Quote of a week (Finnish MEP in Bruxelles): "We're spending quite a wonderful week against racism here!" (And yes, that is sarcasm - attributed actually to the day of the the strike)
Zookeeper's interpretation is correct, as were the earlier Eastern Europeans. Have to make a mental note that charge may not be entirely synonymous with prosecute.
What makes you think that the laws in question are not being applied currently? Proving that a person actually had full knowledge of preparations of a terrorist attack is very difficult, and in the rare case that that can be established, it is most likely enough to consider them a co-conspirator, resulting in significant jail time. So, are you saying that there currently tends to be no prosecution in those cases even if the law allows, and if so, what's your source for that?
Thanks for taking the time for an intelligent reply. I'm not saying there's no prosecution. I'm saying that it's not pressed as far as it could (and should) be within the confines of the law. Unfortunately, we are apparently dealing with people being scared offending the muslims in their own country. The evidence? Swedes have found automatic firearms and hand grenades in home searches of the muslims in - ahem -troubled areas. While I could accept that hiding a hand-grenade without knowledge of your room-mates could be somewhat possible, that defense doesn't work with an assault rifle (and hasn't in the case of Finnish citizens). But that has happened already. There's a case of storing a loaded illegal shotgun in a pizza store here. Had this been a Finnish restaurant, the Finns would be charged and likely facing time in jail - every single one of them. What happened when Turks did it? There's our police saying shotgun blast to the roof was overblown in media, there's no need for alarm and police is looking into this... and one guy of that ruckus was arrested. One.
Additionally, a car was parked next to a reception center in Southern Finland. This raised alarm of the staff, and they requested police to check it out. Turned out to be a Finn with an SMG. An illegal weapon here, and getting discovered with one results in strict punishments and some years in jail. Media immediately speculated this was attempted raid on the reception center, but never thought it could have been the reception center occupants asking for an illegal weapon. Which turned out to be the case. The case was shushed under the carpet, with a slap on the wrist for the reception center participants. The actual Finnish legalization would have allowed for a far more thorough investigation of the reception center people but that was actually not pressed. It has been utilized before in the case of Finnish criminal gangs.
The revealing question is why are no-go-zones allowed in the European cities? I believe the answer lies in the fact that these zones would require far more police work than the other regions, making it look like as if the government was on to them. So instead, the politicians take the easy way out: close their eyes on it and wish it goes away. When the opposite should be done: if the areas need more officers, adding them there is not discrimination, and not doing it
is positive discrimination.
So there is a very real double standard in the European legalization enforcement on what it comes to dealing with muslim immigrants compared to the actual citizens of the countries. A Finnish MP actually proposed, and get this, utilizing Sharia law when it doesn't conflict with the existing Finnish law. He saw nothing wrong in the proposal, until a general uproar took place. Don't mind that the muslims are not even the greatest minority here, so why didn't he first propose Russian or Swedish laws? Thankfully, he got out of the office, and probably will never see the parliament building again.
For the rest of you asking the wisdom of angering muslim population with tricks like pig skins:
There's a point in pissing of the immigrants before they get to integrate and move more freely in the society. This is especially relevant here when there is like 30 000 dudes hanging around in the reception centers with no nationality or permits. Those getting radicalized are easiest to recognize at this point and can do least harm. So what would we do with those getting angry? Send them back home. And it's not as if we haven't fed pork to muslims already (accidentally). The result was actually quite hilarious when they found out.
The moderates we want here will not be pissed of by this anyways, and those who get aggravated get the shortest geodesic home.
Given that it's one day after the Bruxelles strike, we were already thinking of imaginative methods of pissing of the muslims in the most offending way possible at the office coffee break. The winning proposal was to capture the Sacred rock from Medina in January, and ground it to fine sand and apply it to the floors of pigsties. Or making videos asking ransoms for the parts of the stone. That doesn't mean we would do it though.
When you are faced with immigration where a significant fraction of the people do not want to integrate, you'll really have to get Macchiavellian on them. You introduce a favorite, and punish those who don't comply (both positive and negative feedbacks being important - positive feedback only doesn't work as evidenced by Sweden).
