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Syrjäytyneet Suomessa ja epäonnistumisen merkkiä

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Meillä on hyvä yhteiskunta Suomessa mutta tämä väite tarvitsee toisen kysymyksen: kenelle? Kannustetaanko todella eri vähemmistöjen oikeuksia elää Suomessa tasavertaisena jäsenenä ja turvallisessa yhteiskunnassa?  

Mielestäni kansanedustaja (ps) Reijo Tossavaisen viimeisin blogikirjoitus, Somalien kokemuksia tutkitaan 0,6 milj. eurolla, edustaa sitä Suomea, joka syrjii sanoin toisia.

Tossavainen väittää blogikirjoituksessa, että Suomen Akatemian tutkimushanke somaleista on turhaa, koska olisi ”tähdellisempää tutkia vaikkapa suomalaisnuorten sopeutumisongelmia?”

Mielestäni tutkimalla suomen neljänneksi suurinta maahanmuuttajienryhmää voisi valaista monta tärkeää asiaa. Jos tiedämme paremmin miksi jotkut somalit syrjäytyvät yhteiskunnastamme, voisimme haasta tämä ilmiön ja ongelmaan.

Missä on maa, joka on hyötynyt syrjäämällä toisia ryhmiä? Jos on paljon syrjäytyneitä yhteisnunnassamme, kaikki häviämme ja maksamme kovan veronhinnan tästä.

Niin kauan kun Suomessa on syrjäytyneitä riippumatta taustoista, se on aina epäonnistumisen merkkiä.

Finland’s mini Breivik: gunman kills two and wounds seven

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What motivates a young man to take the law in his own hands and kill indiscriminately defenseless people? While we still don’t know the motives behind the killings in Hyvinkää, the suspect’s “likes” on Facebook may offer us some clues. 

Writes YLE in English: ”Police in the town of Hyvinkää, some 50km north of Helsinki, say a young man dressed in military fatigues began shooting with a rifle from the roof of a building in the city centre at 1:53am Saturday…

An 18-year-old woman was killed. Another victim, a 19-year-old man, died later in a hospital. Seven other people have been hospitalised with gunshot wounds, including a 23-year-old woman police trainee, who has critical injuries.”

Human rights activist and writer, Jussi K. Niemelä, states that the suspect’s “likes” on Facebook suggest the usual far-right ideology. Some of the suspect’s “likes” include the anti-immigration Perussuomalaiset party, Bundeswher, the German Defense Force, and Simo Häyhä, a Finnish sniper nicknamed “White Death” by the Red Army during the Winter War (1939-40).

Some have called the gunman Finland’s Anders Breivik, who killed 77 victims in Norway.

While we have to wait for the final report by the police to know the killer’s probable motives, one matter is certain: The attack was senseless and reveals the illness that has inflicted our society today.  It is the same ogre that we saw kill innocent victims in Jokela and Kauhajoki.

Migrant Tales offers its heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims.

MTV3 poll shows support for PS to have plummeted to 5%

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If the municipal election of October were held today, only 5% would vote for the right-wing populist Perussuomalaiset (PS) party, according to a poll published Wednesday by MTV3. The latest poll is further proof that support for the PS continues to plummet compared with the impressive gains it made in last year’s election.

In the April 2011 election, the PS won 19.1% (39 seats) of the vote compared with 4.05% (5 seats) in 2007.

The biggest winner in the MTV3 poll is the National Coalition Party (23%) followed by the Social Democrats (21%) and Center Party (20%), which has made an impressive comeback after its disastrous election result in 2011. The Greens and Left Alliance would get 9% apiece.

The MTV3 poll published today shows the National Coalition Party, Social Democrats and Center Party making the biggest gains if the October 28 municipal elections were held today.  

PS MP Olli Immonen plans to boycott YLE “for a short while”

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By Enrique Tessieri

Far-right anti-immigration Perussuomalaiset (PS) MP, Olli Immonen, said Monday he will boycott YLE “for a short while” since the state-owned radio and television company reports unfairly about the PS.  According to him, there is a systematic propaganda campaign against the PS by YLE

I doubt that many will lose sleep over Immonen’s decision, taking into account that his pet political topics include anti-Immigration, anti-Islam and an odd nostalgia for Finnish fascism of the 1930s.

Immonen has done the right thing, however. In English we say: “If you can’t take the heat stay out of the kitchen.”

It is clear that the PS MP from Oulu cannot take the heat.

Why are so many PS party members so hypersensitive about the media? Is it an indication that the party has lost touch with Finland, never mind its convoluted political program?

Immonen is a sad example of the illness that has inflicted Finland these days. Mention the magic word “Muslim” to a person like him and he changes into a political Mr. Hyde.

Ulla Pyysalo is another sad example.  She is PS MP Juho Eerola’s aide, who got her fingers burned when her name appeared on a neo neo-Nazi membership list.

Pyysalo was recently active on Facebook:

Ulla Pyysalo: …it’s been known for some time that a Muslim man can beat his wife. Maybe they didn’t believe this before… Ulla Pyysalo: and force them to have sex, or rape…

Pyysalo, like Immonen and her boss Eerola, belong to the same far-right faction of the PS. Others that form part of this same group are PS MP Jussi Halla-aho and James Hirvisaari.

Julkisen sanan neuvoston päätös oli voitto sanavapaudelle

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Enrique Tessieri

Julkisen sanan neuvoston (JSN) vapauttava päätös Kirkko ja kaupungin lehdelle oli mielestäni voitto sana- sekä lehdistövapaudelle Suomessa. Miten on mahdollista, että yksi maamme suurimmista poliittista puolueesta kehtaa alkaa vaikuttamaan sekä rajoittamaan lehdistövapautta maassamme? Mielestäni tämä on juuri se tärkein kysymys koko JSN:n päätöksessä.

Neuvoston mukaan pilapiirroksista on tullut erittäin vähän kanteluita sen olemassaoloaikana vuoden 1968 jälkeen. JSN on myös ottanut käsiteltäväksi vain poikkeustapaukissa pilapiirroksia. Neuvosto kirjoittaa lehdistötiedossa: ”Tämä kertoo siitä, että yleisö ymmärtää pilapiirroksen erityisluonteen ja hyväksyy niissä käytetyn kärjekkään ilmaisutavan.”

Jos JSN:n olisi antanut Ville Rannan pilapiirroksista vastakohtainen päätös, olisivat seuraamukset hyvin arveluttavia ja kaunankantoisia lehdistövapaudelle.

Mitä ero on Rannan pilapiirroksessa ja tuomiot, jotka saivat persussuomaalisten kansanedustaja James Hirvisaaren ja kotkalainen kaupunginvaltuutettu Freddy van Wonterghemin kiihottamisesta kansanryhmää vastaan? Vaikka nämä poliitikot haluavat suojella oma moukkamaista käytöstään politiikkoina sanavapauden avulla, tässä on toki kysymyksessä jotain muuta ja vakavampaa.

Tietyt maahanmuuttajaryhmät ovat samaa kun viina joillekin maahanmuuttovastustajille, koska he käyttäytyvät loukkaavasti toisia ryhmiä kohtaa. Tämä ”känni” nähdään harvoin kun he ovat omassa ryhmässä.

Kun olin nuori toimittaja Buenos Aires Heraldissa, päätoimittaja antoi minulle tärkeää ohjetta. Hän sanoi, että sanat ovat kun tehokas ja tappava ase. Ei voi hävittää muurahaista tykillä, eli on oltava oikeudenmukainen ja huomaavainen kun kirjoittaa toisista. Ihmisarvoa on kunnioitettava eikä sitä pidä tuoda esiin halventavalla tavalla kuten JSN (JO 26) suosittelee.

Onko niin, ettei mm. Jussi Halla-ahon, Hirvisaarin ja van Wonterghemin kirjoitukset loukkaavat toisten ihmisarvoa? Mitä arvo heidän argumentit antavat, jos ne hyökkäävät, leimaavat ja solvaavat toisia ryhmiä?

Tuskin ei mitään kun vihanlietsonta, pahamieltä ja lopulta kansankunnanhäpeä.

JSN exonerates Kirkko & Kaupunki cartoon that mocks PS MPs

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By Enrique Tessieri 

The Council for Mass Media in Finland (JSN) has exonerated  Kirkko&Kaupunki after a cartoon was published on December 14 mocking a group of Perussuomalaiset (PS) party MPs telling everyone who wasn’t a Finnish heterosexual and white conservative to leave Finland. The JSN said in a statement that Ville Ranta’s cartoon was neither degrading nor insulting.  

Kirkko&Kaupunki is a weekly published in Helsinki by the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Finland.

The decision by Finland’s watchdog organization for journalistic ethics was no surprise except to the PS, which had filed the complaint.

PS MP Anssi Joutsenlahti, one person pictured in the cartoon telling foreigners they should leave the country, wasn’t happy about the ruling. “How could they ever publish this cartoon in a periodical?” he was quoted as saying on Uusi Suomi.

JSN said that politicians are public figures and therefore must stand heavy criticism.

The JSN-PS cartoon ruling reveals the sheer ignorance of Timo Soini’s party of the role of the media in our democratic society.  It is alarming that a political party in Finland wants to set limits and guidelines on what the media can publish.

 A Merry Christmas to you all Finnish heterosexuals and white conservatives! We wish the rest a shitty Christmas!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Undermining the anti-immigration ideology of populist parties in the Nordic region

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By Enrique Tessieri

It is a tragedy that 77 people had to die at the hands of Anders Breivik on July 22. Ironically the mass killer did more than anyone to undermine the ideology of anti-immigration populist parties and hate groups in the Nordic region and Europe. 

The political fallout of Breivik’s deeds was clear: The first blow came to the Progress Party (FrP) of Norway, which saw its support plummet in the municipal election by 6.1 percentage points to 11.5%. That was followed by election setbacks in Denmark and Finland.

Not even the far-right Sverigedemocraterna of Sweden has been spared.

Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg became an exemplary leader after the mass killings of Norway. His reaction was totally the opposite from what we saw in the United States after the September 11 attacks. Contrary to President George W. Bush, the Norwegian prime minister said that his country’s reponse to the mass killings will be more openness and more democracy.

The question that hounds us, however, is if Breivik were a Muslim instead of a white Norwegian, what kind of an anti-immigration backlash would we have seen in the Nordic region and Europe?

On a BBC documentary, Stoltenberg said that Norway had become after July 22 “more tolerant,[and] more careful not to judge people” by ethnic origin.

Wise words by a wise leader of a country that suffered one of its worst tragedies in recent history.

YLE’S Spotlight: Finland’s PS links to the Finnish Defense League

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By Enrique Tessieri

How are we supposed to react to the following news: A number of Perussuomalaiset (PS) party members have links to the far-right and anti-Islam Finnish Defense League (FDL)? The story, which was scooped by Yle’s Swedish-language program Spotlight,  claims that these PS members with ties to the FDL belong as well to the extremist Suomen Sisu association. 

Some PS members that Spotlight uncovered were: Klaus Elovaara, Jani Viinikainen, Ulla Pyysalo, Pasi Turunen, Jarmo Kyyrö, Heta Lähteenaro and Tommi Rautio, who suggested that a medal should be given to a white Finn after he killed in cold blood a Muslim pizzeria worker in Oulu.

Jussi Jalonen, a Tampere University war history researcher, was quoted as saying on Spotlight that “Islamophobia is rife among Finns Party [PS] members involved with the nationalistic Suomen Sisu association.”

PS MP Olli Immonen of Oulu did not see any problem with criticizing Islam since its spread is the biggest threat to Western culture.

Immonen, who had been silent about two deaths involving Muslims in Oulu at the end of January and February, believes that a war between white Christian Europe and Islam is inevitable.

Social inclusion is vital to a well-functioning society

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By Enrique Tessieri

Why are we so passionate at Migrant Tales about immigrant and minority rights? Because such groups are effective yardsticks that reveal the state of civil rights and democracy. The more social inclusion we succeed in promoting, the healthier our society is. 

There are clear examples in some recent elections in Europe that blaming immigrants and minorities for a country’s problems has become the trend.

We have even seen the rise of political parties that are keen on promoting social exclusion. Naturally they will not tell you this outright but may resemble the neo-Nazi Golden Eagle of Greece, which won 7% of the vote on Sunday.

This video clip of the party’s leader, Nikolaos Michaloliakos, is a good example of what a financial meltdown can bring. And it’s not at all pretty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4AXJx3IzdY

In a very common style, Michaloliakos pointed his guns at Greece’s undocmunented immigrants: “Out of my country, out of my home! How will we do it? Use your imagination.”

Do we have far-right groups in Finland? What does it say about the state of our society if a right-wing populist party like the Perussuomalaiset (PS) sees its support rise fivefold in last year’s election?

One thing that is clear about the PS is that it is anti-EU, anti-immigration and especially anti-Islam.

The way of thinking in anti-immigration parties, “this is our country so leave if you don’t like it,” is one of the reasons why integration isn’t working as effectively as it should.

One of the worst lies told about immigrants is that they do not want to adapt.

A Somali I met on Monday while interviewing the father of Abdisalam Mohamed Abdulahi revealed what we know but don’t want to admit. He speaks Finnish like a native. He’s lived in this country two thirds of his life.

“The worst thing in Finland is that if you have a different religion, culture and language, you are left on the  fringes of society,” he said. “No matter how much you try to integrate you are always left outside.”

Spreading an urban myth like “immigrants don’t want to integrate” is a very effective way to exclude whole groups and build high walls around them.

Why do we do this?

To control resources like wealth and jobs by excluding other groups.

It is no myth that excluding others and promoting social inequality is the costliest approach in social and financial terms.