Last year in Jämsä, an accompanied white Finn threatened an asylum seeker with a knife. Even if the asylum seeker does not speak Finnish well enough, he did make out the following words: vitun pakolainen (f**king asylum seeker) and vitun ulkomaalainen (f**king foreigner). The police did not mention the last two insults to the asylum
Read on »All categories
Perussuomalaiset on vaarallinen äärioikeistopuolue
Perussuomalaisten jytkyn jälkeen v. 2011 kerroin blogissani kylmistä väreistä, jotka sain lukiessani Helsingin Sanomien julkaiseman artikkelin Hitlerin varhaisesta kirjeestä. Kolmekymppinen tuleva hirmuhallitsija ilmaisi suhtautumisensa juutalaisiin näin: “Vastenmielisyyden aiheuttajana on enimmäkseen henkilökohtainen kontakti ja vaikutelma, jonka yksittäinen juutalainen aiheuttaa – ja joka on lähes aina epäsuotuisa” Juuri samalla tavalla argumentoi tuolloin vasta valittu kansanedustaja, Jussi Halla-aho,
Read on »Keyse Abdifata Maalesh’s parents are unhappy with the involuntary manslaughter sentence. Plan to appeal.
THIS STORY WAS UPDATED It’s been close to five months after Keyse Abdifata Maalesh, 18, lost his life at the Kannelmäki train station of Helsinki on April 26 when he was stabbed by a white Finn. Less than a week ago on September 14, the suspect was handed a five-year prison sentence for involuntary manslaughter.
Read on »Helsingin Sanomat’s late editorial response to the threat of political violence sowed by the PS
THE STORY WAS UPDATED Helsingin Sanomat finally published an editorial about the Pekka Kataja case and the threat of far-right violence to our political system. While the editorial was long overdue due to the importance of the topic, why did it take Finland’s largest daily a week to form an opinion on its editorial page?
Read on »Pekka Kataja’s attackers are two far-right activists. Have the Finnish authorities awoken to the threat of such groups?
THIS STORY WAS UPDATED In April, I had the opportunity to interview Yaron Nadbornik, the president of the Jewish Community of Helsinki. One of the matters that struck me of the interview was that in 2018-2019 the authorities started to recognize anti-Semitism as a problem. Today the police took into custody two far-right activists charged
Read on »Another study that sheds light in Finland on disadvantaged migrants and their children
A study by Ognjen Obućina and Ilari Ilmakunnas and cited by Sunday’s Helsingin Sanomat concluded the following: poverty and housing overcrowding was more prevalent among immigrant children compared with white Finnish children. The study showed that 60% of migrant children had experienced poverty for at least a year during the first five years of their lives.
Read on »An incomplete study on the rise of the PS of Finland shrowded in white denial
Yle published Saturday, a study that tells us something we have known: The fear of losing one’s economic status is fuel for the rise of populist parties like the Perussuomnalaiset (PS). Hanna Wss, the researcher, states that the rise of populism in countries like Sweden, the United Kingdom (Brexit), and the election of President Donald
Read on »Jääkää hyvästi, paikallislehdet!
Kuulun sukupolveen, jolle paperinen sanomalehti on ollut aamuinen riitti. Paikallislehteäkin on tilattu sen vuoksi, että saamme tietoa oman kylän tapahtumista ja voimme tallettaa pikkumainoksia puiden kaatajista ja halkojen myyjistä. Jos sekin vähä sisältö alkaa olla rasististen ennakkoluulojen kirjomaa ja jauhelihamainosten lisäksi ei oikein muuta asiallista luettavaa ole, alkaa tilausmaksukin tuntua kohtuuttomalta.Viimeinen niitti Aamupostin tilauksen lopettamiseen
Read on »Finland also locks up asylum seeker children
-
- A child in the Joutseno Immigration Removal Center.
Recent Comments