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3.5.2006

Suomen Sisu on Radio Free Finland this Sunday

Tags: Uncategorized — Author: @ 10:46 pm

Be sure to tune-in this Sunday night at 22.00 (3pm EST) when I’ll interview Teemu Lahtinen of Suomen Sisu live on Radio Free Finland. Send questions for Teemu to info@radiofreefinland.net – Or ask your questions live on the air by dialing +358 (0)9 2316-3876 or by connecting via Skype to the username: radiofreefinland

Teemu Lahtinen, 29, was one of the founders of Suomen Sisu at age of 21. While completing double degree this IT professional advocates healthy national and cultural self-esteem and every nations rights to exist and to govern themselves. Being head of Suomen Sisu now for 2 years, he was one of three publishers of Mohammad-cartoons on Sisu’s site on February and now under threat of criminal prosecution.

  • winter

    Ask him how he feels to be labled a CRIMINAL by his own country, just for publishing some cartoons.

    Then ask him why is the EU not condeming Saudi cartoons of the same vane on Jews and Israel?

    Or why the EU is not condeming “Hamas supremo Khaled Meshaal has defended Palestinian suicide bombings as a “natural right”

    Remember it’s all about waiving the French “White Flag Of Surrender” in the EU these days.

  • Anton

    As the patriot he claims to be, ask him: If he knew that if he and his likes left Finland it would improve the life of the average Finn, would he do it and advocate the members of Suomen Sisu to do the same?
    If he answers no, then he really isn’t a patriot at all.
    If yes, I’ll get back to you..

  • Åboy

    “The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.”
    - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

  • Åboy

    These are also good and fitting:

    “I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.”
    - Edith Sitwell

    “It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.”
    - Nikolai Gogol

    (Quotations taken from http://www.quotationspage.com.)

  • Anonymous

    It is great that Phil has found buddies who can help him to lit the owens for social democrats, immigrants and mainly all muslims. Hail Phil!

  • ths

    freedom of speech carries great responsibility with it. it’s very easy to cuss everyone out and then say freedom of speech. the fact is, if you’re an editor of a newspaper, u r a man in a position of power, and should have enough wisdom and common fuckin courtesy to realize that there’s a difference between having an opinion about something, and totally ridiculing it. if they cant realize this, they should be fired.

  • Liber Al

    ths wrote: there’s a difference between having an opinion about something, and totally ridiculing it.

    What’s wrong with someone “totally ridiculing” your thoughts or beliefs? Some of my thoughts and beliefs have been totally ridiculed in the past and I don’t mind at all.

    Should we look for a new term to denote the liberty of speaking freely? For it appears that “free speech” has been distorted in to meaning something very different by now — a bit like GWB’s “democracy”.

  • just-another-commentator

    (Even if this case has been discussed to death …)

    ths,

    Well, the whole point with the cartoon-case was _who_ is to decide what are the exact semantics of certain artistical representations. Who draws the line between irony – satire – abuse? Should the muslim community say what kind of artistical language we are to use – even in cases there is no direct abuse committed to muslim community (no-one forced muslims to read the cartoons).

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