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2.6.2006

Suomen Sisu not to face charges for posting Mohammed cartoon

Tags: Uncategorized — Author: @ 3:34 pm

A few weeks ago I interviewed the head of Finnish nationalist group Suomen Sisu on Radio Free Finland. He and two of his colleagues were under investigation for posting the infamous Mohammed cartoons on their website. To our knowledge, they were only group throughout Europe who were under federal investigation for posting the cartoons. But the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation wisely chose not to embarass the country and trample on our rights

According to Deputy Prosecutor General Jorma Kalske, publishing the pictures did not constitute a crime against the freedom of worship. A crime should have the intention of causing offence or defamation.

Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, a professor of Arabic language and Islam at the University of Helsinki, gave an expert opinion during the preliminary investigation. He said publishing the pictures did hurt Muslims’ religious feelings.

In February, Suomen Sisu posted pictures of the prophet that had previously been published by a Danish newspaper. According to the organisation, the decision to publish was in protest at the Swedish government’s decision to close down a xenophobic website after it had published one of the pictures.

  • Moral minority?

    A great decision, yet I think there are a couple of minor errors in Phil’s text here.

    1) Also in Denmark the cartoons were handled by the judicial authorities and twice regarded as not conflicting with the law by prosecutors – just to point out that some people in Denmark also tried to start a legal process against them. Luckily unsuccessfully as here.
    2) In Finland, the National Bureau of Investigation (KRP) did not make the decision on whether the publication was illegal or not, it was the prosecutor to which KRP brought the case after their investigation (as Phil writes above).

    However, the freedom of expression and tolerance of opposite views is under threat here again, Phil.

    Yesterday, MP Heidi Hautala of the Greens criticized in her speech in the Parliament’s centeniary session the undemocratic developments in Russia.

    From virtual.finland.fi:

    Heidi Hautala, the chair of the Finnish Green League’s parliamentary faction, caused a murmur during Parliament’s centenary session on Thursday by saying that the Russian Duma had reverted to the tsar-dominated pre-1905 situation.

    Ms Hautala also urged Russia to respect the rule of law, human rights and democratic principles.

    Huh. Shouldn’t be controversial at all but what was the reaction of Speaker Paavo Lipponen, the wannabe Putin of Finland, himself known for impolite language and tyrannical tendencies, in his typical antidemocratic besserwisserist shut up if you don’t think like me style:

    Mr Lipponen pointed out that the Russian representatives had come in good faith and in festive spirits. The speaker feels Ms Hautala’s comments were unfounded.

    “If one compares Russian democracy today with the democracy before 1905 and thinks the current situation is worse, one is lacking in sense of proportion and reality.”

    According to Mr Lipponen there has been great progress in the development of Russian democracy.

    I’m so thoroughly ashamed of being a citizen of a country where such people are elected to the highest offices: Halonen, Vanhanen and Lipponen.

    Of course Lipponen and Backman of SDP have the right to criticize lack of democarcy and American export of democarcy in their own speeches, as can be seen on Hautala’s blog at http://heidi-hautala.livejournal.com/8565.html. Call it double standards but not to the SDP elite if you don’t want to receive a ton of Lipponen’s anger at your face.

    God save us from Lipponen and the likes.

    MM

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    Come on Finns, live up to one of your self-claimed stereotypes, be honest, you just don’t like foreigners do you? Especially ones with Brown faces

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    That was sarcasm, by the way.

    The Finns, admittedly, don’t have the long racist tradition to tell how to “deal” with foregners. Juttu on selvästi hiukkasen hakusessa. Hopefully we have enough sense not to follow the racist examples of many nations.

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