In writing the Finland chapter for the European Islamophobia Report 2023, I sometimes give a partial preview of the “Central Figures in the Islamophobic Network.” Last year’s pick could well be the same candidates for 2024. An imam I spoke to a few years ago described well the difference of the racism of the Perussuomalaiset…
Month: May 2024
EU election – Perussuomalaiset Mari Rntanen article inciting ethnic hatred in 1930s fascist progaganda
Interior Minister Mari Rantanen and her far-right follower of the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* like to copy and paste. Apart from inciting memories of the 1930s, when fascism and anti-Semitism were the order of the day, the PS continues to spread its Islamophobia and fascism. The analogy that the PS makes in their EU election brochure should…
The Finnish government’s vile 11 months in power
“When a clown moves into a palace he doesn’t become a king, the place becomes a circus.” A Turkish proverb Finland has turned into a show of lying politicians who no longer rely on facts but on prejudice and bigotry. Even if we mention the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party, National Coalition Party’s (NCP) Prime Minister Petteri…
The government’s anti-racism program stops racism on paper
The Finnish government has called for comment on its proposed six-million-euro action program against racism by June 10th. The program’s development began last year when then President Sauli Niinistö was questioned at an international press conference about racist remarks made by ministers in the Petteri Orpo government. Announced in May, the program calls for anti-racist…
Anachoma: A documentary on pushbacks on the Turkish-Greek border
The 480-kilometer-long Evros River, which divides Greece and Turkey in an uneasy truce, is just one of many places where EU policy on pushbacks goes largely unchecked. Finland is now planning the same thing on the Finnish-Russian border. The first screening of the documentary will take place in Vienna on May 31. We plan to…
Pushback law: A day that will live in infamy, a day when the government attempts to legalize illegality
THE STORY WAS UPDATED The Finnish government announced Tuesday a day that will live in infamy when it introduced to parliament Tuesday the Draft Act on Temporary Measures to Combat Instrumentalised Migration, or the so-called pushback law. In a nutshell, researcher Milka Sormunen sums up in a good essay what the law is all about: legalizing…
Here we go again with the great replacement theory and the government’s zero tolerance of racism
With the Perussuomalaiset (PS) sinking in the polls, it’s clear that the Islamophobic party is pulling as many old tricks out of its racist hat. One of these is the great replacement theory, a white supremacist claim that Europe is white and not diverse Tweets Purra: It is not a conspiracy theory to look at…
MP Heikki Vestman and the government replace human rights and the rule of law with bravado and hubris
National Coaaliton Party MP and chairperson of the constitutional committee, Heikki Vestman, has made a name for himself for his xenophobic statements and for flaunting human rights and the rule of law. His parliamentary committee has given the green light to the Draft Act on Temporary Measures to Combat Instrumentalised Migration, or the so-called pushback law…
Finnish government to move ahead with pushback law
Prime Minister Orpo announced today that it will give next week to parliament the Draft Act on Temporary Measures to Combat Instrumentalised Migration, or the so-called pushback law. In our opinion, the new law will not solve the problem at the border but will worsen it. Disagree? Just take a look at other EU borders, and…
Rasismi Laajasalossa 2024
Yleensä aina kun humalainen henkilö on paikalla, tiedän, että se tarkoittaa yleensä ongelmia. Rasmuksen julkaisemassa videossa päihtynyt mies paasaa rasistisesti naista ja hänen lastaan vastaan. Jos tunnistat videolla esiintyvän henkilön, ota yhteyttä poliisiin. Oheinen video saattaa sisältää voimakasta kielenkäyttöä, joka saattaa häiritä joitakin ihmisiä. Katsojien harkintaa suositellaan. Katso video täältä.