Nour Jamal is one of the thousands of Iraqi asylum seekers who came to Finland in 2015. He came to Finland with his parents and sister in the hope of finding a better life free from war and where human rights are respected.
Month: June 2017
Timo Soini (2013): “No. I’m a Catholic Christian by definition, I cannot be a racist”
Check this interview dating back to 2013 in BBC’s HARDtalk when outgoing Perussuomalaiset (PS)* chairman denies the party’s racism problem and defends MEP Jussi Hall-aho, who is going to purge him as foreign minister if elected as PS chairman this weekend.
The “Trump effect” is now felt by UK Prime Minister Theresa May
After the shock result of the Brexit referendum became known in June last year, the populist-nationalistic forces thought that their time had come. The US presidential election result of November seemed to confirm such a trend.
Finland’s immigration policy is inhumane, ineffective, it shows our hostility towards asylum seekers from countries like Iraq
It will be soon two years when large numbers of asylum seekers mainly from Iraq and Afghanistan came to Finland in hopes of moving to a country that would not only give them security but offer them human rights and social equality. One asylum seeker explained his ordeal in Finland as an eternal nightmare because he couldn’t wake up.
Kun säilön ovi kalahtaa, niin sielu taivaaseen vilahtaa?
Ystäväni mietiskeli tapaamista nuoren, herkän ihmisen kanssa, jota oltiin pakottamassa palaamaan turvattomaan ja pelottavaan entiseen kotimaahansa. Hänen äitinsä oli saanut oleskeluluvan. Mitä voi sanoa lohduttaakseen tätä ihmistä? Entä hänen äitiänsä, joka joutuu lähettämään lapsensa kuolemanvaaraan ja jää itse turvaan? Kuinka lohduttaa viikko- ja kuukausikaupalla syyttöminä vankilassa istuvia, pakkopalautusta odottavia nuoria? Näin hänen kaverinsa vastailivat: ”Vaikea…
Interior Minister Paula Risikko and National Police Commissioner Seppo Kolehminen are the great pretenders about racism
The recent scandal that came to light of a secret Facebook group comprising of about 2,800 police officials reveals everything about what racism is in Finland. A big chunk of that racism is denial and playing down the social ill.
The Finnish police service’s deep denial of racism among its ranks is no surprise
The publishing of the racist comments in a secret Facebook group for the Finnish police by online news site Long Play shouldn’t surprise us, even if Interior Minister Paula Risikko and National Police Commissioner Seppo Kolehminen suggest the contrary.
A tragic weekend that encourages us to challenge social ills like racism, bigotry and inequality in Finland, Europe and globally
Over the weekend a lot of things happened: The European Network Against Racism (ENAR) hosted a seminar in Helsinki on anti-migration racism Saturday that was overshadowed by a closed Finnish police Facebook page with racist comments, a comprehensive story on ethnic profiling in Finland, and another terrorist attack in London that left seven killed and 48 injured.
Even if politics makes strange bedfellows, Timo Soini’s bed partners are eerie
Remember the speech below when Timo Soini and the Perussuomalaisiet were riding the crest of a wave after his populist anti-immigration won the parliamentary elections of 2011, when it saw its MPs rise to 39 from 5 in the previous election?
Thank US President Donald Trump for being the best far-right, populist and conservative political repellent in Europe
US President Donald Trump has been an eerie blessing to the world. Thanks to his erratic and unstable leadership style, everything that Trump touches he breaks. He has proven to be the best political repellent against far right, populist-conservative forces breathing down Europe’s neck.