The End of the Holy Soldier of the Arabs

The political leader of the Hamas terrorist organization, which controls the Gaza Strip, Ismail Haniyeh—who called Osama Bin Laden the 'holy soldier of the Arabs'—has been killed in the Iranian capital, Tehran. As a result, the world now has one less terrorist.

The head of the Supreme Revolutionary Committee of the Houthi rebels, Mohammed Ali al-Huthi, commented on the incident, saying that the targeting of Ismail Haniyeh is a heinous terrorist crime and a flagrant violation of laws and ideal values.

This is interesting, considering that Hamas has carried out some of the most disgusting terrorist acts in recent years, and the Houthis themselves have not adhered to international laws or ideals either. Instead, they have waged war against the legitimate government of their own country and terrorized international maritime traffic.

In other words, the revolutionary leader has turned the facts upside down, something anyone who follows international politics - even slightly - knows. Apparently, such lies don't matter among the Houthis, as al-Huthi assumes his statement will be accepted by them like a hot knife through butter.

We can only speculate about the reasons. Perhaps it's because the ordinary Houthis don't receive accurate information about world events, as they are distorted by their terrorist rebel government. Or, alternatively, they are simply too ignorant or stupid to understand the significance of Huthi´s actions. Or that their own leaders—Mohammed Ali al-Huthi among them—are to blame for the miserable living conditions they endure.

Previous thoughts on the same topic:
Two out of three Palestinians support October 7 attack
Norway and Ireland are awarding the terrorists a prize
Religious authority and the Iran strike on Israel

Is Gerhard Schoeder of Germany ignorant, troll or stupid?

Ukraine is going to conduct a counter-attack against Russians in the southern part of the country. The fightback is extremely important as it has been well prepared, and troops are numerous and equipped with modern western weaponry. 

Therefore I consider the following days to become some of the most important ones during the war. If Ukrainians fail, it provides a lot of confidence to Vladimir Putin´s military force. But if Ukrainians will succeed, that will turn the situation also in Donbas and Luhansk, where Russians have thus far had some success. 

Therefore is was extremely unwise from Gerhard Schoeder of Germany to insist diplomacy as the only way to end the war. In my opinion, a man with such a long history in politics should understand that the only outcome from diplomacy would be acceptance of Russian violence. And that is not acceptable. 

It should also be noted that General Pekka Toveri noted Russians to have - theoretically - a huge reserve of soldiers, but it seems to be difficult to mobilize them into the front. Therefore, spending time with diplomacy would work only for Russians, and against Ukrainian attempts to keep their independence.

Therefore we should ask, whether Schröder is Putin´s troll, ignorant about facts or simply stupid?

Previous thoughts on the same topic:
Finnish general to Scholz and Macron: no reason to negotiate with a terrorist
Russian army not comparable to western military services
Military specialist: Russian plan in Ukraine was incredibly poor

When will they ever learn?

One again a young Finnish woman had to pay for her naivety. That is because she started a relationship with a man named Abdullatif in internet, and thereafter became cruelly raped by several humanitarian immigrants.

The first question arising is that when will young western women - and their parents - learn - and warn - about abdullatifs. Or will they ever learn?

The second question to be considered is when our decision makers will understand the connection between immigration policy and sexual crime. Namely, the high raping risk associated with immigrants, demonstrated by Abdullatif with his colleagues and supported by statistics. And ruining the lives of young western women. Will the ever learn?

And not two without a third. When do voters in western countries understand that the actions of abdullatifs in democratic countries is possible only if parliaments are filled with politicians who have no understanding on the share of criminals like Abdullatif among asylum seekers. I wonder if they ever learn.

The original story in Finnish:
Abdullatifin opetukset

An ignorant mediahouse failed again in historical facts

World War I ended exactly  a century ago. The war was started by Germany, and it resulted in a collapse of European emperors of Russia, Germany and Austria-Hungary and freedom of many nations previously governed by them.

The world entered in a new time, dominated by competition between western democracies and versions of socialism, both national and international. That time ended only in 1991 and thereafter, when Soviet Union and its socialistic satellite governments in East Europe collapsed.

During that time the world had to face the World War II, seeded in the Treaty of Versailles, the peace agreement, by stringently sanctioning Germany. But not so stringently, that it could not have recovered to challenge the world after 20 years, and lose again with even more stringent peace agreement.

This all was celebrated by the main Newspaper in Finland, Helsingin Sanomat, which published an article with a picture on border changes in Europe between 1914-1919. Surprisingly, in those pictures Finland was drawn as independent of Russia already in 1914, although we received our independence only in 1917.

It is not long since I was amazed on the ignorance of the same media house on the number of Stalin´ s victims. In spite of that I would not have imagined that any journalist in this country might have been so unaware of his own history, that such a mistake could have happened even accidentally.

Under the map published was a text "Jukka Himanen/HS". That is the name of the artist and the acronym of the journal. Right now I cannot resist recommending to him and other employees of the newspaper a short history course.

That might help in avoiding such embarrassing mistakes as the one today. And perhaps the general level of Finnish journalism would increase, as the articles which I had interpreted to be agenda journalism may actually have been based only on pure ignorance and lack of civilization.

PS (10:18 CET): very interestingly the picture with the false information has now been removed from the newspaper netpage.

The original story in Finnish:
HS: Suomi oli itsenäinen jo vuonna 1914

Why a journalist was unaware on the number of Stalin´s victims?

The main newspaper in Finland, Helsingin Sanomat, published a correction by telling  that "in Tuesday, October 30 on page A24,  it was claimed that ca. one million people died during Stalin´s progroms in 1930´s. This number refers to those executed. The total number of dead people due to Stalings pogroms was tens of millions."

To me it was extremely surprising that a journalist of the main newspaper in the country had made such a mistake. This is because one might have imagined that Stalin´s achievements are generally known here in Russia´s neighborhood - or at least their order of magnitude.

I wrote this short note, because I suspect that the mistake was not made by chance, but due to the willingness of our media to hide the magnitude of destruction and human suffering due to the big socialist experiment during the last century. This becomes understandable by thinking, whether such an order-of-magnitude mistake could even be imagined to be made in the number of Jewish victims of the Hitler´s regime.

Therefore I consider it possible, that it is exactly this reason - hiding the bloody footsteps of sosialism - why we have not demonized the use of hammer and sickle in clothes or demonstrations in a similar way as the use of swastika. And noticeably, we have even in our parliament a political party that cherishes the legacy of this ideology.

The original story in Finnish:
Miksei toimittaja tiennyt Stalinin kymmenien miljoonien uhrien määrää?