Migrant Tales is the oldest antiracist blog in Finland founded in 2007. We have a wealth of material collected during those years that should not be forgotten. Welcome to Migrant Tales oldies.
This is an awkward and offensive ad by Wille Rydman who doctored his face brown to look like a migrant, claiming he is helping migrants (Sic!). The person standing behind Rydman is Mukhtar Abib (see message below).
My Messenger message fo Mukhtar Abib: “Hi Mukhtar, I’m Enrique Tessieri from Migrant Tales (www.migranttales.net). What a turn of events in the Wille Rydman case. It would be great to hear your views, considering that you supported him in the 2011 elections. Best regards, Enrique Tessieri, 040 8400773.” He never replied.
Wille Rydman claims that he dares to speak his mind and to make what he says a reality. Let’s see below some of his scandalous quotes.
Racist quotes by Rydman uncovered by Helsingin Sanomat:
In those messages, Rydman called asylum seekers who came in 2015 “desert monkeys” and used other racist words for blacks, Muslims, and Jews. He wrote that a certain flower, the lilly of the valley, spreads and multiplies like Somalis. Rydman said he’d be ready to forbid the person wearing the hijab instead of the veil.
Rydman ran into problems a year earlier in 2022 when Helsingin Sanomat published an investigative story where a number of young women, some of whom were minors, claimed they were harassed by him.
The scandal caused Rydman to be suspended from the National Coalition party. He later joined the Perussuomalaiset party.* He was minister for economic affairs during 2023-2025.
