(Spectator-UK) Douglas Murray - For over a decade, the UK government has stuck to a very strange lie on the matter of the terrorist group Hizbullah. In 2008 they banned its military wing. This idea - only ever believed in by a few officials in the British Foreign Office - survived on the extraordinary presumption that the group had two totally separate arms - a military and a political wing. Of course this division of labor didn't exist in the eyes of anyone in the region. And it certainly didn't exist in the eyes of Hizbullah itself. For years at radical and Islamist demonstrations in London it has been commonplace to see the flag of this terrorist organization being waved. The police have said that they will not arrest people flying the flag of Hizbullah because the wavers might be demonstrating support for the (unbanned) political wing. From now on that distinction will not be able to be claimed.
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