Jussi Halla-aho Archives

If we replaced the word “Muslim” or other vulnerable minorities with white Finn, it would reveal the toxicity of Jussi Halla-aho’s world

Posted on November 8, 2023November 19, 2023 by Migrant Tales

If there is a reminder on how bad Finland’s racism problem has got, take a look at the rise of the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party since the 2011 parliamentary election and specifically its main motor, Jussi Halla-aho. Having him treated as “a normal” politician by the media and other politicians makes him look like a wretched politician in an intensive care ward.

His political life-saving support comes from his blog, Scripta, written in the 2000.

For many Finns, it is difficult to weigh how demeaning and racist his writings are and how they paint a capricious and greedy man who is a white supremacist desperately seeking recognition and approval. Halla-aho will never apologize for his racist writings because it would cut off his political life support.

Moreover, playing down and moving forward with a poker face concerning the damage he has caused on Finland and especially on minorities, would not be possible if he apologized for his racist writings.

There are many ways to skin the cat of an old racist who hides behind the cloak of democratic institutions. One of these methods is to reverse the roles of his victims in his writing to grasp how toxic the person is.

Example 1:

“I am thoroughly confused as to why muslims have such a great desire to inflict pain on those who are in a weaker position, such as animals, children and women. I think this pattern is pretty clear. Why do muslims jump around ululating with their dicks hard whenever heads get chopped off or someone gets whipped?

Jussi Halla-aho (2005), published in the blog Scripta Mietteitä kansainvaelluksesta, April 20, 2005

Reversing roles 1:

“I am thoroughly confused as to why ~~muslims~~ white Finns have such a great desire to inflict pain on those who are in a weaker position, such as animals, children and women. I think this pattern is pretty clear. Why do ~~muslims~~ white Finns jump around ~~ululating~~ drunk with their dicks ~~hard~~ limp whenever a Russian’s head gets chopped off or someone gets ~~whipped~~ beaten to a pulp?

Jussi Halla-aho (2005), published in the blog Scripta Mietteitä kansainvaelluksesta, April 20, 2005

Example 2:

“It is hard for me to think about a lower reptile in the universe than a Scandinavian social democrat. The most slimy subscpecies of this reptile is the Swedish social democrat.”

Jussi Halla-aho (2006), published in the blog Scripta Sosiaalidemokraatin selkäranka, March 23, 2006

Reversing roles 2:

“It is hard for me to think about a lower reptile in the universe than a ~~Scandinavian social democra~~t a Finnish Perussuomalaiset. The most slimy subscpecies of this reptile is the ~~Swedish social democrat~~ Sweden Democrat.

Jussi Halla-aho was an evil clown show then, now, and always

Posted on October 22, 2023October 22, 2023 by Migrant Tales

The Perussuomalaiset (PS)* speaker of parliament, Jussi Halla-aho, is trying his hardest to have his cake and eat it. The trial that led to ethnic agitation conviction and for breaching the sanctity of religion in 2012 rose him to prominence. The very racist, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, and homophobic writings on his Scripta blog in the 2000s brought him a handsome political career.

I wonder what people would think that after not getting elected in 2007, he became speaker of parliament in 2023. His political rise does not only say a lot about him but also about Finland. Many Finns are conservative and racist.

You can read some of his quotes here.

Thanks to Halla-aho’s blog in 2008, it gave me a good reason to continue writing Migrant Tales.I was planning to abandon the blog but thanks to Scripta, and the hostility against my blog, I planned to stick it out. That was almost fifteen years ago.

Left to right: Even if Jussi Halla-aho hopes that people will forget his racist roots, behind the gavel he uses as speaker of parliament, he will always be an evil clown show. Accepting Halla-aho would be saying that all his racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, and far-right views are ok and normal. It’s not, even if he is running for president, where he takes the cue from other PS politicians like Laura Huhtasaari who appear abnormally white thanks to makeup and hair dye. Sources: berkeleyside.org, Suomen Kuvalehti, and.PS.

Below is some of the racist filth found on Halla-aho’s blog:

Petteri Orpo’s big gamble and Finland’s shift to the radical right

Posted on June 29, 2023June 29, 2023 by Migrant Tales

What a show we saw in parliament Wednesday when radical-right Perussuomalaiset (PS)* Minister of Economic Affairs Vilhelm Junnila survived a no-confidence vote! The first visible cracks in National Coalition Party (Kokoomus) Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s government became evident.

One of the questions that some may be asking is why does Kokoomus want to do business with a party that it turned down in 2017. The PS had imploded into two factions after the party elected Jussi Halla-aho as its new leader.

Remember what Orpo said back then?

Source: Helsingin Sanomat

“Halla-aho’s Perussuomalaiset… their base values are so drastically different from ours,” he said. “They go against our most sacred values, human dignity, human rights, the concept of humanity, openness, and internationalism.”

Helsingin Sanomat asked Orpo five years after why the party had now qualms about sharing power in government with the PS. “The current Perussuomalaiset party, as it has evolved under Halla-aho and [Riikka] Purra, is such that I see no reason why we cannot negotiate a government program [with them],” he was quoted as saying.

Orpo’s assurances do nothing more than fuel mistrust because they are based on lies like what he said about Junnila. “Of course we do not accept any type of extremism, Nazism, Stalinism, or other ideologies that are dangerous to society or people,” he said in Helsingin Sanomat. “This is quite obvious. Everyone in Finland must be able to live a good life in safety.”

I wonder what minorities, migrants and asylum seekers think about Orpo’s statement.

Déjà vu: 2011 all over again in 2023?

Posted on April 1, 2023 by Migrant Tales

An election victory by the Perussuomalaiset (PS),* like in the 2011 election, exposes the same ogre populism and xenophobia. The PS could have never dreamed of joining the major leagues of Finnish politics without the help of the National Coalition Party (Kokoomus), the Social Democratic party, and the Center Party.

While the latter is true, the most critical support came from the Finnish voter. How do you explain the PS winning 39 seats in 2011 from five in the previous election?

The PS should offer gratitude to its victims: immigrants, refugees, and minorities.

What will Sunday’s election reveal behind the mask that covers the many real faces of Finland?

The leading ideologues of the PS are its former head, Timo Soini, and Jussi Halla-aho, who raised to political fame through his hateful blog posts.

TV personality Maryan Abdulkarim has described Soini in the following words:

Reija Härkönen: Onko Suomi nyt lännessä ja Halla-aho tehnyt parannuksen?

Posted on January 7, 2023 by Reija Härkönen

Kun Suomi jätti Nato-hakemuksen, monet riemuitsivat, että Suomi kuuluu vihdoin länteen. Tuollainen riemu oli mielenkiintoista senkin vuoksi, kun edelleen kovasti odotellaan, että Turkin sulho vastaisi myöntävästi kosintaan. Tekeekö liittolaissuhde Turkkiin meistä entistä länsimaalaisempia. Olemmeko nyt lännessä?

Perussuomalaisten Jussi Halla-ahoa haastateltiin elokuussa 2019 hänen suhtautumisestaan siihen, että Unkaria on vaadittu palaamaan ruotuun ja tunnustamaan EU:n yhteiset arvot ja kunnioittamaan länsimaisen demokratian normeja ja standardeja.

Halla-aho oli sitä mieltä, että Unkarin kovistelu liittyy siihen, ettei maa jaa eurooppalaista ”valtavirtanäkemystä maahanmuuttoon liittyvissä kysymyksissä”. Toisin sanoen Halla-ahon mielestä Unkarin harjoittama rasismi ja uusfasismi, korruptio, sananvapauden rajoittaminen ja oikeusvaltio-ongelmat ovat juuri oikeanlaista politiikkaa ja Suomen ja EU:n osoittama kritiikki väärin. Perussuomalainen puolue ei siis ainakaan tuolloin tuntunut jakavan läntisiä arvoja.

Olemmeko nyt sitten lännessä? On Jussi Halla-aho muuttunut ja länsimaistunut? Ovatko perussuomalaiset tulleet järkiinsä? Maahan tuleviin vieraisiin miehiin jäniksen kaltaisella pelolla suhtautuva suomalainen lienee lähempänä entisiä metsäläiskansoja kuin edes itäisiä, sotaisia naapureitamme. Itäänhän perussuomalaiset ovat viime vuodet katsoneet suopein silmin, sillä Putinin harjoittama fasistinen kuri, homoviha ja ulkomaalaisten maahantulon estäminen ovat olleet hyvin perussuomalaista politiikkaa.

Venäjän hyökättyä Ukrainaan tilanne hiukan muuttui. Halla-ahon henkilökohtainen venäläisviha nousi pintaan, ukrainan kielen taito herätti ihastusta ja yhtäkkiä homssuinen kielitieteilijä ja siviilipalvelusmies olikin yksi maamme suurimmista ja median ahkerasti siteeraamista sotataidon asiantuntijoista.

Lähensikö sota Ukrainassa meitä länteen? Se, millaisella innolla mieskansan keskuudessa ruvettiin seuraamaan sotaa ja jokaista tappamisen yksityiskohtaa ja tillittämään videoita hiekkarinteen koloissa lymyilevistä saaliseläimistä, ei vaikuttanut kovin läntiseltä ja rauhaa toivovalta. Vaikutti siltä, että Suomi pelaa sotaisaa tietokonepeliä. Tietokoneen takana kyyristelevät nörtit olivatkin kaikki Halla-ahon ohella arvostettuja sotastrategeja. Läntisemmäksi tämä tuskin on Suomea tehnyt. Amerikkalaisuus, republikaanisuus ja trumpismi ehkä ovat tulleet liki.

Huoli itänaapurin käyttäytymisestä ja mahdollisesta Suomeenkin kohdistuvasta aggressiosta on aiheellinen, mutta sen ei saisi antaa johtaa vihapolitiikan ja fasistisen kukkoilun nousuun oman maan politiikassa.

Kokoomus’ “Jussi Halla-aho” is suspected of harassing underaged girls

Posted on June 19, 2022 by Migrant Tales

National Coalition Party (Kokoomus) MP Wille Rydman, whose xenophobic views have earned him the dubious label of being Kokoomus’ Jussi Halla-aho, is suspected by the police of harassing underaged girls. He is the same MP pushing hardline policies against asylum seekers because he is worried about sexual harassment.

Former Perussuomalaiset (PS)* chairperson Jussi Halla-aho was convicted in 2012 for ethnic agitation and breaching the sanctity of religion and has, in his blog writings, hoped that migrants rape certain MPs.

One of the far-right conspiracy theories spread by Rydman is the great replacement theory, which warns that Muslims and people of color will take over Europe and whites will become a minority.

**National Coalition Party (Kokoomus) MP Wille Rydman is suspected of harassing underaged girls. Source: Helsingin Sanomat** (paywall)

Helsingin Sanomat leads the story: “Several women report harassing behavior by MP Wille Rydman. Some were minors at the time of the incident, while others reported alcohol abuse and violence. In Kokoomus, Rydman’s interest in young women and girls has been widely discussed [and known] only inside the party. Rydman denies acting inappropriately.”

Rydman tweeted that he is planning to press charges against Helsingin Sanomat for writing a baseless “grossly stigmatizing article” He added that he would most probably report the matter to the police and charge Finland’s largest daily for aggravated defamation.

A racist explanation by the chair of parliament’s foreign affairs committee of Finland why Ukrainian refugees are better than other ones

Posted on March 12, 2022 by Migrant Tales

Despite all the objections to racism and Islamophobia in Finland, the silence and sub-rosa nods why such social ills continue to take root in the country. The chair of parliament’s foreign affairs committee, Jussi Halla-aho of the far-right Perussuomalaiset (PS)*, explained why Europe should open its arms to Ukrainians and shut the door on refugees from regions like the Middle East.

In light of these racist and preposterous explanations by a high-ranking MP, their context is the hope that such statements will boost the PS’ slump in opinion polls.

What is a better place to do it than from the foreign affairs committee by a politician who not only built his political career on spreading racism but was convicted in 2012 for ethnic agitation and breaching the sanctity of religion?

Below are the head of parliament’s foreign affairs committee reasoning why Ukrainian refugees are better than others from regions like the Middle East and Africa on a Facebook post:

“Women and children are fleeing Ukraine. Those very children that are [fleeing] hug teddy bears in their arms, not those who claim they are 17 years old with built bodies. At the same time, when Ukrainian women and children flee the bombing, their husbands remain [in the country] to defend their homeland. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian men abroad return to fight against the [Russian] aggressor. The [Ukrainian refugee crisis] offers an average person what a refugee is and the [original] purpose of international refugee agreements.
Ukrainian refugees are grateful for having a roof over their heads. Iraqis state that the porridge is bad and why asylum reception centers are located so far from the city.
Many people already have [direct] experiences and perceptions of Ukrainians. You can see them at construction sites and farms. You can again see Iraqis…Everyone can decide where they’ve seen them.
Ukraine is a European refugee crisis. Naturally, they flee to the closest regions of Europe. [Ukrainian] refugees don’t demand that they go to the United States or Japan…”

Other casualties of Ukraine are European far-right parties like the Perussuomalaiset of Finland

Posted on March 2, 2022 by Migrant Tales

Since the invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin’s Russia, we are seeing the restructuring of Europe’s security structure and political landscape. The new landscape is bad news for Europe’s far-right and populist parties like Finland’s Perussuomalaiset (PS)*.

The new situation may explain why PS chairperson, Riikka Purra, offered a new image with new glasses that makes her look more sensible and not her usual angry self? Is it why she did not mention once on the talk show her favorite pet word she likes to exploit: migrants?

Simultaneously, Finland’s staunchly anti-immigration party showed no objection to the millions of Ukrainian refugees [the media is now calling them by their proper name] who would settle in the EU and have access to a residence permit and social welfare.

PS MEP Laura Huhtasaari, a Donald Trump admirer and leading Islamophobe in Finland, tweeted: “Refugees welcome.”

The dismal performance and showing of the PS in January’s regional elections and recent opinion polls force the party to reorient itself and find a new path to voters. Understanding that anti-immigration rhetoric won’t fly in the same way as in the past, the party has asked its former leader Jussi Halla-aho to the rescue.

Halla-aho, convicted of ethnic agitation in 2012 and is the country’s most vociferous Islamophobe, was appointed as the new chair of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee after PS MP Mika Niiko’s abrupt resignation.

PS’ about-turn on Russia is reprehensible

Posted on February 27, 2022 by Migrant Tales

In the backdrop of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, some politicians, especially from the far-right Perussuomalaiset (PS)*, have changed their tune. Don’t be fooled by them, and such moves are nothing more than an opportunistic move to prop up their sinking popularity.

Their shift in opinions about the Russians is so reprehensible that it resembles Adolf Hitler rising from the grave and claiming he is a changed person who renounces anti-Semitism.

It’s not going to fly because Halla-aho lacks credibility.

Disagree? Check out the PS’ close ideological ties with former President Donald Trump. He stated that Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was “genius and savvy” and that he was an intelligent person.

In the quote below, the late social commentator James Baldwin warns us not to trust politicians and parties based on their questionable record.

As everyone knows, the PS has a dirty history of racism and populism with numerous ethnic agitation convictions like Halla-aho’s in 2012.

Is the tweet below credible?

Tweets Halla-aho: “People of Russia, Russian soldiers, politicians, officials!
Stop the criminal who dishonors you and your country before humanity.
History will not only condemn him but will judge you too.” Source: Twitter

Why doesn’t he and the PS directly condemn Vladimir Putin for the invasion of Ukraine? Just say it loud and clear without wavering: We condemn Putin for his military aggression in Ukraine.

A study published in fall 2021 by the Finnish Business and Policy Forum, showed that the most favorable attitudes towards Russia were Movement Now (67%), PS (48%), and Center Party (47%).

Anything coming out of the PS is a deception.

I can’t believe them because I see what they do.

Reija Härkönen: Jussi Halla-aho viihtyy salarakkaansa helmoissa – onko se Suomen etu?

Posted on February 20, 2022 by Reija Härkönen

Jussi Halla-aho, ulkoasiainvaliokunnan puheenjohtaja

Vuonna 2019 ihmeteltiin, miksi perussuomalaiset ovat europarlamentissa liittoutumassa Venäjä-mielisten äärioikeistopuolueiden kanssa. Isänmaallisuus, joka persuilla on arkihokema, on Suomessa tavannut tarkoittaa melko nihkeää suhtautumista itäiseen naapuriin. Jopa perussuomalaisten veljespuolue Ruotsissa, Sverige Demokrater, piti persuvalintoja kummallisina.

Aihetta käsittelevässä artikkelissaan Ilta-Sanomissa 16.5.2019 toimittaja Arja Paananen kuvasi perussuomalaisten ”joustavaa valmiutta hyväksyä Venäjän tapa selittää omaa toimintaansa – olivatpa nämä toimet länsimaisen demokratian tai kansanvälisen yhteisön säätöjen näkökulmasta kuinka ristiriitaisia tai aggressiivisia tahansa”. Tämän kaltainen Venäjän nuoleskelu ja suoranainen ihailu on ollut hyvin näkyvää useissa perussuomalaisissa poliitikoissa ja myös kannattajissa. Hommaforumilla kävi ennen ”jytkyä” selväksi, että Venäjää ihannoidaan etenkin siksi, että siellä on muslimit laitettu kunnolla kyykkyyn eikä turvapaikanhakijoita ”hyysätä”.

Tästä rintamasta hiukan erillään on ollut puolueen entinen puheenjohtaja, jonka salarakas on Ukraina, oma entinen asuin-, työ- ja opiskelumaa, jossa hän on oppinut kielenkin ja kenties saanut janoamaansa tunnustusta ja ihailua.

Tästä rakkaudesta luultavasti johtui sekin, että Halla-aho riensi kirjoittamaan koko eduskunnan nimissä tweetin Ukrainan suurlähettiläälle, kun ulkoasiainvaliokunnan puheenjohtaja Mika Niikko joutui eroamaan ulkopoliittisesti arveluttavan lausuntonsa vuoksi. Hän halusi jonkun merkittävän eurooppalaisen johtajan ilmoittavan Ukrainalle, että maalla ei ole asiaa Natoon. Näin Niikko ilmeisesti ajatteli hyvittelevänsä sotaisan Venäjän ja saattavansa Euroopan jälleen rauhan tilaan. Niinhän se on ennenkin mennyt, pienet maat sulkekoot suunsa ja antakoot suurvalloille sen mikä suurvalloille kuuluu. Niikko, tuon Venäjän ystävä, puhui niin kuin suomettuneessa Suomessa tavattiin puhua.

Se, että Halla-aho, rivikansanedustaja, oitis tweettasi Ukrainalle viestin: ”Eduskunta, mukaan lukien perussuomalaiset, tukee yksiselitteisesti a) Ukrainan alueellista eheyttä ja itsenäisyyttä; b) Ukrainan oikeutta itsepuolustukseen sisäisiä ja ulkoisia hyökkääjiä vastaan; c) sen oikeutta päättää liittyäkö tai olla liittymättä kansainvälisiin järjestöihin” olikin sitten mielenkiintoinen toimi. Näinhän Suomi varmasti ajattelee, mutta ajatelkaapa, jos vaikkapa pääministeri Sanna Marin olisi tällaisen tempun tehnyt! Jopa olisi äläkkä noussut: menee ohittamaan presidentin valtioiden välisessä diplomatiassa! Nyt nousi vain ihaileva huokailu: ”Ooo, Halla-aho kirjoitti ukrainan kielellä, ihmeellinen mies!”