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The
Taliban
replaced their solid white flag with a white flag inscribed with the
shahada in
black as they
took power in Afghanistan
in 1997. Political
Islamism
and
Islamic terrorism has been using black flags inscribed with the
shahada
in white since ca. 2001.
During the 2000s, it became popular in
Islamist jargon to refer to the black flag as
al-raya
and the white flag as
al-liwa',
after the terms of the black and white flags flown by
Muhammad
according to the
hadith.
The white flag is sometimes identified as the "flag of the
Caliphate"
while the black one is dubbed the "flag of
Jihad".
Bill Garrison, 26 June 2013
image by Colonel Emerson Begolly, 14 Sep 2004
It is the new al-Qaeda flag, black with the “long version” of the
Shahada in a
yellowish colour and a yellowish circle in the center. I have seen the flag
several times before before; I was in Iraq for the past 6 months. The flag is
being debated as either Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi’s al-Qaeda (Ansar al-Zarqawi) flag
or the al-Qaeda
flag in Iraq. I never actually saw one flying, etc. This flag was used in
the background of several beheading videos. I was given, and still have, a
captured flag like this one from another soldier who raided an abandoned
al-Qaeda safe-house in Fullujah. The flag was not a machine-produced flag, but
two pieces of black nylon with embroidered lettering and the circle in a light
yellow. It was not made to fly, but rather to hang on a wall. I know another
soldier who has a flag like that one, but only the lettering and circle is
white, not yellow like the other one. The videos are not clear enough to tell
whether the lettering and circle is white or yellow, but it probably differs
depending on who made the particular flag.
Colonel Emerson Begolly, 14
September 2004
image located by Bill Garrison, 9 October 2014
This photo depicts either a wall-banner or possibly a flag, purporting to be for
an "Islamic Jihad" group. This source notes that the flag is for the "Islamic
Jihad Union".
Bill Garrison, 9 October 2014