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Finnish Interior Minister Paula Risikko vacationing in a war zone
Sira Moksi has made quite a name for herself by drawing cartoons that newspapers wouldn’t publish. In the one below, we see Interior Minister Paula Risikko vacationing in a “safe” country like Iraq or Afghanistan. Where would Interior Minister Permanent Secretary Päivi Nerg vacation? What about the director general of the Finnish Immigration Service, Jaana Vuori? What about Prime Minister Juha Sipilä? President Sauli Niinistö? Finance Minister Petteri Orpo?
Let’s challenge all of them to visit those countries they deem as safe and where asylum seekers are being deported, even entire families and children.
Interior Minister Risikko outdid herself again right after the Turku stabbings by suggesting, among other things, that there are plans to pass a new law that would criminalize helping undocumented migrants in Finland.
And now, without further ado, Moksi gives us Interior Minister Risikko enjoying a vacation in a war zone.
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In Finland the enemy is within and in the structures, not outside threatening us
If I had to choose who discriminates and defends structural racism in Finland the most, I’d come to the following conclusion: Many of those who claim to be for social equality are the worst enemies of our culturally and ethnically diverse community. Their silence is one matter that exposes them but also their defensive stands whenever they feel that their power and privilege threatened.
If they feel threatened, they’ll go on the defensive and do everything to ensure that your efforts come to naught. Status quo sees another day in Finland.
A disgraceful example of the latter was the moral panic displayed by politicians in the face of the attack by a knife-wielding foreigner in Turku that left two dead and eight injured.
Their knee-jerk reaction and opportunism were so evident that even YLE wrote about the moral panic that had struck Finland.
People who belong to racist and bigoted groups like Finland First, Suomen Sisu, Suomen Vastarintaliike, the Perussuomalaiset* and others, are at least sincere about their hatred of cultural diversity. They are easy to spot. But what about those that smile in your face and assure you with a poker face to not to worry since social equality is guaranteed by the law?
How can you spot these types of people? Easy. When they speak about how we all enjoy social equality and gender equality in this country, it’s usually a red herring.
While equality is paramount and an important value to defend in Finland, it is guaranteed by the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Alarm bells should be ringing whenever they justify their discriminatory behavior by stating that you come from “a backward culture,” or that Muslim women are oppressed,
They don’t debunk myths but perpetuate them in order to disenfranchise, exert control over migrant and minority groups.
Read more about Denouncing Myths of Women’s Rights, Muslim Women, Feminism and Islamophobia in Europe here. Published by the European Network Against Racism.
If you believe such wise tales, that we’re all equal, you’ll wake up eventually when you look for a job. If you are lucky enough to get a job, you’ll discover that you have little power and are a second-class employee.
In a story Migrant Tales published in June, and using three practical nurses working at a large company in Helsinki, I highlighted how structural racism and discrimination work at one company.
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PS’ Third Vice President Juho Eerola is suspected of ethnic agitation in Finland
Perussuomalaiset (PS)* third vice president Juho Eerola is suspected of ethnic agitation, according to YLE News. If convicted, only PS First Vice President Laura Huhtasaari would be the only board member of the party that doesn’t have a conviction for ethnic agitation. Chairman Jussi Halla-aho was convicted in 2012 and MP Teuvo Hakkarainen, the second vice president, convicted in January.
Eerola, who is an anti-immigration politician who said Benito Mussolini’s fascism attracted him, got in legal hot water when he wrote in Facebook this summer that he spat at Roma beggars and asked them if they accepted Visa.
Eerola chairs the parliamentary administration committee that, among other things, oversees immigration policy.
Migrant Tales had the opportunity to speak by phone to Rikhard Blomerus, a Savonlinna deputy councilperson, who filed ethnic agitation charges to the police and brought the matter to the attention of the chancellor of justice.
“I filed charges not because I am a Roma, but I would have done it irrespective if the victim were Saami or any other minority like the Swedish Finns,” he said, stating that he knew Eerola when he was a member of the PS. “I think he made the [Facebook] posting to score brownie points [with the voters].”
UPDATED: Blomerus said that he had received a lot of comments about what he did.
“A lot of them are angry with me,” he continued. “One was even angry because he considered it an insult that a Roma would bring charges against a white Finn.”
Blomerus used to be a member of the PS but left the party after Halla-aho was elected chair in June. The Savonlinna deputy councilperson has complained previously about the anti-Roma sentiment in the PS.
“I don’t belong to any party these days,” he said. “I’m an independent.”
Read the full story here.
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Miksi samasta rikoksesta tuomittu on nyt pätevä puolustamaan toista rikosepäiltyä?!
Samalla logiikalla nyt voitaisiin haastatella raiskauksesta tuomittu selittämään miksi kaverinsa rikosepäily on väärin! Missä on kunnioitus oikeusoppineita kohtaan?! Kaikista mielipidevaikuttajista vain puoluekaveri ja jopa samasta rikoksesta tuomittu kelpasi haastatteluun! Miksi?
Elämme outoja aikoja.
Finland believes tighter laws will protect the country from terrorism but the real enemy is fear and opportunism
The knee-jerk reaction of politicians after the tragedy that took place in Turku on Friday not only smells of populism but opportunism. What have we heard from them since last week?
In this story in Ilta-Sanomat, Interior Minister Paula Risikko exposes her ignorance of our laws by suggesting that suspected terrorists with Finnish citizenship should be barred from entering the country. Source: Ilta-Sanomat.
Below is a list of what some government ministers and politicians have suggested:
- Interior Minister Paula Risikko wants to bar Finnish citizens from entering the country if they are suspected of terrorism;
- Interior Minister Risikko wants to take away a person’s Finnish citizenship if he or she is suspected of terrorism;
- Interior Minister Risikko wants to pass new legislation that would make assisting undocumented migrants a criminal offense;
- President Sauli Niinistö and the government want to fast track new legislation that will increase surveillance and erode privacy;
- Justice Minister Antti Häkkänen wants new legislation that would permit imprisoning undocumented migrants for six months if they don’t leave the country;
- Perussuomalaiset* chairman, Jussi Halla-aho, who was convicted for hate speech in 2012, wants rejected asylum seekers to be placed in detention centers like in Hungary;
- Social Democratic Chairperson Antti Rinne wants Finns to have more babies;
- After what happened in Turku, we have seen a spike in attacks and hate speech against migrants and minorities living in Finland.
Believe it or not, these are all Finnish politicians who represent a Nordic welfare state that bases its values on human rights, social equality, and fairness. They are worried about the rise of undocumented migrants on our streets. Even so, they created such a problem by voting to scrap residence permits on humanitarian grounds.
While many of these proposals are in conflict with our Constitution and a direct attack on the rule of law, these politicians believe that tougher laws will protect us from terrorism. What will protect us from terrorism is a cool head and not fear that lies in between our ears.
Another important message that these suggestions suggest is that Finland is still in deep denial about its every-growing cultural and ethnic diversity. This means that members of our community are excluded and don’t have any input.
The reaction of our politicians and their opportunism is so evident that they should tread with care because they’ll cause more harm to our system than what the terrorists would hope to accomplish in their wildest dreams.
* After the Perussuomalaiset (PS) party imploded on June 13 into two factions, the PS and New Alternative, which is now called Blue Reform. Despite the name changes, we believe that it is the same party in different clothing. Both factions are hostile to cultural diversity. One is more open about it while the other is more diplomatic.
A direct translation of Perussuomalaiset in English would be something like “basic” or “fundamental Finn.” Official translations of the Finnish name of the party, such as Finns Party or True Finns, promote in our opinion nativist nationalism and racism. We, therefore, at Migrant Tales prefer to use in our postings the Finnish name of the party once and after that the acronym PS.
Zaki Husseini returns to Finland after being deported and staying 47 days in Kabul, Afghanistan
Zaki Husseini, 19, became the first asylum seeker that came in 2015 to return to Finland after being deported. He got in touch with Migrant Tales a day after he was deported to Kabul. Thanks to Hussain Kazemian, we were able to get a glimpse of his ordeal and bad luck. A day after he was forced to return to Afghanistan on July 4 with 11 other asylum seekers, the supreme district court ruled against his deportation.
Below is the interview Kazemian did of Husseini on July 4:
Read the full story here.
Contrary to those grim days in Kabul, Husseini not only returned to his new home country but got a work permit.
“I am glad to come back to Finland again,” he said. “I spoke Finnish at Finnish Embassy of Kabul and mentioned to them my life, friends, job and education I had in Finland. I knew and believed that I’d return back to Finland.”
Facebook Carmen Pekkarinen: Burning questions about Turku
Migrant Tales insight: Carmen Pekkarinen raises some important questions. One of these is what is defined as terrorism. What are the media, the police, and politicians telling us when they constantly publish the suspect’s name and his nationality? Are they telling us that all Muslims are terrorists? White Finns have killed indiscriminately in Finland but they are not called terrorists. Is it because they are white Finns?
Read the full posting here.
This Facebook post was published with permission.
The words and silence of politicians have dire consequences in Finland for us
After the stabbing of ten people in Turku on Friday, politicians like President Sauli Niinistö, Prime Minister Juha Sipilä, Interior Minister Paula Risikko and the national media appear to be carried away by their prejudices and hostility towards asylum seekers. Even Jussi Halla-aho, the chairman of the Perussuomalaiset* convicted for hate speech, threw his hat in the ring.
These politicians, like many others, are the ones who speak to us about mutual respect and social equality but despite such assurances, they are not meant for migrants and minorities. They loathe our social welfare system and the noble values so much that they intend to destroy them. On their list of suspicious people are not only those who are different from them but the most vulnerable sectors of society like the unemployed, single mothers and others.
They tell us that there is no connection between what happened in Turku and plans to fast-track a new intelligence law and ever-tougher stances against asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, migrants, and minorities.
We know that there is a connection and if we don’t watch out, they will sell out everything great and noble about Finland that took decades to build.
Read the full story (in Swedish) here.
After Friday’s tragic events in Turku, we have seen a spike in hostility against non-white Finns throughout the country. Business establishments were attacked as well as innocent people whose only “crime” is being Other. One of these was a young man told to remove himself from a seat, and another was stabbed in Vantaa after being asked if he was a Muslim.
These cases are, like hate crimes, only the tip of the iceberg.
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The Finnish Security Intelligence Service’s epic failure in reacting to a terrorist threat in Turku
In a country like Finland, where the police are demigods, the epic failure of the Finnish Security Intelligence Service (Supo) in not reacting soon enough to the terrorist attack in Turku stands out like a sore thumb. Supo had received a tip in early 2017 from the police about the suspect Abderrahman Mechkah’s radicalized and extremist views, according to YLE News.
If President Sauli Niinistö and the government want to speak of the “two extremes,” or tolkun ihmiset, Meckhkah offers us an example of the other extreme. Now we have a terrorist on one end and neo-Nazi Eppu Tornianen, who killed a young man in the fall with a massive kick in the chest, Finland First, MV, Vastarintaliike, Perussuomalaiset*, and others.
If there is one matter that the terrorist attack in Turku did on Friday was smash alas to pieces the tolkun ihmiset nonsense used to silence and control debate on our ever-growing cultural and ethnic diversity. Furthermore, as in Charlottesville and in Turku, empty promises of social equality, tolerance and “pro-inclusive” integration pledges will no longer work because they never have.
Finland needs concrete deeds and a paradigm policy shift that it is serious about being a welcoming society that promotes social equality for everyone who lives here irrespective of their background. Finland is an ever-growing culturally and ethnically diverse society, period.
Read the full story here.
Suggesting and labeling people who speak out against racism and defend our Nordic values as extremists reveal that Finland is still in deep denial about its racism and discrimination issues.