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Stop Mixing Up Islamic Flags: A Guide for Lazy Journalists
▻http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/12/islamic-isis-flags-black-banners-hamas
Just because there’s Arabic on a flag, doesn’t mean it’s ISIS.
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http://www.motherjones.com/files/Logo_of_Boko_Haram.svg_.png When an armed assailant seized control of a café in downtown Sydney on Monday morning and forced two hostages to hold a black flag with Arabic script up to the window, many observers were quick to claim that ISIS, the self-proclaimed Islamic State that now dominates about a third of Iraq and Syria, was involved. The flag proved it!
It’s not that simple. Islamic groups, terrorist and otherwise, have adopted many different flags with Arabic script on them over the years. In August, members of the Kurdish community mistook a Palestinian flag with Islamic declarations on it for the ISIS flag, resulting in a violent fight. Over the summer, a New Jersey resident was pressured to take down a black flag bearing the shahada, or Islamic declaration of faith ("There is no god but God, Muhammad is the messenger of God") after someone reported it to the Department of Homeland Security. The Jersey man had flown the flag for 10 years, and insisted (correctly) that it had nothing to do with ISIS. The ISIS flag features the shahada, but most flags with the shahada on them are not ISIS flags. In Sydney, the “ISIS” flag in the window was actually a simple black flag bearing the shahada.
Many Islamic flags look alike for a reason. “It’s not a coincidence that bin Laden made Al Qaeda’s flag black,” former FBI agent Ali Soufan writes in The Black Banners, his history of the fight against Al Qaeda. As Soufan notes, an Islamic hadith says that horsemen bearing black flags will ride from the historic Islamic city of Khurasan toward Jerusalem on the eve of the apocalypse: “Black banners will appear from the East and they will kill you in a way that has never before been done by a nation.” Many Islamic flags — especially those of militant groups—are black in reference to this hadith. Because of this — and the fact that few Westerners can read Arabic — it’s easy to mix up Islamic flags, extremist and otherwise. Here’s a brief guide (although it’s important to note that many Islamic militant groups use more than one flag) (...)
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