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Riikka Purra’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde mask

Posted on May 12, 2026May 27, 2026 by Migrant Tales

“When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate.”

Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu, the anti-apartheid activist who won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, warns that we risk becoming what we hate if we allow our hatred to get the best of us. If there is one party in Finland whose hatred has converted it to something toxic and pathological, that party is none other than the Perussuomalaiset (PS)*.

The PS and its politicians, like Riikka Purra, act like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. On the one hand, they may make reasonable statements and then go off the wall with their usual xenophobia.

At a recent party convention in Helsinki, Purra said: “I don’t want left-wing and Center Party-led ‘red-brown’ governments at the helm of our country; I don’t want massive tax hikes; and I don’t want the government’s top priority to be recognizing Palestine—as Vice Chair (Nasima) Razmyar just outlined.”

Apart from threatening to take away social welfare for people who have lived here for less than ten years, she made it a point with Interior Minister Mari Rantanen that white Finns will not have to change anything when more foreigners move to the country.

Blow is an example of the PS’ Mr Hyde mask.

Interior Minister Mari Rantanen (left) and Finance Minister Rikka Purra stated that Muslims should be kicked out of Finland. “Finland and Finnishness are based on Christian values,” said Rantanen. Purra considered Islam an “aggressive” culture that is preying on Finns’ tolerance, friendliness, and kindness. “But Finns must not give up their language, culture, values, nothing to such groups.” Facebook

One of the best monitors of Islamophobia in Finland and Europe is the European Islamophobia Report.

Finland’s central figures in the Islamophobia network:

“PS continues to be one of the most important platforms of Finland’s Islamophobic
network. All of the elected 46 MPs (out of a total of 216) of the Finns Party based
their campaign on anti-Muslim and xenophobic themes. PS ministers like Riikka
Purra (Finance), Mari Rantanen (Interior), Wille Rydman (former Economic Affairs),
Leena Meri (Justice), Ville Tavio (Foreign Trade), and Jussi Halla-aho (Speaker of Parliament) have all spread the Great Replacement theory with little to no consequences.
Tavio and the government have gone as far as to link development aid to accepting
deportees. MEP Sebastian Tynkkynen, who has three ethnic agitation convictions,
and MP Kaisa Garedew both want Islam to be banned in Finland. Halla-aho, who
was convicted in 2012 of ethnic agitation and of breaching the sanctity of religion,
pressed charges against a comedian and deputy Helsinki councilor for calling him “a
fascist.”

What is the plan in Venezuela? Who is next? Greenland? Mexico? Cuba?

Posted on January 5, 2026January 6, 2026 by Migrant Tales

One of the big questions about the US invasion of Venezuela is what is the next step. Does th Trump régime have a plan? Or is it the first step in the Western Hemisphere to control Greenland, Mexico, and Cuba? Is it a message to China to takeover Taiwan an Russia to overtake Ukraine and parts of Europe, like the Baltic States?

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There’s not much that could be done in the US since Trump’s Republicans control Congress and the Senate. Mid-term elections are in November.

Apart from the wreckless foreign policy, and to add insult to injury, Trump is wishing for some Noble Peace Prize for his reckless policies that will lead to no good.

The Monroe and Donroe Doctrines. Sources: Expansion and rouming.cz

If anything, Trump’s about-turn in domestic and foreign policy reveals that his administration, led by the likes of Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio and other far-right politicians, shows how low we have fallen by giving big business, and wealth power. These will eventually receive their comeuppance in the end, if we don’t destroy before ourselves through catastrophes like war and disregard for the environment.

Apart from scaring the wits out of the US’ allies, it is clear that if the goal is money and wealth, nothing lasting can come out of it. The tiptoeing around Trump of the EU and Finland’s President Alexander Stubb is nothing short of disgraceful.

Stubb, like the European Commission, has given his blessing to the inhumane treatment of asylum seekers at our borders. He has blessed the pushback law, which give the Finnish border guards the right to turn back without due process any asylum seeker.

I wonder when Stubb will play golf with Trump again?

What the Trump administration is doing is awakening the fighting spirits of Malcolm X, Eldridge Cleaver, Angela Davis, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Tamara “Tania” Bunke, Nelson Mandela, Rosa Luxemburg, Eva Perón, Mahatma Gandhi, Frederick Duglass, Martin Luther King Jr., Toussaint L’Ouverture, Karl Marx, Emiliano Zapata, Frantz Fanon and many, many others.

We have wonderful examples of the wisdom and learnings on how such people pushbed back oppression and injustice.

The latter list of social fighters gives me hope in 2026.

Donald Trump, your country is going to hell!

Posted on September 24, 2025September 24, 2025 by Migrant Tales

Only one conclusion arises after listening to President Donald Trump’s rant in the United States: culture war. This war aims to not only shift political power globally, but also in Europe from the center to the hard right.

Trump said that if we do not close our borders, forget about the climate crisis, and stop buying Russian oil, “our countries are going to hell.”

Apart from European far-right Trump sympathizers like Viktor Orbán of Hungary and Italy’s Georgia Meloni, there are several other cheerleaders in Finland, mainly from the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party.

Vice President J.D. Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference, which many see as a turning point in EU-U.S. relations, was one where he downplayed the threat of Russia, claiming that Europe’s greatest security threat was unregulated migration and the exclusion of far-right political groups. In the face of widespread condemnation, PS Minister of Finance Riikka Purra praised Vance’s words as a great speech. “Freedom, freedom of speech, democracy; threats from within, inability to fight illegal immigration,” Purra posted on X.

If Purra’s comment was made in Spring, the latest one praising Trump came from Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Ville Tavio:

Writes Tavio on Facebook: “I don’t know how the mainstream media will report on this, but I listened to Trump’s speech at the UN today, and he made a lot of valid points about how open border policies are leading Europe to hell.
Trump said that so-called asylum seekers are rewarding generosity with crime. European prisons are full of foreigners, who already make up more than half of the prison population in many countries.
According to Trump, the migrant problem should be tackled head-on and those who do not belong in the country should be deported, but decision-makers are doing nothing because of political correctness.
He also highlighted climate action as a failed scam that is impoverishing Europe and enriching China and others. Trump believed that Europeans are chasing unrealistic carbon targets and end up paying more for electricity and gasoline than others.
Trump made these remarks to world leaders at the UN General Assembly, where it is unusual to hear such blunt talk that deviates from the narrative familiar to the mainstream media. What do you think?
Will Europe finally take itself in hand, or will it continue to hush things up and bury its head in the sand?”

One wonders what can be done in light of this onslaught. For one, we should not give in and always place our arguments on the rule of law. Racism, for example, is against the law.

The last dictatorship (1976-83) we had in Argentina seemed invincible. Their downward spiral began when their mistaken invincibility turned against them, causing them to do foolish and terrible things.

The same is happening with Trump.

Convicted openly racist and fascist party MP candidate eyes parliament

Posted on March 6, 2023 by Migrant Tales

Ville Nurmela, a candidate for the openly racist and fascist Sinimusta Liike convicted for ethnic agitation and vandalizing the Turku synagogue in 2020, is running for parliament, according to Helsingin Sanomat, Finland’s largest daily.

A former member of Finland’s neo-Nazi group, Nurmela has convictions for using and possessing explosives, assault rifle cartridge cases, and drugs.

Writes Ville Nurmela (left):” I am a 29-year-old metal worker, athlete, and war veteran from Uusakaupunki.
I have years of experience in street-level activism, and the [fascist] Sinimusta Liike is my first step into party politics. I am the secretary of the party’s Southwest Finland chapter and running for parliament in the next election.
I favor policies that support large Finnish families with children, our [markka] currency, domestic entrepreneurship, and complete political independence [from the EU]. I was ready to defend Europe’s freedom in a war against Russia. I am prepared to do the same today for Finland, but by parliamentary means.” See [right] *Migrant Tales*.

In an interview with STT in December, Sinimusta Liike chairperson Tuukka Kuru admitted that the party could be considered openly racist and fascist.

According to investigative journalism by Helsingin Sanomat, other Sinimusta Liike candidates for parliament were convicted of various crimes.

How the PS and other European far-right leaders celebrate Brothers of Italy victory

Posted on September 26, 2022 by Migrant Tales

Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy election victory received applause from several far-right European leaders and the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party. While the PS chairperson Riikka Purra and the former leader of the party, Jussi Halla-aho, allowed MEP Laura Huhtasaari and Olli Immonen to do the talking.

As we saw in Sweden on September 11, Sunday’s election was another political earthquake ushering to power a far-right leader for the first time since fascist dictator Benito Mussolini ruled the country.

Adulations from far-right European leaders were quick to come, haling Meloni’s victory as a political game changer for the region.

You can read the far-right’s reaction here.

In Finland, and since the PS leadership was too chicken to congratulate Meloni directly, even if the party forms part of the far-right and pro-Russian EU parliamentary group Identity and Democracy, Huhtasaari, and Immonen, chairperson of the far-right Suomen Sisu, showered praise.

Remember Huhtasaari? Apart from her alternate-reality statements and selfies with Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán, Huhtasaari said in an interview that all parties on the center-left are communists, even the conservative National Coalition Party.

With parliamentary elections in April, the PS is trying – but failing – to look like a straight party. It may explain why Purra is so quiet about the Italian election.

And wouldn’t you know it? Praising the inhumane and illegal Greek push-back policy, the PS encourages the new Italian government to get even tougher with asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants crossing the Mediterranean.

Tens of thousands of people have died crossing the Mediterranean. Matters are expected to get worse, according to UN News.

Melloni, her minions in the PS, and other far-right European parties believe that inhumane and let-them-drown policies will convince people to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.

Such parties are part of a conspiracy to replace our democracies with failed political experiments of the past that ended up hanging a dead Mussolini from his feet in Milan in 1945.

European far-right parties are part of a conspiracy to replace our democracies

Posted on September 25, 2022 by Migrant Tales

A paradox: “Liberal” Nordic countries like Finland have large far-right parties that feed off racism.

If I were to use the racist rhetoric of the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party to solve social problems, I’d be lost. Solutions, like tougher laws, more restrictions, enforcing marginalization, and strengthening institutional racism, would leave me in a bind.

Fearmongering and stirring up the us-and-them message is the bread and butter of parties like the PS. They have nothing to offer except to feed your prejudices and embolden your hatred.

Politicians like PS chairperson Riikka Purra and Jussi Halla-aho are fortune tellers. All they can do is tell us the horrible things migrants will do if we let them in Finland.

The latest prank by the PS is to end Russian tourists from coming to the country. They claim that these people are a security threat. What about if some of these Russians are fleeing Putin’s terror? OK, I get it: the plan is to restrict asylum seekers from coming to Finland.

The ad by the youth chapter of the PS received a lot of criticism on **social media. It reads: “Russians vacationing in Finland…genocide in Ukraine. Close the border.”**

As the sign in Helsinki shows, it is time to close our easter border with Russia because there is “genocide in Ukraine.”

PS MP Juha Mäenpää warned that asylum seekers could spark a civil war in Finland

Posted on September 7, 2022 by Migrant Tales

US President Joe Biden warned in a recent speech that his country’s democracy is in peril. He pointed the finger at former President Donald Trump’s MAGA (Make America Great Again or Make Attorneys Get Attorneys) followers.

We asked in a recent posting if Biden labeled MAGA Republicans “semi-fascists,” why couldn’t we call the far-right Perussuonalaiset (PS)* the same?

Even if the PS’ and other radical-right followers have not yet stormed Parliament like on January 6 at the Capitol, the party’s far-right brand of rhetoric has caused a lot of harm to our democratic institutions. The hate speech they spread against migrants and minorities is one of many examples.

True, the PS wants to sanitize its hateful rhetoric because they want to form part of a next government after the April parliamentary election.

Who is Mäenpää? He’s the PS MP who called asylum seekers “invasive species” and did not face an ethnic agitation charges since his parliamentary immunity was not lifted.

If Biden calls MAGA Republicans semi-fascists, why can’t we call the Perussuomalaiset the same?

Posted on September 2, 2022 by Migrant Tales

Like many analysts, US President Joe Biden’s “semi-fascism” remark did not go far enough. He should have just dropped the word semi and called them fascists. Taking into account how much the US democracy is in peril, shouldn’t it be time to call out the enemies by their real names?

The MAGA Republicans, who have Perussuomalaiset (PS)* followers like MPs Jussi Halla-aho, Veikko Vallin, Vilhelm Junnilla, and many others in Finland, are made from the same toxic brew.

There is nothing semi about MAGA Republican fascism. It’s the real thing, fair and square.

“MAGA Republicans want to take America backwards, backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love,” President Biden said.

In the same light, the PS is threatening and marginalizing minorities and migrants who should have limited civil rights. It’s clear that after the party passes now-unconstitutional laws to ensure that minorities and migrants are second-class members of society, they will go after other minorities like the Roma, Saami, gays, and others.

Exposing white privilege in Finland #84: Suomineidot offers refuge to privilege, white power, whitewashing, the far right and racism

Posted on March 26, 2022August 27, 2023 by Migrant Tales

Comments about the Yle television series on far-right young women, Suomineidot (Finnish Maidens), went viral, and for a good reason. Apart from revealing how much in the dark Yle is about racism and the far right, it also exposes white privilege in Finland.

In a nutshell, the series is about three young women:

Meri Kartta is a far-right ethnonationalist who hangs out with neo-Nazis.
Jasmin Ollikainen is an avid follower of Pentti Linkola, an ecofascist.
Liisa Siira is a member of the Islamophobic Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party.

One of the best arguments against the program is that it lacks context. The journalists who did the series acted as obedient stenographers instead of critical reporters.

Despite the criticism of the program, Yle defended the program in a tweet below:

“Improving our understanding of each other and the world is one of Yle’s aims. By confronting different points of view, we increase our understanding and empathy and challenging confrontation. If we understand the reasons behind a particular point of view, we may feel that it isn’t so threatening.”

Source: Twitter

Source: Yle

Do we want an openly Islamophobic prime minister that aims to exclude foreigners? I hope not!

Posted on January 26, 2022 by Migrant Tales

After the disastrous showing of the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* in Sunday’s regional election, the far-right party aims to win next year’s parliamentary election and have its chairperson, Riikka Purra, as prime minister.

Good luck with that, especially after the big election setback.

Even if the regional election will turn out to be a watershed for the PS, why would Finland want to have a prime minister from a party that openly promotes and spreads racism?

In one of the debates, Purra went as far as to say that Finland should exclude foreigners from getting social welfare. While most people know this would be unconstitutional, none of the media reported the comment by Purra.

PS Chairperson states in a nutshell: “Shouldn’t we little by little start to believe that mixing people, religions and cultures in the West is SINGULARLY A GOOD MATTER? Mass migration from developing countries and hostile cultures IS A PROBLEM. Beheading is only one expression.”

The regional election result must have sent shivers up the PS’ spine. Near-fool proof campaign Islamohpbic and xenophobic themes did not help the party.