Flying the Islamic State's black-and-white flag has been ruled legal in Sweden by a prosecutor in the country, Swedish news portal thelocal.se reported Sunday. Sj"ovall told local Swedish media that the flag expresses contempt for "all others" and does not represent hatred for a specific ethnic group, as the swastika does for Jews, and therefore, at this point, it does not represent hate speech. "If there had been anything in the text with more specific formulations about certain groups, for example homosexuals, the ruling could have been different," Sj"ovall was quoted as saying. The flag has been banned from public display in both the Netherlands and Germany.
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