Monday, October 14, 2019

Finland: Politician fined $4500 for noting that jihad terrorists “have one thing in common: they all serve Allah” - Robert Spencer


by Robert Spencer

According to the verdict, Tynkkynen’s viewpoint of the Islamic group was a “deliberate, racist and disparaging” hate speech, which was generally directed at all Muslims


Finland: Politician fined $4500 for noting that jihad terrorists “have one thing in common: they all serve Allah”

“Finnish lawmaker receives 2nd verdict for ethnic agitation: reports,” Xinhua, October 11, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
HELSINKI, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) — The Oulu District Court of Finland on Thursday sentenced Sebastian Tynkkynen, a member of the Finnish Parliament, to pay a 50-day fine, about 4,050 euros, for anti-Muslim agitation, Finish media reported.
The verdict applied to the text and images shared by Tynkkynen from the populist Finns Party in his Facebook account in 2016. Tynkkynen, aged 30, posted pictures of alleged perpetrators of terrorist attacks and stated in the title that “they have one thing in common: they all serve Allah.”
According to the verdict, Tynkkynen’s viewpoint of the Islamic group was a “deliberate, racist and disparaging” hate speech, which was generally directed at all Muslims, and likely to incite contempt and even hatred based on religious intolerance toward the Islamic group.
Therefore, the district court ordered Tynkkynen to remove the posts from social media and pay the fine.
This was not the first verdict Tynkkynen received. He was convicted of ethnic agitation against Muslims and sentenced a 50-day fine in January 2017 for another posting which claimed “the less Muslims in Finland, the safer.”…

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Source: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/10/finland-politician-fined-4500-for-noting-that-jihad-terrorists-have-one-thing-in-common-they-all-serve-allah

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