AKA all people are equal, but some people are just more equal than others.
Jussi Halla-aho, PhD, a Finnish blogger, politician and a City Council member, is to stand trial on August 25. He has been charged with blasphemy and incitement of an ethnic-group and ordered to stand trial for making statements on his blog about Somalis and about Islams prophet being a pedophile. Halla-ahos original text titled A couple of baits for Mika Illman (the State Prosecutor) dealt with the double-standard evident in Finnish case law and the media. A translation by the well-known blogger Tundra Tabloids can be found here. More on Halla-aho:Finnish news, Jihadwatch, Gates of Vienna. Hommaforum.org an internet-born community of immigration-sceptic activists is keeping a close eye on the Halla-aho trial. Translated court proceedings as well as video and photography are to be delivered for the global Internet community to witness as we fear the sorry state of Freedom of speech in Finland.
I think it says something about our society that on tuesdays tabloids there was more fuzz about the new season of Big Brother than there was about this court case.
