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| Free Speech Slammed in Finland as Politician is Brought up on Blasphemy Charges |
| 2009-03-27 |
| Believe it or not, Finland still has blasphemy laws on the books, but there have been repeated attempts to rescind Section 10 of chapter 17 of the Finnish penal code. All attempts however, at removing the anti-modern statute from the law books have proved unsuccessful, with the latest attempt failing in 1998. Helsinki city councilman, Jussi Halla-aho was charged with blasphemy and incitement of an ethnic-group in the Helsinki district court today, and ordered to stand trial for publishing on his blog that Islam’s prophet was a pedophile. According to the Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, Jorme Kalske: “Halla-aho had uploaded to the Internet and submitted writings to the general public, in which Islam and its sacred institutions were combined with pedophilia, and in which was also presented the robbery of pedestrians and the looting of tax revenue was a certain national group or a specific genetic characteristic. The charges were presented in the Helsinki District Court. Halla-aho denies the charges” More...it gets better. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 So even Finland has been finlandized. |
| Posted by: Groluck Snolump3275 2009-03-27 15:01 |