Prosecutor Gisela Sjövall announced last week that she would not prosecute a 23-year-old man who had posted the black ISIS flag on his Facebook page in June. The black “Banner of the Eagle” is one of the flags flown by the prophet Mohammad in Islamic tradition. Story continues below…UK Prime Minister David Cameron suggested in August 2014 that anybody displaying the Islamic State flag should be arrested, but it has not formally been made illegal. Britain’s foreign minister Boris Johnson said when he was Mayor of London that he didn’t think the ISIS flag should be banned. “I don’t like people carrying the Isis flag … I think a balance has got to be struck,” he said.

Source: The Local October 16, 2016 11:40 UTC