Life is like a wheel. Sometimes you’re up, other times you are down. Tundra Tabloids reports that Jussi Hallo-Aho, once fined for having quoted the Koran (he selected the wrong quotes), now is head of Finnish immigration policy. So he was down, but now he’s up. This kind of thing can easily happen here...
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This site has repeatedly demonstrated how the Norwegian media is biased against Israel, among other here. Now the Tundra Tabloids (Finland) and Sweden, Israel and the Jews (Sweden) and Ilya Meyer (Sweden) have made similar findings. Ilya Meyer excerpt In an average month of 30 days, there are never more than 3 days without...
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Development Today reports (screenshot above) that Finland is aiming to join her Nordic neighbors as a global peace negotiator. When it comes to the Middle East, Finland might indeed prove to be better suited for peace mediation than Norway. Unlike Norwegian politicians, Finland’s politicians do not wear kaffiyehs to work. Neither do they actively...
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In Finland councilman Jussi Hallo-Aho has been fined for violating the freedom of worship, after having exercised his own freedom of expression by criticizing Islam on the basis of the contents of the Quran. Now professor Timo Vihavainen, from the University of Helsinki, speaks out in support of Mr. Hallo-Aho. In the Finnish daily...
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We Norwegians should look to Finland more often. They are a hardy folk, yet far more clever than we give them credit for. Just look at Nokia telephones, robust and high-tech. Here is a clip on the continuing case of the unfortunate councilman Jussi Alla-aho, who was fined for violating the freedom of worship...
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P.O. Box 189 FI-00181 Helsinki, Finland Tel.: + 358 40 8400238 Fax: + 3 6948056 info@ec4i.org www.ec4i.org PRESS RELEASE ( FINAL ) ECI expresses concern over rising anti-Semitism in Sweden and election victories of racist parties in the European Parliament; Calls for emergency EU-summit in Stockholm Brussels 21 August, 2009 – A growing number...
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Finland is to Scandinavia what Scandinavia is to the rest of the world: largely inaccessible due to the language barrier. There is no way of knowing what goes on in there without mastering the language, and since the Finnish population is only 5 million (give or take) and Finnish is a notoriously difficult language...
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Philosemitism is an excellent site, covering most of Europe and with quite a section on the Nordic countries – including an excerpt from this article on Finland, by Michael Freund in the Jerusalem Post. It is worth reflecting upon how Finland offers none of the traits or events which so frequently scar Norway - no...
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From the July edition of the European Coalition for Israel newsletter: In Finland , where believers were actively involved in the campaign two of the major Christian pro-Israel candidates were elected in spite of poor showings in the polls. Election results in Finland were particularly good; five of the thirteen members are confessing Christians!...
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