Finnish Web site publishes Prophet cartoons

HELSINKI (Reuters) – An anti-immigration Finnish group has
published on its Web site the controversial Danish cartoons of
the Prophet Mohammad after a similar site in neighboring Sweden
was shut down last week.

Suomen Sisu, which calls itself “a revolutionary Finnish
nationalist movement” and has around 400 members, said on the
Web site the publication was “the expression of an opinion”
prompted by the Swedish site being closed.

The cartoons were first posted on the site on Friday, and a
spokesman for the organization said on Monday Finnish
authorities had not contacted Suomen Sisu about the pictures.

The company hosting the Web site of a far-right Swedish
party which posted the cartoons of the Prophet, plus one sent
in by a reader, was shut down last week after police and the
Foreign Ministry said it could put Swedish lives at risk.

Finland’s mainstream print media have not published the
cartoons, which first appeared in a Danish daily in September
and have since unleashed a wave of Muslim fury and violent
protests around the world.

Finland has a small community of about 30,000 Muslims, in a
country of 5.3 million people, and there have been only small
and peaceful protests so far about the Danish cartoons.