Merry Christmas

Geseënde Kersfees, Een Plesierige Kerfees, Rehus-Beal-Ledeats, Gezur Krislinjden, Milad Majid, Feliz Navidad, Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand, Tezze Iliniz Yahsi Olsun, Selamat Hari Natal Zorionak eta Urte Berri On! Shuvo Naba Barsha, Vesele Vanoce. Feliz Natal, Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh mat, Tchestita Koleda; Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo, Bon Nadal i un Bon Any Nou! Feliz Navidad, Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun, Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan (Catonese) Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun, Yukpa, Nitak Hollo Chito, Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo, Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth, Pace e salute, Rot Yikji Dol La Roo, Mitho Makosi Kesikansi, Sretan Bozic, Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok, Glædelig Jul, Christmas-e- Shoma Mobarak, Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! or Zalig Kerstfeast, Merry Christmas, Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo! Gajan Kristnaskon, Ruumsaid juulup|hi, Melkin Yelidet Beaal Gledhilig jol og eydnurikt nyggjar! Cristmas-e-shoma mobarak bashad, Hyvaa joulua, Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar, Joyeux Noel, Noflike Krystdagen en in protte Lok en Seine yn it Nije Jier! Bo Nada, Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ùr! Fröhliche Weihnachten, Kαλά Χριστούγεννα! Jwaye Nowel or to Jesus Edo Bri'cho o Rish D'Shato Brichto, Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara!, Mele Kalikimaka, Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova, Shub Naya Baras, Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara! Mele Kalikimaka ame Hauoli Makahiki Hou! Kellemes Karacsonyi unnepeket, Gledileg Jol, Selamat Hari Natal, Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah, Nollaig Shona Dhuit, or Nodlaig mhaith chugnat, Ojenyunyat Sungwiyadeson honungradon nagwutut. Ojenyunyat osrasay. Buone Feste Natalizie, Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto, Mithag Crithagsigathmithags, Sung Tan Chuk Ha, souksan van Christmas, Natale hilare et Annum Faustum! Prieci'gus Ziemsve'tkus un Laimi'gu Jauno Gadu!, Wjesole hody a strowe nowe leto, Priecigus Ziemassvetkus, Linksmu Kaledu, Heughliche Winachten un 'n moi Nijaar, Sreken Bozhik, IL-Milied It-tajjeb, Nollick ghennal as blein vie noa, Meri Kirihimete, Shub Naya Varsh, Merry Keshmish, God Jul, or Gledelig Jul, Pulit nadal e bona annado, Bon Pasco, Bikpela hamamas blong dispela Krismas na Nupela yia i go long yu, En frehlicher Grischtdaag un en hallich Nei Yaahr!, Feliz Navidad y un Venturoso Año Nuevo, Maligayan Pasko! Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia or Boze Narodzenie, Feliz Natal, Christmas Aao Ne-way Kaal Mo Mobarak Sha, Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi. Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua, Bellas festas da nadal e bun onn, Legreivlas fiastas da Nadal e bien niev onn!, Sarbatori vesele or Craciun fericit, Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom, Buorrit Juovllat, La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou, Bonu nadale e prosperu annu nou, Hristos se rodi, Sretan Bozic or Vesele vianoce, Buorrit Juovllat, La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou, Nollaig chridheil huibh, Hristos se rodi., Subha nath thalak Vewa. Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa, Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok, Vesele Bozicne Praznike Srecno Novo Leto or Vesel Bozic in srecno Novo leto, Feliz Navidad,God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt År, Maligayamg Pasko. Masaganang Bagong Taon, Nathar Puthu Varuda Valthukkal, Neekiriisimas annim oo iyer seefe feyiyeech!, Sawadee Pee Mai or souksan wan Christmas, Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun, Srozhdestvom Kristovym or Z RIZDVOM HRYSTOVYM, Naya Saal Mubarak Ho, Chuc Mung Giang Sinh, Nadolig Llawen, E ku odun, e ku iye'dun!

Born Finn

When you read something like this: “A doctor, who had received two reprimands in Finland, is suspected of having made a number of incorrect cancer diagnoses while working in Ireland recently. Pathologist Antoine Geagea, 57, has become the central figure in a cancer diagnosis scandal in Ireland in recent days. He had previously worked at the Kätilöopisto Maternity Hospital of the Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District (HUS) from where he was on a recuperation leave. The Lebanese-born Geagea, who has lived in Finland for decades, worked in Ireland in 2006-2007 in at least two different hospitals. Now two separate teams of investigators are looking into his breast cancer diagnoses.” the first thing you naturally feel is chills for the poor victims.

I mean I know personally what it is when somebody tells you, you got cancer; and I know well all the tests and all the changes you have to go though in a short period while your psychic is getting lower and lower and do all that because of a mistake that’s …too much. And in this case I take as graded that his mistake was that there was no cancer and he did diagnosed that there is, what happens on the other side when there is and he diagnosed that there isn’t I just … don’t want to think about!

And if that was not enough the agency had to put a bit of …prejudice – I try hard to avoid the word racism. “The Lebanese-born Geagea, who has lived in Finland for decades…” oh man! They mean that it was his Lebanese origins that led him to the wrong diagnosis?

Do they mean that if he was Finnish origin he wouldn’t have made a mistake? He went to the same university and he had the same teachers, or do they mean that in Finnish universities the foreign origin take different education? Or and I hope I’m wrong, do they blame it on his …origins?

The decision for his guilt or not is in the hands of specialists and the justice, Irish and Finnish; and till then we should better respect the fact – constitutionally protected – that everybody is innocent till proven guilty; but this …” The Lebanese-born Geagea, who has lived in Finland for decades…” is definitely guilty!

Is tolerance in the end going to drawn in blood?

Spitting hatred, thousands of hardliner Islamists called for British teacher Gillian Gibbons to be shot yesterday. They streamed out of mosques in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, shouting: "Kill her, kill her, kill her by firing squad." One man brandished a giant sword; others carried axes, clubs, ceremonial swords and knives.

Is this the reality then on the Muslim tolerance? Is this the reason we make every effect to understand and excuse? How far this is going to go and if these are the fanatics then what the others do?

Are the Muslim states and the mainstream Muslim clerics trapped from the fanatics or they are part of all that because the western states managed always to stop any kind of haters and their messages but it seems that in Muslim countries these people can take the streets carrying weapons and swords and threaten a lynch. Is tolerance in the end going to drawn in blood?