In 2010, when Otava Folk High School, located 14 km from Mikkeli, started offering halal meat on a regular weekly basis to its Muslim students, it became one of the first, if not the first, learning institutions to offer such meat to students. All of this, however, came to an abrupt end when the principal, Harri…
Month: October 2025
Suaad Onniselkä: “You can either ‘Other’ or empower”- Islamophobia and inequality in Finnish schools
Thanks to migration, Finland’s demographic makeup has changed. In Helsinki alone, the number of pupils in 2024 who have another mother tongue other than Finnish, Swedish, and Sami, has risen to 25.7% of the city’s population from 13.5% ten years ago. Such demographic changes have placed new challenges and a rethink on comprehensive schools and…
Sanni Grahn-Laasonen: It’s the migrants’ fault!
Social Welfare Minister Sanni Grahn-Laasonen, who said recently that she would ban children from using the niqaba and burka at school, blamed poor integration of foreigners into the labor market for high unemployment and welfare levels. Even if Grahn-Laasonen places the blame on foreigners for not finding work, we should treat her words with tweezers…
If you are a foreigner coming to Finland, please leave your identity and rights at the door
The shame and contempt that the government of Prime Minister Petteri Orpo through their Perussuomalaiset (PS)* partners is iincomprehensible if you are a sensible-minded person. The PS was, is and will continue to be a racist party where its toxicity level varies. But mark my words: racism is its fuel and raison d’être, reason for…
Wille Rydman defends the Great Replacment Theory
The Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party is waging a hostile Islamophobic campaign to boost their low standings in opinion polls. The party is confident that the job will be done by increasing attacks on the migrant and minority community. That is the reason you hear and read PS politicians bashing migrants to divert attention from their disastrous…
How the media is the humble servant of Finland’s inhumane migrant and asylum seeker laws
Think of it. Finland’s largest daily, Helsingin Sanomat, publishes a story if the country’s deportation. system is broken. For the story, the daily uses as sources well-known xenophobie Joakim Vigelius of the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party, Social Democrat MP Eveliina Heinäluoma, who has a wishy-washy stance on migrants, and National Coalition Party MP Heikki Vestman, who…
Exposing the dark side of us
The silence of the Finnish government about Israel’s illegal action to stop the Global Sumud flotilla from reaching war-ravaged Gaza, where Palestinians are suffering from hunger, genocide and ethnic cleansing. While governments from different countries were condemning Isreal’s action to stop the flotilla, Prime Minister Petter Orpo and his government went silent even if there…