Crowd Gathered To Watch ISIS Beheading Offended By Presence Of Flag With Six-Pointed Star

“That’s disgusting. I feel ill.”

Umm el-Fahm, April 30 – Locals who assembled to view video clips of Islamic State militants decapitating prisoners expressed today that they felt their feelings hurt by a nearby blue-and white banner on a municipal building.

The group of residents who gathered around a smartphone to observe the series of executions  – and one case, immolation – of infidels by Islamist fighters in Syria and Iraq last month voiced their pique with whoever decided to display such a piece of cloth in such a prominent position.

“That’s disgusting,” pronounced the man holding the phone, to his companions. “Someone ought to tear that down. I feel ill.”

“Monsters,” concurred a second. “Who do they think they are?” He shook his head.

After viewing seven beheading episodes, the group took a short break to watch other types of Islamic State propaganda. “You know, maybe we should do something about that ourselves,” suggested a third member of the group. “I have a truck with a long extension ladder. We could cut that thing down and burn it in the main square. What kind of insensitive jackass would hang that in this city, of all places? Some people have no sense of context or social mores.”

The municipality displayed the banner as required by the Ministry of the Interior this week in to mark Memorial Day for fallen IDF soldiers and Independence Day, occasions about which the people of Umm el-Fahm remain ambivalent at best. Despite efforts to make the banner as unobtrusive as possible, the beheading-clip-watching crew took notice.

“We’re going to have to have a word or two with the people at City Hall,” declared a fourth. “Flying the Zionist flag is beyond the pale here. Our community standards do not allow such symbols to be seen. It undermines what we try to teach our children, and the lessons we draw from history.”

Municipal employees denied knowledge of the banner, which hangs down one side of the building. “Whoever did it must have broken in or something,” stammered a clerk who declined to give her name as her eyes darted back and forth. “I certainly didn’t know the building even had one of those… banners in storage. I’m sure the mayor and City Council will immediately conduct an investigation into this.”

“By the way, did you know Israel is behind the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda?” she added. “Why do you think they’ve never attacked Israel from Syria?”

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