Kajaani Finland's most racist city, statistics reveal  Kajaani has largest number of racially motivated crimes in proportion to number of foreigners    Saturday evening's attack against a Kajaani pizzeria run by immigrants ( http://www.helsinginsanomat.fi/engli.../1101980443749 ) was not an isolated incident. Of all the cities in Finland, Kajaani has the largest number of racially motivated crimes in proportion to the number of foreign residents. The cities of Joensuu and Oulu are the runners-up in this questionable contest.  Statistics compiled by the Police College of Finland reveal that the northern Province of Oulu - home of both Oulu and Kajaani - is the country's darkest territory for hate crimes.  In the Province of Oulu, the number of racist crimes per 1,000 foreigners is 6.4, while the corresponding figures for the provinces of Eastern Finland, Southern Finland, Western Finland, and Lapland are 4.3, 2, 2, and less than 1 respectively. The figures refer to data from 2003.    Only a piece of timber sheeting concealing a broken window of the pizza and kebab restaurant Istanbul in a quiet Kajaani shopping centre between the districts of Kättö and Kuurna bears witness to the incident that took place here during the weekend.  Fifteen men stormed in simultaneously from the front and the back doors. Armed with billiard cues, they came from the adjacent bar. They did not say anything, just started hitting us in the head and breaking the place up, the owner Al-Masri Mohamed, 31, describes the events.  Mohamed now has five stitches in his head and three in his hand. Two of his employees, and the two foreign customers who happened to be there at the time, received worse injuries.    The broken furniture has now been replaced, and the employees have taken their families to safety in Oulu, Denmark, and Sweden.  The police is unable to protect immigrants in Kajaani. My pregnant wife and I have been threatened with baseball bats. Once a hamster had been strung up by the neck outside my door. Later a man came up to me and told me that the same fate awaits me, too, Mohamed recalls.  Furthermore, the pizzeria has received disturbing phone calls, and its door and windows have been busted in several times. While living in the cities of Oulu and Kemi, Mohamed - who originates from Jordan and is also an Israeli citizen - never encountered such problems. Mohamed has lived in Finland for nearly 13 years.  This is worse than Israel. I never imagined anything like this when I applied for asylum here.    (more on HS's site...)     http://www.helsinginsanomat.fi/engli.../1101980456772