A Pinetown man has claimed that conspirators snuck into his garden and climbed a tree to erect an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) flag. It has since been taken down.<\/p>\n
Julian Eric Moore told News24 that he had played no part in erecting the flag after pictures of it flying from his garden had gone viral on social media.<\/p>\n
Moore said that while he saw no problem with flying the ISIS flag, he had discovered it on a post in his garden and had \u201cjust laughed\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t see what the problem is with all this, no one has been killed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
On Friday over 120 Parisians were killed in a wave of terror attacks executed by Isis.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomeone had broken into my garden and then climbed into the tree and put the flag on a stick. It wasn\u2019t me. When I saw it I just laughed because this is not even serious. Actually I can\u2019t even see the flag from my property,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He said that while the flag had been taken down since, he didn\u2019t see \u201cthe issue\u201d with it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are not a listed terrorist organisation in South Africa and there is nothing wrong with them here. People hang the old South African flag and no one makes a big deal about that,\u201d Moore added.<\/p>\n
But when speaking to The Witness, Moore had said his name was actually Fazwaz Bashir, and he readily admitted to raising the Isis colours.<\/p>\n
He reportedly said: \u201cThey are bombing our comrades in Ar-Raqqah and Syria. We must retaliate.”<\/p>\n
His view on the old national flag also seemed fluid. “Some people fly the old South African flag and people are getting angry about it. You don\u2019t have to look if you don\u2019t want to. This is not another flag that looks like an ISIS flag, it is the ISIS flag.\u201d<\/p>\n
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