for a far-right politician like PS MP Jussi Halla-aho and party chairman Timo Soini to sit at the same table? What unites both men ideologically?

Would it be fair to call the PS an opportunistic right-wing populist party with a heavy dash of far-right nationalism? Would the best description of the party be: anti-EU, anti-immigration, anti-Islam, anti-gay, and anti-minority rights?

If we look at close political relatives of the PS in the Nordic region, we’d find  the Islamophobic Danish People’s Party, Sweden Democrats, and Progress Party of Norway.

All of them are anti-EU, anti-immigration and especially anti-Islam.

The PS’ only MEP, Sampo Terho, is a member of the eurosceptic Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) parliamentary group.  The biggest number of EFD MEPs come from the UK Independence Party (10), which wants the UK to exit the EU, and the xenophobic Lega Nord (9), which considers southern Italy a part of North Africa.

Even if the PS wants to tone down its right-wing conservative radicalism because it doesn’t sit well with moderate Finnish voters, it’s fair to claim that they are an anti-EU, anti-immigration, anti-Islam, anti gay, and anti-minority rights party.

  • The PS are an anti-EU party because 100% of PS MPs don’t want Finland to bailout any EU country. Some even believe that the Finland should exit the EU.
  • They are an anti-immigration party because 97% of the MPs don’t want anymore immigrants to move to Finland. If Finland must accept immigrants, they should be white Christians.
  • The PS is an anti-Islam party because MPs like Olli Immonen and James Hirvisaari, among others, believe that it’s only a matter of time when Europe will be taken over by Islam (Eurabia).
  • They are an anti-gay party because 82% are against same-sex marriages.

Conclusion: The PS are an anti-EU, anti-immigration, anti-Islam, anti-gay and anti-minority rights party with ties to the far right.

 

Ana María Gutiérrez Sorainen: Me “mukasuvaitsevaiset” ja “mukasivistyneet” maahanmuuttokriitikot

Posted on July 14, 2012 by Migrant Tales

Ana María Gutiérrez Sorainen*

“Mukasuvaitsevaisto ja mukasivistyneistö heiluttelee rasistikortteja maahanmuuttokriitikoille”.

Olisitko kuullut tai lukenut tuota lausetta vaikkapa 10 vuotta sitten? Maailma ja Suomi muuttuvat, vaikka jotkut väittävät muuta ja haluavat pitää kiinni nykyisyydestä, menneisyydestä ja jopa kaukaisesta menneisyydestä. Mutta he itse muokkaavat tätä maata. Ennen kuin otsikostani peritään tekijänoikeuksia on sanottava, että kansanedustaja Reijo Tossavainen (Perus) on kunnostautunut noiden sanojen ahkeraksi käyttäjäksi.

Edellisten kunnallisvaalien yhteydessä neljä vuotta sitten kaikkialla alettiin puhua myös maahanmuuttokriitikoista. Silloin maahanmuuttopolitiikan kritisoimisen varjolla esitettiin myös ihmisistä ja ihmisryhmistä solvaavia kommenteja ja kirjoituksia. Maahanmuuttajia solvaavien kommentien kirjoittajat tarjosivat itse tuon sanan “maahanmuuttokritiikko”, jota media alkoi käyttää yleisesti siis myös rasisteista. Yhtäkkiä maassa ei ollut enää rasisteja ja rasismia vaan maahanmuuttokritiikkiä ja maahanmuuttokriitikoita! Käytännössä näin ei kuitenkaan ollut.

Maahanmuuttokriitikoita aidossa merkityksessä, siis niitä, jotka kritisoivat maahanmuuttopolitiikkaa, on ollut maassa jo kauan. Asiallisia kommenteja vain ei tahdota kuulla.

On myös aiemmin ollut niitä kansanedustajia, jotka liikkuvat maahanmuuttokriitikin ja rasismin välimaastossa. Moni meistä muistaa myös sen, kuinka SDP: n kansanedustaja ja entinen sisäministeri Rajamäki puhui maahanmuutosta ja jopa maahanmuuttajista. Rajamäki leimasi tulijat turvapaikkashoppailijoiksi, ankkurilapsiksi jne. Samoja sanoja levitteli iloisesti mediassa myös Sulo Aitoniemi. Samaa linjaa ovat seuraneet kokoomuslaiset Ben Zyscowicz ja entinen kansanedustaja Tuulikki Ukkola. He kritisoivat myös maahanmuuttopolitiikkaa, mutta se on jäänyt noiden “mediaseksikkäiden” sanojen alle.

“Maahanmuuttokritiikki” ei siis ole ollut vain ja ainoastaan perussuomalaisten tavaramerkki. Perussuomalaisten kohdalla sen sijaan on merkille pantava se tapa, millä muutama henkilö esittää asiansa kärjekkäästi, raflaavasti ja puolihuolettomasti. Ihan kuin tarkoitus olisi rikkoa aidosti lakia, jotta julkisuus olisi varmuudella taattu ja kannatus varmistettu.

Maahanmuutto ei aiheena ole edelleenkään merkittävä yhteiskunnallinen kysymys, joka vaatisi niin laajamittaista aivosolujen käyttöä. Samassa mittakaavassa kuin nyt. Päivästä ja kuukaudesta toiseen ja jo ennen eduskuntavaaleja mediassa ei paljon muusta puhuttukaan kuin maahanmuutosta. Jos vielä tänä päivänä joku väittää, ettei sillä aiheella kukaan pääse mihinkään, hän erehtyy. Myös vain maahanmuuttoasioihin keskittyneet kansalaiset ovat päässeet eduskuntaan saakka. Eri asia on se, ettei maahanmuuttoon ja erityisesti maahanmuuttajiin myönteisesti  suhtautuva ehdokas pääse samaan eduskuntaan. Eikö tämä kerro jotakin siitä yhteiskunnasta, jossa elämme?

Viime aikoina maahanmuuttoon ja maahanmuuttajiin torjuvasti suhtautuvat ovat joissakin palstoissa yhdistetty vain perussuomalaisiin. Ihan kuin aihe olisi ulkoistettu vain heille. Se on kuitenkin harhaa. Syrjivää ajattelua ja jopa rasismia on myös muissa puolueissa. Muissa puolueissa on kuitenkin niin, että ne, jotka ajattelevat niin avoimesti rasistisesti, siirtyivät perussuomalaisiin tai ovat jääneet omiin puolueisiinsa ja käyttävät hienovaraisempia sanoja.

Huolellisuuden alla piilee siis myös paljon kielteistä ajattelua. Moni toistaa, ettei nyt voi puhua maahanmuutosta mitään, koska heti heiluu rasistikortti. Rasistikortin heiluttaminen voi noiden kirjoittajien mielestä olla jo sitäkin, että sanot, etteivät kaikki maahanmuuttajat tule tänne elämään verorahoilla, vaan tekemään töitä.

Se, että sanot, että jokainen ihminen ansaitsee hyvän elämän, oli hän syntynyt täällä tai Kiinassa, on mukasuvaitsevaitsen sinisilmäisyyttä. Suvaitsevaisuus on siis jo kielteinen asia ja joskus sitä rinnastetaan jopa idiotismiin. Suvaitsevaisuus oli vielä aikoja sitten hyve, joka rinnastetiin empatiaan ja ymmärtämiseen.

Varsinkin Uuden Suomen keskustelujen valossa, jos olet suvaitsevainen, saatat olla myös mukasivistynyt, joka vaatii muilta sivistynyttä käytöstä. Eikä se käy, maassa maan tavalla pitää siis olla tilaa myös sivistymättömyydelle, ja myös sille sydämen ja sielun sivistymättömyydelle.

Netissäkin kuitenkin jokaisen lukijan takana on aito ihminen ja netissäkin voi satuttaa muita.

Lisäys: Monissa maissa yhä sivistys tarkoittaa käytännössä lukutaitoa. Muka-sana tule siis tulkinnasta mitä lukemallesi annat. Jos tulkintasi on erilainen kuin “maahanmuuttokritiikon”, kuulut siihen mukasuvaitsevaistoon ja -sivistyneistöön.

Maahanmuuttokriitikoita olemme siis me kaikki paitsi “maahanmuuttokriitikot”.

*Kansalaisaktivisti, entinen kunnanvaltuutettu, espanjan kielen opettaja, kääntäjä ja tulkki, blogisti, neljän lapsen äiti, Suomen kansalainen.

Alkuperäisen blogikirjoituksen voi lukea tästä.

Tämä blogikirjoitus julkaistiin Migrant Talesissä luvalla.

Finnish men assault elderly Somali woman (Part 2)

Posted on July 14, 2012 by Migrant Tales

By Roble Bashir and Enrique Tessieri

Migrant Tales met on Thursday the elderly Somali woman who was assaulted in April by Finnish men at Helsinki’s Myllypuro metro station. This is part two of the interview with Abdulle Korad Musse, 63.

For the elderly Somali woman, who speaks to us with the help of an interpreter, racism is a terrible issue like the suffering that the long civil war has brought on her people and country.

The fact that most Somalis have endured and seen unimaginable suffering in their former home country as well as endured the dark side of racism in Finland, has made some of them exceptionally strong and resilient.

Abdulle Korad Musse admits that Finland isn’t a safe country for Somalis.

Apart from her son being attacked by Finns when she lived in Joensuu, her son was assaulted in Helsinki as well. She says that a complete stranger once kicked her in the shin when she was going up the escalator.

Musse admits that some Finns can be exceptionally mean. Once they tipped off the security guards that she was shoplifting at an Itäkeskus S-Market.

”I was stopped by security guards after I paid for my goods,” she says. ”The security guards took back the items to the cashier to see if they were stolen. They apologized after they found out that everything was in order.”

Musse says she felt so humiliated and angry that she threw all the goods in the plastic bags at the security guards.

”You can imagine what a scene I created: a Somali woman suspected of shoplifting in public,” she says. ”I have never stolen anything but I have seen Finns shoplifting. I still feel very bad about what happened to me.”

Musse says that Somalis in Finland don’t trust the police.

”I don’t think the police do their job well in this country,” she says. ”I know Somalis who have been physically attacked and the police has not resolved their cases even after five or six years.”

She claims that the police drag their feet when a Somali is a victim of a crime. Musse does not believe that anything will happen to those that attacked her in April.

”They simply don’t care,” she adds. ”They don’t care because you’re a Somali and because there are racist police in this country.”

Musse believes that since the authorities cannot directly kick the Somalis out of Finland, they use other methods to tell you that you’re not welcome. Everything you do takes a lot of time for a Somali in this country: finding work, getting citizenship, family reunification, and asylum, according to her.

The Somali woman applied in 2010 for a new flat from the city. She has to walk up three flights of stairs to get to her home. The doctor has told her that she should not walk up the stairs and carry heavy objects.

”Everything is far away from my flat,” she continues. ”I have to walk to the other side of the apartment complex to dry clothes. Walking to the bus stop takes fifteen minutes. I am afraid to walk through the forest alone to get to the bus stop.”

Musse says that she gets her strength from Allah.

”Only he knows where I will live and when I will die,” she concludes.

Finnish men assault elderly Somali woman (Part I)

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Migrant Tales

By Roble Bashir and Enrique Tessieri

Migrant Tales met on Thursday the elderly Somali woman who was attacked by a group of Finns in April at Helsinki’s Myllypuro metro station. The woman, Abdulle Korad Musse, 63, was taken to hospital by ambulance after she was physically assaulted.  

Musse, who speaks to us with the help of an interpreter, is originally from Mogadishu and has lived in Finland since 1999. She first lived in the eastern Finnish city of Joensuu until 2002, when she moved with her family to Helsinki. Musse is a mother of six.

Her face lights up with obvious sarcasm when asked which city, Joensuu or Helsinki, were better places to live.

“Joensuu was far worse,” she admits. “One of my sons was attacked by a group of Finns [in Joensuu] and hit so hard on the knee with a club that he had to be operated on in hospital.   Another time a motorbike went after my son and ran over him. He was only seven at the time.”

Abdulle Korad Musse claims that most Finns are racist. 

Musse claims that she expects something bad to happen every time she steps out of her Helsinki flat.

“I can either get harassed or laughed at,” she says. “I try to avoid trouble by walking on the other side of the street. Young people aren’t [usually] the problem. Older-aged Finns are.”

Musse claims that Finland isn’t a safe country to live for people like her. “They [some white Finns] see you as an insect and insects must be exterminated,” she says.

The Somali woman, who was physically attacked in Myllypuro with her thirty-four-year-old daughter in April, said that the whole incident started in the lift.

“Out of nowhere, the young Finnish couple in the lift started calling us names like dirty bastards and that we should go back to the country we came from,” she continues. ”When the lift door opened, the woman threw the bike at my daughter. That’s when the fight began.”

“My daughter got the Finnish woman on the floor and was on top of her,” she continues. “I tried to stop her but soon the man who was with her was joined by three men and four women. My daughter hit the woman but she was soon attacked.”

”That’s when I got hit,” she explains. “A tall man punched me in the head. I got dizzy and fell down. On the ground he started kicking me in the kidneys, hips and shoulders. I tried to cover my stomach because I was operated in hospital a month ago.”

Musse was taken to  hospital by ambulance. She says she’s become very ill after the incident and suffers from near-constant pains.

“I cannot hold anything [heavy] and its impossible to sleep on either side my shoulders,” she says. “If I sit for too long and stand up, my knees, shoulder and hips are in pain.”

Musse says that her daughter’s face and body were bruised and swollen “everywhere.”

”The Finns that attacked her yanked by force a silver ring from her finger,” Musse says. “All the goods that we had bought in the Itäkeskus Shopping Center were scattered all over the metro station floor.”

Part II will be published Saturday. 

 

Racist “coupons” found at the Leppävaara death trial

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Migrant Tales

By Migrant Tales

The trial of the death of Adisalam Mohamed Abdulahi, who was killed in February in  Leppävaara, began Thursday in Espoo. Migrant Tales has learned that in the afternoon, when the court adjourned for a short break, there were coupons scattered next to the courtroom with racist text.   

A coupon that was pictured at Abdisalam Mohamed Abdulahi’s trial. The “customer” is Tumma Mustamies (Dark Blackman) who lives on Apinalaaksokatu (Monkey Valley Street). We apologize for the poor quality of the picture. 

Taking into account the tragedy that Abdulah’s death has caused on both families, someone thought it was a good idea to spread racist insults on the victims by adding more pain to their wounds.

Reporting by Roble Bashir. 

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