ISIS Flag Flown at Tunisia Soccer Match
by DONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS 22 Aug 20149
A picture of a football crowd in Tunisia
holding aloft a massive ISIS flag has emerged
on Twitter. The picture was posted this afternoon by Ahmad Mousavi, a
journalist in Tehran with the caption: “Flag #IS in Football game in Tunisia”.
Other Twitter uses have also shared it.
The provenance of the picture is unclear, although other
sources on the Internet confirm that it was indeed taken at a Tunisian League
football game, possibly some time last year. The image as it appeared on
Twitter has been cropped slightly; other sources show a slightly extended image
in which words in Arabic script can clearly be seen superimposed. Breitbart
London understands that they read “The Caliphate to come, God willing”.
According to Alhasela.com, which referred to the flag as the
“Daash flag”, the image has also been doing the rounds on Facebook.
Islam is the official religion of Tunisia, with 98 percent
of citizens practicing the religion. Most are Sunni Muslims. Tunisia was the
scene of the first uprisings in the Arab Spring, with former President Zine El
Abidine Ben Ali fleeing the capital in January 2011. However, the country has
faced unrest since then with the opposition leader Mohamed Brahmi assassinated
last year, and extremists, both religious and non-religious, contributing to
instability in the country.
The country lies on the lies on the northern coastline of
Africa, and is separated by Italy by the Strait of Sicily, a 96 mile stretch of
water between the Island and the African mainland. There is a proposal to build
a mega-tunnel linking the two countries under the sea bed, but no work has
started on the project.
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