A scandal broke out around Walmart and a cake with the flag of the Islamic State

Chuck Netzhammer with a cake (part of the image is specially blurred)
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The largest American retail chain Walmart found itself at the center of a scandal after one of its bakeries produced a cake decorated with the image of the battle flag of the Islamic State terrorist group. The customer for the delicacy was a man named Chuck Netshammer, who lives in Louisiana.

In it, he says that he first tried to order a cake from the bakery with an image of the Southern Confederate flag from the American Civil War with the inscription “Heritage, not hate,” but was refused. Then he decided to check what would happen if he ordered a cake with the image of the battle flag of the Islamic State, a terrorist organization banned in a number of countries, including the United States and Russia.

Netshammer posted the result of the experiment on the Internet. As can be seen in the video he posted, the man’s order was completed. “This is a cake with the Islamic State battle flag on it. Anyone can come to WalMart and buy it,” the user summarizes.

Nethammer demanded an explanation from WalMart for this selective approach to orders. He recalls that “Islamic State militants are cutting off the heads of Christians, selling little girls into slavery and threatening America with terrorist attacks,” but the image of their flag is not considered prohibited, unlike the Confederate flag, products with the image of which began to be actively withdrawn from sale after a person with this flag recently killed nine people in church in Charleston.

After that, retailers Amazon, Wal-Mart, eBay, Sears decided to block flag sales. In addition, Apple has decided to remove the Confederation flag from the iTunes App Store. After that, several game developers on historical topics reported that their content was blocked and no longer distributed through the Apple online platform.

Walmart was forced to apologize for the incident. The company admitted that it should not have fulfilled such an order. However, the employee who received it did not know what the image meant. “We apologize,” a network spokesperson said. ABC News.