Monday, 17 October 2016

Sweden Legalises Flying The Islamic State Battle Flag




“You could say that merely waving a flag of IS in the current situation can not be considered hate speech. It is not an expression of disrespect towards any [particular] ethnic group.
“IS expresses every kind of disrespect, but it’s against everyone except those who belong to IS itself. There is the dilemma, it [offends] too big a group. 

“It has been said there could possibly be some form of incitement, that is urges others to commit criminal acts such as murder, but that is not the case”.
She told the newspaper the Swastika had been definitely linked to Anti-Semitism, but it could take ten years for the Islamic State flag to be linked to any kind of hate in Swedish law. 
The man caught up in the case denied being a supporter of the Islamic State, and claimed the flag was actually an ancient device of Islam which has recently been “abused” by the Islamic State. 
I really do not understand how this could even be an issue when a flag represents your allegiance with all the terrorist watch how is this even a subject of discussion.

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