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Migrant Tales (24.12.2020): Ask the Perussuomalaiset if they still “love” US President Donald Trump

Posted on January 7, 2021 by Migrant Tales

THE STORY WAS UPDATED

TOPLINE

Considering the Trump-fueled terrorism in Washington Wednesday, I ask once again the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party the following question: Do you still “love” President Donald Trump?

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Näyttökuva-2021-1-7-kello-4.47.03.png — **Source: Twitter**

Are we headed in the same direction with the PS leading the charge? Disturbing scenes from Washington DC on Wednesday. The PS’ lobbying for “free speech” would lead to mob rule. Sources: *MTV* and YouTube, and *Washington Pos*t.

KEY BACKGROUND

With the Trump presidency making its rambunctious exit after four years of chaos and moral decay, our attention should shift to Finland. Do we want this type of government in Finland and, if so, which party would promote such a sad state of affairs?

If today’s the United States would be a reality in Finland, we would do away with the welfare state to excuse that it is every person for him or herself with mob rule and intimidation being the norm.

Under such a system like in Trump’s USAmerica, corruption would flourish and, at the cost of social equality, an important cornerstone of the Finnish Nordic welfare state.

Such a situation would flourish because the scapegoats would be the Muslims, people of color, and non-white migrants in general.

As the evil face of Trump’s administration stoops to new lows, we should ask which parties in Finland would like to install a Trumpist political and economic order?

One party that would gladly do this is the Perussuoalaiset (PS)* of Finland. They would not only make way for Trump-style conservatism and racist policies but add icing to it with Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Vladimir Putin, Jaros?aw Kaczy?ski, and other autocrats.

KEY EVIDENCE

Disagree?

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Näyttökuva-2020-12-13-kello-0.56.50.png — Tweets Jussi Halla-aho: “I dig him. Trump is the best that could have happened in a long time to the United States and Western world.” Source: Twitter.

Hall of Shame: Finland’s 2020 Islamophobic and Afrophobic network

Posted on December 30, 2020 by Migrant Tales

Choosing the key figures in the Islamophobic and Afrophobic Hall of Shame wasn’t difficult even during a year ravaged by Covid-19. The task was to choose the most obvious culprits and other ones in the media that fuel and maintain such a toxic environment.

In putting together this year’s Hall of Shame, I was quickly overwhelmed by many politicians and other players of Finland’s Islamophobic and Afrophobic network.

We are looking at Islamophobia and Afrophobia because it is the most common and vile form of racism found in Finland. This has been well documented by The European Islamophobia Report 2019 and The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), and others.

One matter that Islamophobia, Afrophobia, and other forms of racism seek is to exclude others from enjoying their equal rights. Their narrative and actions are based on reinforcing prejudices and placing all types of obstacles.

Source: Islamophobia-definition.com. See also European Islamophobia Report 2019, which states: “When talking about Islamophobia, we mean anti-Muslim racism. […] Islamophobia is about a dominant group of people aiming at seizing, stabilizing and
widening their power by means of defining a scapegoat – real or invented – and
excluding this scapegoat from the resources/rights/definition of a constructed ‘we’

**Source: European Network Against Racism.**

Thus politicians, political parties, and the media build their racism and stereotypes on the wings of lies, those that cause harm to not only its victims but to society in the erosion of human rights and democracy. The list of the central figures of Finland’s Islamophobic and Afrophobic network is published to challenge their toxic narrative and to never forget who they are.

Central Figures

Political Parties and Politicians

The most Islamophobic and Afrophobic political grouping in Finland is the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party, with the National Coalition Party (Kokoomus) and Christian Democrats getting close honorable mentions.

**Key parties in Finland’s Islamophobic and Afrophobic network are the PS, National Coalition Party, and Christian Democrats.**

Under its former leader, Timo Soini, the PS discovered that there is a lot of potential for growth by capitalizing on racism targeting Muslims and Somalis. It is the only modern party in Finland that has exploited this social ill to gain political power. Their moment came in 2011 when the party gained in the parliamentary election 39 seats from 5 previously.

Even if it would be challenging to find a PS MP who did not use the Islamophobia card to get elected, the same applies to the whole party. The PS gets part of its hate fuel from its ties with far-right and neo-Nazi groups. The few that aren’t Islamophobes in the party are the pins in a haystack.

Some of the most “notable” PS politicians who made it to the Hall of Shame list are Juho Mäenpää, Riikka Purra, Ano Turtiainen (former parliamentary member) Veikko Villen. The two PS members that are the dark forces or the enablers behind Finland’s toxic racist environment are Jussi Halla-aho and Matias Turkkila.

Jussi Halla-aho and the PS are the wolves in sheep’s clothing

Posted on November 8, 2020 by Migrant Tales

THIS STORY WAS UPDATED

One interesting matter about how Perussuomalaiset (PS)* politicians spread racism is how they try to hide it in sheep’s clothing. The trick, from the PS perspective, is to spread in code as much as possible your racist views.

An interview on Saturday in Yle’s Ykkösaamu with PS chairperson Jussi Halla-aho showed just that, the wolf sheep’s clothing searching out his victims inside parliament.

**Jussi Halla-aho. Source: *Yle Ykkösaamu*.**

I sent the host four questions that I’d hope Yle’s Ykkösaamu would ask Halla-aho:

Do you want to stop asylum seekers from coming to Finland?
As in your past writings, do you still consider the Holocaust an exaggeration and the Nuremberg Trials a farce?
Do you believe that we should ditch human rights (UN and EU declarations)?
Are you an anti-Semite? What about being an Islamophobe?

Observing the PS for several years, it is interesting to note how their use of language has changed and how they speak in code. They rarely label Muslims directly but prefer to call them asylum seekers or people from the Middle East.

Another matter put into the mix of their hateful rhetoric is justifying by redefining what is racism. This became evidently clear on Yle’s Ykkösaamu when Halla-aho was asked about such a social ill.

The tragic deaths in France expose the disenfranchisement of Muslims

Posted on November 2, 2020 by Migrant Tales

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

James Baldwin (1924-87)

Ir, there is one matter that the killings in France have reinforced, it is the disenfranchisement of the Muslim community of France. How is it possible that two deranged persons that caused tragic deaths to end up with the Franch state placing a gun at the Muslim community’s head?

The short leash that Prime Minister Emanuel Macron wants to place on France’s 5.7-million-strong Muslim community speaks volumes about the racism in that country.

Not only is the French state aiming to educate its own Muslims under the new anti-separatist law, but it plans a crackdown on more than 50 Muslim organizations. One of these includes anti-racist organizations such as the Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF).

In these troubled times for Muslims, there is a good matter to remember:

On the right, an example of how white society sees itself and minorities when a crime is committed. On the left, the cartoon by Ville Ranta states that the first to appear after a terrorist attack are the racists and xenophobes.

Jussi Halla-aho is a fake and his party’s disingenuous and misleading claims

Posted on October 31, 2020 by Migrant Tales

Anyone who has followed Perussuomalaiset (PS)* chairperson Jussi Halla-aho’s political career will easily conclude that it was done on the fuel of racism and bigotry, and generous chunks of it.

Racism had become such a normal matter for the PS that on the same day when Halla-aho claimed on Marja Sannikka’s talk show that he “resents people being treated differently” due to their skin color, the party’s vice president lashes out against people of color.

https://twitter.com/Arskababa/status/1322284775575588869?s=20&fbclid=IwAR2FSaf7gAkHlSwx6fivBYmLfZ-Rt9ECJkxZSJnvXtQgbruejBbnV1rCdl0

On Marja Sannika’s talk show (in Finnish), Halla-aho was incapable of condemning racism.

States Purra (who calls, like Halla-aho on Sannikka’s show, asylum seekers “harmful” migration) stated on the same day of Halla-aho’s interview: “Wouldn’t it be high time to think that the mixing of people, religions, and cultures in the West is such a good matter? The development of mass migration and violent cultures is A PROBLEM. Beheading a person is only one example.”

Sannikka asks Halla-aho in the interview if he resents racism.

His response: “Yes, I resent any thinking that treats people differently because of their skin color. I do resent this.”

**Affirms Riikka Purra:** “Wouldn’t it be high time to think that the mixing of people, religions, cultures in the West [not] IS SUCH A GOOD MATTER? Mass immigration from the developing world and violent cultures ARE A PROBLEM. Beheading is just one example.”

One of the biggest challenges of Finnish journalism is follow-up. You throw a question to the person you are interviewing, and if he tries to wiggle his or her way out of it or speak in code to his followers, you hit the person with another question until you get the answer.

Halla-aho’s response if he resented racism was a half-ass job.

Diagree? Check out one of his tweets:

**Nobody in the Perussuomalaiset [party] wants a multiethnic or culturally [diverse] Finland, which consistently mentioned in our program and in everything that we do.” Source: Twitter**

Halla-aho’s answer could mean anything. It could be seen as a statement against affirmative action, equality but not equity.

Exposing white Finnish privilege #74: The anti-Semitic beast inside Jussi Halla-aho

Posted on October 23, 2020 by Migrant Tales

THIS STORY WAS UPDATED

In a recent debate with Center Party chairperson Annika Saariko, the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party head, Jussi Halla-aho, was put on the hot seat after asked about his anti-Semitic blog writings.

He denied being an anti-Semite and said that the claim was a popularity stunt by Lauri Nurmi, who recently published an unofficial biography of him and made such an observation.

Why didn’t the reporter at the debate ask two questions: “Are you, Halla-aho, an anti-Semite and an Islamophobe.”

The PS and how it treats minorities, especially Muslims, expose the power and privilege white Finns have. It is like living in a near-perfect world. You can eat your racist cake with impunity and have it at the same time.

While Finland’s 100,000-120,000-strong Muslim community has little to no political power and is constantly reminded that they can never be equal members of society, the smaller Jewish community is a different story.

The Jewish community in Finland has historically suffered from anti-Semitism. A characteristic of this form of racism is that you silence the victim and plug your ears to their objections.

Matias Turkkila is the editor of the PS party’s newspaper who confirmed Halla-aho’s anti-Semitism and that of the party’s as well.

Turkkila claims that the “fierce” attack made by Yle against Kärkkäinen is part of a plan to destroy Juha Kärkkäinen’s businesses. He claims that one of the journalists that did the radio program is a member of the Left Alliance. Turkkila asks in the tweet: “@yleuutiset why do you allow a Left Alliance activist to use your platform to aim [at Kärkkäinen]?” He adds that *Yle* should follow its own rules and not publish material to advance the world view of others. Source: Twitter.

In the tweet, Turkkila overlooks or believes that we do not know who Juha Kärkkäinen is. For starters, he was fined in 2014 for publishing anti-Semitic writings of Adrian Salbuch, Ted Pike, David Duke, and others, as well as cartoons that bear a striking resemblance to the former Nazi tabloid, Der Strümer (1923-45).

The anti-Semitic writings were published in Magneettimedia, a publication of his stores that continues to be rife with anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and Nazi glorification. It is today no longer edited by Kärkkäinen but by neo-Nazis.

The media has power but it prefers driving a moped when confronting racism and the Perussuomalaiset

Posted on October 20, 2020 by Migrant Tales

If there is somebody to blame for Finland’s Perussuomalaiset (PS)* problem, a big part of the blame falls on the media. In that group, you will find politicians and about 17% of Finns who vote for an openly hostile party to Muslims, people of color, and minorities.

A good example of the media’s power was seen on Monday when PS chairperson Jussi Halla-aho was questioned about his anti-Semitic blog writings. The question put Halla-aho momentarily in the hot seat, forcing a knee-jerk response. He denied (surprise, surprise!) being an anti-Semite and said that the claim was a popularity stunt by Lauri Nurmi, who recently published an unofficial biography of him.

**Read the original story (in Finnish) here.**

The question took Halla-aho by surprise, and the only defense he could put up was to answer by hitting below the belt.

Halla-aho’s response and anger showed that he is vulnerable and that the media can ask politicians tough questions if it wishes. It is called having teeth or journalistic grit.

Why do we see so little tough questioning by the Finnish media when it comes to topics like racism, Islamophobia, and the PS.

Mitä ajattelevat Perussuomalaiset ja mitä he peittelevät?

Posted on October 19, 2020 by Migrant Tales

Keitä ovat Perussuomalaiset? Elävätkö he rinnakaistodellisuudessa tai peittelevätkö keitä he ovat todellisuudessa, eli vihaamielisia islamofoobisia, etnonastionalistisia ja maahanmuuttovastaisia?

Tässä muutamia väitteitä. Totta tai tarua?

Keltainen ei ole pelkurein* väri. Se ei ole myöskään lumenväri.

Jussi Halla-aho ei ole stand up koomikko.

Emme kannusta aparthedia.

Case Pekka Kataja of the PS: I’m surprised that you are surprised

Posted on September 12, 2020 by Migrant Tales

THIS STORY WAS UPDATED

It is revealing to read comments from the Islamophobic Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party about Friday’s bombshell news: the police detained a former PS politician and a far-right Nazi-spirited activist on suspected attempted murder charges against Pakka Kataja.

Starting from PS chairperson Jussi Halla-aho, who was convicted in 2012 for ethnic agitation and breaching the sanctity of religion, was quoted as saying in tabloid Ilta-Sanomat: “It’s difficult even to believe one’s own eyes when reading this news [about the arrest of the suspects].”

**Read the full story (in Finnish) here.**

And the amazement continues. PS Central Finland region head Jyrki Niittymaa also expresses dismay.

“It is surprising if these [suspects] are guilty [for brutally attacking Kataja], he said.

Citing tabloid Iltalehti, PS-run Suomen Uutiset publishes the name of one of the suspects, Teemu Torssonen, who was sacked by the party in 2019.

Reija Härkönen: Pölhöpopulistien puheet

Posted on August 28, 2020 by Reija Härkönen

Donald Trumpin vaalipuheesta v. 2020:

At no time before have voters faced a clearer choice between two parties, two visions, two philosophies, or two agendas. This election will decide if we save the American dream or whether we allow a socialist agenda to demolish our cherished destiny. It will decide whether we rapidly create millions of high-paying jobs or whether we crush our industries and send millions of these jobs overseas, as has been foolishly done for many decades. Your vote will decide whether we protect law-abiding Americans or whether we give free rein to violent anarchists, and agitators, and criminals who threaten our citizens.

And this election will decide whether we will defend the American way of life or whether we will allow a radical movement to completely dismantle and destroy it. That won’t happen.

Jussi Halla-ahon vaalipuheesta 2011:

Yksissäkään aiemmissa vaaleissa ei äänestäjällä ole ollut samanlaista mahdollisuutta ottaa kantaa, kuin nyt. Vuosia kestänyt maahanmuuttokriittinen projekti kulminoituu näihin vaaleihin ja se kulminoituu perussuomalaisten maahanmuuttokriittisiin ehdokkaisiin.

Tämä on tosiasia, jonka kaikki sisimmässään tietävät. Koko media ja kaikki muut puolueet ovat yksimielisenä laumana perussuomalaisten kimpussa siitä yksinkertaisesta syystä, että muutos maahanmuuttopolitiikassa voittaa tai häviää meidän mukanamme.
Meidän vaalimenestyksemme on se, mitä seurataan. Meidän vaalivoittomme on se, mitä pelätään.

Jos me voitamme nämä vaalit, muutosta ei voi pysäyttää. Jos me häviämme nämä vaalit, maahanmuuttokriittisyys katsotaan torjutuksi ja monikulttuurinen höyryjyrä jatkaa kulkuaan.

Mitä eroa näillä kahdella todistajalla on?

Toinen on tullut valituksi supervallan presidentiksi, toinen pikkuvaltion äärioikeistopuolueen puheenjohtajaksi.

Mitäpä heillä on yhteistä? Höynäytettävät äänestäjät ja äärioikeistomyönteiset taustajoukot ja media.

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