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Migrant Tales (December 9, 2013): Fadumo Dayib – Run, Nigger, Run

Posted on May 21, 2015 by Migrant Tales

Fadumo Dayib

I came to this country as a refugee in 1990, at the time of recession and when foreigners where a rarity. As a result, we had become a “Somali shock” overnight. It was common at the time to hear racial slurs, to wake up to the sounds of “perkele”, to drink tea to “mutakuono” and to dance to “vitun neekeri”. People would stop to gawk on the streets, kids yelling “look mommy, a nigger”. Grandmothers would ambush me in the swimming hall shower and scrub me down, hoping to wash the color off. Others, after a few pints, would come over to touch my hair and make inappropriate propositions. I went from being an individual, with aspirations, feelings and rights, to a degraded sub-human: a “mud face”, “nigger”, “whore”, and “social loafer”.

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Finland, the PS and their racist improvisations

Posted on May 16, 2015 by Migrant Tales

What is wrong with Finland? Just because of 221,900 immigrants, which account for about 4% of the population, and since only about 8% of those live in Finland on humanitarian grounds, a party like the PS is on the warpath poisoning the air and soiling our good names.

Their warpath, like the new government’s immigration policy, is a farce.

Racists who spread urban tales about migrants and minorities act in the way that racists have acted throughout the ages. Their ultimate aim is to destroy you. They do this by relegating us to second- or third-class members of society.

Even some white Finnish seven-year-old children are taught this by their families.

I spoke to a teacher’s aid recently who was telling a seven-year-old pupil that he had to do something. The pupil responded: “I don’t have to follow your orders because you are only a teacher’s aid and a foreigner.”

Where do children learn their racism? One breeding ground is the family.

Adults in parties like the PS spread intolerance with the help of urban tales like gang rape stories, which the police have warned are mostly made up. Why do they make up such stories about people who want to live in peace and get on with their lives?

Because they are sick with hatred like part of the Finnish public that agrees with such politicians because they are just as racist as them.

The police state that many gang rape cases are made up. Read full story (in Finnsh) here.

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Institute of Race Relations: Why we should listen when the UN condemns the UK’s ‘extremist media’

Posted on May 8, 2015 by Migrant Tales

Matt Carr

Below we reproduce an article by author Matt Carr from his blog, Infernal Machine, on the current situation in the Mediterranean.

British tabloid editors have never struck me as a particularly reflective and thoughtful breed of humanity, so I doubt they will be plunged into a mood of remorseful self-analysis by the very strongly-worded suggestion from the United Nations High Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein that there is a connection between their skewed coverage of immigration and asylum and the horrors now taking place in the Mediterranean.

It is far more likely that they, their journalists and many of their readers will scoff at the impudence of some jumped-up Johnny Foreigner with an unpronouncable name who is probably a Muslim to boot having the temerity to criticise their courageous attempts to have a ‘debate’ about immigration and shrug off the politically correct shackles imposed on them by muesli-eating liberals from Hampstead.

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Get ready for even harder times in Finland if you are a migrant or minority

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Migrant Tales

I still remember vividly right after the 2011 parliamentary elections, when the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* won 39 seats from 5 previously, that some weren’t worried by the result. “You’ll see,” one person said. “It’s only a matter of time when they implode.”

It’s clear after last month’s elections that the PS hasn’t imploded but become the second-biggest party in parliament after winning 38 seats.

What does the writing on the wall say? Can we read what it says? (Photo by Enrique Tessieri)

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Dana: Open racist wave

Posted on May 1, 2015 by Migrant Tales

Migrant Tales insight: After a year and six months I got an email from Dana, who has written many beautiful and powerful poems for us. I was delighted to hear from her after such a long time. Those who remember, the passing away of her parents in such a short time was a terrible blow for her. She had tried to bring them to Finland but due to our tight family reunification laws this wasn’t possible.

I’d like to personally welcome Dana back to our community. We look forward to reading many of her poems in the future.

_____________________________

Dana

Racist here racist there racist everywhere this is the danger… how can i leave this satanic circle?
How many racists are following me?… this is a big question i am not aware!!!

You are looking to solve a problem… you write, complain, it’s again lem
It’s tragedy’s doors that are closed… you are trying but you feel worse

What can i to do? how can i help?…I need a peaceful time but i have no chance!!!
Sad sad sad sad OHhhh no choice… here is Finland full of pain, sores

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Straight A students in racism and the rise of xenophobia in Finland

Posted on April 30, 2015 by Migrant Tales

You may be wondering why xenophobia has raised its head big time in Finland these past years and why candidates from parties like the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* get elected on such a platform.

The Facebook post below that sources a false story about migrants called MV, Mitä v****a! or What the f**k!, offers an answer.

The online publication claims that only immigrants (sic!) were granted 85,000 euros in aid to get their own swimming hours, buy personal mountain bikes and free passes to the fitness gym in the eastern Finnish city of Lieksa, which has been a hotbed of racism in recent years.

In a nutshell MV is a source that incites ethnic agitation and reinforces the racist behavior of some people without abiding to any ethical or journalistic standards.

MV has even been used by PS MP Mika Niikko to lure voters on election day. The MP used the online publication as a source to incite voters by claiming that foreigners had gang raped again a woman. In light of the hysteria and public reaction to the Tapanila gang rape case last month, the police had to put out a statement alerting the public that the news published by MV was a hoax.

What does using a racist online publication like MV, which has over 34,000 likes, as a source by some of the Finnish public and politicians say about the state of our country?

It tells us that some of these Finns were and still are straight A students in racism, especially those that suffer from low self-esteem.

One look at the picture above will tell you that the person in it never heard of the eastern Finnish city of Lieksa.

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Treating immigrants in Finland as the problem IS the problem

Posted on April 28, 2015 by Migrant Tales

What’s wrong with the ongoing debate in Finland concerning immigration, refugees and cultural diversity? The problem is that they are treated as a problem by politicians, the media and public.*

Instead of treating these three matters as “a problem” we should make an effort to think outside of the current anti-immigration political climate and see them as a solution and opportunity for our country.

By treating immigration, refugees and cultural diversity as problems we begin to despair and give space to the ugly side of ourselves: hatred, intolerance and bigotry that mutate into populism, hate speech, intolerance and xenophobic political parties.

Want to solve the problem? Then repeat after me:

* Special thanks go to Markku Ikonen in Australia for sharing this idea with us.

Helsingin Sanomat, PS MP Laura Huhtasaari, populism and Islamophobia

Posted on April 28, 2015 by Migrant Tales

There is one picture (see below) from an article on Helsingin Sanomat about Perussuomalaiset (PS)* MP Laura Huhtasaari that speaks volumes about not only her ethnocentric views when she visits a mosque for the first time in her life but that of Finland’s leading daily as well.

Huhtasaari, who is convinced that she is on some anti-Islam crusade to rid Finland of Muslims, is not wearing a veil in the picture below and asking a tolerant imam, Mohammed Hussein Omer, some dumb questions like why Muslim women wear veils.

While Huhtasaari attempts to control her Islamophobic views during the visit, she is quoted a day before claiming that refugees that come from Islamic countries have not integrated successfully into our society. “We can see this in violent and rape crimes of those we accept here and who have not adapted,” she said.

Huhtasaari believes that migration from Islamic countries is a security risk for Finland.

Read full story (in Finnish) here.

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Migrant Tales (June 16, 2012): The crux of European racism – too little inclusion, too much race and blood

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Migrant Tales

Much of the way Europeans perceive themselves as a group today is still deeply embedded in racism. The fact that we haven’t yet even started to confront the legacy of colonialism, which fuels our ”us” and ”them” view of the world, reveals a disturbing fact: There’s still too little inclusion and acceptance in this part of the world.

Sadder still is the fact that too few of us openly promote more inclusion and acceptance in our society. How many times have you heard your local politician use terms like “mutual acceptance” and “respect” when speaking of immigrants and visible minorities?

Our race-and- blood view of ourselves and “others” explains why some Europeans still have difficulty overcoming the “us vs. them” mindset.

It would be naive, even foolhardy, to claim that the root of European racism does not date back to the nineteenth century, when we were a colonial power.

Racist views of other groups, especially blacks, is still predominant. The drawing is from the Golden Book Encyclopedia. The 1959 edition sold over 60 million volumes.

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Finland 2015 is a sinking ship: Throw overboard excess weight like migrants, refugees, minorities and our Nordic values

Posted on April 26, 2015 by Migrant Tales

What destiny can befall a country or a political party that retreats into its own fears and scapegoats migrants for its own blunders and inaction? As one friend pointed out, Finland resembles today a sinking ship that is throwing overboard excess weight like migrants, refugees, minorities and Nordic values.

The situation is dire, very dire. All you have to do is take a whiff of the political atmosphere in Finland. Today the Perussuomalaiset (PS),* a populist anti-immigration party that still believes the sun revolves around the Earth, are the second-biggest political party in parliament.

Finland resembles a sinking vessel in the present anti-immigration and nationalistic political climate coupled with a diehard recession stretching back to 2008.

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