We had mentioned earlier in the week about CNN acting like, well, CNN and "reported" that someone was flying an ISIS flag at a gay pride parade...without actually looking closely at the flag. HINT: they weren't Arabic letters.

Well, the creator of the flag has spoken out, claiming that he created the flag to "start a dialogue" and not just to get a laugh.

The decision to make the flag was a simple one: a sense of outrage at Isis’s brutal advance across North Africa, Libya, Syria and Iraq. Medieval ideologies and barbarism were being spread and recorded through that most modern of expressions, social media, with that flag ever-present. It has become a potent symbol of brutality, fear and sexual oppression. If I wanted to try and stimulate a dialogue about the ridiculousness of this ideology, the flag was key.

It was important that I didn’t try to replicate the writing on the flag, because the words and their subject – Islam – are not the target. But if I showed as little respect to this flag as Isis shows to the religion and people they claim to represent so that when people saw it they would think, “dildos”? Would that be a crazy idea?

We're all having a laugh over this, but in all honesty, kudos for this guy's bravery. It's a popular refrain from the right that, while leftists claim how hateful Christian's are for not wanting to bake a cake, they often refrain from critizing the truly hateful, anti-gay religion that is Islam. A Christian might not approve of a gay man's marriage, but he'd also never throw him off of a roof.

Baby steps...