The Minister of Migration and European Affairs (I won’t even comment on that title) Astrid Thors is very understanding of Islamic culture. She’s not like those despicable racists who talk about things like crime and unemployment rates among immigrant populations from cultures that are totally incompatible with life in Finland. Now her understanding of Islamic culture has even reached the point where she can educate Muslims about their own religion. She comments on the recently founded Islamist party of Finland:
[The Islamist party] aims to incorporate Islamic Sharia law into Finnish legal practices, which is against Islam.
Oh really? Practically all Islamic countries have legislation either directly based on Sharia or strongly influenced by it. “Muslim leaders” frequently demand or praise the use of Sharia within Muslim communities. Parts of it are based on the Koran and the hadith, both holy texts of Islam. But no, we mustn’t let the Muslims themselves define Islam, because they usually want things no-one in their right mind would want, so it’s better to have Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila and Astrid Thors tell us want Islam is really like.
[Finnish law] does not require political parties to accept democratic principles or to respect human rights. [This] indicates a significant loophole in our legislation.
This is possibly even more stupid. It’s precisely what people who don’t understand the concept of democracy say every time they notice that some people want to radically change the rules: that the point of having a democracy is to abide by certain principles some very clever people from the United Nations made up. It isn’t! Having a democracy is the point of a democracy. Democracies actually produce terrible laws, start wars and break the UN-rules all the time, but we live with it because it’s democratic. There is no humanitarian God (not even Thors) to tell us what to do, there’s just people – nothing else. The same thing happened with the Dutch paedophile party a couple of years ago: perfectly normal people came out with things like “there are limits to democracy”. A fascist sentiment if I ever heard one.
If we don’t want an Islamic society, let’s not have an Islamic society. There’s no need to lie about what it would mean.
