Swedish police lists Palestine flag a terror symbol
by FalastinNews Staff
Swedish police documents include the Palestinian flag among other terror symbols to be taught to students at schools.
It
was revealed after officers shared internal material with a central
Swedish high school where youths had previously left to fight in Syria.
After
several youths in central Sweden’s Örebro travelled to Syria and Iraq
to fight with terror group ISIS, a local high school decided to increase
awareness about international terror groups in an attempt to prevent it
from happening again.
One
local high school enlisted the help of the Örebro police, which shared
its internal material about recognising terror groups. Among the
documents was a page with flags of known terror groups – one of which
was the Palestinian flag.
Swedish Green Party politician Niclas Persson said the fact that the listing was “truly unfortunate”.
“It
is important that this is corrected,” he told the TT news agency. “The
big problem is that people connect Palestine’s fight for liberty with
terrorism.”
Despite
the confusion, policeman Jonas Hysing said that the symbol would not be
removed, adding that officials may write extra text beside the symbol
to explain that it can often be used in different contexts.
Hamas on Sunday slammed the Swedish police for blacklisting the Palestinian flag as a symbol of terrorism, branding the move as “upsetting.”
Hamas
voiced in a press statement its firm condemnation of the ambivalent
position adopted by Sweden in regards to the Palestinian-Israeli
conflict, especially that the move came a few months after Sweden had
recognized Palestinian statehood.
The group urged Sweden to press ahead with a serious re-assessment of the tag and resume its pro-Palestine standpoint.
The
Swedish police branded the Palestinian flag a terror logo and updated
high school principals on the designation allegedly so as be able to
lookout for early signs of potential trouble among their student
populations in light of several Swedish teenagers becoming radicalized
and traveling to Iraq and Syria to join terrorist fighters.
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