I would like to update this thread with some additional information (although I'm sure all of you have been following the progress of this ongoing situation - the escalation has truly touched all of us by now) coming from Finland:
Finland's National Bureau of Investigation (
KRP/
NBI) is investigating websites that put up the Danish cartoons; The sites in question are being evaluated under the assumption of attempted mockery of "freedom of belief".
The problem is that the laws here regarding that are built around the state church, which is now being embodied in remnant laws that are then applied to a new context (another religion).
Enok retorted earlier:
I can't see the connection between publishing pictures shown already on tv and papers around the world and mocking freedom of religion
For Finnish viewers, the Helsingin Sanomat website search offers swift insight into the KRP happenings at
http://www.hs.fi/haku/?kaikkiSanat=krpExcuse me for the poorly structured sentences (which are sourced almost 1=1 from irc); I'll update this post at some point.