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Kokoomus gives nod to Perussuomalaiset’s plan to tighten immigration policy

Posted on July 24, 2021 by Migrant Tales

The National Coalition Party (Kokoomus) MP Pia Kauma wants to tighten immigration law. It is strange that when most Finns are on holiday in the middle of the summer, Kauma intends to propose such changes.

Her party’s proposal should be seen as a green light to the Perussuomalaiset’s plan to tighten immigration policy if they win the next parliamentary elections in 2023.

While there is still a lot of work to make Finland a more inclusive country and tackle discrimination and racism, there is one problem with Kokoomus’ proposal: credibility.

For one, MP Kauma has little credibility to speak in earnest about immigration policy and integration, especially of people of color and visible migrants.

In 2014, Kauma started to attack Somali mothers. She pointed the accusing finger without any proof that at migrant mothers claiming that they bought with social aid new baby carriages while Finnish mothers bought used ones.

Kauma never backed her statements but at the end her claims were proven false and based on hearsay. She apologized later for her racist statements.

A satirical view below of how Kauma sees a migrant mother’s pram.

But what could be behind this stunt by Kauma and Kokoomus to tighten immigration policy? Is the party giving the nod to the Islamophobic Perussuomalaiset (PS)* that they too would be ready to tighten immigration policy if in government?

The heir-apparent of the PS, Riikka Purra, said earlier this month that it would never form part of a government that won’t significantly tighten Finnish immigration policy.

10 years after the 22/7 mass killings in Norway and what it reveals about us

Posted on July 22, 2021 by Migrant Tales

Ten years have passed since 22/7, and some Norwegians are still asking, “why?”

I remember that day as if it were yesterday. First, a bomb exploded in downtown Oslo, and what followed then were the cold-blooded murders of young people on Utøya island. A total of 77 people lost their lives on that day. Countless remained scarred by what happened for the rest of their lives.

22/7 happened as well about three months after the far-right Islamophobic Perussuomalaiset (PS)* scored their historic election victory. In a matter of four years, their numbers in parliament had swollen from five in the previous election to 39 MPs.

Few were asking – if not playing down – the political significance of the PS’ election victory ten years ago. They will implode in time just like the Rural Party did in the 1970s.

The PS was built from the ashes of the Rural Party.

After a decade, we can say with certainty the following: The PS has made Finland a more hostile place for migrants and minorities, polarized society, and fueled anti-EU sentiment.

The Norwegian mass murderer cited in his deranged manifesto his ideological allies of Finland.
One of the Finnish politicians that the Norwegian mass killer cities is PS chairperson Jussi Halla-aho.

He writes:

Below are the organizations that the mass murderer likes in Finland:

On this somber day, forced to return to the events that marred 22/7, the day is crueler because we have few answers to understand why.

“We have discussed the unpreparedness of the rescue services, the number of police officers we should have on the street, the number of helicopters, the memorials, Breivik’s mental health…” said Astrid Eide Hoem, a leader of the Social Democratic Party [AUF]. “But there was no discussion of the political ideology behind it.”

Just like the post 22/7 era, the far right is as strong as ever. Even mainstream parties like the Social Democrats of Denmark, one of the most Islamophobic countries of Europe, have adopted the policies and rhetoric of anti-Muslim racist parties like the Danish People’s Party.

In Finland, the PS has openly vowed to end Muslim asylum seekers from coming here and declared war on cultural and ethnic diversity.

It is not a fringe or minor party pursuing such aims in Finland, but the biggest opposition party threatening to win the next elections.

The mass murderer of Norway and his hateful ideology inspired many.

Education without empathy and moral compass can turn you into a monster

Posted on July 20, 2021 by Migrant Tales

The process to turn Finland’s far-right Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party wants to become “a normal mainstream” party continues. You see, they claim, we’re “normal” because we have physicists and party members, like Riikka Purra, working on their PhDs.

Sakari Puisto, who is also vying to be elected chairperson of the PS and Purra, has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Cambridge.

Whatever the PS and the media want to frame about Purra and Puisto, both are close allies of Jussi Halla-aho, who has a Ph.D. in linguistics but rose to power with his Islamophobic and racist rants.

Many PS politicians like Leena Meri, who are former police officers but believe that white privilege must be protected tooth and nail.

What is education worth if you have no empathy and lost your moral compass?

There were also many people with PhDs in Nazi Germany who took genocide to a new industrial scale.

Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels held a doctor of philosophy degree. That did not put any guardrails against his vehement anti-Semitism and did not stop him from murdering his six children before he and his wife took their lives in front of Hitler’s bunker during the last days of the war.

The list of Nazis with PhDs is a long one that proves over and over again that education does not automatically turn you into a human being with empathy.

Tens of far-right vigilantes are marching in Pori – I hope my fascination doesn’t show too much

Posted on July 18, 2021 by Migrant Tales

Wow! Looky here! Tens of far-right vigilantes called the Soldiers of Odin are marching in the western Finnish city of Pori! Quick! Take a picture and publish a story because tens of Soldiers of Odin vigilantes are marching in Pori.

The media has a lot of power, but it does not go the extra mile when reporting xenophobic and far-right stories.

The Satakunnan Kansa story states that the Soldiers of Odin are an anti-immigration group, which is correct. When they write about parties like the Perussuomalaiset (PS)*, which ties with the vigilante group, they rarely mention that they are too anti-immigration.

Apart from bias and the fact that all of Finland’s newsrooms are overwhelmingly white, very few editorials are written about a social ill like racism and its threat to Finnish society.

The marching vigilantes in Pori are another example of the fascination of some of the media to far-right groups.

If they don’t want Finland to become a Hungary or a country that places its democratic institutions under threat like in the United States, the national media has to do a much better job.

QUOTE OF THE DAY: The PS is the party of the nativist racists sprinkled with anti-EU soundbites

Posted on July 17, 2021 by Migrant Tales

“No matter what the far-right Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party does, no matter who it elects as its next chairperson, the shadow of racism will follow it. Even if people like Timo Soini said that the party’s anti-immigration wing was only a minor factor in the 2011 parliamentary election, nothing could be further from the truth. Like a junkie, the PS and its voters need their daily fix of nativist racism sprinkled with anti-EU soundbites.”

**“White power” graffiti in Miikkeli. Photo: Enrique Tessieri**

(Migrant Tales, July 9, 2021): A quote for Riikka Purra – “If you can only be tall because someone is on their knees, then you have a serious problem”

Posted on July 9, 2021 by Migrant Tales

Who is Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party heir-apparent Riikka Purra’s mentor? Is it far-right leader Marine Le Pen of France’s National Rally or UK home secretary hardliner Priti Patel?

Purra got her anti-immigration inspiration from Jussi Halla-aho’s racist blog postings. “If it’s up to me, the Perussuomalaiset will never form part of a government that won’t tighten significantly Finnish immigration policy,” she was quoted as saying in Helsingin Sanomat.

Even if she plans to stop Muslim and non-EU asylum seekers from entering Finland, it is doubtful that she will succeed.

Her Islamophobic views are only meant for voter consumption and to provoke others.

What arrogance and bullying on her part. Let’s pick on the most vulnerable people in our society like asylum seekers and push and shove them around like trash so they’ll remain on their knees.

Do Marine Le Pen and Riikka Purra dye their hair blonde to emphasize their whiteness? Priti Patel would look ridiculous as a blonde.

Even if I know Purra will never succeed in molding Finland into her closed and Islamophobic world, I want to send her greetings from the late Toni Morrison, who asks what you would be without racism.

Riikka Purra is a poor copy of Jussi Halla-aho

Posted on June 23, 2021 by Migrant Tales

Perussuomalaiset (PS)* Jussi Halla-aho’s heir-apparent appears to be the party’s first vice-president, Riikka Purra. While Halla-aho has swung the party to the far-right and encouraging xenophobia, Purra has parroted the PS leader’s racist soundbites but with questionable results.

Like Halla-aho, Purra loathes Muslims and people of color. So much so, in fact, that she warned about ethnic replacement hogwash and how Finland’s population was becoming more diverse. In her book, brown, Afro Finns and other visible minorities are a threat to white Finland.

You don’t need to have a lot of knowledge on politics to understand that most of the catchphrases used by the PS have their origin from other xenophobic groups in Europe. One of these used in the last municipal elections was “take Finland back.”

**Is it a coincidence that the PS copies xenophobic catchphrases from other EU countries and parties? Source: CityA.M.**

Writes the Finnish Security Police (Supo) in its last-year report: “One of the most noteworthy ideological motives of far-right terrorists is known as the Great Replacement conspiracy theory based on the idea of a fundamental threat posed by immigration and multiculturalism to the white population of Western countries. Views reflecting the idea of a Great Replacement have been highlighted in several far-right terrorist attacks.”

Jussi Halla-aho announces he will step down as PS chair in August

Posted on June 21, 2021 by Migrant Tales

Perussuomalaiset (PS)* Chairperson Jussi Halla-aho announced Monday that he will not seek reelection as the party’s head at the annual meeting in August, according to Yle News. While some party members expressed sadness about the news, Halla-aho will not be missed by many.

No reason was given for his departure. There is, however, some speculation that Halla-aho was never enthusiastic about leading the party. Moreover, his exit may be a new step in making the Islamophobic party appear “more normal.”

Even if the National Coalition Party (Kokoomus) has said that it could form a government with the PS, Halla-aho remains a controversial person due to his racist views and writings.

The PS exposed its far-right credentials. After they get rid of the Muslims, are unions the next in line?

Posted on May 30, 2021 by Migrant Tales

Jussi Halla-aho, the chairperson of the Islamophobic Perussuomalaiset (PS)*, exposed another spoonful of its ever-visible far-right credentials on Saturday by demanding a 3,000-euro a month salary minimum for migrants to get a residence permit and weakening workers’ rights.

The PS leader, who was convicted in 2012 for ethnic agitation and breaching the sanctity of religion, believed that the best way to lower unemployment would be cutbacks in unemployment security, watering down protection against dismissal, do away with national collective bargaining agreements and undermine employers the right to strike.

Considering Halla-aho’s racist views of migrants in general and Muslims in particular, his views to dismantle Finland’s welfare state do not come as a surprise.

Even if the PS is leading in opinion polls, the party’s biggest folly will be at the end of the day their racist and neo-conservative economic views.

Al-Hol reveals Finland’s cowardice and paranoia

Posted on May 23, 2021 by Migrant Tales

By Dana

Finland is a cowardly and paranoic country that does not believe in humanity. But I respect humanity because GOD is the great Creator of man, and all of God’s creatures are important and valuable to me. Man is a creature of God. I am a disciple of truth, and the truth is my power.

Through this blog, I declare my readiness for the whole world and the universe. Declare readiness to rescue and release Finnish women and their children held captive by ISIS in Syria at the Al-Hol Camp!

A lot has been written in the Finnish media on the repatriation of Finnish women and their children to Finland. In Norway, there was a government crisis in January 2020 after an alleged Norwegian woman was repatriated to the country allegedly linked with Isis and her five-year-old child who needed medical treatment. Denmark, one of Europe’s most Islamophobic country announced that it plans to repatriate 22 Danish women and their children, according to *Reuters*.

These are Finnish women at the camp. Finland has a legal and moral duty to save them. But Finland is a cowardly, paranoic, and dishonest country and unwilling to show mercy to its children.

But I am an Iranian, a zealous Iranian zealous for months. I have been expressing my desire to save these innocent children and their poor mothers. Still, everyone says to me: No, this is not possible. We should not bring ISIS children to Finland. They are Muslims and are dangerous. Several people, all Finnish, even said to me: Do you know their fathers? Are you related to them?

These are horrible and extremely unfair questions. I have no racial or family relationship with them. I have never seen any of them. But my relationship with them is a human relationship. I hear the heartbeat of these poor women, and I feel the cries of their innocent children in the dust. They run in the soil and grow up in a fanatical environment. I do not know who their fathers are. I just want to save the women and children because their cries have deafened my ears.

I am the only one who announces such readiness. I’m the only one who wants to do that. I am the first person to make this request. I register my name, Dana, through this blog, and God and Enrique Tessieri plus Migrant Tales and the universe are my witnesses.

I wisely want to help these mothers and their children and bring them back to Finland.