Three Lebanese men burned the black flag of the Islamic State last Saturday, videotaping the act and challenging others to do the same.
The video challenge was motivated by the militant group beheading a Lebanese army sergeant and kidnapping about 20 Lebanese soldiers, according to Mother Jones.
A Lebanese YouTube user asked the whole world to repeat the flag burning.
In the same style as the recent ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, the user wrote,
I nominate the whole world to #Burn_ISIS_Flag_Challenge. You have 24 hours. GO!!
The campaign has since gone viral throughout Lebanon and could do the same all over the world.
Lebanon’s Minister of Justice, however, has demanded the “sternest punishment” for the flag burners because desecrating a religious symbol is against the law in the largely Muslim country.
The Islamic State’s flag reads,
There is no god but God and Muhammed is his prophet.
But many — including a member of Lebanon’s Change and Reform parliamentary bloc who pledged legal support should the men be charged — contest that the three who started the campaign did not intend to insult a religion.
@Hedge76 @SDassy @anjemchoudary make sure to burn an isis flag. pic.twitter.com/GDf9WYcHBz
— ☠ジョーカー☠ (@Shadow__Creeper) August 21, 2014
The Jewish Press » » Burn Your ISIS Flag Today
#BurnISISFlagChallenge #isis #Israel http://t.co/IeR0LbUK33 pic.twitter.com/DULQDOkz8O — Bolo (@Bolo1970) August 31, 2014
Lebanese youths in Beirut burn the ISIS flag pic.twitter.com/7a8gTOHVFG
— Sunny Hundal (@sunny_hundal) August 30, 2014
burning #ISIS #IS flag ALL’ Lebanon today pic.twitter.com/hUcD7Yi5QH — marunoye – (@marunoye) September 3, 2014
The Arab world’s version of Ice Bucket Challenge: Burn Islamic State’s flag. http://t.co/WHHcM1cFgN pic.twitter.com/tvizx4nlvB — Philip Boucher-Hayes (@boucherhayes) September 4, 2014
Vive la France! RT @marunoye: Burning #Noussra/#ISIS flag in front of the Biggest Mosque in #Paris – pic.twitter.com/OVYejvt3aJ
— sandra (@LVview) August 6, 2014
Assyrians burning the isis Flag pic.twitter.com/6UviBcivGi
— Danny Yacoub (@DanielYacoub24) July 27, 2014
H/T: Mother Jones, Photo Courtesy: Twitter
Read more: http://elitedaily.com/news/world/burning-isis-flag-viral-challenge-lebanon/740669/
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