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Joakim Vigelius criticized Helsingin Sanomat for having, in his opinion, turned a year-old incident into a government racism scandal and hinted that the Finns Party was responsible for the reactions on social media. Vigelius believed that the criticism directed at the villa accommodations for asylum seekers was warranted and appropriate and was not related to racism. https://t.co/elG6wTZBtj #keskustelu #politiikka #rasismi (translated)

Keijo Kaarisade wrote that sharia law divided opinions in Finland and that, in his view, civilized bourgeois should not quarrel about it with each other, especially before elections. He raised racism, human rights, and achieving carbon neutrality by 2035 as greater challenges. https://t.co/CQnA7E8cZe #Suomi #Ihmisoikeudet #Rasismi (translated)

Mika Merano wrote that he had observed that some people who consider themselves conscious held the view that opposing Islam was racism. He questioned this interpretation and wondered why a Finn who converted to Islam but still viewed it and its teachings as harmful to Western modern democracies would, in his view, be considered a racist towards another Finn. Merano stated that he did not understand the logic of this reasoning. #rasismi #islam #demokratia (translated)

The author believed that this was not about individual silliness, but a long list indicated to him that racism had been toyed with throughout the entire term. He said that nothing real had been done about the issue. https://t.co/b2ouwo85hW #rasismi #oikeudet #politiikka #FI (translated)

Yaron Nadbornik criticized Heikki Hiilamo's column published in Yleisradio, stating that it presented a one-sided image connecting the actions of Israel's leadership, Finnish Christian groups, and Minister Antti Häkkänen's visit to the structures of oppression. Nadbornik argued that the column's treatment of Israel and Zionism made Jews collectively responsible and expanded the criticism to also include Israel's supporters and Jews in general. According to Nadbornik, Hiilamo's text divided the parties into white and Christian oppressors and non-white and Muslim victims. He said this framing overlooked the Jewish roots, history, and vulnerability in the Middle East, as well as the fact that millions of people from various backgrounds lived in Israel. He also believed that the framework wrongly fit the conflict into a narrative of Western colonialism and racism and presented Israel as a refuge for a people without another homeland. Nadbornik wrote that the prejudices against Jews were based on their otherness. He noted that studies had shown that Jews living in the diaspora were unjustly held accountable for the actions of the state of Israel. He argued that Hiilamo's rhetoric, which connected Christian groups and ministerial visits with the suffering in Gaza, reinforced this framework. Nadbornik recalled the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, describing it as a massacre involving rapes, mutilations, and the abduction of civilians, including babies, festival-goers, and the elderly, into Israel. He called it the largest single act of violence against Jews since the Holocaust. According to Nadbornik, Hiilamo overlooked the fact that Hamas and Hezbollah openly sought the destruction of Israel in connection with Israel's military actions. He believed that framing the terror attack merely as a security threat or comparing it to Russia's invasion of Ukraine ignored the rights of Israeli citizens to exist and be protected. https://t.co/PFvBFdaoiQ #Israel #Juutalaiset #Rasismi (translated)

According to the author, racism is not related to immigration either. He wrote that one can support strict immigration policies and talk about the problems of immigration without constant racist remarks if one cares about equality. https://t.co/Z0mLGPJGkt #rasismi #maahanmuutto #yhdenvertaisuus #FI (translated)

Anne Nevgi wrote that she had read Hiilamo's column and found it full of ideological and anti-Israel interpretations. According to her, the bias of the column was evident in that the facts presented were interpreted in an anti-Israel way and events were framed through colonialism, racism, and whiteness. Nevgi argued that Hamas's brutality was not addressed and the origins of the Gaza conflict were not considered. She stated that the column created a misleading picture and inaccurately equated two different wars. #IsraelinKonflikti #Ideologiat #Propaganda (translated)

Lucia-pulla stated that she had posed several questions to Said Awmuss, to which she had not received answers. She had asked, among other things, what kinds of hobbies Muslim girls could engage in and whether twerking, hip-hop, and ballet were acceptable. Additionally, she inquired about the attitude towards dating a Finnish Christian, marrying a Jew or a Hindu, and the Muslim Brotherhood. On the day of Aleksis Kivi and Finnish literature, Lucia-pulla asked what the Finnish language, literature, and culture meant to Said Awmuss, and urged him to discuss it with her. She also wrote that Islam was not a race or ethnicity but a religion or ideology, and considered discussing racism in this context misleading. According to her, no one is born a Muslim. #uskonto #kulttuuri #kysymykset (translated)

Mikael Lith disputed the claim by Muhis Azizi, the leading figure of the Turku Coalition, that the racism scandals of the True Finns had led to a decline in the support for the Coalition. According to Lith, Azizi strongly supported immigration and wanted the Coalition to ally with the red-green parties to increase it. Lith reminded that Azizi had already described the immigration policies of the government program in 2023 as "unequal" and "discriminatory." https://t.co/s1Hs3RHY2I #politiikka #maahanmuutto #rasismi (translated)

The basketball team Legia Warsaw, led by Heiko Rannula, became embroiled in a racism scandal when player Jakub Andrzejewski posted a one-minute video on social media in which he used racist slurs against an opposing Black player, for which he later publicly apologized. #rasism #korvpall #avaldikvabandamine (translated)

According to the author, there was an uproar over Prime Minister Petteri Orpo's meeting with the imam, even though meetings with leaders of religious communities were part of the Prime Minister's duties. The author stated that the imam said that Finnish law applied to everyone, including Muslims, but according to him, he was still pressed on sharia as if it were a crime. The author found this repugnant and racist. #uskonto #rasismi #Suomi #FI (translated)

Kamal Jafi asked what had happened to the National Coalition Party when a person was allowed to attend the meeting with Prime Minister Petteri Orpo, a person he claimed allegedly supports sharia. According to Jafi, the person used accusations of Islamophobia and racism in social discussions to silence critical views. He wrote that sharia is in contradiction with values and laws. https://t.co/TGXAir5fUW #sharia #rasismi #keskustelu (translated)

Reindeer herders and their families not only contribute to reindeer husbandry but also form a part of the Sámi society and cultural heritage, which the letter writer Marita Sikku wishes to highlight in her criticism of racism and prejudice against Sámi people. #SamiskIdentitet #Renkötsel #Rasism (translated)

Petteri Hietanen denied that the decline in support for the National Coalition Party was due to the Finns Party. According to him, the National Coalition Party lost support because, in his opinion, it did not serve right-wing Finns sufficiently, protected the elite, and catered to the media and the left. Hietanen also criticized the party for not having fixed the YEL system, exaggerating racism, and failing to address lax spending. #Kokoomus #politiikka #Suomi (translated)

Matias Turkkila wrote that according to the morning poll, the Finns Party had surpassed the National Coalition Party. He criticized Yle's choice to give the result and the difficult situation of the National Coalition Party for analysis to Tulikukka de Fresnes, who had worked for a leftist party newspaper. According to Turkkila, the analysis focused on criticism of the government and racism. Turkkila referred to a previous EVA study, according to which Yle was, in his opinion, more left-leaning than the main supporter of the Left Alliance, Kansan Uutiset. He previously thought that journalists who had worked at Kansan Uutiset would move Yle to the left, but now believed they were shifting it to the center. #politiikka #media #Suomi (translated)

Leena Pihanurmi wrote that according to Yle's analysis, the support for the National Coalition Party had decreased because the party had supported the government during the scandals of the True Finns related to racism and had listened to the minister's descriptions of organizations as a privileged elite. She asked how this explained the rise in support for the True Finns. https://t.co/G28AlCxNTc #Politiikka #Suomi #Yle (translated)

Jari Mäkäräinen quoted Yle's description, which stated that the True Finns had made breakaways in the government after the election defeat and had been in the public eye due to racism scandals. He claimed that people wanted the current economic and immigration policies to continue to be stricter than before. https://t.co/az4oeqcJn3 #politiikka #maahanmuutto #rasismi (translated)