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Sweden’s former Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt is bewildered by Finland’s immigration policy

Posted on July 3, 2015 by Migrant Tales

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].”

Bewilderment? I would call it disappointment and caving in to one’s fears and populism.

The answer is simple and it comes in a long and unfriendly name to pronounce for foreigners: P e r u s s u o m a l a i s e t (PS).*

The PS are in government with the Center Party and National Coalition Party. Immigration policy is under PS Labor and Justice Minister Jari Lindstöm.

Read full story here.

Our foreign minister is the head of the PS, Timo Soini, who has some issues with the EU and is the main apologist for the racist behavior of his party.

This racist behavior that he defends as a good cop discourages skilled migrants, foreign investment and jobs from growing in this country.

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PS MP Huhtasaari gets fingers burned after Helsingin Sanomat uncovers her membership in a racist Facebook site

Posted on July 2, 2015 by Migrant Tales

Laura Huhtasaari of the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party found herself in hot water Thursday after Finland’s largest daily Helsingin Sanomat did some investigative journalism about the MP’s membership in a racist Facebook site that has pictures of black children eating watermelon in a pail that read another “bucketful of shit.”

Huhtasaari is well known to Migrant Tales. Yes, right, she’s the Islamophobe blonde with the kindergarten teacher smile who got a hand from MEP Jussi Halla-aho in her campaign.

Halla-aho was sentenced for ethnic agitation and is the leader of the PS’ far right anti-immigration wing.

Read full story here.

Certainly the revelation by Helsingin Sanomat that she belonged to the racist Facebook site “Puskaraikaajien rasistinen tausta,” or “The racist background of rapists [hiding] in bushes,” didn’t make her very happy.

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Finland’s deputy state prosecutor to investigate Sademies’ Facebook post on sterilizing Africans

Posted on July 2, 2015 by Migrant Tales

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).

Using such violent language against any minority by anyone never mind a politician belonging to Finland’s second-largest party is unacceptable. Sadmies’ claim on Facebook is, in our opinion, tantamount to inciting ethnic agitation and violence against black people in this country.

Apart from his political credentials, Sademies is a retired policeman. I wonder what that says about the Finnish police service.

No action was taken by the PS against what Sademies posted about African men.

When confronted last month by YLE’s Swedish language service, Seppo Kanerva, who is head of the Helsinki PS city council group, said that they hadn’t had time to discuss what Sademies wrote on Facebook. “We had so much to talk about that we didn’t have time for such nonsense,” he said.

Kanerva did say, however, that if Sademies continues to write similar posts he could be sacked from the party.

Sadmies’ Facebook page was taken down Tuesday after he posted a “business idea” about an aerosol that would spray pig’s blood on Muslims.

The substitute councilman claims that he was taken down because of an identity check but we know that Migrant Tales’ associate editor Marshall Niles filed a complaint to Facebook about his racist and disgraceful posting.

Read full story here.

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Facebook: Onko rasismi Suomessa marginaalinen ilmiö?

Posted on July 2, 2015 by Migrant Tales

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]

Posted on July 1, 2015 by Migrant Tales

Perussuomalaiset (PS) [2] Speaker of Parliament Maria Lohela no longer is alone in the Nordic region 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.

The new Danish speaker of parliament was named a few years ago by Swedish magazine Gringo as the “racist of the year,”

Read full story here.

Bashy Quraishy, an anti-racism activist in Denmark, writes: “This sad Danish political development [election of Kjærsgaard] is an indication of the things to come and against which progressive activists have been warning for years…In a way it is good because it can activate the ethnic minorities, leftwing forces and humanists in Denmark. It is my hope!”

Just like the PS, which are close political and ideological allies of the DPP, the impact of last month’s Danish elections is being felt by migrants, refugees and minorities.

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Olli Sademies tweets: “I was taken down from Facebook due to an identity check”

Posted on July 1, 2015 by Migrant Tales

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 soon with his racist comments about Muslims and Africans.

A warning: Facebook and Twitter are hostile places for migrants and minorities because a lot of the racism we see in society originates from these two places. Marshall Niles complained to Facebook about Sademies’ recent post about a pig’s blood spray for Muslims.

Were there others who sent similar complaints? We don’t know. But we do know that Sademies has a lot of people who dislike what he posts.

Why would Facebook want to verify Sademies’ identity now if they do that shortly after the person begins using the social networking service?

Writes Marshall Niles, who reported Sademies: “Ironically, for a man who is so blatant and outspoken towards his pig blood sterilization erotica, he seems to be embarrassed to tell his minions that his Facebook was deactivated for violating its community standards, which clearly state “No Racism/ No attacks against a group of people based on caste, color, creed, sex etc”…

We hope that Facebook understands that posts by a politician like Sademies should not be tolerated because they fuel hatred and prejudice. A new James Hirvisaari has resurfaced from the PS and his name is Olli Sademies.

Sademies has been on the warpath against Muslims and Africans. In May he wrote on Facebook that those Africans who have three children should be sterilized. On Monday he resurfaced attacking Muslims by suggesting a “business idea” to create a pig’s blood spray that would be used against Muslims.

Sademies tweets that his Facebook page has been taken down due to an identity check.

Migrant Tales tweets back: What’s the [real] reason why you were taken down from Facebook?

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Marshall Niles’ example shows that racists can be taken down from Facebook

Posted on June 30, 2015 by Migrant Tales

Marshall Niles, who is an associate editor of Migrant Tales, did what any sensible person would do when confronted with a heavy load of racism and Islamophobia: Find a way to challenge it. And that’s what he did. Perussuomalaiset (PS)* Helsinki substitute councilman for the city of Helsinki, Olli Sademies, got taken down from Facebook thanks to Niles’ leadership.

Apart from the shameful silence of the PS and that of other political parties against these type of racist comments, Niles showed leadership by reporting Sademies to Facebook.

What Niles did is exemplary and what we should do when anyone spreads the same type of racism and hate speech.

Well done Marshall! We’re all very proud of you for ridding such a disgraceful politician from Facebook.

I hope many others will follow your example.

Marshall Niles reported Olli Sademies to Facebook for his racist rants.

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Reija Härkönen: Suomen pojat, muistakaa!

Posted on June 30, 2015 by Migrant Tales

Migrant Tales kirjoittaa: Tunnen Reijan kauan ja olemme julkaisut monet hänen hienot kirjoitukset Migrant Talesissa. Pyydän kaikea kannustamaan Reijan uusi blogi, Kaiken maailman kansalaiset, joka tule menestymään.

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Reija Härkönen

Suomen isät ja äidit, koittakaa nyt pitää tarkka huoli murrosikäisistä pojistanne ja heidän kasvustaan miehiksi. Kansanedustajien nettikeskusteluista päätellen toilailut tyttöjen kanssa, tyttöjen joukkohäirintä ja seksuaalinen ahdistelu eivät tästedes kenties johda pelkästään ehdottomaan vankeusrangaistukseen, vaan myös maastakarkoitukseen tai kansantuomioistuimen teloitukseen.

Suomalaisten viha on nostatettu, eikä tyttöjen ja naisten ahdistelusta enää selviä selittelyillä, eivät edes teidän nuoret jullikkanne. Koulunkäynti seis ja vankilaan, heti ensirikkomuksesta.

Meillä Suomessa on naisten seksuaalinen häirintä hyvin tavallista: 71 % naisista on kokenut seksuaalista häirintää täytettyään 15 vuotta ja Suomi on niiden neljän EU-jäsenvaltion joukossa, joissa naiset ovat kokeneet eniten ei-toivottua koskettelua, halailua tai suutelua (42 %).

Aika monelle meistä naisista on vähintään työnnetty käsi haaroväliin työpaikan käytävällä tai sormet syvälle takapuoleen pikkujoulutansseissa.

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Is the Danish People’s Party advising the PS on how to become the biggest party in Finland?

Posted on June 29, 2015 by Migrant Tales

Perussuomalaiset (PS)* Helsinki substitute councilman, Olli Sademies, is creating Islamophobic waves again. Right, he’s the substitute councilman who suggested in the end of May that Africans should be sterilized after having three children. Now he wrote on his Facebook wall a “business idea” to create a pig’s blood spray that would be used against Muslims.

What should we think about Sademies’ latest outburst? Since his comment about sterilizing Africans wasn’t serious enough for the PS to sack him on the spot, it’s doubtful that he’ll get the boot for his latest racist comment.

Sademies appears to be a good old Finnish redneck who probably couldn’t find Djibouti never mind Somalia on the African map. But there’s one thing his dead sure of: His racist comments about Muslims.

Is Sademies the new James Hirvisaari of the PS? While there are many Hirvisaaris in the party, Sademies is getting as much publicity as the former MP who was sacked from the PS after he took a picture and posted it on Facebook of a friend making a Nazi salute in parliament.

One of the best comments on Sademies’ Faceook thread is by a Naima M:

Brigitta, Sademies in an expert in these things. He can apparently tell us if garlic helps to repel vampires as well as to scare off Muslims or if only pig’s blood works. At the same time we could ask him if krypton could be of any help.

But where does he get his ideas from? Is it from parties like the Islamophobic Danish People’s Party (DPP) with which the PS is a close but not too public ideological ally?

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What we should learn from the Tapanila sexual assault case

Posted on June 27, 2015 by Migrant Tales

The Tapanila sexual assault case is a good example of how the Finnish media permitted again its prejudices to get the better of itself. Those who committed the crime had everything against them: They were “Somalis,” or youths with “foreign backgrounds,” who committed “gang rape.” In today’s Finland, where xenophobia is thick in the air, those two words are sure to unlock your darkest prejudices.

Jukka Kemppinen, a professor in information law and forme court of appeals judge, writes a sobering blog entry where he states that the sentences that three of the five suspects got was fair.

He writes: “‘Gang rape’ gives us a picture of sexual intercourse where there many are involved. This didn’t happen in the Tapanila case. Criminal law makes the difference between rape and aggravated rape. These types of cases are explained in the law. I’m of the opinion that what happened wasn’t aggravated rape from what was said about the case and at the district court. Force was used in the act. The victim was fingered under her clothes. That’s all that happened. ”

Another matter that showed how our racism ignited our mass hysteria to fever pitch was the labels that were given by the police and media of the assailants. After the five suspects were in police custody, the police published a statement were they called them youths “with foreign backgrounds.”

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