Perussuomnalaiset (PS)* MP Ano Turtiainen [1], who was expelled from the parliamentary group Thursday, but could rejoin the group after the end of the year if he had changed his racist ways.
To this offer, Turtiainen gave a redundant no.
“I am not going to request joining [the parliamentary group] again, but they can come to ask me with cap in hand,” he was quoted as saying in Yle.
Turtianen admitted that the racist tweet about George Floyd was a mistake and placed the blame on people who don’t understand “dark humor.”
“Dark humor?” Since when did Turtiainen start a new career as a comedian?
Turtiainen said that he was planning to create a one-man party in parliament and was unsure if he’d take part in the municipal elections of Juva next year.
US-based Elitelts announced Friday that it is ending its business relationship with Ano Turtiainen’s company, Metal Sport & Gear. Source: Facebook.
Considering Turtiainen’s racist and offensive style, few will miss him and hope that he will only serve one term as MP.
Turtianen was elected in 2019 to parliament with 3,264 votes.
In a Yle election compass, Turtiainen’s view on immigration should not come to any surprise.
In one recent 2:36-minute monologue, which was taken down, Peltokangas used the following swear words every 20 seconds:
Shit (paska): 2 times
Fucked (perseestä): 2 times
What the hell, hell (mitä helevetti, helevetti): 2
The devil (perkele): 2
A Peltokangas monologue is like watching Benito Mussolini speaking from a balcony.
There are differences, however. One speaks Finnish and the other Italian; one wears glasses on his forehead while the other one does not wear glasses; one was in politics from the 1920s until he was hung lifeless by the feet in Milan in 1945, while the other one is building a political career today.
Check out the two videos and their loud-mouthed crude populist pomposity below and tell me if Peltokangas and Mussolini aren’t two peas in a pod.
For some strange reason, the video below where Peltokangas rants like Mussolini was taken down.
Since the PS are in government, they have been trying to clean up their acts. This involved whitewashing their racist rants.
The Perussuomalaiset (PS)* parliamentary group unanimously expelled Thursday MP Ano Turtiainen [1] until the end of the year for posting a racist tweet about the death of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.
“The suspension is permanent,” PS parliamentary group leader Ville Tavio was quoted as saying in Yle. “We had a discussion that if he wanted, Turtiainen could apply for membership in the [parliamentary] group after the end of the year if he’s corrected his behavior for good.”
Turtainen’s Facebook page is strangely quiet and makes no mention about the suspension. Source: Facebook.
Why wasn’t Turtiainen sacked permanently from the party? Because he wasn’t, it is difficult to assess if the outrage of the PS is genuine or just a publicity stunt.
I suspect the PS parliamentary group to be disingenuous. No matter how racist your ideas are, you will always find a home in the PS even after you’ve been expelled.
Apart from placing George Floyd’s purple-colored face on the pavement before he was killed with the words “Pink Floyd,” it is the comment the former PS MP made that was equally disturbing.
In the racist tweet, which he took down Wednesday, claimed that as blacks get more rights, the more unruly they become and the more difficult it is to put them in their places.
Turtainen did not offer any apologies to George Floyd’s family, #BlackLivesMatter, Finnish people of color and people of African decent, but stated that he took down the tweet because it harmed the party.
[1] ”Ano” is a real name in Finland. The equivalent name for women is Anna. The translation of “ano” in Spanish is the anus.
Migrants search for hope. Their searching offer us hope.
Fourteen-year-old Ilayta’s family history and her drawings offer a glimpse of what hope is. They were searching for five years for a new home in Greece, and four years in Finland finally paid off in July 2019, when they were given a residence permit in Finland.
Uncertainty and deportationalways fiollowed them during those years like a shadow.
A long and grueling nine-year journey for Ilayta and her family that came to a happy ending in July 2019. From left to right: Sabah, Donya, and Ilayta.
Migrant Tales wrote about Ilayta and her family in January 2019.
“Their daughter [then] 13 years old and she speaks at least five languages. Since she is the only one who can speak Finnish, she not only interprets language but the family’s anxiety and fear.”
Despite that difficult phase of their lives, Ilayta draws a picture of a bird below to symbolize their new beginning in Finland.
“I drew a bird because it expresses freedom,” she said. “As asylum seekers, we weren’t free because everyone told us what to do. Now we are free [to get on with our lives].”
“Lintu on vappa ja se lentää niin kin muutkin linnut taivassa.” Translation: “The bird is free and its flies like other birds in the sky.” Drawing by Ilayta S.
“I want to become a language teacher and teach you people,” she said.
Ilayta speaks Turkmen, Finnish,, Greek, English, Finnish, and a little Swedish which she has learned at school.
“Speaking a language is important,” she continued. “Speaking five languages is like being five persons. Problems can be solved more easily because each langague offers a different perspetive.”
“Voi olla hyvää jos noi ulkomaalaiset ei olisi täällä! Älä arvostele toisi niiten ulkonään perusteella, et voi ikinä tiedää ne on kokenut!” Translation: “It may be a good matter if those foreigners weren’t here. Don’ judge others based on their appearance since you can never know what they have gone through!
We wish Ilayta and her family the best and how to write more stories about their lives in Finland.
Poor timing by Ano Turtiainen? Today, people in Helsinki demonstrated in solidarity with George Floyd and #BlackLivesMatter, according to Yle News. At the same time, Perussuomalaiset (PS)* MP Ano Turtianen mocks at the death of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.
Today’s demonstration to show support for George Floyd was a great show of solidarity by the people of Helsinki. What didn’t sit well now or ever a racist horse’s ass tweet by PS MP Turtainen denigrating George Floyd’s memory.
Demonstrators show their support for George Floyd and against police brutality at Helsinki’s Senate Square this afternoon. Source: Twitter
Turtiainen’s “joke?” It was apparently George Floyd’s wide-eyed face full of terror colored purple with the name of the 1960s rock band “Pink Floyd.”
Cruel, racist, and unbecoming of an MP but that’s not all he tweets. Turtainen stated that as black people get more rights, they become more unruly. He suggested that going back to Jim Crow and slavery would be an effective way of keeping blacks in line.
People should organize to do everything possible that MPs like Turtiainen don’t get reelected in 2023.
Meanwhile, PS parliamentary group leader Ville Tavio told Iltalehti that Turtiainen would face disciplinary action for the tweet.
Disciplinary action?! Why not sack him from the party?
Migrant Tales insight:The story below was published by Migrant Tales in June 2018. It is about a Moroccan who married a Finn but deported to his native country. We received on April 23 from “Majid” the following message: “My wife died.”
We will update this story after they perform an autopsy on his late wife.
As we expressed then and now, our heartfelt condolences go to Majid.
A Moroccan called Majid* got in touch with Migrant Tales who was deported in October despite marriage to a Finnish woman. The Finnish Immigration Service (Migri) claims that the marriage was arranged, but he denies such a claim. He is presently awaiting a decision by the administrative court to overturn Migri’s decision.
Majid was deported from Finland in October and he can not return to the country and the Schengen area for two years. He knows another Moroccan who was married to a Finn and who was deported like him.
Asylum seekers have had a tough time in Finland as our laws have tightened. This protestor went on a hunger strike in front of the little parliament in 2016.
“Ours is not a fake marriage,” the man said by phone from Morocco. “I love my wife very much, and she is very sad about our separation. My wife visited me, and she stayed with me for three months. It is expensive to travel back and forth from Finland to Morocco.”
According to Majid, his short time in Finland went well and he was able to adapt and be a part of society.
“I was living a normal life,” he continued. “I am a tolerant person with goals and who wanted to achieve them. I wanted to learn Finnish. When they deported me I was studying the Finnish language at a school seven kilometers from home. I used to walk or bike to school.”
Majid came to Finland in February 2016 and asked for asylum. His request was later turned down by Migri.
“I went to Migri in March [2017] to tell them about my marriage, which happened in the previous month,” he said. “Despite being married, they said I had to leave Finland because my request for asylum was turned down. That’s when the police took me to Metsälä [immigration removal center] where I was detained for a month.”
After moving to Finland and living in Oulu, Majid moved to Helsinki and lived with a Moroccan friend for four months. It is during this time when he met his future wife on the Internet. “We met, and we hit it off very well,” he said.
Even if Majid claims that the interview with Migri went well about his marriage to his wife, he claims that the police have done everything possible to destroy his marriage.
“The police told my wife that it was a mistake to marry a foreigner,” he said. “They told her that they know of many cases where foreign men take advantage of Finnish women. They marry just to get a residence permit.”
The man’s problems got worse when the police in a northern Finnish city asked him to come to the station.
“That’s when they detained me and locked me up in a police cell for three days,” he continued. “The only way I can see my wife for only a half an hour is in a city [abut 100km away] because there was no meeting room with a glass separation.”
Majid said that after two nights they woke him up at 4 am and said he was going to be deported. He could not call his lawyer or wife because the police took his phone.
“I was taken to Oulu, then to Helsinki, to Paris, where I boarded a plane with the police to Casablanca,” he said.
Despite all the legal problems and the battle with the authorities, Majid is hopeful that the administrative court will overrule Migri’s decision.
“I love my wife, I love Finland, and want to make my home in that country,” he concluded.
* The name of the person was changed to protect his identity.
Perussuomalaiset (PS) vice president and MP, Riikka Purra, likes to talk tough against Muslims and people of color. Her whole political message hinges on one overriding matter: spreading hatred and suspicion of Muslims.
Source: Goodreads.
Purra’s Islamophobic rants and prejudices expose in the raw her political opportunism and self-deception. Her Twitter page is peppered with anti-Muslim racist tweets and one wonders if she sees Muslims under her bed.
Her most recent tirade (surprise, surprise) is of the Muslim Ramadan celebrations, which ended over the weekend. She claimed in a tweet that schools in Vantaa had made Eid celebration an official holiday.
Eid is a celebration commemorating the end to Ramadan.
Here is a tweet from the City of Vantaa stating that Eid isn’t an official holiday at schools. I wonder from where Purra copied this line of attack. Denmark, maybe? Source: Twitter.
What Purra tweeted could not be further from the truth. It did, however, expose a tactic used by racist politicians like her. Make an incredible statement. It is beside the point, even if her claim is misleading since the news has already reached her followers.
Like all of the PS MPs, Purra has made a name for herself with the help of Islamophobia.
Imagine the leader of Finland’s biggest opposition party equating masturbation and immigration. In this tweet, he says that we would have no reason to masturbate if there were no news about migration and asylum seekers.Source: Twitter.
Her persona is such that if Muslims did not exist, she would target and shoot her diatribe against Jews, Roma and other minorities.
It does not take much to understand on which side Purra and the PS would be in Adolf Hitler’s Germany.
Perussuomalaiset (PS) chairperson Jussi Halla-aho is on a roll: Heading south in opinion polls, he now wants Finland to ditch the euro “immediately.” That follows another demand: exit international refugee agreements so that no Muslims can seek asylum in Finland.
If Halla-aho, who is considered Finland’s number one racist politician, has his way, it will isolate the country in the same way as Hungary and help install a fascist state.
Trump’s biggest fans in Finland are Jussi Halla-aho and the PS. In the tweet above, he states that he digs Trump and believes that the US president is the best thing that happened to the United States and the Western World. Source: Twitter.
An old friend from New York who has lived in Finland for over forty years does not believe that the PS will ever have the opportunity to turn Finland into a Hungary.
“I look at it this way,” he said, “even if 17%-18% of people vote for this party it means that over 80% don’t.”
Moreover, for the PS to turn Finland into a fascist state based on ethnonationalism, they’d have to get a simple majority or 2/3 of the seats in parliament to change the constitution.
Even if people know that the PS is nothing more than racist and populist hot air, the ineptitude of the party will be their final judge and downfall.
The lead story on the Yle website on Wednesday kicks off with the following headline: “Latest coronavirus news: 70 people are in quarantine from a Vantaa school, a record number of infections globally.”
It seems like a standard headline, but wait. For some reason, there is a picture of a black person wearing a facemask at the Helsinki Railway Station.
Is there a connection between the black person in the picture and the news? There is not even a caption for the picture, so no clues why Yle chose a black person to go with the story. You read on, but there is nothing that connects him to the news briefs.
At this point, you may ask why there is a black person in the story.
What does this person in the picture have to do with the news published by Yle? None. Read the full story here.
The answer? A good example of how media like Yle racializes news and in the process reinforces stereotypes about minorities like blacks.
There are a lot of fakes out there imitating the Finnish coat of arms and distorting and corrupting what it stands for. If you are going to become a naturalized Finn, you cannot fail this part of the citizenship test.
On paljon feikkejä, jotka imitoivat olevansa Suomen vaakuna ja vääristävät ja korruptoivat mitä se edustaa. Jos sinusta tule Suomen kansalainen, et voi vastata väärin tämä kysymys kansalaisuustestissä.
The correct answer is D. A (Juha Mäenpää), B (Ano Turtiainen, PS), and C (Mauri Peltokangas) are fakes and are members of the Islamophobic Perussuomalaiset* party. Oikea vastaus on D. A (Juha Mäenpää), B (Ano Turtiainen) ja C (Mauri Peltokangas) ovat feikkejä ja perussuomalaisia. Sources Facebook and google.com
