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Scaremongering by the PS of Finland is always at full swing

Posted on February 11, 2016 by Migrant Tales

Finland’s Perussuomalaiset (PS)* defense minister, Jussi Niinistö, believes that up to one million “illegal” immigrants could come to Finland from Russia, according to YLE News. Niinistö, a historian who has played down the role of fascist associations like the Lapua Movement (1929-32), fearmongers to shore up support for his ailing party.

Moreover, it’s interesting to note that Niinistö calls asylum seekers “illegal” immigrants. He doesn’t call them asylum seekers never mind undocumented migrants but “illegal” immigrants.

The use of such labels is nothing strange coming from Niinistö, who said recently that that integrating all Muslims into Finnish society is a difficult challenge.

“In practice the potential is limitless,” he was quoted as saying in YLE News. “From hundreds of thousands to a million people, who are ready to move out of Russia. In that sense the situation is worrying. Not just for Finland but for other European countries.”

Read full story here.

Can we believe Niinistö scaremongering in light of his far-right credentials and populist party’s nosedive in the polls?

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Finland’s xenophobic Denmark slippery slope

Posted on February 11, 2016 by Migrant Tales

Considering that the anti-immigration Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party is in government and that the two other ruling partners, the Center Party and National Coalition Party (NCP), need the support of the PS to downsize the welfare state, it’s clear why Finland is tightening its immigration policy.

What is happening in Finland has been happening in Denmark for a number of years and serves as a clear warning to Sweden. This is what your country will become if ever the Sweden Democrats got into government.

Apart from officially scapegoating migrants and polarizing society, Islamophobia and fear-mongering would be king.

The saddest aspect of the latter is that most of the politicians, the media and society would care less since they incorrectly believe that tighter rules that will foster social Darwinism won’t apply to them.

Considering that the Finnish government is doing everything possible to discourage asylum seekers from coming to Finland, it’s clear that they are doing everything possible on this front publicly and behind the scenes.

One of these disgraceful examples, like in Denmark, is checking the asylum seekers’ assets and then determine now much reception allowance the person will get.

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Facebook: Viimeinen virallinen viikko

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Migrant Tales

Näitä tapahtuu liian usein Suomessa.

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Mä oon tehny keikkaa kaupan kassalla ties kuin monessa paikassa mut tänää oli viimeinen virallinen viikko ja PASKIN päivä ikinä ! Asiakas tulee kassalle ja sanoo et ” en enää ikinä astu tähän kauppaa ” aattelin et ruuhkan takii. Sit se pakkaa ostoksiinsa ja sano toiselle asiakkaalle et ” mä en tänne astu enää ku täällä on jotain neekereitä vastassa ” sit se toinen asiakas oli et ” et sä noin voi sanoo” ja tää nainen alko ihan täysii huutaa täydessä kaupassa ” KYLLÄ MÄ VOIN SANOA SUOMALAISENA IHAN MITÄ MÄ HALUAN , HÄN ON NEEKERI ENKÄ TUU ENÄÄ TÄNNE”

Mua ei oo ikinä nöyryytetty näin pahasti viellä niin monen ihmisen edessä , siinä yritin pitää itteeni kasassa ja 15 minuutin päästä vasta pääsin tauolle ja tääl mä itken silmät päästä! Kiitos sulle arvon suomalainen joka koit että on sun paikkas oli tulla mun kassalle kolmen muun kassan sijaan ja tulla haukkumaan minut maan tasolle ja jatkat elämääsi ilmaan minkäänlaista katumusta kun mä joudun jatkaa töitä viellä pari tuntia pidettäessä itkua ! Hyvää lauantaita teille.

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Facebook: Viha, ennakkoluulot ja tietämättömyys

Posted on February 9, 2016 by Migrant Tales

Rasistinen hyökkäys yhdelle ryhmälle kuten turvapaikkajakijalle on hyökkäys kaikki maahanmuuttajia ja vähemmistöjä Suomessa.

Adam Al-Sawad kirjoittaa: “Nämä ihmiset vastustavat aktiivisesti ja konkreettisesti minun ja kaltaisteni olemassaoloa Suomessa.”

Lukekaa.

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Kuunnellessani James Hirvisaaren puhetta ja muuta Seinäjoen Rajat Kiinni!!! tapahtuman ohjelmistoa murenee maa kotini ja turvani alta hetki hetkeltä.

Viha, ennakkoluulot ja tietämättömyys on salonkikelpoistettu nimittämällä niitä kritisoimiseksi ja kriittisyydeksi, realismiksi ja tasapainoisuudeksi. Ja kun hatusta on vedetty nimikkeet, riippumatta nimetyn todellisesta sisällöstä, voi vastustamisen sivuuttaa sillä, että vasemmisto ei vain hyväksy muita mielipiteitä, ja että kaikki muut eivät kunnioita faktoja. Muutaman yksittäisen faktan ympärille on rakentunut verkko mielikuvitusmaailmoja, jotka keskittyvät nationalistisiin arvohierarkioihoin ja me vastaan ne -asenteeseen.

Nämä ihmiset vastustavat aktiivisesti ja konkreettisesti minun ja kaltaisteni olemassaoloa Suomessa. Meidät on vankasti ja jyrkästi nimitetty ihmissaastaksi, mutavyöryksi, valloittaviksi muhamettilaisiksi jotka pitää poistaa. Tuhannet ihmiset hokevat julkisesti mantrojaan siitä, miten ihan tarpeeksi ählämeitä, islamilaisia ja neekereitä täällä jo on. Sotilaiksi itseään nimittävät kulkevat julkisesti käsi kädessä liikkeen arvojen kanssa, samalla väittäen välittävänsä vain turvallisuudesta. Sotilaat, jotka saarnaavat minun poistamista rakkaasta kotimaastani, eivät tuo minulle turvaa. Suomalainen kristinusko sekä aasalaisten Odin tuhrataan epäkunnioittavasti, ja ulkomaalaistaustaisten ihmisarvo pyritään tallomaan maan rakoon.

Minua ei uhkaa käsitteellinen multikulturalismi, jonka ongelmista täytyy vetää rippeitä sieltä sun täältä. Minua uhkaa se, että kaduilla kulkee tuhansia ihmisiä, joille olen ihmiskunnan syöpää, saastaa joka täytyy poistaa, kulttilainen joka täytyy nujertaa. Tältä juutalaisista on tuntunut aikoinaan. Ja tämän sanon vakavissani ja konkreettisesti, en siksi että se olisi vain hyvä vertaus.

Toivon, että juutalaisten myöhempiä tunteita ei joudu kukaan kokemaan enää koskaan.

?#?JeSuisMutavyöry?

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When racism in Finland becomes “normal”

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Migrant Tales

Migrant Tales insight: As the politicians and media in Finland turn their backs on the ever-increasing racism in this country, there are a few brave people who don’t remain silent. A brave young woman in Lahti preferred not to remain silent at a bar as two black men were being harassed at a bar in a racist manner Saturday.

If we reflect on what happened, one question rises above the rest: What kind of a country are we living in if a total stranger can insult and harass two black men in public in a racist manner? Is it a country that is living deep in denial and where racism has become so widespread that people can react in such a manner because it is the most normal thing?

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“I went to a bar in Lahti on Saturday and just as I was leaving a Finnish who was accompined by two others started insulting two black men. He told them to leave Finland because noboy had asked them to come here.

The argument got more tempered and that’s when I decided to act and went in between them. I asked the Finnish man why he was yelling at the black men.

Lahti advertises on its web site that it is “an ideal place for businesses.”

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The Finnish man then told me ‘go fuck myself!’

He then continued: ‘Have you lived in some cave?! Don’t you read the news?! Don’t you know that these people come here to rape our women and children?!’

The Finnish man said he had a two-month-old baby and said he was worried she might be raped by the men. He also blamed them for paying more taxes so they could get social welfare.

‘I hope that your future child gets raped by them,’ he told me.

Then my friends came to my side and a fight erupted between them and the three Finnish men. Out of nowhere a total stranger came and punched one of my firends in the jaw.

The police came but the person that punched my friend got away.

I cried a lot that night. I couldn’t believe that people were so cruel.”

The anti-immigration narrative of politicians, the police and President Sauli Niinistö is no mistake

Posted on February 6, 2016 by Migrant Tales

From the fall we have heard the police service, politicians, government ministers, the media and recently the head of state of Finland, Sauli Niinistö, give statements that bolster racist and far-right ideology that label and victimize asylum seekers, migrants, and minorities in this country.

Every time these so-called poorly planned statements are made the first ones who feel the brunt of their hostilities are people who may look like asylum seekers. In this group, there are children as well who get a taste of our xenophobia.

President Niinistö is the best recent example of how politicians give space to far right ideology and racism in Finland. Such public figures do so to further their political careers. Hint: Niinistö is courting the anti-immigration vote for the 2018 presidential elections.

Those who have followed Niinistö know that he’s no friend of our ever-growing culturally diverse society never mind asylum seekers.

What he said Wednesday at the opening ceremony of the new parliamentary session shouldn’t surprise us too much. The pattern is clear: feed the public with the usual dose of anti-immigration rhetoric and then retract and act surprised by stating that “it wasn’t what I meant.”

What did Niinistö state?

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Read full story here.

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Apart from pronouncing the term “asylum” incorrectly, he stated:

“At some point, someone has to recognize that, here and now, we cannot fulfill all of our obligations under international agreements,” according to the Helsinki Times.

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Migrant Tales Literary: La vida entera

Posted on February 5, 2016 by Migrant Tales

Ignacio Pérez Pérez

La vida entera

Pa escribir un poema

El mismo poema lloroso

Con pizcas de comedia

Y romanticismo rancio

La cosa son estas nubes grises

El bansuri en tus audífonos

Las caras de piedra alrededor

El mantra de un amigo:

“No temo: yo amo”

Aquí conmigo como amuleto

La lentitud es una virtud

En estos tiempos que corren

Hay una aurora boreal

En el cielo de la boca

Pero nadie se da cuenta

Todos miran atentos sus celulares

Quizás intentan escribir poemas

Como éste fulano de tal

Que surge y desaparece

A cada momento

El infierno en éste mundo

Es vivir con miedo

El fascismo interior se vence

Con una nariz roja

Soy tan feliz en el sauna

Masoquismo suave del primer mundo

Sólo el amor salva

Sí lloraría mis lágrimas serían perlas

Cuántos paisajes perdidos en mis ojos

He llegado adonde siempre he estado

Pongo mi corazón en la mesa

Se puede llegar a ser

Infelizmente feliz

Sólo aspiro poder respirar tranquilo

Escribir palabras que abracen

Con el poder de la atención activa

Me doy cuenta:

No soy más que un bicho raro que camina

Éste frio del diablo es mi monasterio

President Sauli Niinistö claims that asylum seekers threaten Finland and Europe

Posted on February 3, 2016 by Migrant Tales

Speaking to MPs at the opening of parliament’s spring term, President Sauli Niinistö didn’t surprise a lot of people by stating that the amount of asylum seekers coming to Europe are putting under threat our values, reports YLE News. He even went as far as to suggest that if the Geneva Conventions were written today they’d be stricter.

If the government, politicians and President Niinistö have been blamed in the past for giving mixed statements about asylum seekers and immigrants, the latest speech by Finland’s head of state left nobody guessing.

“Migration is a serious problem,” he said. “Europe, Finland, the western way of thinking and our values have all been challenged by it. This is a stark transformation; just a few years ago we were exporting our values and regarded them as unquestionable, now we are having to consider whether even we ourselves can preserve them.”

Read full story here.

President Niinistö not only revealed his anti-immigration views clearer than ever before but the source of Finland’s xenophobia: Migration should be seen as a threat and not as an asset.

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Nobody in Finland seems too concerned about the ever-xenophobic and hostile climate against asylum seekers, migrants and minorities

Posted on February 2, 2016 by Migrant Tales

Prime Minister Juha Sipilä of Finland when he announced in September that he would offer his home to asylum seekers but has now put on hold such plans due to security reasons, reports the BBC. What is surprising is that nobody seems to care too much why it’s no longer safe to house asylum seekers in the prime minister’s home in Kempele.

What this news reveals, and the reaction of the Finnish media to it is that xenophobia and anti-immigration nationalism aren’t considered threats.

Disagree?

Why doesn’t any editorial in Finland ask if the mixed statements by the police and the government concerning vigilante street gangs in Finland weren’t due to poorly planned statements but that there are bigots in the police and government who see immigration and immigrants as a threat.

Read full story here.

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Call the Loldiers of Odin if you see anti-immigrant vigilantes patrolling the street!

Posted on January 31, 2016 by Migrant Tales

Thanks to the mixed statements by the police, Prime Minister Juha Sipilä’s government and President Sauli Niinistö concerning asylum seekers, we have today as well vigilante groups like the Soldiers of Odin and neo-Nazi Kansalinen Vastarinta patrolling our streets. Many of the members of these vigilante groups have criminal and far-right backgrounds.

The hesitancy of the police, the government and the president to condemn what is and what isn’t racist and far-right behavior is at the heart of the problem. Their mixed statements have not only fed xenophobia and far-right groups in this country but are tarnishing our international image.

Aren’t we supposed to be a beacon of hope to those fleeing war and poverty? Aren’t we supposed to have one of the best educational systems in the world? Haven’t we built a successful Nordic welfare society based on social equality? Why are we then acting like a bunch of scared people who have never seen foreigners before?

My experience, and I’m certain that of many others like me, with the police has eroded trust in this public service. One only has to read a few lines of former Perussuomalaiset (PS)* councilman Olli Sademies’ Facebook page or hear MP Tom Packalén’s bigoted views about migrants and minorities understand that there is a deep suspicion of anything that isn’t white and Finnish.

Does the police treat me fairly or is my background a factor? Honestly, I don’t know. The police have done little to ensure me of the contrary.

How many black policemen are there in Finland?

Probably one.

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