At today’s gay pride parade in London, television news network CNN reported that some people in the crowd were carrying the Islamic State’s black flag. Had they looked more carefully, however, they would have noticed that the flag was not covered in Arabic script, but instead images of dildos and other sexual aids.

Introducing a whole segment devoted to the supposed ISIS flag, the CNN host said:

“An unnerving sight today at a London gay pride celebration – an ISIS flag amongst a sea of rainbow colours.”

CNN reporter Lucy Pawle described the scene:

“I was just trying to cross Regent Street, one of the main shopping streets in London, and I had to stop because the march was going down the street, when all of a sudden this man, quite distinctive form the rest of the crowd because he was dressed in black and white whereas everyone else was brightly coloured… This man dressed in black in white was waving what appears to be a very bad mimicry, but a very clear attempt to mimic the ISIS flag, the black and white flag with the distinctive lettering.

“I mean…if you look at the flag closely, it’s clearly not Arabic, in fact it looks like to could be gobbledegook. But it’s very distinctively the ISIS flag. Anyway, I seemed to be the only person who had spotted this, and nobody seemed to be raising any questions or pointing it out.

“So, I immediately went to an event organiser, who said he didn;t know anything about it. I also went to the police nearby who weren’t aware either.”

Maybe, if the reporter looked a little more closely at the flag, she may have spotted that the images on the black and white flag were definitely not gobbledegook, and the flag was in fact mocking the anti-gay extremist beliefs of the Islamic State.

Via Carlos Maza

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