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]
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.
Special! Buy your new Anti-Racism spray, “Olli”. In stores now! Buy one get one free!
Our dear friend Sademies recently came out with a business idea about creating a spray made of “Pig blood“, to spray on Muslim’s. Now, see…that ran me the wrong way. I’m Indian, and have multicultural friends from across the world. Chinese, Australian, Swiss, Egyptian, Turkish, Syrian, Finnish, Norwegian, Canadian, American and more. A few of these friends have religions! Some are Catholic, some Protestants, some Buddhists, some Mormons and……some “Muslims”.
What bites me is that with the likes of Sademies, they don’t really know how to differentiate between a good and a bad person. In their eyes, if a Finn is an alcoholic (which is the global stereotype for a Finn anyways), then every Finn is an alcoholic. There is no hard working Finns, multi cultural Finns, Successful Finns, nah..just all alcoholic. In the same way, if a refugee has commited rape, then in Sademies’s opinion, all refugees are rapists. Africans should be sterelized, because ALL African men breed multitudes of children. Theres no hard working African man who wakes up at 5 everyday and goes to work, pays his taxes, comes home to his wife and children and lives a normal life. No..
Olli Sademies tweets: “I was taken down from Facebook due to an identity check”
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
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.
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.
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!
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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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.
Is the Danish People’s Party advising the PS on how to become the biggest party in Finland?
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?
What we should learn from the Tapanila sexual assault case
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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Migrants need greater voting rights in Europe to challenge the far right and ultranationaistic menace
Bashy Quraishy made recently a very valid point on his Facebook wall: “Active political participation, voting in large numbers and support for the friendly politicians is Alpha and Omega for the protection of ethnic minority rights in Denmark.”
And adds: “We need to wake up, confront the far right movements in politics and defeat them.”
This cartoon depicts the DPP’s (and even the PS’) answer on how to deal with refugees fleeing civil wars.
The biggest challenges and threat facing Europe and countries like Denmark and Finland is the lack of democratic participation by migrants and minorities.
How can we deal with serious social issues like rape in a country like Finland that has issues with racism?
Veronica Honkasalo is a Helsinki city councilwoman for the Left Alliance who tweeted the following below about the sentence that the five suspects got in the northern Helsinki Tapanila rape case of March: “It’s clear that the sexual offense sentence they got was too mild. There is no such thing as a mild rape. But let’s keep this [case] clear of racism.”
Two of the five suspects were acquitted because they did not take part in the rape.
Writes YLE in English:
The case shocked Finland in March, when the five young men, four of whom were under 18, harassed a woman on a commuter train before following her when she got off and then assaulting her. Their Somali background was widely publicized before they were apprehended, as they were wanted men, prompting an avalanche of racist comment on social media and even anguished debate in more mainstream outlets.
The longest sentence was one year and four months’ suspended jail time, while two of the group were acquitted. The ruling states that the ‘method’ of the crime was not widely known at the time, when immigrant gang rapists were in the headlines. That method was that one of the men held his hand over the woman’s mouth to prevent her calling for help while the other two rapists penetrated her with their hands.
What Honkasalo states in her tweet below is something that I have been thinking about as well. How can we in the present xenophobic and anti-cultural diversity climate find effective solutions to crimes like rape without allowing our animal instincts and racism to get the best of us?
The gang rape that took place in March is a ghastly crime and very uncommon. What those youths did to that young woman effectively destroyed her life.
Thanks to their reckless behavior, those youths also gave fuel to the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party’s hostile campaign against immigrants and minorities before the April 19 elections.
Another factor that helped the PS in the elections was the Charlie Hebdo attack in January.
A recent survey of eight countries by YouGov showed Finland and Sweden to have the most intolerance.
* The Finnish name for the Finns Party is the Perussuomalaiset (PS). The English-language names of the party adopted by the PS, like True Finns or Finns Party, promote in our opinion nativist nationalism and xenophobia. We therefore prefer to use the Finnish name of the party on our postings.