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Tuulia Alanko wrote that the imam's statement about Finnish law applying to Muslims did not, in her opinion, answer the question of the status of sharia law nor did it exclude the possibility of considering it important. She described the response as misleading. Alanko claimed that Aw-Musse had not distanced himself from sharia law or the idea of separate sharia courts in Finland. She suggested that this was related to both the imam's role and the fact that messages pleasing to Finns might be beneficial in the long term. According to Alanko, Aw-Musse could have directly stated that he did not want to replace Finnish laws with an Islamic legal system. Alanko finally referred to Jari Sarasvuo's statement that sharia or a parallel culture was not needed in Finland. #Suomi #Islam #Šaria (translated)

Jari Mäkäräinen criticized Yle for often choosing female journalists to incite moral panic, according to him. He interpreted Yle's analysis as showing that support for the National Coalition Party among women had dropped to 12 percent and that the Finns Party had surpassed this party. However, according to Mäkäräinen, women were not punishing the National Coalition Party for its policies but for its austerity measures, and men were supporting the state. Mäkäräinen believed that the decline in women's support was due to the impact of budget cuts on sectors predominantly employing women, such as social services, organizations, and public services. In his view, this did not make the cuts unjust, but rather highlighted their effects. He mentioned the Social Democratic Party, the Left Alliance, and the Centre Party as the most popular parties among women and claimed that the left proposed tax increases amounting to nine billion euros. According to Mäkäräinen, the costs of these increases would fall on men who work overtime, start businesses, and pay progressive taxes. Mäkäräinen assessed that the issue for the National Coalition Party was its attempt to soften difficult decisions, while the Finns Party spoke about the same issues more directly. He argued that men were underrepresented in the care sector and overrepresented in dangerous jobs, entrepreneurship, and at the high end of the tax revenue spectrum. In his opinion, the National Coalition Party should maintain its stance even if it lost some female support, as this could help it win over voters who support the sustainability of the state. https://t.co/DfwLyPN03s #Politiikka #NaistenOikeudet #Taloustieto (translated)

Jari Sarasvuo wrote that people retired early and the income of retirees was higher than that of the employed. He asked whether the situation of a France-sized country living on the funds of future generations could inevitably draw other countries into an approaching crisis. #eläke #tulo #kriisi (translated)

The East Uusimaa District Court sentenced the police field manager who neglected a critical emergency task that led to the death of a young woman, assessing that he had violated his official duties, but not committed manslaughter. #Poliisi #VirkavelvollisuudenRikkominen #Kuolema (translated)

The court sentenced Perttu Pyynönen, 28, who is serving a life sentence for cell murder, to two and a half years of unconditional imprisonment for aggravated assault, while the charge of attempted murder was dismissed due to lack of sufficient evidence. #Vankila #Rikos #Tuomiot (translated)

Mats Uotila criticized the judgment according to which a man who had assaulted his partner and caused her death through his actions received a sentence of less than three years. Uotila wrote that he did not believe such a mild judgment aligned with his sense of justice. https://t.co/2Wq44GbS6U #oikeus #Suomi #väkivalta (translated)

The True Finns party opposed discounts on penalties and prison sentences for offenses and called for their removal. According to the party, sentences should not be mitigated on the grounds that the offender was a first-time offender or had committed multiple offenses. #ps #perussuomalaiset #paljousalennus #rikos #tuomio #rikos #tuomio #perussuomalaiset (translated)

Jari Mäkäräinen criticized Yle for what he perceived as giving Timo R. Stewart, whom he describes as a Hamas activist, an unchallenged platform to present his book. According to Mäkäräinen, the article adopted Stewart's view regarding the destruction of Gaza, genocide, and Finland's responsibility due to trade with Israel, without hearing the opposing side. Mäkäräinen emphasized that, in his opinion, genocide does not equate to heavy war. He wrote that the International Court of Justice had not ruled on the case against Israel and that interim measures were not a judgment. In his view, civilian casualties can occur in urban warfare where Hamas places rockets, command centers, and tunnels among civilians without the intent of destroying the group. He compared this to the battles of Mosul, Raqqa, and Fallujah, claiming that Stewart began using the term genocide after Israel succeeded in its war against Hamas. According to Mäkäräinen, the Yle article also lacked the starting point of the war: the attack on October 7, in which he claims over 1,200 people died, and which involved rapes and kidnappings. He wrote that Hamas aims for the end of Israel instead of a Palestinian state. He criticized the figures presented by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the article—over 21,600 by December 2023 and over 1,400 after ceasefires—and claimed that the ministry was subordinate to Hamas and that its figures did not differentiate between fighters and civilians. In his view, the article also lacked Israel's perspective that a significant portion of the dead were fighters. Regarding the two-state model, Mäkäräinen wrote that its failure was not solely due to Israel. He claimed that Hamas had rejected the model multiple times and that the Palestinian Authority had turned down offers, such as at Camp David in 2000 and Annapolis in 2008. He added that according to polls, the majority of both Palestinians and Israelis had abandoned the model. He described the cessation of support for UNRWA as a reaction to an organization that, according to him, had ample evidence of connections between its facilities and personnel to Hamas. Mäkäräinen believed that Yle, as a publicly funded media, should not advertise a single essayist as an expert. According to him, the article could have included opposing researchers, Israel's official stance, or addressed Hamas's responsibility for hostages and the use of civilians as shields. He concluded by asking why this had not been done. https://t.co/sHriNitmMo #Gaza #Israel #Hamas (translated)

Jari Mäkäräinen criticized Timo R. Stewart's column, stating that Stewart had already decided in advance that those who disagree are stupid and racist. According to Mäkäräinen, Stewart defined racism as evaluating individuals based on their ethnic or religious background and concluded that such individuals had nothing useful to say about international politics. Mäkäräinen mentioned that the column likened the observation of group differences to climate denialism, young Earth creationism, vaccine resistance, and reptilians. He also claimed that it had asserted that the Finnish media, researchers, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had adopted their Middle Eastern stance from Hamas. Mäkäräinen argued that the claim about the absence of pure races did not refute the phenomena indicated by statistics, attitude surveys, and street views. He highlighted religion, cousin marriages, concepts of honor, fertility, and renouncement of religion, adding that the common goals of Muslims could be examined from their own polls. According to Mäkäräinen, explaining unpleasant phenomena solely with prejudices and labeling dissenters as racists was essentialism. He criticized a sense of moral superiority and argued that it led to a lack of fact-checking, distinguishing between immigrant groups, or noticing that one's own media repeated Hamas's casualty figures. He believed that placing morality above observations weakened empathy. https://t.co/dglVfEEw2o #rasismi #media #ilmasto (translated)

The journalist who was convicted of treason by Hesarin spread Alpo Rusi's investigation material to the newspaper, tarnishing the entire Rusi's career. He was never charged with anything, but his name was thus sullied. It's a bit the same with you now. #journalismi #uutiset #suomi (translated)

Verokarhu has been shot down! I won in the Supreme Administrative Court 100–0. Every single issue. Big thanks to Miika Härkönen & Taxpayers' Association! The matter concerned personal income taxation and resolved the tax treatment of professional gamblers in Finland – now and in the future. https://t.co/dnZZPSkNDV #verotus #tuomio #voitto (translated)

Why hasn't Nahom Hagos been deported? Those demanding deportation clearly don't grasp the kind of public sector employer we are dealing with. One person-year corresponds to about 1,600–1,700 working hours, and Hagos's entire bureaucratic path from the reception center to repeated criminal convictions and victim care has tied up an estimated 14–25 person-years of publicly funded work. Even entry, integration efforts, and the reception center phase consumed a couple of years of work, on top of which come the continuous handling of social assistance, substance abuse social work, and staff resources for shelters for the homeless. With the criminal history, the machinery was really set in motion: three extensive rape investigations, property and drug offenses, and escapes kept the police very busy. Prosecutors, several levels of the judiciary, public defenders, and interpreters in turn worked through about another person-year in the courtrooms. The largest share of the workload comes from incarceration. Daily monitoring, administration, and prison healthcare average about 0.6–0.8 person-years per inmate per year, which, together with long sentences and probation supervision, amounts to 4–6.5 person-years. However, Hagos's widest impact is through the victims: acute hospital care for fractures, forensic examinations, years of trauma therapy, victim support services, and assistance for elderly victims with diminished functionality demand as much as 3–5 person-years from public healthcare and social services. The authority chain caused by a single man thus corresponds at best to the annual total work contribution of a small agency or department. From the perspective of public sector demand, Hagos is a rapacious gold mine. Such a man cannot be deported! #karkottaminen #julkinensektori #rikollisuus (translated)

Eilen tyrmistys sarjaraiskaajasta eduskunnassa, tänään vihreät esittää hallituksen maahanmuuttopolitiikan kiristysten perumista. Iltalehti kysyi minulta eilen ajatuksia Oulun sarjaraiskaajasta, joka tuomittiin raiskauksesta jo kolmannen kerran ja sai tuomiostaan alennusta. 1/ https://t.co/eyoOqrEdDy #maahanmuutto #oikeus #politiikka #FI