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Perussuomaisten presidenttiehdokas Laura Huhtasaari lietsoo vihaa ja väkivaltaa

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Perussuomalaisten presidenttiehdokas Laura Huhtasaari koki ilkivaltaa tammikuussa kun hänen kodinikkuna oli hajotettu. Kun islamofoobinen äärioikestolainen valkoinen nainen kokee ilkivaltaa sitä tehdään iso numero. 

Vähemmän puhutaan väkivallasta jota hän lietso maahanmuuttaja ja vähemmistöjä kohtaan.

Jos ikkuna on helppo rikkoa, mitä rikkoo Huhtasaaren rasistiset lauseita?

Viimeisessä Maaseudun Tulevaisuus lehdessä hän sanoi olevansa valmis antamaan vapakädet vihapuheelle:

“Koko vihapuhelainsäädäntö on Suomessa hyvin tulkinnanvarainen, ja sen voisi kokonaan lakkauttaa,” hän sanoo. “Meillä on kyllä oikeus olla vihaisia, jos täällä raiskataan naisia.”

Lue juttu tästä.

Samaa tekee Timo Soini, joka antoi poliittisen ääneen Huhtasaaren kaltaisella politiikoille:

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Romaneille väitetään olevan porttikielto Mikkelin Pub Kulma Bariin

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Onko Mikkelissä syrjintää? Onko romaneille porttikielto tiettyihin liikkeisiin? En puhu nyt 1990-luvusta tai ajasta, jolloin syrjintää harjoitettiin avoimesti Mikkelissä ja muualla Suomea. 

Nyt puhtaan vuodesta 2017.

Väitetään teini romaanit eivät päässeet Mikkelin Kulmabaariin syyskuussa syyksi heille sanottiin, että ovat romaneita.

Pub Kulma Mikkelissä (Juvantie 9-11) jonne romanit eivät ole tervetulleita. Kuva: Enrique Tessieri

– [Pub Kulman] omistaja sanoi vihaisena, että ‘minä en halua teitä syömään tänne ja mitä sinä luulet muiden asiakkaiden ajattelevan jos päästän teidät sisään?’ Kulmabaarin omistajan väitetään sanoneen  romaaneille, kun he kysyivät miksi nuoret eivät päässeet sisään syömään päivän aikana kun ei ole ikärajoituksia.

Vaikka asia on viety yhdenvertaisuusvaltuutetulle, niin samanlaisen toiminnan kohteeksi joutui toinen romaani joka on aikuinen ja yritti päästä Pub Kulma Bariin joulukuussa mutta häneltä evättiin myös pääsy koska hän on romani.

Jos näin on toimittu se ei anna hyvää kuvaa Mikkelistä ja Suomesta. Kulmabaarin omistaja ei tiedä eikä tunne Suomen lakeja, erityisesti perustuslain pykälä 6§ jossa kerrotan:

“Ketään ei saa ilman hyväksyttävää perustetta asettaa eri asemaan sukupuolen, iän, alkuperän, kielen, uskonnon, vakaumuksen, mielipiteen, terveydentilan, vammaisuuden tai muun henkilöön liittyvän syyn perusteella.”

Näin määrää Suomen perustuslaki.

The police should investigate MV for labeling people “terrorists” and publishing their pictures

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MV-lehti is a racist trash publication that doesn’t care to put people in harm’s way by labeling them as “terrorists” as did happen in Murha.info. Migrant Tales believes that one of the many defamation cases and crimes investigated by the police involving MV should involve an Iraqi asylum seeker called Jihad Baghdadi.

Baghdadi’s picture was published in MV-lehti last spring, and this put the asylum seeker in direct danger with far-right vigilante groups like the Soldiers of Odin. On spotting Baghdadi in the Helsinki neighborhood of Kallio in spring, members of the vigilante group started to chase the asylum seeker.

Bahdhadi luckily escaped capture after he boarded a tram.

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Iraqi asylum seeker detained in Tampere by the police on Friday was released today

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The nineteen-year-old asylum seeker from Iraq, who was detained by the police on Friday awaiting possible deportation was released today at about 1 pm, according to his representative. 

“I called the supreme administrative court this morning at 8 am about my friend’s case and if they could speed up the decision concerning his appeal,” said his representative. “He was released from custody at 1 pm today, and we believe that the supreme administrative court allegedly ruled in favor of his appeal.”

The representative said that even if the asylum seeker is happy about being released, he feels “exhausted” by the ordeal.

The asylum seeker’s cell at the Tampere police station.

The Iraqi asylum seeker, who converted to Christianity, had received three email death threats from Iraq while in detention.

“My friend [who was detained] wants to thank everyone who prayed for him and tried to help him while in police custody,” the representative said.

19-year-old detained asylum seeker in Tampere “is in good spirits” despite situation

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The person who represents the nineteen-year-old asylum seeker from Iraq thanks all the people who wrote words of encouragement to him during the past days. “He is in good spirits thanks to the emails but angry at the same time,” the representative told Migrant Tales by phone. “He doesn’t understand why he’s locked up [since Friday, December 29] since he’s no criminal.”

The young Iraqi asylum seeker’s case still hinges on a decision from the supreme administrative court.

The asylum seeker’s cell at the Tampere police station.

“We hope to get an answer on Tuesday about [supreme administrative] court’s decision,” said the representative. “They [the police]  haven’t said where they’ll transfer him next if to Metsäkä, Joutseno or another immigration detention center [like Lappeenranta]. They said that it all depends on where there’s space.”

The Iraqi asylum seeker, who converted to Christianity, has received three email death threats from Iraq while in detention.

Migrant Tales will continue to update this story. 

If you want to send the asylum seeker words of encouragement or want to wish him well, send your messages through [email protected] (not the asylum seeker’s email).

 

 

QUOTE OF THE DAY: Finnish identity isn’t a monolithic slab held together by power, privilege, prejudice, and bigotry

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The biggest challenge facing our culturally and ethnically (non-white) community this century is the narrow definition of who we are.  As long as our definition excludes others,  all efforts at “integrating” newcomers and ensuring that they become members of society will fail. The aims of our schools to teach children of foreign parents to become active citizens will fail, too.

Our non-white community will help Finland one day to understand that we’re not monolithic slabs of identity held together by our power, privilege, prejudice, and bigotry. Our Finnish identity, which lives inside all of us, can manifest itself in many ways that deviate from the narrow definition. 

 

 

Another Christian asylum seeker faces deportation from Finland

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Migrant Tales received a phone call today about a young nineteen-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker who was apprehended by the police in Tampere and locked up in a cell awaiting possible deportation. The police offered him two options: Either return to Iraq “voluntarily” or by force. He refused to sign either document.

The Iraqi asylum seeker, who has only two rejections for asylum, is still waiting for a decision by the supreme administrative court.

                                   Another familiar view from a police cell, another sad case of an asylum seeker possibly facing deportation in Finland.

“This is what we are all wondering about,” said a friend, who has a power of attorney to represent the asylum seeker. “How can they deport him if the supreme [administrative] court hasn’t passed sentence on his second rejection?”

Like so many asylum seekers that are facing deportation to “safe” Iraq, he too has experienced near-constant uncertainty for about two years, when he came to Finland as a minor.

“He is a good person who cares for others and he does a lot of voluntary work for the church,” said his friend. “He has converted to Christianity and is really scared about what will happen to him if he’s sent forcibly back to Iraq. He wants to stay in Finland and be a part of this society.”

Migrant Tales will follow this story and we hope that his fate will be similar to another young Iraqi asylum seeker who was detained for 32 days in Lappeenranta but was freed on November 23.

If you want to send the asylum seeker words of encouragement or want to wish him well, send your messages through [email protected] (not the asylum seeker’s email).

The city of Kaajani, Finland, should do more to make migrants feel safe and welcome

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Kaajani is a city of 37,304 people located 560 kilometers north of Helsinki. An African resident whom Migrant Tales spoke to said that she doesn’t feel safe walking alone at certain times of the day in Kajaani. 

“Kajaani is not only a boring city, but it’s not friendly to foreigners,” she said. “Nobody has attacked me, but it’s the looks I get that make me feel unwelcome. When I get a chance, I’d like to move to Vantaa, Espoo or Helsinki because there are more foreigners there.”

You don’t too much about Kajaani. IN 2013, Migrant Tales reported an attack against a black man by a foreigner.

“The mean looks usually come from older people but young people, women, and men, make me feel uncomfortable when they stare or look at you,” she continued. “It’s hard to describe the looks they give. They aren’t friendly.”

The African resident said that all of the migrants she spoke to mention the same thing that Kajaani isn’t a friendly place for foreigners.

Taking into account the #metoo campaign that has empowered women to call out men who sexually harass them, it is surprising that there isn’t a similar campaign against racist harassment.

Politicians and city officials in Kaajani should do much more to help migrants and minorities feel safe in the city.

 

Exposing white Finnish privilege #46: Teuvo Hakkarainen = white racism and sexism

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 Disgraced Perussuomalaiset (PS)* MP Teuvo Hakkarainen, an Islamophobic politician convicted of ethnic agitation, got off with a light slap on the hand from the PS for forcing a fellow MP to kiss him while drunk. But that’s not all. We now know that Hakkarainen grabbed another woman MP by the hair a year ago while drunk. 

The hair-pulling incident with Christian Democrat MP Päivi Räsänen was kept under wraps and apparently only known to a few like the speaker of parliament Maria Lohela and Sampo Terho, the former PS parliamentary group leader.

Another former Social Democrat MP, Mikael Junger, told the media this week that Hakkarainen had tried to kiss him without his consent at a party.

How is it possible that a white MP can get away with such aggressive behavior that includes drunkenness and sexual harassment in parliament?

Imagine in London if an MP would have acted like Hakkarainen at the House of Commons? Imagine if a Muslim had done what Hakkarainen did in public?Imagine what kind of a lynching we’d see on social media and in print media?

 

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White Finnish privilege #46

What happened Thursday and the action that the PS took to reprimand Hakkarainen speak volumes about who has privilege in this country.

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Finland’s Perussuomalaiset party and its disdain for #metoo and our institutions

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Racism and Islamophobia are nothing more than pigheaded ignorance. 

What do you do if an Islamophobic MP called Teuvo Hakkarainen gets so drunk in parliament that he picks a fight with other MPs from the rival Blue Reform party by throwing bottles at their meeting? What about if that same MP, convicted for hate speech, grabs a fellow woman MP and forces her to kiss him? 

All of this happened on Thursday.

What about if an aid for the PS got so drunk the same day at a Christmas party in parliament that he was carried out and taken to a hospital in an ambulance?

 

Teuvo Hakkarainen on his first day in parliament in 2011.

What about if the leader of the PS, Jussi Halla-aho, believes that exposing this type of inappropriate behavior is synonymous with “undermining trust” between politicians and the media?

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