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Jussi Halla-aho
Jussi Halla-aho in 2014.
Member of the European Parliament
for Finland
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 July 2014
Member of the Finnish Parliament for Helsinki
In office
20 April 2011 – 30 June 2014
Member of the Helsinki City Council
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 January 2009
Personal details
Born (1971-04-27) 27 April 1971 (age 53)
Tampere, Finland
NationalityFinland
Political partyFinns Party
SpouseHilla Halla-aho[1][2]
ChildrenFour[3]
Alma materUniversity of Helsinki (PhD)
OccupationPolitician, linguist, blogger
Known forCriticism of multiculturalism
Criticism of humanitarian immigration
Criticism of Islam
WebsiteJussi Halla-aho – Halla-aho's personal homepage Template:En icon
Scripta – Halla-aho's blog Template:Fi icon

Jussi Kristian Halla-aho (born 27 April 1971 in Tampere[5]) is a Finnish Slavic linguist, blogger and a politician for the Finns Party who has become well known for his essays criticising the humanitarian immigration and multiculturalism policies adopted in Finland.[6][7][8] Halla-aho was first elected to the Helsinki City Council in 2008 and to the Finnish parliament in 2011. In 2014 he was elected to the European Parliament.

Political career

Electoral results

Halla-aho was elected a member of Helsinki City Council in the 2008 municipal elections as a candidate of the Finns Party (also known as True Finns),[6][9] although he was not a member of the party until 2010. In the 2008 elections, he was the 18th most popular candidate in the entire country[10] and the second most popular candidate of the Finns Party after the party leader Timo Soini.[11] Halla-aho won the largest number of personal votes for the party in Helsinki.[12]

Halla-aho was elected to parliament in 2011. His vote share was the sixth highest in the country and the second highest within his party.[13] In the parliament he was made chairman of the Administration Committee,[14] which deals with immigration affairs among other matters.[15] However, in the summer of 2012 Halla-aho resigned from the position of committee chairman, while staying as a member of the committee.[16] Halla-aho was re-elected to the Helsinki City Council in 2012, being the third most popular candidate nationwide.[17]

Halla-aho was elected to the European Parliament in 2014. He was the second most popular candidate in the election with 80,772 votes.[18] He sits in the European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR). He is a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, and a substitute member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.[19]

Political interests

Halla-aho has stated that he became politically active because he finds the Finnish immigration policy a problem[20] and believes that Europe is heading towards a catastrophe because of massive immigration.[21] Halla-aho voices support for the welfare state, and places himself on the left side of the political spectrum, in matters of economic policy.[12] Still, he maintains that, all sides taken into account, if forced to choose between left-wing and right-wing politics he would choose the right-wing.[2]

Halla-aho maintains a blog titled Scripta which states that it treats issues such as ”immigration, multiculturalism, tolerance, racism, freedom of speech and political correctness”.[22] His blog had between 3,000 and 6,000 readers a day in 2008,[23] which made him the best known political blogger in Finland according to the newspaper Aamulehti.[24]

In a 2007 interview with Helsingin Sanomat Halla-aho explained his opposition to multiculturalism in the following way:

In Finland the starting point is that multiculturalism is a richness in itself. This is an untenable claim. When rival value systems and codes of conduct are accepted in a society, it leads automatically to conflicts. Finland is no exception. It is mainly the attributes of the Muslim cultures, that make the integration of these groups into Finland impossible, as long as they hold on to their special characteristics and as long as the society encourages them to wrap themselves in this otherness. It creates a spiral of social exclusion and ghettoisation.[25]

Halla-aho has demanded that positive discrimination and what he calls privileges due to culture or nationality should not be allowed. Referring to his own works, he has affirmed that criticising "totalitarian fascist ideologies like political Islam" should not be considered racism and that facts cannot be criminalised.[26] According to Halla-aho, immigration is a taboo in Finland.[27] He has disclosed that he has received death threats because of his web columns.[2][24]

Halla-aho has been accused of racism by academics and members of the Finnish government,[28][29] and has been connected to the counterjihad movement.[30][31] He denies that he is xenophobic and maintains that he is simply “critical of immigration”,[6] and that he has supporters among immigrants, as well.[2]

Criminal charges and conviction

In December 2008, Halla-aho was put under investigation for incitement to ethnic or racial hatred (under Finnish law referred to as "ethnic agitation") for remarks published on his blog.[32][33] The investigation originally aimed to determine whether it constituted incitement to suggest that an assault rapist should target female supporters of multiculturalism, as Halla-aho believed this would make them recant their political beliefs,[34] but the eventual conviction related to statements about Islam and people of Somali descent.[29]

On 27 March 2009, the Helsinki District Court ordered Halla-aho to stand for trial on charges of ethnic agitation and breach of the sanctity of religion. The final charges were raised on the basis of remarks related to the sentencing of Seppo Lehto on Halla-aho's blog in 2008. Here, he wrote that the prophet Muhammad was a paedophile, making reference to Muhammad's relationship with Aisha, and that Islam is a religion of paedophilia.[35] He also asked if it could be stated that robbing passersby and living on taxpayers' expense are cultural and possibly genetic characteristics of Somalis.[29] In the course of the investigation, he claimed that this was intended as a sarcastic response to a Finnish columnist of the newspaper Kaleva, who had written that drinking excessively and fighting when drunk were cultural and possibly genetic characteristics of Finns.[36] [37]

On 8 September 2009, the District Court convicted Halla-aho of disturbing religious worship, and ordered him to pay a fine of 330 euros.[29] The charge of ethnic agitation was dismissed. In October 2010 the Court of Appeal agreed with the District Court's conviction.[38] Both the prosecutor and Halla-aho appealed the case to the Supreme Court.[39] The Supreme Court granted a leave to appeal in May 2011.[40] In a sentence given on the 8 of June 2012, the Supreme Court found Halla-aho guilty of both disturbing religious worship and of ethnic agitation and increased his fines accordingly to 400 euros.[41][29][42]

Other controversies

In September 2011 Halla-aho wrote in Facebook that Greece's debt problems cannot be resolved without a military junta.[43] He soon retracted the comment, clarifying that his intention was merely to point out that making necessary but unpopular decisions is not easy in a democracy.[44] Timo Soini, the leader of the party, demanded a temporary suspension of Halla-aho from the parliamentary group.[45] In the end the parliamentary group unanimously (Halla-aho himself included) suspended Halla-aho for two weeks, although Soini had initially called for a month-long suspension.[46][47]

Scientific career

Jussi Halla-aho in 2006

Halla-aho is a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), having written his dissertation about historical nominal morphology of Old Church Slavonic.[6][48] Halla-aho studied at the University of Helsinki from 1995 to 2000. During his post-graduate period (2000–2006), he worked at the Department of Slavonic and Baltic Studies as a researcher and teacher of Old Church Slavic.[49] Halla-aho has published two articles in scientific journals, has been interested in comparative Indo-European linguistics, and has written Old Church Slavic Manual, which is used at the University of Helsinki.[49]

Personal life

Halla-aho grew up in Tampere and lived there 24 years.[49][6] His parents had moved there from Alajärvi.[1] During the 1980s he travelled to the Soviet Union with his father, who was a bus driver. The trip was the spark for his anti-leftist convictions.[6] When Halla-aho was young he worked as a waiter.[6] When conscripted, instead of military service he chose non-military service. He later expressed regret at his decision, calling the choice a "stupid political protest", and voicing support for the present conscription system.[50]

Halla-aho lives in Eira in Helsinki with his wife Hilla Halla-aho and their four children.[6][51] Halla-aho's hobbies include reading J. R. R. Tolkien, astronomy, as well as pistol and rifle shooting.[5] He is a member of Suomen Sisu, an association that seeks to promote Finnish nationalism.[52]

Publications

Academic works

Political works

In 2009, Halla-aho published a collection of his web columns titled Kirjoituksia uppoavasta Lännestä (Writings from the sinking West or Writings about the sinking West) in print. The book's first edition sold out in three days.[53]

References

  1. ^ a b Rautio, Pirjo: Jussi Halla-ahon juurilla, Pohjalainen, 22.11.2008 Template:Fi icon
  2. ^ a b c d Pettersson, Maria: Jussi Halla-aho, City, nro 1/2009 Template:Fi icon
  3. ^ http://www.halla-aho.com/scripta/lisaantykaa_ja_tayttakaa_toyota_corolla.html
  4. ^ Susiluoto, Klaus (August 2009). "Oikeus olla leimautumatta rasistiksi". Lue! (in Finnish). Karprint: 80. Halla-aho ei kuulu kirkkoon. Hän määrittelee itsensä maltilliseksi agnostiseksi ateistiksi. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |coauthors=, |trans_title=, |ps=, |laysource=, and |laysummary= (help)
  5. ^ a b Kontulan Perussuomalaiset ry: Jussi Halla-aho Template:Fi icon
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h Mäkinen, Esa: What does Jussi Halla-aho really want?, Helsingin Sanomat – International Edition Metro, 30.11.2008. Template:En icon
  7. ^ Sauvala, Milka: Maahanmuuttokriitikko perussuomalaisten äänikuningas Helsingissä, Helsingin Sanomat, 26.10.2008. Template:Fi icon
  8. ^ Viljanmaa, Toni: Perussuomalaiset saivat parikymmentä maahanmuuttokriitikkoa valtuustoihin, Satakunnan Kansa 27.10.2008. Template:Fi icon
  9. ^ Valitut ehdokkaat - Helsinki, Kunnallisvaalit 2008, Ministry of Justice, Finland. Template:Fi icon
  10. ^ Koko maa – Ääniharavat, Vaalit 2008 tulospalvelu, 27.10.2008, YLE. Template:Fi icon
  11. ^ Perussuomalaisten Halla-ahosta rikostutkinta, MTV3-STT 12.12.2008. Template:Fi icon
  12. ^ a b Great ideological disparity among True Finns in Helsinki region, Helsingin Sanomat - International Edition - Metro Template:En icon
  13. ^ http://yle.fi/vaalit/tulospalvelu/2011/ehdokkaat_aanimaarajarjestyksessa.html
  14. ^ http://www.kaleva.fi/uutiset/joutsenlahti-puhemiehistoon-halla-aho-hallintovaliokuntaan/897477
  15. ^ http://web.eduskunta.fi/Resource.phx/parliament/committees/administration.htx
  16. ^ http://www.hs.fi/politiikka/Halla-aho+eroaa+hallintovaliokunnan+puheenjohtajan+teht%C3%A4v%C3%A4st%C3%A4/a1305574404538
  17. ^ http://www.vaalikone.fi/kunta2012/tulos/
  18. ^ http://vaalit.yle.fi/tulospalvelu/2014/eurovaalit/ehdokkaat_aanimaarajarjestyksessa.html
  19. ^ European Parliament: Jussi HALLA-AHO, accessed 7 July 2014.
  20. ^ Ruissalo, Pekka: Timo Soini ja Jussi Halla-aho närkästyivät rasismisyytöksistä, Aamulehti 21.10.2008 Template:Fi icon
  21. ^ Poikkeustapaukset, Helsingin Sanomat, 2.3.2007.
  22. ^ Halla-aho, Jussi: Johdanto uudelle lukijalle, Scripta. Template:Fi icon
  23. ^ Jussi, Noora: Yllätysvoitot perustuivat blogeihin, Vihreä Lanka, 29.10.2008. Template:Fi icon
  24. ^ a b Viljanmaa, Toni: Perussuomalaiset | Hallan vaara , Aamulehti, 5.12.2008. Template:Fi icon
  25. ^ In Finnish: "Suomessa on lähtökohtana, että monikulttuurisuus itsessään on rikkaus. Tämä on perustelematon väite. Kun yhteiskunnassa hyväksytään kilpailevia arvojärjestelmiä ja käyttäytymiskoodeja, se johtaa automaattisesti konflikteihin. Suomi ei ole poikkeus. Lähinnä muslimikulttuurien piirteet tekevät näiden ryhmien sopeutumisen Suomeen mahdottomaksi niin kauan kuin ne pitävät kiinni erityispiirteistään ja yhteiskunta rohkaisee heitä kääriytymään tähän erilaisuuteen. Se luo syrjäytymisen ja etnisen gettoutumisen kierteen." Poikkeustapaukset, Helsingin Sanomat, 2.3.2007 Template:Fi icon
  26. ^ Toisinajattelijana Suomessa – Policyn haastattelussa Jussi Halla-aho Policy 1/2008, p. 16, Helsingin yliopiston Valtio-opin Opiskelijat ry. (PDF) Template:Fi icon
  27. ^ B-Studion perjantaivieras: Jussi Halla-aho Nelonen, 19.12.2008 (Video) Template:Fi icon
  28. ^ Kammonen, Teemu J. (September 14, 2009). "Halla-ahon ryöpytys jatkuu: "Rasisti"". Uusi Suomi. Retrieved 2014-07-08.
  29. ^ a b c d e Dunne, David (14 June, 2012). "Finns Party MP remains defiant after race hate conviction" (PDF). Helsinki Times. Retrieved 8 July 2014. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  30. ^ Huusko, Jukka (2011-07-29). "Halla-aho kiistää tiiviit yhteydet vasta-jihad-liikkeeseen". Helsingin Saanomat. Retrieved 2014-07-08.
  31. ^ Lydén, Marianne (2012-09-09). ""Hatretoriken mot islam måste utmanas"". Hufvudstadsbladet. Retrieved 2014-07-08.
  32. ^ Grönholm, Pauliina: Poliisi aloittaa rikostutkinnan Halla-ahosta, Helsingin Sanomat, 12.12.2008 Template:Fi icon
  33. ^ Police to Investigate Helsinki City Council Member's Blog YLE, 12.12.2008 Template:En icon
  34. ^ Exactly: Kollektiivisessa närkästyksessäni huomaan välillä, että minun on vaikea tuntea aitoa sympatiaa näiden rikosten uhreja kohtaan. Tunnen houkutusta ajatella, että naiset saavat sitä, mitä pyytävät. Yritän kuitenkin olla ajattelematta näin. Koska kaikki naiset eivät ole sellaisia kuin Virtanen, Biaudet ja Filatov. Raiskaukset tulevat joka tapauksessa lisääntymään. Koska näin ollen yhä useampi nainen tulee joka tapauksessa raiskatuksi, toivon hartaasti, että uhrinsa sattumanvaraisesti valitsevien saalistajien kynsiin jäisivät oikeat naisihmiset. Vihervasemmistolaiset maailmanparantajat ja heidän äänestäjänsä. Mieluummin he kuin joku muu. Heihin ei tehoa mikään muu kuin se, että monikulttuuri osuu omaan nilkkaan. http://www.halla-aho.com/scripta/monikulttuurisuus_ja_nainen.html
  35. ^ http://www.mtv.fi/uutiset/rikos/artikkeli/islamin-yhdistaminen-pedofiliaan-toi-halla-aholle-sakot-myos-hovilta/2038802
  36. ^ Halla-aho, Jussi K. (June 3, 2008). "Muutama täky Illmanin Mikalle". Scripta. Retrieved 2014-07-08.
  37. ^ Karvonen, Kyösti (13 June, 2012). "Kaleva ja Halla-aho". Kaleva. Retrieved 2014-07-08. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  38. ^ Mölsä, Ari (29 October 2010). "Halla-ahon blogituomio pysyi myös hovissa" (in Finnish). YLE. Retrieved 27 December 2010.
  39. ^ "Halla-ahon blogikirjoittelu KKO:n punnittavaksi" (in Finnish). HS. 10 May 2011. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  40. ^ "VL:2011-53". Edilex database (in Finnish). Edita Publishing Oy. 10 May 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
  41. ^ KKO tuomitsi Halla-ahon myös kiihottamisesta kansanryhmää vastaan, Helsingin Sanomat, 8.6.2012
  42. ^ http://suomenkuvalehti.fi/jutut/kotimaa/halla-ahon-sakot-laskettiin-vanhoilla-tiedoilla-asia-ei-tullut-mieleenkaan/
  43. ^ "Finnish lawmaker's remarks spark call for ouster". Retrieved 15 September 2011.
  44. ^ "Halla-aho: Kreikkaan tarvittaisiin sotilasjuntta". 14 September 2011. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
  45. ^ "Soini odottaa tukea Halla-Ahon erottamiselle". Retrieved 15 September 2011.
  46. ^ UPDATE: Jussi Halla-aho suspended from the Finns Party's parliamentary group for two weeks
  47. ^ "Jussi Halla-aho erotettiin eduskuntaryhmästä kahdeksi viikoksi". 15 September 2011. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
  48. ^ Problems of Proto-Slavic Historical Nominal Morphology: On the Basis of Old Church Slavic, Slavistik-Portal, 2006 Template:En icon
  49. ^ a b c Jussi Halla-aho, Jussi Halla-aho's personal homepage Template:En icon
  50. ^ Maria Pettersson: Jussi Halla-aho, City-lehti 1/2009 Template:Fi icon
  51. ^ http://www.halla-aho.com/scripta/lisaantykaa_ja_tayttakaa_toyota_corolla.html
  52. ^ Vahti, Jukka: Suomen Sisun jäsenet pyrkivät valtuustoihin perussuomalaisten listoilta, Vihreä Lanka, 9.10.2008 Template:Fi icon
    *Onnittelemme valtuustoihin päässeitä Suomen Sisun jäseniä, Suomen Sisu 28.10.2008 Template:Fi icon
  53. ^ Halla-ahon kirjan ensimmäinen painos myytiin loppuun, Iltalehti, 4.3.2009 Template:Fi icon
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