In Finland, “Islam is the new Russia!” Yle self censorship just like during the ‘good ol days’…

Alan Salehzadeh, a researcher and lecturer specializing in geopolitical conflicts and head of the Academic Menatto consulting firm, has been the target of censorship in Finland before.

Four years ago Salehzadeh’s 42 page study on Iran was removed from the website of the Finnish National Defense University at the request of the Iran ambassador to Finland “because the document critically examined Iran’s nuclear program and its treatment of Israel, women and minorities.” Since that time, Iran expert and researcher Salehzadeh has experienced the further censorship, coming from the taxpayer funded state media giant, Yle and the 2nd largest print media, the Helsingin Sanomat.

I first noticed it in a twitter exchange between @AlanSalehzadeh and Yle journalist @eeromantymaa, with the latter trying to spin the cancellation of an interview ”as just a routine thing”:

# YLE ‘s censorship strikes again. // blogit.iltalehti.fi/alan-salehzade h/2017/08/28/voi-voi-yle-tassa-sisallot-joita-yle-ei-tanaan-halunnutkaan-julkaista/ … . Overly sensitive types should avoid peeking at the link. Contains the censored content.

“Cancellations of interviews are the norm. Instead, blaming “censorship” on the company is one way to drive away journalists in the future.”

“I never get angry because interviews are cancelled. The media is the media. I get angry if things are being misrepresented. # sensuuri”

After this the exchange deteriorated further with the Yle journalist continuing to harp on how Salehzdeh was just over blowing the situation to his own detriment.

”You blame repeatedly the company of censorship, and you do not “have the energy” when someone finds these accusations without merit?”

A little heads up to the wiseguy Yle journo, Eero Mäntymaa, people coming from totalitarian regime run societies are more apt to sniff out your BS than the average citizen who has lived in a free society for all his/her life. They know when they’re being lied and spun to, and little by little average folks are becoming adept to the same skill as Alan Salehzadeh.

NOTE: Also, during the exchange (or in the aftermath of it), Alan makes an interesting observation: “Yle had all the time in the world to read the Koran from cover to cover in it’s radio program, but my 3-minute analysis of the Middle East was too much? @ Yleisradio”.

I have to add that, it was not just the koran being read on Yle from cover to cover, but they actually had a Muslim Brotherhood connected imam ‘explaining it’ as well…Anas Hajjar

The very same imam who paid (Hamas/Muslim Brotherhood linked) CAIR a visit just a little while ago, seated left at the table headed by none other than Nihad Awad himself.

NOTE II: Finland doesn’t need a state media, the private sector can manage all of its duties rather well, and even better.

Alan Salehzadeh’s piece on the incident in the Finnish tabloid, IltaLehti:

Too bad Yle. This is the content that YLE did not want to publish today