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Media Monitoring Group of Finland [1]: Viimeinen sana program left out some important questions unanswered

Posted on January 22, 2023January 3, 2026 by Migrant Tales

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Yle’s Viimienen sana invited three guests to talk about Finland’s alleged youth gang problem and how the media treats the topic. The three guests clearly indicated how the talk show would frame the topic.

In the first place, there were no minorities taking part in the debate. All of the guests were white Finns.

Viimeinen sana did not a word about Marko Forss’ past, the policeman invited to the program and from questionable backgrounds.

Forss has a shady history when it comes to minorities and migrants. Even if a racist joke about the Romany minority is a minor matter for him, he was an admin of a racist and secret Facebook page that Long Play uncovered.

Here is the updated Long Play link to the scoop.

The Facebook group where Forss was the admin consisted of over 2,800 members, or about one-third of Finland’s police force of 7,000, according to Long Play.

Did any of the police officers in the group get reprimanded? What about Forss?

Nothing happened.

MTV: “Violent juvenile crime has soared, even 10 year-olds rob [people]”

The other two guests were Tiia Palmén from MTV, which writes pretty biased stories about migrant youths (see above), and Matti Näsi of Helsinki University.

While Näsi pointed out that the gang problem in Sweden is light years from Finland, a minority youth worker and even I would have given a different view of things.

Two important questions weren’t answered on the program:

Facebook Mahad Sheikh Musse: Maahan muuttanut alituisesti oppijan roolissa

Posted on January 20, 2023 by Migrant Tales

Alkuperäinen juttu julkaistiin Muuttoliikkeessa.fi.

Nuoriso-ohjaaja Mahad Omar Sheikh Musse on seurannut monen perheen elämää läheltä sekä työntekijänä että maahan muuttaneena. Mahadin mukaan sukupolvikuilu ja väärinymmärrysten vaara rakentuu perheenjäsenten oppiessa sekä kirjoitettuja että kirjoittamattomia sääntöjä eri tahtiin.

“Uuteen maahan saapuessaan ihminen joutuu pakosti oppijan asemaan. Hän on eräänlaisessa jännitystilassa koko ajan, koska ennalta tuntemattomien ja yllättävien asioiden keskellä täytyy luovia päivittäin. Vieraskielisessä ympäristössä toimiminen on etenkin vanhemmille sukupolville stressaavaa, oli kyse sitten miehestä tai naisesta.”

Mahadin mukaan nuori omaksuu oppijan roolin luontevammin ja myös toimii uudessa ympäristössä sukkelammin kuin vanhempansa. Joskus teini-ikäiset lapset myös käyttävät hyväksi nopeamman kotoutumisprosessinsa suomaa tietovarantoaan perheen sisällä.

”On paljon perheitä, joissa perheenjäsenten välillä on hyvä luottamus ympäristön muuttumisesta huolimatta. Monet vanhemmat ovat kuitenkin myös kertoneet siitä, miten vaikeaa heidän on saada otetta lapsiinsa, joilla on erilaisia menoja koko ajan. Syntyy pelko siitä, että lapset päätyvät huonoille teille ja menettävät vanhempien tärkeäksi kokemia perinteitä ja arvoja.”

Yhteydenpitoa ja odotuksia yli rajojen

Myös ylirajaiset asiat vaikuttavat perheisiin Suomessa. Suvun velvoitteisiin vastaaminen on monelle hyvin konkreettinen asia etenkin silloin, jos nälänhätä tai kriisit entisessä kotimaassa vahvistuvat.

Kokoomus proves it again: racism coupled with nationalism is a good fix before a parliamentary election

Posted on January 19, 2023 by Migrant Tales

Perussouomalaiset (PS)* head Riikka Purra wasn’t the only one overjoyed by the latest Helsingin Sanomat opinion poll, which showed the radical-right party overtaking the Social Democrats to second place after the National Coalition Party (Kokoomus). Behind Purra was Kokoomus chief Petteri Orpo, gleeing.

Finns will go to the polls on April 4 to elect 200 MPs.

While observers debate the reasons behind the good showing of the PS, we can cite three:

Fear-mongering about minority youths in gangs.
President Sauli Niinistö’s endorsement of that fear.
Kokoomus’ willingness to form a right-wing government with the PS.

**Then Interior Minister Petteri Orpo said that Finland will immigration removal centers to deport asylum seekers whose asylum application has been rejected. Source: *Yle*.**

Orpo and former Prime Minister Juho Sipilä rejected the PS in 2017 after the party split in two because the party was led by Jussi Halla-aho, who was convicted in 2012 for ethnic agitation and for breaching the sanctity of religion.

Sipilä’s government didn’t need the PS since the newly formed faction, Blue Reform, was there to offer its support to keep the government intact.

I am worried about the amnesia of political parties like Kokoomus, the media, and many politicians who don’t see racism as a problem. One good example is Purra’s promotion of ethnonationalist ideology by suggesting that Finland should exclude foreigners from getting social welfare. Not one newspaper in Finland, never mind a single politician, denounced what she said.

Exposing white Finnish privilege #91: The right to generalize and victimize minorities

Posted on January 16, 2023 by Migrant Tales

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Those who are worried about the blow to the credibility of the security guards due to several scandals that even led to the death of a woman in Espoo are quick to point out one should not jump to conclusions and label all security guards and the sector.

True, we should always be careful not to generalize.

There is, however, something wrong with that defense. The same people who are saying that we must not generalize are the ones who constantly generalize about migrants.

President Sauli Niinistö, who is no friend of Finland’s culturally diverse communities, added more feathers to tarred minority youths in the ongoing debate on youth crime. Source: *Yle*

Downplaying the problem is also an important part of the narrative about white crime versus crime committed by minorities.

Sanna Marin: Bravo for stating that the PS is a racist party! Better late than never.

Posted on January 14, 2023 by Migrant Tales

Politicians like Prime Minister Sanna Marin have offered long-overdue leadership when challenging racism in Finnish politics by stating what many know: The Perussuomalaiset (PS)* is a racist party.

“Looking at the speeches of individual [PS] MPs, these speeches have been racist and genuinely hostile to certain minorities,” said Marin in a debate with Petteri Orpo, the chairperson of the National Coalition Party (Kokoomus). “There is no denying this; it is a fact. I don’t understand why we politicians should smile and pretend that these speeches are not real.”

Two PS MPs, Vilhelm Junnil and Veikko Vallin, showing off their MAGA caps by former President Urho Kekkonen’s bust. Does a “normal” party cack President Donald Trump after all the revelations of financial crimes and coup plotting? Source: Facebook

Finnish politicians need to be faster to react to the rise of the PS. In the 2011 parliamentary election, when it won 39 seats from 5 seats previously, Finnish political parties like the Social Democrats wanted to capitalize politically on anti-immigration sentiment.

Riikka Purra: I am a racist and proud of it!

Posted on January 13, 2023March 18, 2024 by Migrant Tales

After the leaders of the Social Democrats, Greens, and Left Alliance announced that they would not form part of a future government with the radical-right Perussuomalaiset (PS),* Riikka Purra has lashed out against her party’s critics.

The latest racist talking points of the PS is excluding foreigners from getting social welfare and creating a modern Nordic apartheid state where foreigners would be legally second-class citizens.

The knee-jerk reaction by Purra is because the three parties don’t see the PS as “a normal party” and therefore do not wish to sit in the same government as her Islamophobic party.

Purra tweets: “There is nothing to hide, nothing to be ashamed of, nothing to hide about our (party’s) values. We are a nationalist and patriotic party defending Finland and Finnishness. I am very proud of our concept of humanity and our values.”

**Do you see any visible minorities in the picture? Maybe one. Source: Twitter**

Finland’s security business sector must be placed under greater scrutiny

Posted on January 12, 2023 by Migrant Tales

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I always ask if the politician or public official will change anything or keep the status quo. The answer you may get offers rapid insight into the problem.

The security business scandal grew Thursday when a former Securitas manager is suspected of aggravated fraud in a fictitious case involving protection for a possible victim of an honor killing. The amount of money obtained fraudulently, together with a social worker of the Center for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment (ELY Centres), was “about three million euros,” according to MTV.

The alleged crime happened between November 2021 and September 2022. The suspect was detained for a month by the police and freed in November, but he is still a suspect.

The different shortcomings, even fatal as happened in Iso Omena on Saturday, of security companies, reveal a wider problem that has come to the public light thanks to the little scrutiny of the business.

It is a good matter that Minister of the Interior Krista Mikkonen wants a full investigation of the sector. “It is safe to say that these are not isolated cases, as there have been several recently,” she was quoted as saying in Yle.

Good start Minister Mikkonen but why do you make such a statement now? Didn’t you suspect anything before?

If we follow the news, some matters reveal themselves: downplaying the problem by the heads of Securitas, Jarmo Mikkonen, and Avarn Security, Niklas Saklén; (2) downplaying the problem by politicians like Perussuomalaiset (PS)* MP Mari Rantanen; (3) downplaying the problem by using the police and so-called “security experts” as sources by the media; (4) downplaying or not even citing ethnic profiling by security guards.

PS MP Rantanen, who heads the parliamentary administration committee, said in A-studio, that the scandal has surprised her and that we should not label all security workers.

The PS is “offended” because they are not treated as a “normal” party

Posted on January 11, 2023 by Migrant Tales

Bravo, Social Democratic Prime Minister Sanna Marin! Bravo, Green League Minister of the Environment Maria Ohisalo! Bravo, Left Alliance Minister of Education and Culture Li Anderson! Bravo for stating in plain Finnish that your parties would not form part of a new government with the radical right Perussuomalaiset (PS).*

When the PS took 39 seats in the 2011 parliamentary elections from 5 seats previously, the country has not been the same. But could you expect from a party that bases its support on racism, nationalism, and fascism.

Academic researchers like Oul Silvenoinen consider the PS a radical-right party with ties to openly hostile and violent groups like Suomen Sisu, Soldiers of Odin, Kansallismielisten liitouma (National Alliance), Sinimusta Liike (Black-and-Blue Movement), the banned neo-Nazi Pohjoismainen vastarintaliike, and others.

If you listen to the PS chairperson, Riikka Purra,
she wants to turn Finland into a Nordic apartheid state where white and naturalized Finns have all the rights. Her latest outburst is to exclude foreigners from getting social welfare.

It’s been 11 years since the 2011 election, and, certainly, the PS believes and wants you to believe it is “a normal” party, which explains why the party appears offended by the SDP, Green League, and Left Alliance not wanting to be in the same government as it.

A PS ad for the municipal elections. It reads: “National clean-up day. A woman with dyed blonde hair and wearing a national dress is throwing parties like the Left Alliance, Center Party, SDP, and Greens into the hazardous waste bin. UFFE, which aims to promote ecological, social, and economic sustainability, recycles Antifa, feminism, communism, globalism, and BLM. Source: Facebook

Media Monitoring Group of Finland*: HS can and should do a better job when reporting on Riikka Purra

Posted on January 10, 2023 by Migrant Tales

Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party chairperson, Riikka Purra, has actively promoted her racist talking points. Some of these are the far-right great replacement theory and, most recently, her party’s aim to exclude non-Finnish citizens from getting social welfare.

While such a suggestion may appear for now a political stunt to lure voters, Purra’s suggestion is outrageous, to say the least. Did the media see it in the same way?

Nope.

Did any newspaper write an editorial about Purra’s statement?

Nope.

Apart from demonizing foreigners and minorities, her plan has the same ring as the Nurenburg Race Laws, which effectively excluded Jews from German society.

Even if the Nurenburg Race Laws came into force in 1935, Purra’s suggestion could be a modern version of the latter. The idea is the same: label, victimize and exclude whole groups.

Helsingin Sanomat does some fine reporting, but sometimes it falls flat on its face.

The story about Purra’s suggestion to exclude foreigners from receiving social welfare is a good example of deficient or lazy reporting.

No comment, silence, not even a squeak from Kokoomus about plans to officially disenfranchise foreigners in Finland

Posted on January 9, 2023 by Migrant Tales

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Being a minority in Finland is being nearly always suspicious of official intentions.

Perussuomalaiset (PS)* chairperson Riikka Purra reiterated her party’s aim to exclude foreign residents from getting social welfare. According to her, the only ones who qualify for social welfare are Finnish citizens.

The radical-right politician added that such plans would not materialize in the next political term but was a long-range plan.

The fact that she can make such a statement reveals a lot about how racism has entered Finnish politics. Her party’s aim is synonymous with what is happening in Afghanistan today with women’s rights.

**This Facebook post was made in 2019. Today, the PS is the second-most popular party in a *YLE* poll.**

But the icing on the racist cake is the silence coming from parties like the National Coalition Party (Kokoomus) and others concerning Purra’s statement about disenfranchising foreign residents in Finland. After a second try, Kokoomus’ head of communication, Kirsi Holtta, said that the party not believe that social security should be based on nationality.