Hussein al-Taee (Arabic: حسين الطائي, romanized: Ḥusayn aṭ-Ṭā’ī; born 19 May 1983[1]) is a Finnish politician who served in the Parliament of Finland for the Social Democratic Party of Finland at the Uusimaa constituency between 2019 - 2023.
Al-Taee has a strong background in peace building and mediation. Previously he worked as an advisor at the Finnish peace broker organization Crisis Management Initiative (CMI).[2]
Al-Taee holds a master's degree in international management.
Al-Taee was born in Baghdad. He moved to Finland as a quota refugee in 1993.[3]
Al-Taee was elected to the Parliament on SDP's ticket in parliamentary elections 2019.[4] al-Taee is a member of Commerce Committee and Environment Committee in Parliament. He also serves in Fortum's Stakeholder Advisory Board.[5]
After the elections, civil rights activist Anter Yaşa published on his blog screenshots of al-Taee's writings on Facebook. Iltalehti and The Jerusalem Post claimed that Yaşa assume al-Taee's posts are pro-Iran and antisemitic.[6][7][8] Al-Taee has worked as an administrator of the "Gazan sota - Lähi-idän tilanne - uutisseuranta" named Facebook group.[6][7]
Finnish media, like STT, has tried to find if the screenshots are true. Al-Taee denied his posts and called them as a smear attack. He stated that he recognizes part of his posts as his own, but does not remember written all of his old postings.[7] CMI stated that those posts were falsified.[9] Later al-Taee recognized that those screenshots were in fact real.[10]
Al-Taee is married and has three children.[11]
