"Eek! They are saying we are violent! Let's kick their ass!"

Helsingin Sanomat asked the opinion of Finland's Muslims on the Danish cartoons. The two Finland's Muslims mentioned in the article are the imam of the Islamic Society of Finland Khodr Chehab and the vice-chairman of the same society Abdi-Hakim Yasin Ararse.

As an aside: I remember the times when pretty much every article about Islam in Finland mentioned Finland's Tatars. Now they usually don't. Is that because their community is so small nowadays in comparison with immigrant Muslim communities, or because they don't usually say anything stupid and therefore newsworthy?

Anyways, Khodr Chehab, who said that the angry reactions against Denmark were justified, also said that the cartoons were purposefully offensive and trying to claim that Islam is a violent religion. No shit, Sherlock? And to think that without those cartoons nobody would have ever imagined that Islam might possibly be a violent religion...

Hey, I used to punch people in the nose for saying I was not a real lady. I was seven or eight then. I grew up.

One thing I am wondering about: when Jyllands-Posten prints 12 cartoons, 4 or 5 of which hint that Islam is a violent religion, there is a massive outcry among the world's Muslims, demands that Danish government do something, etc. When Abu Hamza says lovely things like "there is no drop of liquid as loved by Allah more than the liquid of blood" and "fight and kill the infidels wherever you find them. Wherever you find them, the unbeliever is killed, take them and seize them. Any person who hinders Allah, this man must be eliminated because he is a menace. He should be killed," we do not see a worldwide Muslim outcry demanding that the UK government do something about the guy who claims that Islam is violent. Why is that?

The Religion of the Perpetually Insulted also seem to reserve its rage only for the cartoons that insult themselves, of course. Their own newspapers print cartoons too, without much outrage from their populations (or from any other populations, for that matter). The antisemitism watchdog organizations note and archive these but usually do not organize any protests, let alone beat up employees of dairy companies.

Oh well... for a while now I wondered how to support Denmark for standing up for free speech with supporting Danish industry for being such weenies. Bugger that. Gonna buy some Castello cheese tonight (made by Danish Tholstrup Cheese, and the white and black varieties are very good).