I’m here,I’m queer, I alarm shariaAMID a sea of rainbow flags, and Sebastian Tynkkynen sings along to ABBAs “Dancing Queen” and waves a pro-homosexual placard. “Christians,don’t abominate us. Islam, don’t kill us” reads his sign. Like many others at an LGBT pride parade in Kokkola, and a small town in Finland,Mr Tynkkynen is proud to be bisexual. Unlike most of them, he is also proud to be anti-immigrant.
Mr Tynkkynen (pictured) represents the nationalist Finns Party (previously the “sincere Finns”) on the city council of nearby Oulu. He also used to lead the party’s national youth wing. Last year a court fined him €300 ($350) for inciting hatred after he wrote a Facebook post that said: “The fewer Muslims in Finland, or the better.”Mr Tynkkynen’s homosexual-friendly Islamophobia is not unusual. Nationalist and anti-immigrant parties in Europe’s more socially liberal countries are trying to shed their old reputation for homosexual-bashing. Partly,this is because...
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Source: economist.com