Thanksgiving

My first thanksgiving in the U.S was great! We all have a lot things to be grateful for and I think this holiday should be world wide holiday. Now I have to run to the black friday:)

Dear parents

This week I saw a Unicef Finland commercial, it’s called “Dear parents”. In this video were kids with all different skin colors and they are addressing a message for all the parents. This is the message:

“Dear parents, we learn about the world directly from you. What you teach us always travels with us. Teach us to accept each other, teach us to respect each other. Do not expose us to anger or bitterness. Do not teach us to judge each other based on nationality, skin color, religion or wealth. Teach us what tolerance means. Teach us to accept each other from different cultures and people who believe in different things than we do. Help us create a world where every man, woman and child is equally valuable. Dear parents do not teach us to hate, be responsible parents. Do not teach us the words that offend and hurt. We are learning from you every moment, we are your children, we are counting on you. Help us to create a world where all people are tolerant.”

After seeing this video I felt very happy, because when I was a child it was tough growing up in Finland for me because I was darker then rest of the children. Im really happy to see that we are going in to the right direction. This is what we need to be teaching our children. Maybe this world still has a chance to be better.

Here is the link to this video, I already translated what they are saying.

So check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CycVOp8782g

Let’s stay together!

Is our generation going to be lonely? I was just thinking that nowadays marriages don’t last for long any more. Yes people do still get married and have kids, but marriages don’t last long. I read in a newspaper that 50% of marriages end up in divorce.

For me marriage is commitment, unconditional love, respect, and surviving from obstacles that life brings along the way together.

So why do people give up these days so easily on their marriages, especially if they have kids together. It seems that we are very afraid of problems and we can’t take responsibilities like adults any more. As soon as it turns to no fun we just take off….

I just hope that when I will be in my 70′s, I will have my family around me and my husband next to me. I don’t want to be lonely.

500k

I saw pictures of 50 cent where he has 500K Dollars in front of him and he is posing in every picture like he is eating that money. I think that was a lil bit too much, It is still a recession  time and a lot of family’s are still struggling for that penny.

Once again….

Once again I am writing about in human act, today surfing online I run into a very sad and in human act. Two teenage girls 15 and 16 were publicly executed in Somalia, by a Somalian military group. They were accused of being spies for the Somalian government. These executions were based on some eyewitnesses who said; “Those two girls were evil and they were spies for the enemy (the Somali government), but the mujahedeen caught them and after investigation, they admitted their crime, so they have been executed,”

These two teenage girls were executed on public. Hundreds of people came out to watch the execution. The girls looked shocked and were crying, but no one could stop it from happening. The teens were blindfolded with their hands behind their backs against a tree, and shot, according to a local journalist.

Last year, Al-Shabaab stoned a teenage girl to death in Kismayo, a town in southern Somalia.

Honestly I haven’t been reading news in awhile, I have been very busy with my own life. Trying to build my life here in America and reaching my goals takes a lot of time, so I guess I haven’t been paying attention to what is happening in the world and in the media. But now since I’ve taken communication classes and I have to follow the media every week and write this blog, I am kind of in shock! How are things like this still happening? And my question is what can we do to stop it?

Church VS homosexuals

Last Tuesday, on channel 2 in Finland, a talk show about homosexuals aired. In the show we saw politicians, priests, homosexuals and Finnish celebrities discussing about should they legalize homosexual church marriages in Finland or not, since it is not legalized there yet.

Of course there were a lot of different opinions about this case. One bishop said that he couldn’t bless a gay marriage,  another women who has been working for the church for over 20 years said that the church doesn’t have anything against homosexuals, but it cannot abandon the Lord’s word. She thought that it is unreasonable to come as an outsider and demand the church to abandon the Lord’s word. She also highlighted the word that the church does not have anything against homosexuals, but the church cannot give their blessing to something that they know God would not accept.

Well the long story short is that after this show aired, in one hour people in Finland started to resign from church. In a couple of days, over 30 000 people had resigned from the church, which is a big economical loss for the church. Because every person who is a member of the church pays church taxes over 300 euros per year, this means that after this show aired, the Finnish church will lose over a million euros, and the number of the people who are resigning is increasing day by day.

I personally don’t have nothing against homosexual people, but I don’t think that the church has to abandon God’s will and give their blessing to homosexuals. I think that in the past 10-15 years homosexuals have been getting a lot of rights to be open about their sexuality. In some countries and cultures it is forbidden and punished to show your homosexuality in public; you don’t even talk about being homosexual. On the other hand, in Western countries we want to move forward extremely fast, we don’t get enough time to adjust and accept a new era.

The issue of stoning

Today I came across of the case of a 43 year old Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the mother of two who was arrested in 2005 and later was convicted of having an other man on the side. For which she was given 99 lashes witnessed by her own son. Her case was looked at again and she was convicted of adultery during her marriage, for which she was given the sentence of death by stoning.

Iran’s existing penal code provides for this form of execution for one crime – adultery, in defense that it’s against the koran law – all though murder, raping, armed robbery and drug crimes are also punished by death. Death by stoning came into use in Iran after the 1979 revolution.

Human rights say that in Iran they have one of the biggest rates of executions in the world.

I really don’t even want to comment on this, because I get very emotional about this story and about the whole stoning to death. I don’t want to offend anyone’s religion and beliefs, but in my opinion
I think that no one deserves to die like that and I really think that women suffer more of those punishments then men. Think about it, if a man says that his wife is cheating one him everyone is going to believe the man before the woman. So how can she prove that he is lying, if he is lying.
She will be sentenced to be stoned to death. Especially in the middle eastern countries the man’s word is the law. I really feel sad about this case.

I can’t believe that in 2010 still things like this are happening. We need to act on this! Where are our HUMAN RIGHTS????!!!!!