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Take two of Magneettimedia’s anti-Semitic campaign in Finland

Posted on October 27, 2013 by Migrant Tales

After being fined 45,000 euros Monday by a Finnish court for ethnic agitation by publishing the anti-Semitic writings of Ted Pike, David Duke and others on Magneettimedia, a publication that advertises J. Kärkkäinen’s department store products, a new story appeared in the latest issue criticizing Zionism and the court sentence as “juridical murder” and “liquidating freedom of speech.” 

That’s not all in the bizarre Magnettimedia anti-Semitic crusade. Helsingin Sanomat, revealed Saturday the publication’s relationship with Arto Merisalo, the former Nova Group president sentenced in 2012 to prison for numerous bribery and financial graft charges. Both were planning to launch a free newspaper at the end of the year.

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Read full story here.

According to Merisalo, the new newspaper has no relationship with Magneettimedia.

“It will be more in style of free city newspapers like Tamperelainen or Turkulainen,” he was quoted as saying on Helsingin Sanomat.

Even if Merisalo says that the new complimentary newspaper will be “clearly a business venture,” he didn’t reveal what kinds of stories it will publish.

Just because it will be a business venture is no assurance that it won’t publish anti-Semitic writings. Free newspapers like Helsingin Uutiset write anti-immigrant stories that normally wouldn’t get published in the national media.

Taking into account Magneettimedia’s recent article about Zionism, Kärkkäinen’s anger over the ethnic agitation sentence, and the department store owner’s business relationship with Merisalo, it’s clear that this won’t be the last we’ll read from them.

Red herrings, code words that help sanitize and make more acceptable our intolerance

Posted on October 26, 2013 by Migrant Tales

Even if I have written for years about Finland’s anti-immigration groups like the Perussuomalaiset (PS), you have to learn to detect the red herrings in order to understand their real views on the topic. What you may uncover behind these red herrings is far scarier than ever imagined. 

A red herring is “something intended to divert attention from the real problem or matter at hand; a misleading clue.”

It’s not easy to figure out what politicians think on a certain issues, especially if it has to do with a hot topic like immigration.

Why is it so difficult to get a plain honest answer? Because those that spread intolerance know that it’s morally wrong and therefore sanitize their views with red herrings and code words.

Any sensible person understands – or should know – that intolerance is morally objectionable and wrong. If it weren’t, why do so many anti-immigration groups use red herrings and code words to hide their real views?

If you asked PS MPs like Jussi Halla-aho, or why not James Hirvisaari of Muutos 2011 as well, what their anti-immigration views are, they’d probably reply that they aren’t against immigration. What they are really saying is that they don’t object to foreigners as long as they’re white Europeans, Christians, conservative and heterosexuals.

The lie exposed above is that if their criteria were used to accept immigrants in Finland, nobody – or very few – would move to this country. Thus their real aim, which is to keep Finland immigrant population to a minimum, would be accomplished.

It would be wrong to claim that the PS and Muutos 2011 are the only anti-immigration parties in Finland. There are others. Check out Wille Rydman’s and Susanna Koski’s vies of the Youth League of the National Coalition Party.

Another good example is Social Democratic Party head Jutta Urpilainen’s infamous maassa maan tavalla statement in 2011, which means in Rome do as the Romans do. What Urpilainen suggested is that this is my country, not yours. In order for it to be yours you must be like me.

Irrespective if a politicians or supporter belongs to the Left Alliance, neo-Nazi Kansallinen Vastarinta or anything in between these two extremes, they are all united by one factor that is rarely if ever mentioned by the Finnish media: What are their real views of people who are different from them? Are they for or against greater cultural diversity?

Some common red herrings used constantly by anti-immigration and anti-cultural diversity politicians include:

  • This group is so different from us that they’ll never adapt to our society. (What they are really saying is that since they are so maladapted in their opinion they must not be allowed to live or move here).
  • Immigrants don’t want to learn Finnish and therefore don’t want to adapt. (The truth is that it’s very difficult to meet Finns and becoming their friends. If you disagree, ask another Finn).
  • I’m not against immigration. (Right. All I want are white brain surgeons to move to this country. We don’t need any immigrants).
  • If we bring the right type of immigrants, we won’t be required to change. (Immigrants should be judged by the skills they bring to the country not by their ethnic and religious backgrounds).
  • I’m not allowed to express my opinions freely about Muslims and immigrants. (Google the word “Eurabia” or “Immigrant threat” and see if this is true).
  • There’s no racism in Finland. (Right, a white person speaking for a black person is like a man speaking for women and claiming that there is gender equality).

So what’s the solution?

Recognize the red herrings and code words so you can tackle the real issues facing our ever-growing culturally diverse society.

Do it relentlessly.

The Roma blonde girl in Greece and the shadow of intolerance

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Migrant Tales

When I first read about Maria, the blonde girl that was discovered in Greece belonging to an unrelated Roma couple, a number of disturbing questions arose. One of these was an obvious one: Why so much interest by the media?

It would take a while for the red herring to be exposed. It eventually became clear for all of us to see: We don’t really care about the plight, poverty and the least about Roma children except if they’re white.

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A comprehensive article on Maria and anti-Roma sentiment in Europe. Read full story here.

If anything, the incident is not only a wake-up call to our intolerance, but another reminder how little we have done to come to terms with our racism and history.

Racism is a social ill and it functions in a pathological manner. It has a Dracula effect that makes us sicker as it is passed from one generation to the next with the help of denial.

If we were serious about challenging this foe, we would have beaten it, or at least put it on the defensive, a long time ago.

The question we should be asking, then, is why we haven’t yet struck a stake through the heart of such a social ill?

And why couldn’t we? We have made tremendous scientific breakthroughs in many fields but in one, like racism, where we are still anchored in a time warp immobile.

The case of the girl in Greece not only exposes deep anti-Roma issue in Europe, but everything that is wrong with us. In the little girl you will find the shadow of European colonialism and megalomanic greed that gave birth to the slave trade in the sixteenth century all the way to the rise of fascism and Stalin’s purges in the 1930s in which millions perished.   

It’s nothing more than the same ogre mocking at us.

Dana: Why doesn’t President Sauli Niinistö care about immigrants? What’s his stance on racism?

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Migrant Tales

Dana

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Finland is a small country but a very proud one about its political and legal system. Some Finns believe they are, however, so different from other people on this planet and they can’t explain why.

For example…in Finland the law functions like magic; they believe that the law is so comprehensive that no-one in this country can behave in a racist manner and make the same mistake over and over again.

You can ask questions about the political and legal system but no-one will answer your questions…the Finnish system is supposed to respect human rights and give you a lot of freedom but still there’s a reject stamp on each question you ask, especially if it’s about family reunification.

This blog entry is about Sauli Niinistö, the President of Finalnd.

I have never seen him once organize a seminar or meeting with our immigrant community. Have you?

Why hasn’t he??? Is there a Finn that can answer this question? What about a foreigner?

What does Niinistö think about immigrants, refugees, or about me as a foreigner who lives here?

Who knows? Come on! Hands up! Speak up! Why doesn’t anyone ask this question to Niinistö: “Why don’t you speak up and defend our ever-growing culturally diverse society? Why haven’t you shown any interest in us, immigrants and refugees alike?

IS IT FEAR MR PRESIDENT???

Or is it because we are still such a small community that you still haven’t noticed that we’re here?

Small in size maybe but in which respect? In values, in will?

Do you have any news or information about the president’s new, even old thoughts about foreigners?

Can Niinistö understand my suffering – or aren’t I worthy of his attention?

He’s been president of Finland for some time. During his mandate he has hosted Independence Day celebrations at the Presidential Palace. He’s been seen dancing among supermen and superwomen on that day. Everyone has their eyes on him. The media watches him like white on rice but they don’t speak about anything else except how he’s dressed.

I believe the media in this country is materialistic because it is more interested in expensive clothes than in the suffering of others never mind growing social problems like poverty.

Niinistö went on official trips abroad, here and there; he spoke about different things but he NEVER EVER noticed our community, us foreigners, his neighbors who live in same country.

Tell me WHY??????

The rich people of the UAE are just like him. Since the Finnish governments needs money, they only respect rich foreigners from countries like the UAE.

No-one can call me a second-class citizen of this country. I am first-class and will always be no matter what anyone does.

In a nutshell, this is the course of humanity in Finland: Some treat me well while others look down on me.

Those that want to relegate me to the lower human leagues make my blood boil!

Well-groomed politicians and making racism in Finland “normal”

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Migrant Tales

In general terms, there are two types of politicians in Finland that spread intolerance: those that let it all hang out and another type that speaks to you politely and is well-groomed. In the latter group, you’ll find PS MPs like Jussi Halla-aho, Juho Eerola, Teuvo Hakkarainen, Juho Eerola, even Timo Soini; James Hirvisaari is a crude example of the former group. 

These types of politicians, who inhabit as well the National Coalition Party, Center Party, Christian Democrats, Social Democrats, Greens, Swedish People’s Party and the Left Alliance, believe it’s perfectly fine to attack immigrants and refugees in this country.

If you took away the rhetoric and double-speak of their so-called impeccable well-groomed arguments, you’d end up with two embarrassing revelations: intolerance and anti-cultural diversity.

These types of politicians hate immigrants, but especially Africans and Muslims.

How they manifest their hatred and racism is the trick. They have to figure out how to sanitize it. In other words, how to make their racism look “normal.” Wearing suits and flashy ties help give their message more credibility.

Eerola, the PS MP who admitted to be attracted to fascism, is a case in point. Before Eerola’s election, he sometimes looked like a poorly dressed hippie with a beard but then cleaned up his act.

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One of PS MP Eerola’s many images.

Image plays a crucial role for any politicians, never mind his or her political message. If you look like a slob, your message will lose strength.

Another important matter you must learn as well is the language of institutional racism and political correctness. It’s like learning manners at the table. You can be a slob in real life, but at a public table you have to know the fine art of etiquette.

Immonen, in a recent column on Uusi Suomi, an online newspaper that has become a platform for the PS, wrote that he’s against Africans and Muslims applying for asylum in this country.

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Note PS MP Olli Immonen’s tie and nicely folded handkerchief.

Using PS leader Soini’s twisted logic, it’s fine for Immonen to attack immigrants as long as he says publicly that he’s against hate speech and not a racist. The person defending, or spreading hate speech, is naturally wearing a suit and a tie.

Sometimes matters take a turn for the worse irrespective of our well-groomed public image. Soini, a devout catholic, went through a scapegoating ritual this month when he sacrificed Hirvisaari and fed him to the political dogs.

The PS leader is now keen to tell us that the party doesn’t have any longer any issues with racism.

Like a person learning etiquette at the table, the PS is learning how to appear “normal” but without changing. It’s still the same party with the same message of hatred, same loathing for immigrants, especially Africans and Muslims.

When I was Colombia bureau chief of a U.S. news agency, I was responsible for the people I hired. My boss in New York used my hiring abilities to assess my performance as a manager. If I hired the wrong person, I’d be the first to hear about it from my boss.

Soini is directly responsible for the racism in the party for taking on board the Hirvisaaris, Halla-ahos and Hakkarainens.  Even if he claims to object to racism, he’s just as responsible.

Alex Andreou gives a great quote on a Guardian opinion piece about how the far-right. Apart from changing form constantly, “the far-right throbs and expands, blooms, then folds into itself and subdivides like an amorphous but sentient blob from a 1950s B movie.”

While part of the PS’ convoluted ideology and make up has far-right elements, it is clearly an anti-EU, anti-immigration and especially anti-Islam party. A B horror movie can make us laugh or put us to sleep but it can never match the treachery and devastation that a political movement like the PS can inflict on others, like immigrants.

 

Magneettimedia editor and owner fined 45,000 euros by court for anti-Semitic writings

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Migrant Tales

Magneettimedia editor and owner Juha Kärkkäinen has been fined by a Finnish court 45,000 euros for publishing anti-Semitic writings of Ted Pike, David Duke and others as well as cartoons that bear a striking resemblance to the former Nazi tabloid, Der Strümer (1923-45), reports Lahti-based Etelä-Suomen Sanomat. 

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Read full story here.

The court ruled that the writings published fall in the category of hate speech and propaganda against Jews. 

Kärkkänen, however, denied the charges. He said the writings weren’t libelous or defamatory.

Numerous anti-Semitic articles have been published in previous issues of Magneettimedia. These include:

  • The Jews Who Control the Media
  • Who Owns the Media in 2012?
  • A Great Video Shows What a Cheat Albert Einstein Really Was!
  • Zionist Terrorism in Norway
  • CNN, Goldman Sachs and Zionist Control
  • How to Break Down and Dominate the Zionists

Meanwhile, former Perussuomalaiset (PS) MP, James Hirvisaari, accused on a blog entry the Finnish government of committing genocide against its people.

“Multiculturalism is one of the death weapons [to commit genocide],” he wrote. “With crude lies like “internationalization,” “aiding,” and – which is ridiculous – “to save Finnish jobs,” Finns are clearly misled to believe that the only option is the death of Finland.”

This kind of writing is being spread by the Muutos 2011 MP.

While Hirvisaari is one of a few MPs with far-right anti-immigration views, how much hostility spills to the street from his racist diatribe? How many Finns, with low self-esteem and multiculturally challenged like him, are “inspired” by his message of hate?

There is no reason why anyone living in this country should take sitting down Hirvisaari’s and Kärkkäinen’s call to hate minorities.

Our reaction to intolerance should be first and foremost a reaction.

Reija Härkönen: Hommaforum – perussuomalainen ääni netissä?

Posted on October 20, 2013 by Migrant Tales

Reija Härkönen

Hommaforum on perussuomalaisen Jussi Halla-ahon ja ns. ”nuivan” liikkeen sivusto, jossa tehdään maahanmuuttajavastaista agendaa tukevaa vaalityötä, seurataan halla-aholaisten työskentelyä eduskunnassa ja nostetaan esille maahanmuuttajiin liittyviä negatiivisia uutisia ja artikkeleita.

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Perussuomalaisilla on palstalla merkittävin läsnäolo, mutta myös Muutos 2011 ja sen maahanmuuttajavastaiset ehdokkaat ja kannattajat ovat saaneet palstalla omat osionsa.

Foorumin tarkoitus määritellään säännöissä seuraavasti: ”Maahanmuuttoon ja monikultturismiin liittyvien ilmiöiden ja haasteiden käsittelyyn keskittyvä keskustelupalsta. Forum tarjoaa vertaistukea niille, joita on poliittisen kantansa vuoksi aiheettomasti leimattu sekä pyrkii tarjoamaan vaikutusmahdollisuuksia ja -kanavia aihepiiriin liittyen.”

Perustamisvaiheen keskusteluista foorumin viesti voidaan pelkistää seuraavaan lainaukseen:

”On olemassa ihmisiä, jotka haluavat tehdä sinulle pahaa. Sinulla on oikeus sanoa missä tahansa vaiheessa EI. Sinulla on oikeus puolustaa itseäsi.”

Yksi ”keskustelun” ytimistä on Suomessa ja muualla tapahtuneiden henkirikosten ja raiskausten tarkkailu. Kun rikos tapahtuu kotimaassa, aiheesta avataan keskustelu kotimaan uutisosioon. Avaaminen on kuitenkin sallittua ainoastaan silloin, kun on olemassa selkeä epäily siitä, että joko tekijä tai uhri on ulkomaalaistaustainen.

Siellä tehtiin avaus myös nyt lokakuussa, kun Forssassa löytyi 19-vuotias tyttö murhattuna joesta. Foorumilla spekuloitiin:  ”Voi tyttöparkaa. Odotamme uutisia” , ”Tekijästä ei ole vielä tietoa”, ”Voipi olla tai sitten ei. Itse veikkaan, että on tietoa mutta… Olisinpa kerrankin väärässä”, ”Tekijän taustatiedot varmistuvat, jos niitä ei kuulu.”

Pian avaus osoittautuu ”vääräksi”. Kotimainen tekijä, huumeistakin huhutaan ja lemmennälkäisestä suomalaisesta surkimuksesta. Nopeasti piiloon koko juttu. Ketju siirretään vähäpätöisempään keskusteluosioon pois huomion keskipisteestä. Keskustelu tyrehtyy saman tien – eihän asiassa ole mitään mielenkiintoa, jos asialla ei ole maahanmuuttaja.

Aina joskus Hommaforumilla on onnenpäivä. Rikos on tapahtunut ja on heti viitteitä siitä, että tekijät saattaisivat olla maahanmuuttajataustaisia. Keskusteluketju venyy kymmenien sivujen mittaiseksi. Asian edetessä joskus jopa kolmekin samaan ketjuun osallistuvaa on ehtinyt tilata valtiolta asiakirjoja (kuulustelupöytäkirjoja, oikeuden päätöksiä ym.), joista selviää tekijän/tekijöiden nimet. Jos nimet vaikuttavat musliminimiltä, on kyseessä täyspotti.

Järkyttäväkin uutinen, kuten esim. pikkutytön murha Ruotsissa viime vuonna, kuihtuu kokoon hetkessä, kun selviää, että tekijällä onkin brittiläinen arkkitehti-isä ja latvialaistaustainen äiti, eikä hän siis ole muslimi tai edes Irlannin mustalainen, kuten ensin toiveikkaasti odoteltiin:

”Olin jutun luettuani aika varma että kyse on muslimeista. Nolottaa vähän kun haluais yrittää olla edes jossain määrin avarakatseinen ja ennakkoluuloton.”

”Jutussa oli kaksi vahvaa vihjettä muslimiteorian tueksi: poliisien viittaus asia “herkkyyteen” ja se, että tytön murhasi kaksi veljestä. Ns. normaaleissa lasten murhissa tekijöitä on yleensä tasan yksi.
Joka tapauksessa lähes nolla prosenttia todennäköisyyttä annoin sellaiselle mahdollisuudelle, että tekijöiden sukunimi olisi Andersson, Svensson tai Bengtsson.”

Oli sittenkin normaali murha. Ei muslimin tekemä.

Vastikään Hommaforumilla keskusteltiin Koiramme-lehdessä ilmestyneestä artikkelista, jossa käsiteltiin muslimien vastenmielisyyttä koiria kohtaan ja siitä seuranneita ongelmia uusissa asuinmaissa.  Kirjoitus kirvoitti tällaisia kommentteja:

”Huonostipidetyt eli ”huonoon kulttuuriin” opetetut koirathan ovat eräällä tavalla kuin muslimeita. Ei voi pitää kadulla vapaana, aiheuttavat vahinkoa lähelle eksyville, varastavat leivät käsistä ja tunkevat kuononsa ja välillä jotain muutakin kutsumatta naisten jalkoväliin jne.”

”Ja vielä kun käännetään asia niinpäin että muslimit ovat kuin huonosti kasvatettuja koiria, niin jopas onkin nasevasti määritelty.”

”Niin, erikoinen uskonto, joka välkyttää mitä mitättömämmistä syistä aggressiivisesti “vaadimme erikoiskohtelua ja eri säännöt”-kylttiä. Isommista jutuista nyt puhumattakaan. Täysin yhteensopimaton tasa-arvoon perustuviin länsimaihin, joten parasta palauttaa kyseisen uskonto-kulttuurin edustajat saman tien.”

”Luultavasti koirat aiheuttavat paljon vähemmän kuormitusta kuin maassamme asuvat muslimit, joten miksi sallimme muslimien luontokuormituksen? Heillähän on kaikilla ne omat maat joissa asua ja inhota koiria.”

Koirien kanssa mulla ei ole ikinä ollut mitään ongelmia, mutta muslimien kanssa taitaa tulla ongelmia. Suomen pystykorva oli täällä ennen muhamettilaisia, jos allahinpalvojat eivät sitä suvaitse, niin painukoot helvettiin epäjumalansa kanssa.”

Yhdestä kommentista, jossa muslimeja myös verrattiin koiriin, oli nettipoliisi Marko Forss ollut yhteydessä kirjoittajaan ja kertoi valtakunnansyyttäjänviraston kanssa neuvoteltuaan tulleensa siihen johtopäätökseen, että tuo kommentti saattaisi olla sellainen, joka ylittäisi syytekynnyksen, ja olisi siksi syytä poistaa.

Kommentti poistettiin. Foorumilaiset keskittyivät lähinnä keskustelemaan siitä, oliko heidän sananvapauttaan loukattu, kun nettipoliisi tällä lailla sekaantuu heidän kirjoitteluunsa.

Ulkopuolinen tarkkailija ihmettelee enemmänkin seuraavia kysymyksiä:

Miksi Perussuomalaiset-puolue haluaa pitää yllä foorumia, jonka ilmeinen ja ainoa tarkoitus on herättää epäluuloisuutta ja vihaa etenkin muslimimaahanmuuttajia ja maassa jo asuvia muslimeja kohtaan?

Pitääkö meillä olla nettipoliisi, joka varoittelee poliittisen foorumin toimijoita, aikuisia ihmisiä, kommenteista, jotka ylittävät syytekynnyksen?

Ovatko muut foorumin kirjoitukset sellaisia, jotka kuuluvat normaaliin ja hyväksyttävään suomalaiseen poliittiseen toimintaan? Tai yleensä inhimilliseen toimintaan?

Onko perussuomalaisen puolueen toiminnan yksi tarkoitus nimenomaan muslimimaahanmuuttajien maahantulon estäminen ja entisten ulosajaminen? Tiedämme, että ns. halla-aholaisilla se on, mutta Timo Soinin viimeaikaisten toimenpiteiden perusteella voidaan olettaa, että se on koko puolueen yhteinen, vaikkakin piiloteltu päämäärä.

Hommaforumin Matias Turkkila ylennettiin Perussuomalainen-nettilehden päätoimittajaksi. Timo Soini nosti kesän puoluekokouksessa Hommaforumin esille malliesimerkkinä hyvästä poliittisesta toiminnasta ja kehotti Halla-ahoa nousemaan selvemmin esille puheenjohtajan rinnalle.

Halla-aho, Hommaforum ja Timo Soini. Yhteistyössä muun maahanmuuttajavastaisen rintaman ja Muutos 2011:n kanssa.

Alkuperäisen blogikirjoituksen ei voi lukea, koska Uusi Suomi on sensuroinut sen. 

Tämä blogikirjoitus julkaistiin Migrant Talesissä luvalla.

Dana: Ymmärrättekö Finland – wild culture, wild picture and wild future

Posted on October 20, 2013 by Migrant Tales

Dana

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How long will I have to endure these racist attacks and hostile looks? And what’s wrong with being a foreigner in Finland anyway?

There are no rainbows here if there’s only one color: white. No matter how much you paint your society white, I’m alive and will always feel victorious before you.

I have never met a Finnish person who can discuss with me what is wrong with this country. If I open my mouth, I’m attacked, even if I talk freely and with an open mind.

In Finland I never seen people with different ideas. NO… I’ve only seen one thing, one idea. Yes, there r different groups, organizations, even in sick parliament there r different political parties, but they are all the same. There’s no difference between them. They think they’re different in their minds but they’re not. They cannot fool a human like me. The only party that doesn’t use  a MASK is the PS (Perussuomalaiset) because they are openly racist. That’s the only difference between them and other parties.

In don’t lead a normal life in Finland, but i should defend myself at all times in public, no? Those who attack me are everywhere and ready to abuse u and make u feel u r nothing except a slave.

That’s why u see foreigners in shops owned by foreigners, because even in shops racists can attack u; yes, even when i pay with cash and contribute taxes.

The racists always think they know everything and that u, a foreigner, don’t know anything, They give the image of being wise, but tell me why would a wise person attack you because of ur skin color???

One of the famous words and sentences that they use in Finland is:  Ymmärrättekö, do you understand?

They don’t, however, use this word not in a normal way. It’s used a very harsh, insulting, dry and wild way…..OH U R ALL WILD! Wild, cranky, nervous and full anger in your souls.

Yes i understand and i understand more than u, so much more than u but what about you? Can’t you see that I am a human being like you? Can’t you understand this, Finland? Ymmärrättekö?

I understand the racists well. You are a big percentage in Finland and anywhere u can imagine. You fight back by ignoring me; you cannot argue, discuss, you cannot even figure out a simple matter, u cannot talk in peace. I, a foreigner, make you tremble. Ur afraid of me. You yell back repeating rauha, rauha (calm down, calm down) but where’s your rauha??? How and why do you lose ur rauha when you see a foreigner? You cannot see that we foreigners are different, from different places, different cultures, and different families… you always treat us the same way… looks like you have problems in seeing people as individuals.

Finland can never be my home because it isn’t a safe country. Home is a safe place. It’s the most important thing, more important than food for a human.

You awaken the fighting spirit in me, my face turns red and my blood boils.

Ur racist behavior reveals how weak you are.

Migrants’ life in Finland: Some endure intolerance better than others – some hit back, others don’t

Posted on October 20, 2013 by Migrant Tales

The ocean is a desert, with it’s life underground
And a perfect disguise above.
Under the cities lies, a heart made of ground,
But the human will give no love.

A Horse with No name, America

Intolerance, bigotry, racism, prejudice and a list of other social ills strike their victims in different ways. Some of us can endure such hostility better than others, even when it lashes out at you at the right moment when you make the wrong move. 

You can get in trouble with the order of things when you question your hapless predicament. If you choose the normal route, or not to rock the boat, some recommend that you grin and bear the situation and remember that you are the one being watched, not the thing that is watching you and giving you the short end of society’s stick.

It’s like being on a horse with no name in the desert with not even a shred of evidence to make a case in your defense. Under the perfect disguise of the desert above, lies concealed the source of the loathing and prejudices, deep underground.

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Listen to full song with lyrics here.

Dana is one of Migrant Tales’ frequent visitors. She has contributed beautiful poetry and shared her grief, when her mother and father died in May and July, respectively.

She blames the system for “killing her parents.” The system, which makes family reunification in this country like winning the lottery, didn’t even grant her the opportunity to see and feel the warm embrace and love of her parents before they died.

Those who have been victims of racism and discrimination, understand what is meant by sensing hostility. It’s like bad karma, telepathic messages from Pandemonium, a defense mechanism that warn you that you are now under attack.

No, you don’t understand what I mean. You cannot feel Dana’s pain or that of others like her because too many of us are too white to grasp that kind of pain.

Some of us deny its existence if we can’t feel other people’s suffering. Denying racism is the new racism.

Writes Dana: “If your mind is dirty, how can u make peace with anyone? If ur mind is dirty, how can you make peace??? If I think my color, my race, my blue eyes are better than your black and darker ones, then I’m a very sick person. That sickness will poison your blood and make you cranky, sick and put you at war – that’s the problem. Why can’t you see that a black person is also a human. What’s wrong with a black person???”

Dana told me that for the last six years she has been fighting back. Whenever she feels that people attack her with their hostile looks or comments, she doesn’t run away in silence but turns to her attackers and calls them, “racist.”

The reaction she gets is mixed and people either ignore her, threaten (and sometimes do) call the police and security guards, or call her a “terrorist” who should be kicked out of the premises and Finland.

“I’ve learned a lot from the time that the police arrested me at the social-welfare office,” she says. “I make an escape before anyone can detain me. I won’t take this kind of hostility any longer. I always fight back in public.”

 

 

Ana María Gutiérrez-Sorainen: Pakolaisuus Uudessa Suomessa, ennen ja nyt

Posted on October 19, 2013 by Migrant Tales

“Heitä on tällä hetkellä yli 13 miljoonaa. Nämä miljoonat kodittomat vaeltajat ovat inhimillinen aikapommi, joka herätti maailman omantunnon jälleen kerran indokiinalaisten venepakolaisten kansoittaessa Kaakkois-Aasian pakolaisleirit.

Mutta heitä on useampia miljoonia muissa maanosissa puoliksi unohdettuina. Neljä miljoonaa Afrikassa, kaksi miljoonaa Lähi-idässä, kaksi miljoonaa Latinalaisessa Amerikassa. Puolet heistä on lapsia.

Pakolainen on ihminen, joka on joutunut lähtemään kotimaastaan rotuunsa tai uskontoonsa kohdistuneen vainon takia, tai häntä on vainottu hänen kansallisuutensa, tai poliittisten tai sosiaalisten mielipiteidensä vuoksi.

Useiden pakolaisten kohtalona on ollut jäädä poliittisten kiistojen jalkoihin. Yhdistyneiden kansakuntien pakolaisapu on useimpien ainoa toivo. Senkin toiminta on usein jäänyt vajavaiseksi, koska kaikki jäsenmaat eivät ole poliittisista tai muista syistä onnistuneet allekirjoittamaan pakolaisia kokevia sopimuksia…

Ulkomaantoimittajamme Maija Lapolan raportti kodittomien kansanvaelluksesta sivuilla 10 ja 11.”

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Näin kirjoitti Uusi Suomi etusivullaan torstaina 30 elokuuta 1979. Silloin Uusi Suomi oli merkittävä paperilehti. 33 vuotta myöhemmin teksti ja raportti ovat hyvin ajankohtaisia. Onko näkökulma aiheeseen muuttunut? Siltä se näyttää.

Pakolaisten luvut ovat ny lisääntyneet.  Ennen kuin joku ehtii sanoa, ettei mitään tarvitse tehdä, koska se ei ratkaise mitään, on todettava, että vaatimattomalla pakolaispolitiikalla myös Suomi on pelastanut monta elämää.

Myös turvapaikanhakijoiden määrä on lisääntynyt huimasti. Kansainvälisen Punaisen Ristin raportin mukaan 72 miljoonaa ihmistä on nykyisin syystä tai toisesta pakotettu lähtemään kotoa turvaa hakemaan muualta. Noista ihmisistä 16,4 miljoonaa ihmisillä on pakolaisstatus ja 41, 4 miljoonaa siirtyy oman maan rajojen sisällä. Moni on siis pakolaisena omassa maassaan.

Euroopan Lampedusan surulliset uutiset ovat vain huippu koko ongelmista. Vapaa liikkuvuus maasta toiseen ja varsinkin Eurooppaan on vain rikkaiden etuoikeus. Köyhistä tulee “paperittomia rikollisia” ja oikeiden rikollisten uhreja. Nykymaailmassa on olemassa orjia, työorjia, seksiorjia. Euroopan tehoton siirtolaispolitiikka, joka perustuu kieltoihin ja sulkeutuneisuuteen, aiheuttaa murheita varsinkin niille, jotka yrittävät ylittää Euroopan rajoja.

Moni tietää, että olen kirjoittanut jo neljä vuotta blogeja Uuden Suomen Puheenvuoroon. Tämän päivän kirjoitusten valossa on tosi kiinnostava nähdä se humanitaarinen ote ja laaja tila, mitä tämä sama lehti antoi 33 vuotta sitten pakolaisuuden käsittelylle. Se oli hyvä. Tämän päivän sanomalehdet harvoin antavat kuin 2 palstaa yhdelle aiheelle. Journalismi muuttuu ja nyt on sanottava, että valitettavasti muuttui.

Millainen tulee olemaan pakolaisten ja turvapaikanhakijoiden tilanne vuonna 2046 tai 2050? Millaista tulee olemaan uutisointi heistä?

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