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Timo Soini’s fast one: “Only one or two [racist] outbursts”

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Migrant Tales

Perussuomalaiset (PS) chairman, Timo Soini, claimed on BBC’s HARDtalk that his party doesn’t have a strand of racism because there were only “one or two [racist] outbursts” in the past. Only one or two?! Try a long and disgraceful list of racist outbursts, criminal convictions and shameful denials Mr. Soini.

The HARDtalk interview with Stephen Sackur doesn’t leave us without doubt: Soini and the PS are a breeding ground for intolerance and racism.

The PS chairman has made similar denials in the past: In December 2011 he said there are only “one, two or three” racists in the party. In April 2011, he claimed to journalists with a poker face there were no racists in the PS.

How can Soini claim the above and get away with it in Finland? For how long can he continue to play the good-cop role of the PS?

The rise of the PS doesn’t say anything pretty about ourselves as a society. Some factors that helped the PS to become one of Finland’s largest parties were the complacency of other political parties and of ours as well to the anti-EU, anti-immigration and anti-Islam party as a social phenomenon.

Another reason why Soini can get away with his ludicrous claims and denials is because most of us don’t want to believe them. How can a small and noble country that defended itself against the former Soviet Union in the Winter War, house so much prejudice, racism and hatred to become a political force?

Here’s a sobering fact: If we don’t challenge the cancer of intolerance presently taking root in Finland, it will end up consuming us. Remaining silent about this social ill is giving it the green light to continue spreading in our society.

The HARDtalk interview reinforced what Migrant Tales has been saying all along: Intolerance in general, our approval of prejudice and of the PS in particular, are poisoning Finland.

Don’t expect Soini and the PS to change. They won’t rid the party of their racists and populist-radical nationalists because it would be synonymous to committing political hara-kiri.

Soini’s answers on HARDtalk told us that.

BBC’s HARDtalk grills Timo Soini on racism

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Migrant Tales

Finally Perussuomalaiset (PS) chairman, Timo Soini, has met his match Wednesday on the BBC’s HARDtalk. The Finnish media should take notes on how BBC journalist Stephen Sackur doesn’t let Soini off the hook when it comes to racism. In a short part of the interview, Saucker reveals Soini and the PS for what they are: a sham and a party that treats racism with kid gloves.

The last time that Soini got thrown a good question was not by Finnish journalists but by high school students in Järvenpää during the presidential election.

Here is the link.

My favorite question by Sackur to Soini: “Is there a strand of racism inside your party?”

Soini: “No. I’m a Catholic Christian by definition, I cannot be a racist.”

Sackur: “I’m not sure that would convince everyone listening to this interview. Is there a strand of racism inside your party?”

Soini: “No I don’t hate anybody, nobody is hated by the Finns Party…Of course there are one or two outbursts but we have 19% out of people voting for us…If there are some individuals or even some MPs you cannot personally be in charge.”

Sackur: “You’re a leader. That’s your job. ”

Soini: “That is my job I’m not a kindergarten [teacher]…”

Sackur: “You have 39 MPs and you are saying it’s simply impossible to ensure that none come up with a racist statement?”

And a little later on Saucker brings up PS MP Teuvo Hakkarainen and his use of the n-word in Finland which is “completely unacceptable and racist.”

Soini: “I said [to Hakkarainen] don’t use that kind of [racist] language.”

Sackur: “Why didn’t you fire him?”

Soini: “Why should I?”

Saucker: “Because if people use that sort of completely derogatory word towards people of a different race it suggests that they are racist.”

Soini: “Yes, but he hasn’t said he’s a racist and I don’t believe he is a racist.”

Sackur: “So if you use that kind of language, inflammatory language, then deny you’re a racist, that’s ok.”

Soini: “That’s not ok . You should be improving in your behavior.”

BBC’s HARDtalk: Soini defends decision to not sack Halla-aho

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Migrant Tales

Perussuomalaiset (PS) chairman, Timo Soini, said on BBC’s HARDTalk that the five-year ordeal that lead to a Supreme Court ruling against PS MP Jussi Halla-aho for inciting ethnic hatred was enough punishment, according to YLE. Soini had promised previously to sack any member of the party if they were sentenced by a court for hate speech.

“He’s been in purgatory for five years,” Soini said of Halla-aho. “In my opinion it’s hard-enough punishment.”

Certainly Soini doesn’t want to get rid of Halla-aho because that would be costly for the party. Since the PS MP was voted to parliament thanks to hate speech, he can now move to phase two: put into action his plans, which include spreading suspicion and making life as difficult as possible for immigrants in Finland.

The BBC asked if Soini believed he had passed the peak of his popularity.

”Everything is possible,” he said. “I’ve been in parliament for ten years. In that respect, I’m a pretty tough guy because I do what I believe in.”

According to YLE, Soini was asked about the Slovak National Party, which belongs, like the PS, to the xenophobic and right-wing populist Europe of Freedom & Democracy group in the European Parliament. It’s leader, Jan Slota, stated that “The Hungarians are a cancer in the body of the Slovak nation” and that the only homosexual he’d accept is one in the closet.

In Soini’s usual style, he didn’t answer the question. He said that when the party won the election in 2011, the Swedish media had called the PS leader “the plague.”

“How does that stand for Swedish values?” he said.

The HARDTalk show can only be viewed in the U.K.

On the BBC website, it introduces Soini in the following manner: writes: “Europe’s prolonged economic crisis has prompted a populist backlash against the powers that be. In Finland, the EU’s prosperous northern outpost, the big beneficiary has been Timo Soini, leader of the Eurosceptic, nationalist party long known as the True Finns. He wants to see the Eurozone dismantled, immigration curbed, traditional values restored. Critics have labelled the party xenophobic – is this the angry politics of European disintegration?”

Here’s another interview that Soini gave to CNBC on Finland’s membership in the European Union.

If you’re anti-gay you’re probably anti-immigration (or don’t understand what is at stake)

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Migrant Tales

It is surprising that a country like Finland, which claims to be a Nordic democracy, we see so much opposition to gays not only from anti-immigration parties like the Perussuomalaiset (PS), but from other ones as well like the National Coalition Party.

PS MP Mika Niikko, a fierce opponent of gay rights, echoed on Helsingin Sanomat what other PS politicians think about homosexuality.

”I made a question that if homosexuality was as normal as people want us to understand, why must this fact be hidden from the employer…” he said.

For some reason, Niikko believes that employers should know their worker’s sexual preference.

It’s nothing surprising that an anti-immigration party like the PS houses anti-gay sentiment as we have seen from MP James Hirvisaari and MP Pentti Oinonen, who refused to go to the annual December 6 independence day reception because there were gay couples.

Even if Christian Democrat (KD) Interior Minister P’ivi Räsänen may appear to voice the greatest objection in government to gays rights and marriage by claiming on a TV show that homosexuality to be a sin, she’s not alone.

One of the conditions for the KD to be in government was that gay marriage would not be brought up or promoted.

MP Anne Holmlund of the National Coalition Party and former interior minister appears to be against gay rights as well. She has reportedly sabotaged a petition as chairman of the legal committee to debate and legalize gay marriage.

It’s important to note that these types of MPs and their parties that oppose gay marriage are a reflection of the general intolerance that is raising its head and gripping Finland. Approving gay marriage would not only benefit such couples but have a positive effect on all minorities.

Advancing tolerance is good for ALL minorities. Promoting or maintaining intolerance is a bad matter for minorities.

MPs that opposes gay marriage are most likely to oppose the rights of immigrants and are most likely against cultural diversity.

Former undocumented immigrant Edgar Ortega: A true survivor

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Migrant Tales

I read a fascinating story on YLE in English about a former undocumented immigrant in Finland, Edgar Ortega of Mexico. He’s a true survivor. Ortega would clean construction sites, distribute pizza adverts and engage in other work before he got a residence permit.

Ortega made 4-5 euros an hour as an undocumented immigrant, according to him.

“Yes, it was difficult,” he was quoted as saying on YLE in English. “When I got married and went for interviews with the police, I was asked many, many questions over several days. It was a little bit like a psychological test.”

He works today for Veolia bus company in Espoo.

If many matters are distorted in the ongoing debate on immigration, immigrants and our ever-growing cultural diversity, there are some politicians and journalists who blame these newcomers for taking jobs and lowering salaries.

It should be remembered, however, that immigrants want to get paid the same wages and have the same rights as other workers. They may work for lower prices like Ortega, but this is due to the employer who is exploiting them.

Unions in this country should take steps to educate and protect immigrant workers in Finland so they won’t be exploited by greedy companies.

It’s a positive matter that YLE uses on the story the term undocumented as opposed to illegal immigrant.

There’s been a big debate in the United States about which term is correct.

On a New York Times article on the growing Hispanic population of California, Scott Baugh, Republican chairman of Orange County, doesn’t use the term illegal immigrant.

“To constantly refer to undocumented immigrants as illegals is very hostile and self-righteous,” he said. “Let’s point out that while crossing the border without documents is illegal, a federal misdemeanor, being in this country as an immigrant isn’t a criminal act.”

The Republican Party has paid a high price with voters in California because it has been identified with anti-immigration legislation. Orange County is the most conservative county in California.

The first undocumented immigrant I ever met in Finland was in the 1980s. He was working for one of Helsinki’s first Mexican restaurants, Mexicana. The cook from Mexico complained about the low pay, long hours and that he had to sleep in the kitchen.

According to the police, there are between 2,000 and 4,000 undocumented immigrants residing in Finland.

Our Finnish modern-day eugenicists are no different from the past

Posted on February 17, 2013 by Migrant Tales

Who are those modern-day eugenicists breathing life back into this disgraced pseudo-science whose aim was to create a master white race by wiping out other ones? If we look at Europe and the Nordic region today, we can find many politicians with the same nineteenth-century agenda but in a different context.

Some may rightfully argue that eugenics is long dead. True, but what hasn’t died is racism that manifests itself in new forms.

In Finland, you will find them in groups like Suomen Sisu, Suomalaisuuden liitto, neo-Nazi Suomen Kansalinen Vastarinta, in parliament and city councils as well as in all walks of life in Finland.

Suomalaisuuden liitto, or the Association of Finnish Culture and Identity, is one of many eugenicist-spirited associations in Finland that want to keep Finland white.

They are present as well in anti-immigration right-wing populist parties like the Danish People’s Party, Sweden Democrats and Progress Party of Norway. While these types of modern-day eugenicists can be found throughout Europe in parties like Golden Dawn of Greece, Hungary’s Jobbik and the National Front of France, their message is the same: We must keep our country white.

What these anti-immigration and xenophobic groups haven’t told us yet is how they plan to keep their countries’ white. Is it only a matter of time when they’ll begin drafting legislation to deport Muslims and other visible minorities to where they came from? Think of the consequences to our democracy and way of life if we permit this type of hatred to get the better of us.

When I moved to Finland permanently in December 1978, the first matter that surprised me was prejudice. It seemed that the only contact some Finns had with blacks was through Archie Bunker’s TV series. Finns were not only prejudiced to outsiders but placed labels on themselves as well.

If Finns housed such views of themselves, one can only imagine how they saw non-Finns like blacks and Southern Europeans.

The same idea, that we are being invaded by criminals, was evident in Finland’s immigration policy. Finland got its first Aliens Act in 1983, about 66 years after independence. Immigrants had no rights before the Act and could be held indefinitely and deported by the police without a fair trial.

The answer to how some Finns saw foreigners can be found in popular culture and in Irwin Mutakuono ja lakupelle (Mudfaces and n-clowns). The lyrics were written by Veikko Salmi.

Another racist hit by Irwin Goodman was Marcello Macaroni. The song was sung as well by Esa Pakarinen, a Finnish movie star.

If you check out former song on YouTube, it has over 1.2 million hits.

Continue reading “Our Finnish modern-day eugenicists are no different from the past”

Creating political Frankensteins with the help of social media and prejudice

Posted on February 16, 2013 by Migrant Tales

In Saami mythology there’s a large-but-not-too-bright monster called Staalo, which was made from a log, lichen and a few incantations. If we look at the recent rise of intolerance in Finland and Europe, social media has breathed life back to many Staalo-like political Frankensteins.

Staalo is a monster found in Saami mythology. Source: Tajukangas.

In the case of Finland, you need a political party with some credibility among voters, like the Perussuomalaiset (PS), to ensure success that your Frankenstein will work.

One political Frankenstein creation of social media is PS MP James Hirvisaari, who is so hard up for publicity these days that he seeks publicity in the tabloids by raising issues like fecal skid marks found on the toilet bowls of parliament.

Another social media creation is PS MP Juho Eerola, who admits liking fascism and claimed the recent Jyväskylä attack by neo-Nazis as a publicity stunt by the Left Alliance.

Letting off the hook other parties in Finland by blaming only the PS would be too simple. You can find these types of political Frankensteins in all of the parties. None probably have so many as the PS.

Dutch football master Edgar Davids wrote about racism in a recent column. He compared such people to sheep without backbone.

Racism exists because still too many people don’t take it seriously. Such people rarely see matters from the victims’ point of view but from their white comfort zones.

Writes Davids: ”How can you know what racism is like if you have never experienced it? It’s very difficult to imagine.”

When more people start raising their voices by saying no to this social illness, matters will begin to change.

Dan Koivulaakso, one of the three authors Äärioikesto Suomessa’s (Far right in Finland), asks on a Kymen Sanomat column why Eerola reacted the way he did concerning Jyväskyä.

The answer is simple: Intolerance and society’s indifference to the far right and racism help keep alive these political Frankensteins.

FIS: Somali family reunifications plummeted to just over 500 in 2012

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Migrant Tales

The number of Somali family reunification applications in 2012 plummeted to just over 500 application compared with 1,900 in the previous year and 3,900 in 2010, reports Helsingin Sanomat, citing the Finnish Immigration Service (FIS).

There were a total of 8,600 applications in 2012. The highest number were from were from citizens of the Russian Federation, followed by Thai and Somalis, according to Helsingin Sanomat.

The sharp drop in applications by Somalis is due to tightened laws. Application fees have soared as well.

A Somali resident in Finland, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told Migrant Tales that matters started to get especially difficult from 2012.

“In 2011 there were still some who could bring their families,” the Somali said, “but in 2012 almost every application was turned down by the authorities.”

FIS reported earlier that at the end of 2011 there were a total of 6,100 family reunification application by Somalis. According to the Refugee Advice Center, only 329 family reunifications took place on average annually between 1999 and 2010.

Apart from the suffering of living separated from your loved ones indefinitely, what’s supposed to happen if separation is the price you must pay if you want to stay in Finland?

It’s natural that immigrant and refugees want to bring their families to their new homeland.

Finns that moved to the United States in the nineteenth century did the same. First came the relatives and later on the neighbors and friends.

Husein Muhammed: Ääriapajilla

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Migrant Tales

Husein Muhammed

“Vaadimme kaikkien etnisten suomalaisten asuinalueiden liittämistä Suomeen. […] Ainoastaan etninen suomalainen voi olla Suomen kansalainen. […] Ulkomaalaisten maahanmuutto Suomeen on estettävä.”

Näin julistaa itseään Suomen Kansallissosialistiseksi Puolueeksi nimittävä joukko, joka tähtää vuoden 2015 eduskuntavaaleihin. Puolue on omien nettisivujensa mukaan perustettu joulukuussa ja se pitää päämajaansa Kotkassa. Tavoitteena on saada eduskuntaan “kansallissosialistisesti ajattelevia ihmisiä”.

Juutalaisten holokaustia puolue nimittää “kuudeksi miljoonaksi valheeksi”. “Puolueen esikuvana toimii Adolf Hitler ja hänen NSDAP-puolueensa.” Joskin puolue pyrkii realismiin: “Maailma on kuitenkin muuttunut paljon 1900-luvun alusta, joten kaikkia Adolf Hitlerin oppeja ei voida soveltaa kirjaimellisesti.”

Huomatkaa sanat “ei voida” ja “kirjaimellisesti”. Jotain sinne päin siis kuitenkin tavoitellaan.

Sisäministeriön tammikuussa julkistamassa tilannekatsauksessa arvioidaan väkivaltaisen ekstremismin riskin olevan Suomessa vähäinen. Katsauksessa tarkastellaan niin äärioikeiston, äärivasemmiston kuin väkivaltaisen ääri-islamin uhkaa. Vaikka riskejä pidetään vähäisinä, kaikkien edellä olevien ryhmien kohdalla mainitaan tällä hetkellä jo olevan uhkaavia piirteitä.

Tilanne voi muuttua yllättäen. Esimerkiksi Kreikassa äärioikeistolainen Kultainen aamunkoitto -puolue on lyäärihyessä ajassa muuttunut suureksi uhaksi samalla kun myös kreikkalainen vasemmisto on radikalisoitunut. Kultaisen aamunkoiton jäsenet syyllistyvät järjestelmälliseen väkivaltaan maahanmuuttajia kohtaan. Tuhannet maassa pitkään asuneet maahanmuuttajat ovat joutuneet pakenemaan väkivaltaa. Osa on tullut myös Suomeen. Olen henkilökohtaisesti kuullut heidän erittäin seikkaperäisiä ja uskottavia kertomuksiaan väkivallan uhriksi joutumisesta.

Myös Itä-Euroopassa ja Venäjällä on runsaasti avoimen väkivaltaisia äärioikeistolaisia liikkeitä. Lännessä alalla ovat kunnostautuneet muun muassa eri maiden Defence League -ryhmät. Itä- ja Länsi-Euroopan äärioikeiston välinen hienoinen ero on lähinnä siinä, että itäeurooppalaiset ryhmät kohdistavat vihansa ensisijaisesti juutalaisiin ja romaneihin, länsieurooppalaiset muslimeihin.

Varsin monipuolisen kuvan äärioikeistolaisista liikkeistä antaa esimerkiksi Lisa Bjurwaldin kirja “Europas skam – rasister på frammarsch”. Se ei tosin juurikaan puhu Suomesta, sillä se on kirjoitettu silloin, kun Suomessa maahanmuuttajavastaiset liikkeet olivat vasta heräämässä. Näistä antaa hyvän kuvan Li Anderssonin, Mikael Brunilan & Dan Koivulaakson tuore kirja “Äärioikeisto Suomessa”.

Jera ja Jyri Hännisen “Tuhansien aatteiden maa – ääriajattelua nyky-Suomessa” on monipuolisempi ja tasapuolisempi kirja, joka tarkastelee kaikkia suomalaisia ääriliikkeitä ja niiden ajatusmaailmaa. Kirja on erityisen mielenkiintoinen siksi, että siinä huomaa, kuinka toistensa ääripäinä pidettyjen liikkeiden tavoitteet johtavat lopulta pikemminkin samaan lopputulokseen: yhteiskuntarauhan järkyttämiseen. Sisäministeriön tilannekatsauksessa on käytetty varsin paljon tilaa väkivaltaisen ääri-islamin tarkasteluun. Siinä puhutaan myös joistakin radikaaleista Suomessa, vaikka tiettävästi Suomessa ei ole ollut yhtään islamin nimissä tehtyä väkivaltatekoa. Katsauksessa mennään myös pahasti metsään nostamalla huolenaiheeksi musliminuoret, jotka eivät “täysin samaistu suomalaiseen kulttuuriin, mutta eivät toisaalta tunne vanhempiensa kulttuuria omakseen”.

En tiedä kuinka moni suomalainen nuori “täysin samaistuu suomalaiseen kulttuuriin”, mutta olisi todella erikoista edellyttää maahanmuuttajataustaisten nuorten “täyttä samaistumista” suomalaiseen kulttuuriin sen enempää kuin vanhempiensa lähtömaidenkaan kulttuuriinkaan. He ovat suomalaisia, maahanmuuttajia, mahdollisesti muslimeja – ja vaikka mitä. Radikalisoitumista voi välttää tai siihen voi sortua riippumatta täydestä samaistumisesta tiettyyn kulttuuriin.

Alussa mainitulla natsipuolueella tulee tuskin olemaan edellytyksiä eduskuntavaaleissa. Ei siksi, etteikö monia miellyttäisi sen ajatusmaailman, vaan siksi, että ääriapajilla kalastelee jo niin moni perinteinenkin puolue. Enkä tarkoita vain Perussuomalaisia.

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Migrant Tales Literary: V-Day – one billion rising!

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Mark

Today marks V-Day, one billion rising, referring to the number of women on the planet who have either been raped or beaten during their lives.

Eve Ensler, of The Vagina Monologues fame, has penned a passionate piece calling for women to rise up in protest and men to support them on Valentines Day 2013, in support of the these one billion women.

I bring this to Migrant Tales today also as a response to those men on the Far Right in Finland who attempt to hijack rape as an issue to further their own agenda of hate against immigrants – shame on you! Rape is not an issue to do with immigrants – it is an issue that all men must take responsibility for! If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem!

OVER IT

By Eve Ensler

I am over rape.

I am over rape culture, rape mentality, rape pages on Facebook.

I am over the thousands of people who signed those pages with their
real names without shame.

I am over people demanding their right to rape pages, and calling it
freedom of speech or justifying it as a joke.

I am over people not understanding that rape is not a joke and I am
over being told I don’t have a sense of humor, and women don’t have a
sense of humor, when most women I know (and I know a lot) are really
fucking funny. We just don’t think that uninvited penises up our anus,
or our vagina is a laugh riot.

I am over how long it seems to take anyone to ever respond to rape.

I am over Facebook taking weeks to take down rape pages.

I am over the hundreds of thousands of women in Congo still waiting
for the rapes to end and the rapists to be held accountable.

I am over the thousands of women in Bosnia, Burma, Pakistan, South
Africa, Guatemala, Sierra Leone, Haiti, Afghanistan, Libya, you name a
place, still waiting for justice.

I am over rape happening in broad daylight.

I am over the 207 clinics in Ecuador supported by the government that
are capturing, raping, and torturing lesbians to make them straight.

I am over one in three women in the U.S military (Happy Veterans Day!)
getting raped by their so-called “comrades.”

I am over the forces that deny women who have been raped the right to
have an abortion.

I am over the fact that after four women came forward with allegations
that Herman Cain groped them and grabbed them and humiliated them, he
is still running for the President of the United States.

And I’m over CNBC debate host Maria Bartiromo getting booed when she
asked him about it. She was booed, not Herman Cain.

Which reminds me, I am so over the students at Penn State who
protested the justice system instead of the rapist pedophile of at
least 8 boys, or his boss Joe Paterno, who did nothing to protect
those children after knowing what was happening to them.

I am over rape victims becoming re-raped when they go public.

I am over starving Somali women being raped at the Dadaab in Kenya,
and I am over women getting raped at Occupy Wall Street and being
quiet about it because they were protecting a movement which is
fighting to end the pillaging and raping of the economy and the earth,
as if the rape of their bodies was something separate.

I am over women still being silent about rape, because they are made
to believe it’s their fault or they did something to make it happen.

I am over violence against women not being a #1 international priority
when one out of three women will be raped or beaten in her lifetime –
the destruction and muting and undermining of women is the destruction
of life itself.

No women, no future, duh.

I am over this rape culture where the privileged with political and
physical and economic might, take what and who they want, when they
want it, as much as they want, any time they want it.

I am over the endless resurrection of the careers of rapists and
sexual exploiters – film directors, world leaders, corporate
executives, movie stars, athletes – while the lives of the women they
violated are permanently destroyed, often forcing them to live in
social and emotional exile.

I am over the passivity of good men. Where the hell are you?

You live with us, make love with us, father us, befriend us, brother
us, get nurtured and mothered and eternally supported by us, so why
aren’t you standing with us? Why aren’t you driven to the point of
madness and action by the rape and humiliation of us?

I am over years and years of being over rape.

And thinking about rape every day of my life since I was 5 years old.

And getting sick from rape, and depressed from rape, and enraged by rape.

And reading my insanely crowded inbox of rape horror stories every
hour of every single day.

I am over being polite about rape. It’s been too long now, we have
been too understanding.

We need to OCCUPYRAPE in every school, park, radio, TV station,
household, office, factory, refugee camp, military base, back room,
night club, alleyway, courtroom, UN office. We need people to truly
try and imagine – once and for all – what it feels like to have your
body invaded, your mind splintered, your soul shattered. We need you
to let our rage and our compassion connect us together so we can
change the paradigm of global rape.

There are approximately one billion women on the planet who have been
violated.

ONE BILLION WOMEN.

The time is now. Prepare for the escalation.

Today it begins, moving toward 14 February 2013, when one billion
women will rise to end rape.

Because we are over it.