by Kenneth Sikorski • May 25,
2019 at 5:00 am
- A few days after the
Finnish elections, Hussein Al-Taee, the son of the governor of
Najaf in Iraq and a pro-Iranian regime advocate, was exposed
for having spent eight years posting anti-Semitic,
anti-American and homophobic comments on Facebook... For four
of these years, Al-Taee served as an adviser on Middle Eastern
affairs to the Crisis Management Initiative (CMI), a state-run
conflict-resolution firm... currently headed by former Finnish
Prime Minister Alexander Stubb.
- Although Stubb
publicly condemned Al-Taee's hate-filled social media
comments... he has not been asked why a pro-Iranian regime
advocate was working for CMI in the first place.
- In other words,
Al-Taee was expressing "embarrassment" about his
"prejudices, thoughts and language" -- and lying
about them -- but did not disavow the sentiments.
- Failure on the part
of the "center-left" Social Democrats to oust
Al-Taee would constitute hypocrisy of the highest order, or
else a tacit agreement with hateful positions that the MP has
not denied espousing.
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Hussein
Al-Taee (left) is a new member of Finland's parliament from the
Social Democratic Party. A few days after the recent elections,
Al-Taee, the son of the governor of Najaf in Iraq and a pro-Iranian
regime advocate, was exposed for having spent eight years posting
anti-Semitic, anti-American and homophobic comments on Facebook.
(Image sources: Al-Taee - Soppakanuuna/Wikimedia Commons;
Parliament building - Jorge Láscar/Flickr)
A political crisis that has been brewing in Finland
over the past few weeks sheds light on the ills of the so-called
"center left."
The crisis surrounds Hussein Al-Taee, a new member
of parliament from the Social Democratic Party (SDP), which won a
narrow victory in the April 14 elections.
A few days after the Finnish elections, Al-Taee, the
son of the governor of Najaf in Iraq and a pro-Iranian regime
advocate, was exposed for having spent eight years posting anti-Semitic,
anti-American and homophobic comments on Facebook. For four of
these years, Al-Taee served as an adviser on Middle Eastern affairs
to the Crisis Management Initiative (CMI), a state-run
conflict-resolution firm founded by the former Finnish President
Martti Ahtisaari, and currently headed by former Finnish Prime
Minister Alexander Stubb.
Al-Taee's campaign had centered on his CMI
credentials as someone who worked at "bridging peace."
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