Migrant Tales’ 2015 Hall of Poor and Sloppy Journalism will be updated separately. To see other examples of opinionated journalism in Finland about cultural diversity, please go to this link. July 4 Bloggaja väittää: Huhtasaari liittyi rasistiseen Facebook-ryhmään itse (Satakunnan Kansa) What’s wrong with this story? This story by Pori-based daily Satakunnan Kansa is a good example of…
Month: July 2015
Sweden’s former Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt is bewildered by Finland’s immigration policy
Sweden’s former right-wing Moderate Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt expresses bewilderment by Finland’s immigration policy, writes business daily Kauppalehti. “It is remarkable that before theelections in Finland they spoke about the importance of labor immigration but are [now] struggling to close Finland’s doors [to such people].”
PS MP Huhtasaari gets fingers burned after Helsingin Sanomat uncovers her membership in a racist Facebook site
Laura Huhtasaari of the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party finds herself in hot water after Finland’s largest daily Helsingin Sanomat did some investigative journalism about the MP’s connection to an open racist Facebook site that has pictures of black children eating watermelon in a pail that reads another “bucket of shit.”
Finland’s deputy state prosecutor to investigate Sademies’ Facebook post on sterilizing Africans
Perussuomalaiset (PS)* Helsinki substitute councilman Olli Sademies’ post on Facebook at the end of May, where he wrote that Africans should be sterilized after three children, is going to be investigated by the deputy state prosecutor, according to Tampere-based daily Aamulehti, citing Finnish News Agency (STT).
Facebook: Onko rasismi Suomessa marginaalinen ilmiö?
Mohamed Adan tekee hyvän kysymyksen: Onko rasismi marginaalinen ja vähäinen Suomessa? Hän sanoo, että on kokenut melkein koko elämänsä aikana rasismia Suomessa. Tämä Facebookin postaus julkaistiin Migrant Talesissä luvalla.
Danish People’s Party Pia Kjærsgaard: Inte min talman, or not my speaker of parliament [1]
Perussuomalaiset (PS)* Speaker of Parliament Maria Lohela no longer is alone after Denmark’s new center-right government elected the founder of the xenophobic Danish People’s Party (DPP), Pia Kjærsgaard, as the new speaker of parliament, according to the Copenhagen Post. Like her counterpart in Finland, Kjærsgaard has built her political career on Islamophbobic fear-mongering.
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Our dear friend Sademies recently came out with a business idea about creating a spray made of “Pig blood“, to spray on Muslim’s. Now, see…that ran me the wrong way. I’m Indian, and have multicultural friends from across the world. Chinese, Australian, Swiss, Egyptian, Turkish, Syrian, Finnish, Norwegian, Canadian, American and more. A few…
Olli Sademies tweets: “I was taken down from Facebook due to an identity check”
Perussuomalaiset (PS)* substitute councilman for Helsinki, Olli Sademies, tweets that he was taken down from Facebook due to an identity check. If this is true, we should see Sademies back on Facebook with his racist comments about Muslims and Africans soon.