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Netherlands bans “ISIS flag” after anti-Semitism surge

Aug 4, 2014 11:44 am By Robert Spencer

isis-flag-youtube-afp It is good that they did this if it heralds genuine action against Islamic anti-Semitism in the Netherlands, but it again shows how clueless European authorities really are about Islam and jihad. The flag says, “There is no god but Allah, Muhammad is the prophet of Allah.”

That is the shahadah, the Islamic profession of faith. Every Muslim believes in it, or he or she is not a Muslim. It is not the property of the Islamic State — and in fact, last March in Britain it caused consternation as the “al-Qaeda flag.” Both the Islamic State and al-Qaeda use it, of course, because of a fact that Dutch and British authorities determinedly ignore, deny, and downplay: they use it because they are Muslims fighting for Islam and because of Islam, energized and motivated by Islamic teachings and principles.

If Dutch authorities start investigating on suspicion of terrorism every Muslim who holds up a banner saying that there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet, they’ll have to investigate every Muslim in the country. This ban is likely to entangle the Dutch in their own contradictions and willful denial of the reality of Islamic jihad.

“Netherlands Bans ISIS Flag After Anti-Semitism Surge,” by Frances Martel, Breitbart News, August 3, 2014 (thanks to Block Ness):

In anticipation of an anti-Israel rally organized for Sunday in Amsterdam, the government of the Netherlands added the flag of the terrorist group Islamic State to its list of banned political hate paraphernalia. Flying the flag in the nation will be considered a crime.

The Irish Times reports that a police spokesman announced that individuals protesting Israel’s Operation Protective Edge against the terrorist group Hamas will be prohibited from displaying the black flag of the jihadist group, which has made significant gains in conquering land in Syria and Iraq. “Nazi symbols, Hitler salutes and burning flags will not be tolerated,” the spokesperson said in a statement. “The same applies to the ISIS flag. Demonstrators may not carry it.”

Supporters of the Islamic State has been particularly problematic in the Netherlands after an ostensibly “pro-Palestine” rally in The Hague prominently featured the group’s distinctive black flag. The crowd displaying a number of Islamic State flags also reportedly chanted “Death to the Jews” and promoted jihad.

The Dutch residents of The Hague started a petition calling for their mayor, Jozias van Aartsen, to resign following the rally, as it was sanctioned by his government and he later insisted the group did not break any laws. The Irish Times clarifies that, upon reviewing video evidence, two individuals were indeed arrested for violating the nation’s hate speech laws and inciting violence against an ethnic group.

The rise of the Islamic State’s profile in the Netherlands has occurred in tandem with a rise in anti-Semitic hate speech and crimes in Western Europe generally. In the Netherlands, a woman was beaten in her home for publicly displaying an Israeli flag in her home, and incidents of public hate speech have increased in quantity. While Jewish people living throughout Europe have reported a rise in anti-Semitism, France and Germany are battling an especially violent wave of anti-Jewish sentiment.

The Netherlands appears especially concerned about the potential presence of Islamic State supporters at Sunday’s Amsterdam rally because of the group’s public overtures to Palestinians. While previously remaining relatively silent on the war between Israel and Hamas, Islamic State spokesmen released a statement this week promising that they would aid Palestinians in the fight against the Jewish state, describing Jews as “barbaric” and vowing to “continue striking down every apostate who stands as an obstacle on [the Islamic State’s] paths towards Palestine.” The Islamic State has made clear its intentions to expand beyond Syria and Iraq to establish a “global Caliphate” over lands in which large populations of Muslims live, including nations as distant as Spain and Indonesia.

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Aug 4, 2014 at 11:57 am

    “The flag says, “There is no god but Allah, Muhammad is the prophet of Allah.”
    That is the shahadah, the Islamic profession of faith. Every Muslim believes in it, or he or she is not a Muslim.”
    ——————————–

    (No god but Allah)
    It is long past time to truly examine these words in their full context of the butcher knife religion of Islam.

    • JC says

      Aug 5, 2014 at 4:44 am

      What’s funny is that they say allah is the same God as the other major faiths, but if you ask them if you can substitute just plain “God” for allah, they say no, you have to use that specific name. Hmmm, why do you suppose that is?

      THIS is very illustrative as to what that saying and logo may really mean:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpl_CwiTL3E

      The link above comparing the “bismilah” in Arabic to the characters John transcribed in Revelation is goose bump inducing. Keep in mind, islam wasn’t around in 90 A.D., so he was told to write what he saw (the characters). And it’s a match.

      Now if you found that interesting, THIS will really connect the radical islamic dots and where the “caliphate” is leading to:
      http://youtu.be/uY20IFaWlsQ?t=36s

      All that esoteric end times stuff in the Bible starts making perfect sense if you connect the dots with radical islam. From all the countries mentioned, beheading believers and those that fail to worship the beast government, on and on.

      Most “expert” prophecy watchers have been waiting for Europe to form a beast government, have Western leader become the Antichrist and start beheading people, with the Catholic church at his side, lol.

      Just like the conventional experts at Jesus’ first coming, the modern day “end time experts” have been looking in the wrong direction. They’ve been trying to make a book written and focused on the middle east world apply to the West.

      Watch the YouTube vids above, because it’s starting and it’s ALL coming into place. Turkey, brutal ISIS, Iraq, Iran, Muslim Brotherhood, Israel, increasing earthquakes, pestilence.

      Bottom line though, islam is the only governmental system in the world that takes pleasure in beheading those that won’t bow down to it and receive the bismalah/shahada and does indeed want sharia imposed worldwide. By “peace” it destroys many.

      Regardless of your position on religion or beliefs, you should check this stuff out, because a billion muslims do. Their religion just happens to be fitting the bill of the Bible’s bad guy. To a perfect 180 degrees of it.

  2. chrisleo says

    Aug 4, 2014 at 11:59 am

    Oh, this is good, “I predict a riot”

    • Jay Boo says

      Aug 4, 2014 at 12:07 pm

      The riot is not the real problem

      The real problem is placating the ideology after the riot
      instead of using the riot as an opportunity to expose Islam’s vulnerabilities and falsehoods.

    • Islam_Macht_Frei says

      Aug 4, 2014 at 1:59 pm

      I predict that the Muslonazis will display the flag in open defiance, to test the Dutch, who will then pretend to not see it (i.e. ignore it with great aversion of the eyes) so as not to “create a confrontation” that could result in violence and injuries. The French police proved last week that they would rather live on their knees than fight on their feet, and I expect the same from the Dutch.

  3. Jay Boo says

    Aug 4, 2014 at 12:03 pm

    Coming soon to a liberal university near you.

    A non PC version – University Course of
    (No god but Allah) 101

  4. Michael Copeland says

    Aug 4, 2014 at 1:25 pm

    If Paris is anything to go by the muslims in Holland will, in their hundreds, ignore and flout this ruling, thereby giving a direct challenge to the authorities. Europe is Dar al Harb – the Realm of War. These challenges are battles in that war. They are progressive, cumulatively eroding European man-made law, displacing it for Sharia.

  5. medina says

    Aug 4, 2014 at 1:34 pm

    Banning a flag is like banning guns. The real problem is the human form of the flag–Muslims.

  6. manuel-rafael says

    Aug 4, 2014 at 2:07 pm

    The flag shown is the Al’Qaeda flag, the same flag of the Ikhwan back to the Ottoman Turkey days, it can be seen in photographs taken during the T.E. Lawrence operations that eventually toppled the Ottomans, the Ikhwan was and still is the “Brotherhood” although they did not become an ‘official organization” until 1928, first in Alexandria Egypt, then the move was made to Cairo (1932) where it served as a “listening post” for the Abwher (German Military Intelligence) which began supplying weapons through Tunisia in 1937, these were used in the subsequent Pogroms/Intifadas that were begun by the Nazi Haj Amin Al’Husseyni the Mufti of Jerusalem appointed in 1921.
    http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/3381
    The flag pictured is/was the first “unity flag” used in the Arab/Revolt (1917-1924) it created the precursors to the Al’Ikhwan Al’ Mooslimeen the Brotherhood, the fundamental-transformation came about when Al’ Husseyni acted as broker for the N.S.D.A.P. as he scouted a form to create an Arab-Nazi Party, with the illusion of an autonomous entity, while it provided first and ambient intelligence to the military intelligence network of Admiral Carnaris, who was later executed as part of the attempted assassination of the Fuehrer in 1944, during operation Valkyrie, he was hung by piano wire from a meat hook for his effort to dispose Germany from the Third Reich’s Nation Suicide, albeit too late it was an example of how terminal-tyranny works, as well as the end it brings. The “Flag” has been the longest lasting of the jihadi-murder squad symbols, it was the Fedeyeen in the Armenian Genocide, it led the Arab Revolt to capture Aqaba; it flew alongside the 13th. Handschar Division’s own Waffen S.S. flag as it acted the Einsatzgruppen operations in the Balkans 1943-45, flies over the conquered states of Libya, Iraq and has flown openly in Gaza, during the Arab/Spring and does now during pro-terror demonstrations, it was and id the official flag of the Al’Ikhwan Al’ Mooslimeen, the Society of the Moslem Brothers, the Moslem Brotherhood.

  7. Semeru says

    Aug 4, 2014 at 2:58 pm

    The text on the flag in the image is not the Shahada,

    The text above the circle is the first half of the Shahada there is no God, but Allah and the circle the seal of Muhammad

  8. Beagle says

    Aug 4, 2014 at 5:56 pm

    This brilliant move should stop flag violence right in its tracks. Meanwhile, another thousand Muslims are let into the country.

  9. Prinz Eugen says

    Aug 5, 2014 at 8:16 am

    Heaven forbid! What will khalifa Barak and racist Holder do should some US preacher dare BURN one of these ultra holier-than-everything rags? That long sought special set of laws to prevent any criticism of islam and ragheads will soon be on Reid’s docket again — and if not, our Holy Halfbreed will have to pen a “fatwa”.

    FDR made the world Save for Communism, now our Unholy Community Agitator is doing the same for islam!

    Fear not — congress is asleep at the wheel, as usual.

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