Suomen Sisu is a Finnish

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 association that defines itself as nationalist

Patriotism

Patriotism is a devotion to one's country, excluding differences caused by the dependencies of the term's meaning upon context, geography and philosophy...

 and patriotic

Patriotism

Patriotism is a devotion to one's country, excluding differences caused by the dependencies of the term's meaning upon context, geography and philosophy...

, criticizing unlimited immigration

Immigration

Immigration is the act of foreigners passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence...

 and multiculturalism

Multiculturalism

Multiculturalism is the appreciation, acceptance or promotion of multiple cultures, applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place, usually at the organizational level, e.g...

. Suomen Sisu proclaims to support the idea of independent national states, that govern themselves sovereignly, and opposes supranational co-operation, especially the European Union

European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...

. Suomen Sisu was established as the Youth Organisation of the Association of Finnish Culture and Identity

Association of Finnish Culture and Identity

Association of Finnish Culture and Identity was established 100 years after Johan Vilhelm Snellman's birth. Johannes Linnankoski was the first chairman. The Association was founded for preserving Finnish culture and language. It's founding members represented different parties. Due to its...

 (Suomalaisuuden Liitto) in 1998, but this affiliation was broken in 2000. The organization is not affiliated with any political party, but its members have operated in several parties as individuals.

The association gained publicity in the spring of 2006 when it published the Muhammad-cartoons

International reactions to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy

The publication of satirical cartoons of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten on September 30, 2005 led to violence, arrests, inter-governmental tensions, and debate about the scope of free speech and the place of Muslims in the West. Many Muslims claim that any...

 on its web site. Parliament member Jari Vilén

Jari Vilén

Jari Pekka Olavi Vilén is a Finnish politician and a diplomat. Mr. Vilén served in the Finnish Parliament, representing the National Coalition Party and the district of Lapland from 1999–2007.-Political life:...

 initiated a criminal investigation, but it did not lead to prosecution. Finnish PM Matti Vanhanen

Matti Vanhanen

Matti Taneli Vanhanen is a Finnish politician. He is a former Prime Minister of Finland and a former Chairman of the Centre Party. In the second half of 2006 he was President of the European Council. In his earlier career he was a journalist...

 apologised the deed in public, which was interpreted by Suomen Sisu as "flattering the islamists".

Suomen Sisu was described as a "Nazi spirited" group by the Finnish newspaper Länsiväylä

Länsiväylä

is a motorway in the Greater Helsinki area of Finland, mainly at the Helsinki conurbation. It is part of the Finnish national road 51. The road begins in Ruoholahti in western Helsinki and continues west through the island of Lauttasaari and then across the city border to Espoo. The Länsiväylä road...

; the association's president deemed the description incorrect and filed a complaint with the Council for Mass Media in Finland

Council for Mass Media in Finland

Council for Mass Media in Finland is a self-regulatory organ of the Finnish mass-media. It controls the journalist related to the publishers, who has adopted the good journalistic instructions and makes resolutions on the bases of the appeals...

. The Council ruled that as the Länsiväylä had given the president of the association an opportunity to publish his own letter regarding the issue in the Länsiväylä, the Council saw no need for further action. However, when the president of Suomen Sisu asked the Ministry of the Interior to investigate, whether the police lieutenant mentioned in the paper's article had actually described the organization as "Nazi spirited" or not, the lieutenant denied ever making such claims about the organization.

Suomen Sisu congratulated its members Jussi Halla-aho

Jussi Halla-aho

Jussi Kristian Halla-aho is a Finnish Slavic linguist, blogger and a politician for the True Finns party who has become well known for his essays criticising the humanitarian immigration and multiculturalism policies adopted in Finland.According to the newspaper Aamulehti, he is the best-known...

, Olli Immonen, James Hirvisaari

James Hirvisaari

James Hirvisaari is a Finnish member of parliament, elected in the 2011 general election held on April 17 on the electoral list of the True Finns party. He is a former train driver, educated at the Helsinki Pasila engine drivers' school in 1980–1982...

 and Juho Eerola for having been elected as the members of the parliament of Finland, 17 April 2011 in general elections.,